Immersive Media Corp., an advanced digital video imaging company, is pleased to announce it has been approved to join the Environmental Systems Research Institute, Canada Business Partner Program. ESRI is the leading developer of Geographic Information System soft...

Microsoft Corp has announced that, as part of its continued commitment to apply information and communication technology as a driver of social and economic development around the world, it would be a signatory of the World Summit on Information Society's 'Pledge...

SourceCode Technology Holdings, an industry leader for enterprise business process management software built on the .NET platform and a Microsoft Gold partner, has announced the release of K2.net 2003 Collaboration Tools for Microsoft SharePoint Products & Technol...

Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates delivered the opening keynote address at Supercomputing 2005 yesterday to more than 7,000 attendees, sharing his vision of how the software industry can contribute to accelerating scientific research and e...

DataDirect Technologies has announced the general availability of DataDirect SequeLink, Release 5.5, an enterprise product that enables multi-database and multi-platform data connectivity. The latest release of SequeLink continues DataDirect Technologies' market ...

Singularity is built strictly out of so-called Software-Isolated Processes (SIPs), which replace the conventional dual mechanisms of processes and dynamic code loading as well as encapsulate the application extensions. Every device driver, system process, applic...

Verio, a subsidiary of NTT Communications and a provider of global IP and managed hosting solutions, has announced that managed hosting customer eReinsure has renewed its contract with Verio.

A consortium of universities and other organizations has been awarded a major grant for emergency preparedness training for the states of Hawaii and California.

The Carbon Project has announced that a number of leading industry organizations successfully conducted a significant collaborative demonstration at the GEOINT 2005 Symposium.

Windows web hosting provider, HostMySite.com, has announced that it is among the first hosting providers to offer ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 on the same day that Microsoft has released the latest additions to the .NET framework.

DevPartner Studio 8.0 now offers full integration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, and Fault Simulator enables developers to quickly locate software defects in error handling code in .NET and native Windows applications.

A new version of SQL Server 2005, codenamed Yukon, is to be launched at a gala event at the Moscone Center in San Francisco today. SQL Server 2005 features significant enhancements in Enterprise Data management, Developer Productivity and Business Intelligence. Fi...

Ray Ozzie, who heads up Microsoft's services push, joined Bill Gates yesterday to announce the company's latest plan to create an online adjunct to the jewels in its crown: Windows and Office.

Microsoft invited RE3W to be the only third party to participate in the preview of its Windows Live offering.

Timing their effort to coincide with national Cyber Security Awareness Month and Halloween, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Consumer Action and Microsoft Corp. are urging consumers to protect themselves from the threat of zombies, computers that are inf...

Protexis, a provider of hosted e-commerce and digital rights management services for software publishers, announced that it has added support for Microsoft .NET Framework-based applications to its Protexis Publisher Services. The Publisher Services platform is a ...

The Code Project, a virtual community of 2.3 million Visual Studio developers worldwide, has announced the winners of the first-ever 'Race to Linux,' sponsored by Mainsoft Corporation and IBM. The Race to Linux challenged developers to port three of Microsoft's op...

How can we learn and get some experience on all of these new features? Good question. This brings to mind going to the major conferences (like TechEd and PDC) where Microsoft provides the Hands-On Labs (HOL) experience. They setup a large room of computers, each ...

EMS is a powerful exception-handling framework designed to provide .NET applications with a comprehensive set of exception-related services. Industry experts agree that creating modern robust and reliable .NET applications necessitates the use of a system like E...

Sage Software announced general availability of Sage Abra HRMS 8.0, the latest version of its award-winning human resource management system (HRMS) for mid-sized companies and organizations.

Unless you have been living under a rock, then you know that November 7 is the biggest day in 2005 so far as Microsoft developers are concerned. Tomorrow, October 7, exactly one month in advance of that day, Jerry Dixon of .NET Developer's Journal is featuring SQL...

Find out how your company can leverage rugged, Microsoft Windows Mobile-based industrial devices to improve warehouse productivity and efficiency. This webcast looks at the experiences of a major e-tailing organization that used Windows Mobile solutions to achieve...

