Sean Michael Kerner

It looks like Web Services are set to get a boost with the upcoming beta 1 release of the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. According to a spec sheet detailing the new beta on Microsoft’s Web site, “the .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 1 release represents a significant milestone for the Web services and XML Serialization stack […]

Instant messaging is enabling technology and with a move today by America Online, it’s accessibility technology as well. The Internet service provider is unveiling a free service that combines IM and telecommunications relay services to further enable IM communication for the hearing impaired. “This service will further the value of AOL Instant Messenger and the […]

Within hours of Microsoft releasing its patch last week to plug a hole in its Internet Explorer browser, a Dutch security expert posted code on his site that revealed the patch still leaks. The so-called “insider” vulnerability that is still unpatched is similar to the ADODB.Stream vulnerability in that it exists inside of the ActiveX […]

Like the varied types of Linux, developers of open source come in different stripes too. With that in mind, embedded Linux play MontaVista Software has announced a new toolkit geared for specific application developers. The MontaVista Linux Professional Edition Pro Application Developer Kit (ADK) is intended to help developers build applications for next generation computing […]

One the most straightforward ways to potentially profit from the open source movement and specifically the Linux operating system is buying stock in the leading vendors, according to one investment research firm. A new research report recently published from Equity Research firm, Caris & Company, titled The Best Things in Life are Free? indicates that […]

The nascent Digital Rights Management (DRM) marketplace, which was worth $36 million in 2003, is expected to increase by 2008 to $274 million, which translates into 661 percent explosion in revenue. Jupiter Research, a subsidiary of Jupitermedia, which also owns internetnews.com, recently completed an 800-person survey on DRM that identified a number of key trends […]

Noticed a spike in your Web traffic lately? You’re not the only one. Webmasters across the Internet have been tracking a surge in spider activity coming from Microsoft’s MSNbot over the past few months and sleuthing over what kind of new search offerings the software giant is cooking up. MSNbot, the next-generation Web search crawler […]

Microsoft has unveiled a $100 million dollar investment in search that among other things is delivering a significant upgrade to its MSN.com Search portal. “With this significant upgrade to MSN Search, we are delighted to now offer what we believe is the best search service available for our 350 million MSN customers. Among the many […]

Linux players Novell and Red Hat are teaming with media company Real Networks to include its RealPlayer and Helix Players on their distributions. As part of its news, Real Networks also said it would release Helix Player, the underlying technology of RealPlayer 10, on Linux under the General Public License . The Helix player is […]

Compuware announced OptimalJ 3.2, its most advanced model-driven, pattern-based development environment. The newest version of OptimalJ, unveiled Monday at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco, provides expanded lifecycle coverage and is intended to better meet the needs of enterprise Java developers. New features in version 3.2 include extended UML modeling capabilities, as well as Eclipse […]

The Apache Software Foundation is taking the spam fight to a new level — literally — with the promotion of its Spam Assassin project to top-level status. Prior to Thursday’s vote by the ASF to move it to top level project (TLP), Spam Assassin had been in incubation. Spam Assassin (SA) is a mature, widely […]

According to preliminary data released this week by Gartner, the global IT services market expanded by 6.2 percent last year with India-based vendors increasing their revenues by 29 percent. The data also revealed that IBM leads the pack while HP has slipped a notch and fallen in market share. India still only represents a small […]