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Nuance strikes deal with Ricoh, other network multifunction printer (MFP) makers to create paper-to-PDF solution for non-programmers.
Google Introduces API for Analytics Applications
Google announced that its Google Analytics Data Export API beta is now available for developers.
EU, Britain Head To Court Over Data Privacy
The European Commission has started legal action against Britain, claiming the country is allowing Internet service providers to target users by letting the companies use technology that accesses personal data.
Analysis: The Born Digital Document Market
What is your company doing to collect all those emails, PDFs, and other documents that never get printed? Regulators want to know.
Web Browser Security Gets Tighter
A report from Cenzic as well as the exploitation of Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer during the recent Pwn2Own contest at CanSecWest underscore the need to keep bolstering browser security.Web browser developers have responded by tightening security in te face of continued vulnerability to Web exploits.
MicrosoftCovers Web at MIX09 With New Apps and Updates
Microsoft focused most of its efforts at the MIX09 show on a slew of new Web development and design technologies. As part of the company's push to enable a richer Web experience, Microsoft released Silverlight 3 beta and Expression Blend 3 Preview, and continued progress in the cloud with updates to the Azure Services Platform.
eWEEK Labs: IBM, Sun Deal Could Boost Mobile Devices
TECH ANALYSIS: Mobile and wireless communications may not be a driving force behind the reported possible merger between IBM and Sun, but the potential for significant advances is intriguing. Combine IBM Lotus Sametime with Sun's Java, and the possibility of mobile phones becoming unified communications platforms for both businesses and consumers gets closer to reality.
Good Reasons to Hate the Kindle
Amazon's new world-beating gadget isn't the savior of the e-book, genre. It's a proprietary, market-protecting anomaly in a world of increasingly open standards and accessible media. Shame on you, Amazon.
Microsoft Unveils Business-Oriented Cloud Computing
At the giant German trade show CeBit, Microsoft announced that it has bundled some of its existing online business services into two new packages: a new Business Productivity Online Suite and another called Deskless Worker Suite. The two new bundles will become available later in Q2 in the U.S. and in 19 other countries, including Germany.
Google Expands App Engine With For-Pay Options
Google has added a billing function to its App Engine cloud computing platform so that developers can exceed the free usage quotas. Google says it will soon be reducing, but not eliminating, the free quotas. The new free quota levels will take effect on May 25, 2009.
New Licensing Could Broaden Embarcadero Adoption Amond Developers
A new licensing strategy introduced by Embarcadero Technologies may help enterprises view the company as a more comprehensive provider of application and database development tools. Called All-Access, the new approach gives customers access to the Embarcadero's portfolio at a reduced cost.
Standards Body Approves 9 New Web Services
Members of the OASIS standards-setting body have approved new versions of nine Web services specifications as OASIS standards, the organization says. The nine standards fall into the WS-RX (WS Reliable Exchange), WS-TX (WS Transactions) and WS-SX (WS Secure Exchange) specification families.
Scrappy ISV Challenges Microsoft, Google With Mashups
Messaging and collaboration software maker Gordano upgrades the Greasemonkey-based Gizmos mashup technology in its Gordano Messaging Suite to let application developers embed widgets within windows. Gordano is a long time Microsoft Exchange challenger but it's use of Web services, including Twitter integration, make it feel more like modern Web mail clients, such as Google Gmail or Yahoo Mail.
How to Move Zoho Apps to the Google App Engine
Deploying applications created using Zoho Creator on Google App Engine is an easy process that works as promised. However, while the process might be good for simple apps, it could be risky for mission-critical software targeted for Google App Engine. One thing to note is that although using Zoho Creator to build applications for Google App Engine may allow application developers to skip having to learn Python, it would benefit programmers to learn the language.
IBM SAAS Play Shows Promise, Could Muddle Brand ID
IBM's new software as a service play is an offer to host a quite of collaboration and messaging applications its integration and reseller partners can then sell to their own customers. IBM LotusLive opens a new way for IBM to compete with Microsoft and Google in cloud computing, but IBM needs to get the branding straight lest it muddle marketing the way Microsoft has with Windows Live and other platforms.
Microsoft Ships New Download Manager, Installer for Web Apps
Microsoft has shipped Version 1.0 of a free download manager called Web Platform Installer (Web PI) that enables developers to install the Microsoft Web Platform or at least part of it. Web PI simplifies the installation of Microsoft’s developer technologies, from .NET Framework 3.5 to ASP.NET to Silverlight and more, for building Web applications.
IBM Lotus Connection to Get Twitter-Like Micro-Blog Tool
IBM has announced that it will add a Twitter-style microblogging tool called & status updates& to its Lotus Connections 2.5. It will also get a version of the company's own wiki software, a files application, a redesigned home page and other new features when it appears later this year. The social messaging and collaboration service for enterprises is getting more robust to keep ahead of Google and Microsoft in the enterprise applications arena.
IBM, SAP Opt for Alloy for Enterprise Collaboration App
The messaging and collaboration tool under development by IBM and SAP will drop the & Atlantic& code name in favor of Alloy. Launching in March, Alloy lets users access SAP Business Suite reports and analytics from IBM's Lotus Notes 8.5 e-mail client. The combination could be a harbinger of things to come for enterprise mashups.
App and Site Management Tool Measures Performance of Ajax Sites
A new version of Keynote's KITE 2.0 app tool is designed to help developers gauge the performance of their sites and rich AJAX-based applications. The free software from Keynote offers strong granular performance data, but developers will need to conduct some trial-and-error work with KITE's scripting tools to get it just right for them.
Cisco Offers Its Own Social Networking Platform
At last week's CES, Cisco introduced a new social networking platform called EOS. Can the platform, which is aimed at media and entertainment companies, benefit small- and midmarket companies as well?