Susan Kuchinskas

SAN FRANCISCO — Laszlo Systems opened its XML application toolset and server software to the open source community, a move it hopes will foster adoption of its software among developers. The technology consists of presentation layer development tools and an application framework to create rich client applications in Web browsers. Laszlo uses Java on the […]

SAN FRANCISCO — StreamCast Networks claims the latest version of its Morpheus file-sharing software will eliminate one of the biggest problems file-swappers gripe about: bandwidth hogging. Morpheus 4.5 NEOnet, announced at the Web 2.0 conference here this week, lets users create an ad-hoc file-sharing network. It also helps them search for and share files outside […]

SAN FRANCISCO — A new company launched by dotcom survivor idealab aims to take a chunk out of the search market by letting users slice and dice their search results. Snap, which launched in beta on Tuesday, is an attempt to combine natural search with revenue-producing activities including comparison shopping and paid listings. The service […]

Users of the Treo smartphone will get out-of-the-box compatibility with Microsoft’s Exchange Server, thanks to a licensing deal between Milpitas, Calif.-based palmOne and Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft . Licensing the Exchange Server Synchronization Protocol will let Treo users synchronize with their server-based e-mail and calendars via palmOne’s VersaMail client, eliminating the need for a third-party server […]

SAN FRANCISCO — EBay recognizes that dealing with Web services and APIs aren’t necessarily top skills for power sellers, so it launched a certification program to connect sellers with service providers. The eBay Certified Provider Program kicked off Tuesday with 17 members providing such services marketing, design, system integration and software development. “Some sellers lack […]

Wyse showed off thin-client devices with snappy designs and high performance. The San Jose, Calif.-based vendor of thin-client hardware and software unveiled its next generation of product designs on Monday. The S and V classes of Winterm thin clients have a stylish look, offering optimized processing capabilities and a variety of input/outputs, or I/Os. Thin-client […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Microsoft’s chairman and chief software architect said the move to Web services could ease the Internet’s security woes and that digital rights management can balance out piracy. During a chat in the San Francisco Bay Area Friday for a series of meet-and-greets at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Bill […]

Microsoft’s business solutions group has launched its latest ERP application for the mid-market. Solomon 6.0 is targeting businesses with heavy lifting computing needs with projects or services. In this release, project management and accounting have become one integrated business system. Integrating ERP and project management ensures that project managers and professional services executives are using […]

A software tools maker is staking its future on helping developers prepare for streamlined coding for Web services as well as Avalon, the graphics display component in the works for Longhorn, Microsoft’s next version of Windows. On Monday, Xamlon, a La Jolla, Calif.-based company, released Xamlon 1.0, an application development package developers can use to […]

PalmOne , maker of the lower-priced Zire handheld and the Treo smartphone, unveiled the Tungsten T5 handheld Monday, which adds heaps of memory and an Intel 416MHz XScale processor. The size and speed updates the company’s high-end line of PDAs for business users running the Palm operating system. The Milpitas, Calif.-based company claims the T5’s […]

A European judge must sort through competing ideas on the balance between intellectual property and fairness to decide whether antitrust penalties against Microsoft should be suspended. But Microsoft warned the court that if the penalties stand during what could be a lengthy appeal, Europeans will bear the brunt, having to pay more for a modified […]

A strong brand, hot IPO and an intense engineering culture help make search advertising company Google a dream employer for a lot of people. Now, a new aptitude test Google is circulating purports to find the best and brightest. But is it really a brilliant ad campaign? On Thursday, Alan Eustace, vice president of engineering […]