Erin Joyce

ATLANTA — Want secure mobile transactions with smart card devices? Need to move enterprise level computing to new mobile platforms? If so, then you need developers with the ability to drill into legacy architectures and tweak them in order to lift full-blown applications off the desktop and into the palm of users’ hands, two top […]

ATLANTA — The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission told the wireless industry to be a part of the future with improved data transmission services or risk “being run over by someone who is leading it.” During a keynote discussion at the launch of the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association’s trade show, CTIA Wireless 2004, […]

IBM is rolling out upgraded software, tools and technologies aimed at easing speech applications into an enterprise’s infrastructure. The speech toolkits are gaining use, and not in call centers with voice-response systems. Car makers are increasingly integrating telematics for models, such as the OnStar system. The announcement comes in conjunction with new customers using the […]

Apparently, some folks are shocked, shocked, that Microsoft may have introduced a few investors to SCO Group, the company whose challenge of the Linux operating system dovetails with Redmond’s own campaign to slow the growth of open source. Amid the ado about whether Microsoft played matchmaker (a story that broke when Eric Raymond shared a […]

IBM is rolling out new middleware packages with built-in development tools for customers with a little help from its friends. The Armonk, N.Y.-based company said a host of new software development packages being released this week are focused on the healthcare, life sciences, retail and telecommunications industries. Big Blue is also bolstering its lineup with […]

NEW YORK — What’s next in the brewing battle for market share among the major search players? How does one conduct advanced competitive research, indexing assessments and optimize flash for search engines? These questions, issues and more are on the agenda as the parent company of this publication, Jupitermedia , kicks off its four-day Search […]

French-based software publisher and distributor BVRP Group is polishing the U.S.-based gem of its global distribution crown after buying out Silicon Valley-based software publisher and distributor Elibrium. A year after taking a 51 percent stake in the San Mateo, Calif.-based company, which designs and markets productivity and digital media software for small business and personal […]

Infragistics, which makes presentation layer development tools for Microsoft Windows Forms, ASP.NET, COM and Java platforms, has launched its first release of NetAdvantage for 2004, including tools that are compliant with section 508 of federal disabilities laws. The company said Volume 1 release of NetAdvantage 2004 is geared so that developers can use the tools […]

In the wake of its recent reorganization of its software division for distinct market sectors, IBM is rolling out five new middleware packages designed specifically for the crucial financial services sector. IBM officials said the new packages, which include 15 modules in all, are designed to help customers in financial markets, banking and insurance industry […]

The technology industry in the Empire state just got some big news, albeit on a smaller scale. German chipmaker Infineon is joining semiconductor making equipment company Genus and New York’s technology “Center of Excellence” in Albany to build next-generation memory devices at the nanoscale . Infineon is a major player in the market for DRAM […]

If enterprise networks are truly moving toward an on-demand world where computing capacity is ordered from providers “by the drink,” then IBM just launched a fancy new pitcher of IT services to be served up remotely. Officials at the Armonk, N.Y.-based company call the new range of outsourcing services “flexible support,” which it says includes […]

NEW YORK — A day after getting slapped with a new lawsuit over Linux, Novell’s top man said 2004 will be a year of further growth of open source in major enterprise applications and the desktop — albeit with a few assumptions. CEO Jack Messman Wednesday said, first his company must defend itself against a […]