Octave Technology has announced the release of Octavex Beta available for a no cost evaluation. Octavex is a middleware product designed to assist companies in the deployment and management of wireless sensor networks, and specifically addresses a growing need for...

Microsoft celebrated its 30th anniversary at the company's annual meeting yesterday. Unusually, it was held in Safeco Field in Seattle.

Overall adoption of .NET surpassed Java last year and we see it continue to grow (Forrester, 5/2004). ASP and ASP.NET are used by more Fortune 1000 Web sites than any other platform (port80. 5/2005). Microsoft platform is running the greatest number of mission-cri...

SpreadsheetGear has announced the immediate availability of SpreadsheetGear for .NET, a royalty free Microsoft Excel compatible spreadsheet component built by industry veterans for the Microsoft .NET Framework. SpreadsheetGear for .NET provides Microsoft .NET Fr...

Microsoft has announced a major re-organization that simplifies seven divisions into three, gives recent hire and CTO Ray Ozzie a higher profile, and addresses the company concerns with competing against Google and Yahoo! in a re-energized Internet Age.

TimeSpring's software works by automatically capturing all changes to SQL Server databases in real-time. The resulting data repository can be used independent of the original database to test, analyze, and report using real data. If users wish to refresh the data, ...

Pivotal Corporation, a leading Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution provider for mid-sized enterprises and the CRM division of CDC Software, the enterprise software company of CDC Corporation, announced the expansion of a long-standing strategic allia...

Inxight Software, the leading provider of enterprise software solutions for information discovery, announced the general availability of Inxight StarTree SDK 1.0 for .NET, certified by Microsoft. This new release of Inxight's award-winning StarTree SDK brings the ...

'Overall it was a good event,' writes Patrick Hynds, 'but there weren't a ton of surprises. As I write this I am listening to Michael Howard explain the updated threat modeling thinking that sounds quite good. The push in threat modeling is to make it accessible t...

'Macromedia Flash, in my opinion, is becoming less of a significant player as developers shift from Flash to using DHTML and AJAX to create applications like GMail and Google Maps,' wrote former 'Sparkle' program manager Jon Meyer yesterday in his blog. Meyer clai...

In a case study recently published by Microsoft, Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) is publicizing the results of a mainframe-to-Microsoft's .NET Framework migration using Fujitsu Software's NetCOBOL for .NET and Microsoft's SQL Server and Visual Studio. The mig...

At the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, held recently in Los Angeles, Chairman Bill Gates welcomed several thousand developers to the new world of XML, the data format at the heart of the company's next generation of products. The company will hand ou...

Novell has released Mono 1.1.9, an open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET framework that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, and Windows. Mono includes an ECMA Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) runtime engine, a cross platform IKVM Java runtime engine, a C# ...

Eracent, Inc. announced the integration of its EnterpriseAM IT Asset Discovery and Inventory with Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS). By enhancing the capabilities of Microsoft SMS using Eracent EnterpriseAM (EAM), Eracent's solutions are able to enhance t...

BusinessEdge Solutions Inc., an East Brunswick, NJ-based industry-focused business and technology consulting firm, announced a client deployment of its Next Generation Smart Manager Platform (SMP), a field force optimization tool that leverages the latest Microsoft technology.

Robert Scoble (pictured), Microsoft technical evangelist and Blogger Extraordinary, blogged last week about Virtual Earth that it needed to be 'opened up' – to all 57,000 Microsoft employees at the very least. It seems now that the company is about to go one...

Astea International Inc., a global provider of service lifecycle management solutions (SLM), announced that a major European service integrator has selected the latest version of Astea Alliance, a rich and comprehensive Microsoft .NET based service lifecycle man...

Intensity Software announced the early availability of SQL for VSAM, a utility that converts mainframe VSAM databases to Microsoft® SQL Server. SQL for VSAM Developer Edition will be included in the KICKS for .NET v2.0 SDK (Software Developer Kit), set to be rele...