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UPS Offers Direct Links to Package Tracking App New APIs to let customers tie their own apps into UPS' Shipping Tool package-tracking network. Festival to Highlight Latest in Digital Performance More than 2,000 shows and 19,000 performers to show latest in performance, technology in digital-society fair in Edinburgh. Google Releases New Set of Ajax Interfaces A new set of APIs is designed to make Google AJAX development faster and easier. Proposal to Fix IP Address Crisis Does Not Impress Temporary measures to ameliorate address crisis will have run their course, leaving the web just as vulnerable as before they were developed, OECD warns. VMware Pushes for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Standards VMware in pushing for a new set of standards for desktop computing, under the VMware Professional Services banner. Sun to Stay Out of Online Ad Biz Despite building the technology that contributed the most to it, Sun has decided to avoid the online advertising business. Microsoft, Yahoo Acquisition Talks Break Down Yahoo holds out for what analysts say is far more than the company is worth; Microsoft backs off bid for acquisition Yahooligans wanted to avoid. Myths and Risks of the Next Internet, and How to Avoid Them IPv6 is the biggest change coming, but there are others, and no one seems to have laid out plans to make transitions easier, or at least quash some of the myths. MySpace Expands Online App-Sharing With Gallery Application Gallery will add to MySpace users' ability to check out applications, add apps to their profiles, and post software they've built themselves. Web Analytics Get Beefier, With Google, