Adobe Systems is hitting back at Microsoft's Expression Studio with Thermo, a tool that allows designers to create rich Internet applications.
Microsoft's Adobe flash-killer Silverlight is entering its next phase with the software maker set to debut Silverlight 1.0 Release Candidate late this week.
Two years ago, the number of developers writing applications for the Microsoft Windows platform fell, while the opposite was true for Linux -- this has now become a trend.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer pledged to open up Web services this year, however, full details are still up in the clouds.
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Amazon engineer DeWitt Clinton's ringing endorsement of Atom over RSS as the XML flavour of choice for syndicated feed content for discerning geeks made headlines yesterday, although the points he makes have been made before.
The Web 2.0 meme is percolating through all manner of media and has now reached as far as Bangladesh.
In my last post I covered the knowledge management press's first impression of the Web 2.0 phenomenon. But should we be looking at enterprise Web 2.0 as a KM issue?
Blogs consisting solely of bullet points seem to be popular these days, if Guy Kawasaki's rather lazy blog is anything to go by. This morning, Microsoft's Don Dodge detailed venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins' list of seven rules for software startups, as told by KP partner Ajit Nazre at a recent conference.
This week Australia's Federal Government announced it had allocated $3.6 million in funding to 57 local research projects so that they could be commercialised, with many of them being web or IT-related start-ups.
Developers and vendors are being called to give feedback, following the release of a public working draft of a new Web services language by the World Wide Web Consortium.
IBM will next month release a new version of its application server software intended to make building Web services easier.
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A Web services standards organisation has issued a first draft of recommendations for linking systems using the emerging technology.
The World Wide Web Consortium has reached a critical stage in a new standard that governs how developers use forms on the Internet.
CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi and Stephen Shankland discuss the upcoming Google I/O conference in San Francisco. Could a second mobile SDK be released? Or maybe the winner of the Android developer contest?
In a ZDNet CIO Vision Series video interview, Lars Rabbe talks about innovating around Web 2.0, social networking and the tools driving development at the company.
At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Mozilla Foundation Chairman Mitchell Baker talks about the company's plans to enter the smartphone market with Fennec, a mobile version of its Firefox browser. She also discusses how the new, open platform will encourage Web 2.0 application development.
John Turato, Vice President of Technology for Avis-Budget Group talks about managing technical operations for a rental fleet of more than 400,000 vehicles worldwide. Turato also discusses transformation at the rental car operator, and his other role, Chairman of the OpenTravel Alliance, a group of companies developing web 2.0 standards for the online travel industry.
Developers and designers are in a constant battle when working together on an application or Web site project; a presentation at Microsoft's ReMIX conference in Melbourne last month described the issues perfectly -- with an egg.
Hutchison Telecom's "3" will start to recruit business application developers in April, with a new Web site instructing developers how to use the company's 3G network the first step into battle with other carriers for the lucrative business communications dollar.
Apple Computer has terminated a program that gave some developers access to the latest test versions of its Safari browser, after some testers apparently leaked several prereleases to the public.
Macromedia is targeting its new product line at the developer who manages an entire site or also works with graphics and design.
Microsoft has disclosed technical information vital to allowing third-party developers create software that works well with Windows.
A software development project aimed at getting the Linux operating system to run on Microsoft's Xbox is offering a larger incentive for would-be developers--to the tune of US$200,000.
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