David Fiedler

Netscape’s newest corporate strategy points out some important lessons for other companies attempting to compete using the Internet, which at this point probably includes anyone who still plans to be in business in 2005. Microsoft earned admiration, even from its detractors, when Bill Gates decided that Internet-enabling its entire product line would become a corporate […]

Although Netscape didn’t formally announce much in the way of new products at its strategy briefing held this week in San Francisco, it did make sure that the world’s press heard what its products can and will do. Interspersed with a relatively moderate amount of corporate hype, Netscape presented a great deal of interesting information, […]

At a packed press conference in San Francisco today, Jim Barksdale, Marc Andreesen and other Netscape Communications Corp. executives previewed their plans for the future and outlined an ambitious strategy for reinventing the software company. Building on the convergence of the Internet, commerce, and speedy computers, the company is basing its business concept on the […]

OZ Interactive, Inc. announced OZ Live 1.0 this week at the RealNetworks Conference ’98, the first client/server solution that enables delivery of real-time streaming 3D animation over the Web. A thin renderer for the newly unveiled RealSystem G2, OZ Live 1.0 transparently extends the functionality of Real Player G2 to include delivery of 3D models […]

World Wide Web Consortium member Veon, Inc. today announced the Veon Media Activation Server for the development, delivery, and management of SMIL-based applications for RealNetworks’ RealSystem G2 streaming media system. The new server will allow Web and broadband content providers to take pre-existing media content and automatically convert it into SMIL and RealMedia formats, thereby […]

Cosmo Software, a Silicon Graphics company, today announced the beta availability of Cosmo PageFX, a new kind of Web authoring tool that enables 2D graphic and Web designers to easily add depth, motion, and interactivity to images and type. Cosmo PageFX creates low-bandwidth Web content in the ISO standard VRML 2.0 file format, which allows […]

RealNetworks, Inc. today unveiled RealSystem G2 at its RealNetworks Conference ’98, a next-generation media delivery system for the Internet and corporate intranets. RealSystem G2 is the first open, extensible, standards-based streaming media system that delivers new rich media experiences to users through the synchronization and playback of multiple data types. RealSystem G2 combines state-of-the-art audio […]

RealSystem G2 is the first system built on industry standards, implementing RTSP, the Real Time Streaming Protocol, as the standard client/server protocol for streaming media, and SMIL as the standard integration and layout language for rich multi-stream media presentations. RTSP recently received its RFC number from the Internet Engineering Task Force . Earlier this month, […]

Symantec Corporation announced today it will work with Visa International and Sun Microsystems to integrate Java Card technology and Visa Open Platform libraries within its popular Visual Cafe for Java Rapid Application Development (RAD) environment. The integration will give JavaCard developers the ability to build applications that support Visa’s libraries as easily as they build […]

OmniMark Technologies Corporation today announced that OmniMark Konstructor has ended its successful Beta testing run and is now shipping commercially. OmniMark Konstructor is the first XML-enabled development suite to combine extended XML/hypertext support, rapid custom development, distributed processing, and intelligent load management for large-scale, personalized Web delivery. With OmniMark Konstructor, Web content can be synthesized […]

Radiant Systems, Inc. today announced the premiere release of its Internet MiniKiosk Development Kit (MDK). The package offers a host of Microsoft ActiveX controls that enable intuitive, touch-screen navigation of Web sites, giving any user the ability to surf the World Wide Web without a keyboard or mouse. Designed specifically to expand the presence of […]

Macromedia’s new Dreamweaver 1.2 enables Web developers to deploy advanced Dynamic HTML features for users of 4.0 browsers, while maintaining compatibility with 3.0 versions. Macromedia also announced that the recommended retail price of Dreamweaver 1.2 will remain at US$299, the same as the introductory price for Dreamweaver 1.0. A 30-day trial version of Dreamweaver 1.2 […]