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Redmond officials released a major update to Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies, the company’s file serving and collaboration software suite, Thursday. The Service Pack 1 (SP1) releases of Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (SPS) are available separately. In addition to improved stability and security, WSS SP1 includes support for […]

UPDATED: There’s a new wireless local area network (WLAN) sheriff on patrol in Aurora, Colo., the Port of Seattle and Orlando. Other municipalities may well be watching to see how it does sniffing out any and all bandwidth hogs whose recreational surfing activities in municipal wireless networks could impair public safety communications needs. That sheriff […]

Software asset management tools provider LogicLibrary has released Logidex 3.5 with support for a key new security specification for both J2EE and .NET environments. The latest features are designed to improve the process of building and managing service oriented architectures . They include the WS-I Basic Profile , UDDI governance, support for SAP NetWeaver Developer […]

The newest hot spot in Las Vegas will literally be a hotspot (for Wi-Fi). The Renaissance Las Vegas Hotel—currently under construction near the Las Vegas Convention Center, and scheduled to open in 2005—will be providing full high-speed Internet access with service from StayOnline. They’re installing wired connections in guest rooms (it’s cheap to put in […]

The summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece may not have any officially sanctioned wireless for use, but there’s going to be plenty of Wi-Fi connections around the town anyway. The latest is a deal that lets Boingo Wireless subscribers get access at locations run by OTEnet S.A., a leading ISP in Greece. Boingo says locations […]

First announced back in March, Grand Haven, Michigan, has proclaimed itself the nation’s first “Hot City” by having a city-wide, end-to-end Wi-Fi network covering the city and going 15 miles offshore into Lake Michigan to serve boaters. Service is from local WISP Ottawa Wireless and currently has about 300 subscribers, but expects to see many […]

Officials at former ASP Jamcracker Monday will take the wraps off its On Demand Enablement Kit, a platform for software vendors who want to provide hosted services. The announcement signals a slight shift in the company’s business focus from being a software provider for enterprise businesses to one that works behind the scenes of other […]

Cleveland’s Hopkins International Airport is the latest to go wireless, with hotspot service at all gates — even the ticket counters and baggage claim — via SBC FreedomLink. The service is also accessible on kiosks through the airport from Neptune Networks. Monthly cost for FreedomLink is $19.95, or daily access for $7.95. — July 23, […]

The Security Space Web Server Survey is a survey of Web server software usage on the Internet broken down by 86 domains. Security Space estimates that even though there are almost 20 million Web sites, nearly 90 percent are “orphans” to which no other sites link. Security Space’s Web server survey counts only those servers […]

A new product from On2 Technologies means users can ditch Real Player or Windows Media Player and watch their streaming videos using the Java Virtual Machine, officials announced Monday. TrueMotion Streaming Java Applet, in beta for another two weeks, eliminates the need for a proprietary video player, running instead on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), […]

It’s sort of like The Amazing Race, but you can use a PDA: Canada’s Tadaa Wireless is offering free Wi-Fi access to participants of the championship race for Navigate the Streets. The combination scavenger hunt and foot race is run by Level 28, a Toronto company that creates multiplayer games run on city streets, usually […]

The Netcraft Web Server Survey is a survey of Web server software usage on the Internet. Netcraft received responses to its July 2004 survey from 52,131,889 sites. This is about 500,000 more sites than responded in June. July was the 18th consecutive month of growth for the Web. The upswing began in February 2003 when […]