Sun Microsystems and AOL Time Warner are quietly working on advanced instant messaging software for corporate customers, a market segment dominated by Microsoft and IBM.
The growing popularity of interactive Web sites has set off a race among software companies, each pitching their own development toolkit.
The new millennium was the year Microsoft was ordered to bifurcate, dot-coms tanked on Wall Street, WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers saw his merger mania capped and Napster scared the recording industry nearly to death. 2000 was a cascading waterfall of events that ended any doubts about the Net's ability to change the way we think, learn, play and do business.
Mozilla fought back on Wednesday in the US with some performance results to show a forthcoming version of Firefox outpacing Google's new Web browser, Chrome.
Borrowing a playbook from Sun's Java, Google is announcing a way for programmers to build social applications for multiple Web sites at once.
Google executives have a lot of work ahead of them as they court application developers skeptical of the search king's new open software platform for mobile devices.
The simplicity of scripting language PHP means it will be more popular than Java for building Web-based applications, Internet browser pioneer Marc Andreessen predicted Wednesday in the US in a speech in California at the Zend/PHP Conference.
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Microsoft is set to begin its most aggressive effort yet to sell instant-messaging services to corporations--and it's pulling out its old playbook to gain traction.
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Novell, a leading Web services company? It just may pull it off, says columnist Eric Knorr, thanks to software and services built around user identity.
Labouring in the background, IBM sets the standard for tomorrow's enterprise portals. Should you take a close look?
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