Scott Clark

Symantec Corp. this week announced the release of its VisualCafe 4 development environment for Java. VisualCafe provides developers with an adaptable, integrated application environment, and combines a core Java development environment with many best-of-breed offerings from partners including BEA Systems, IONA, Oracle and PointBase. VisualCafe 4 impliments the new Java 2 platform standards from Sun […]

DataChannel this week announced the formalization of its XML Backbone Professional Services Practice, as well as a strategic alliance with Software Technologies Corp.. DataChannel will incorporate STC’s e*Gate 4.0 as part of its XML Backbone to provide greater enterprise application integration and real-time transaction processing. DataChannel’s XML Backbone is a comprehensive platform for XML-based enterprise […]

Bluestone Software Inc. Tuesday released Visual-XML 1.1, the “easy-to-use toolkit for creating XML applications.” This release expands the XML options for intra- and inter-company integration and simplifies the process of customizing dynamic XML applications. For users of Bluestone XML Suite and Total-e-Business, Bluestone Visual-XML 1.1 provides easier application and data integration. New features of Bluestone […]

Extensibility, Inc. recently released its XML Authority 1.1, a major upgrade to its XML schema design conversion and management solution. XML Authority is used to create XML based e-business vocabularies and grammars. It provides developers with interoperability across all major schema dialects, along with enhanced functionality for building and managing e-business vocabularies and grammars. Major […]

swURL.net this week announced its URL forwarding service, called swURL. swURL enables users to switch their lengthy and hard to remember URL’s for new, shorter URLs such as hotrods.swURL.net. By using URL masking, visitors to the forwarded site see the new short URL instead of the previously lengthy one. Other forwarding services such as go.to […]

Commerce One Inc. this week announced its Commerce One XML Development Kit 1.0, billed as “the world’s first Extensible Markup Language schema toolkit to enable the industry-wide creation of XML-based business documents and applications.” XDK 1.0 is immediately available and can be downloaded for free from Commerce One’s MarketSite Web site. By using information-rich, robust […]

NetMind Technologies Inc. this week announced the launch of NetMind Search-it. NetMind Search-it is a free remotely-hosted search engine that allows Webmasters to add search tracking capabilities to their sites. NetMind Search-it and Mind-it application will be integrated to provide the first search engine that tracks searches and notifies end-users when the results of their […]

IBM Corp. this week announced HotMedia 2.5, a tool designed to make it easier for companies to create interactive online business media. This release of HotMedia enables companies to easily integrate bandwidth-intelligent, high-volume multimedia with their current online business processes. IBM (IBM) HotMedia 2.5 allows developers to synchronize HotMedia streaming audio with images for a […]

Lycos Inc. and Fast Search & Transfer Monday unveiled a new multimedia search entitled Lycos RichMedia Search. RichMedia Search provides a vertical search mechanism for locating pictures, movies, streams and sounds on the Internet. Using the current catalog, which contains more than 17 million files, Lycos RichMedia Search is one of the most comprehensive sources […]

O’Reilly and Associates this week announced a new technical conference for enterprise-class developers of Java-based applications. O’Reilly’s four-day conference will take place at the Westin Hotel in Santa Clara, California, from March 27-30, 2000. The proceedings include two days of tutorial programs along with a two-day, multi-tracked conference. The Java Conference will focus on the […]

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Thursday determined the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) technology does not infringe a patent held by the Intermind Corp. P3P will allow Web sites to notify users of the site’s privacy practices and will provide users with greater control over the use of their personal information on the Web. […]

HyperBanner Wednesday announced a new co-branding partnership with application service provider ZY.com. This partnership moves HyperBanner forward as the primary banner exchange for all of ZY.com’s 250,000 ZyWeb members. The addition of ZyWeb’s member base makes HyperBanner one of the Internet advertising industry’s largest global banner exchanges, with a total of 500,000 members. The partnership […]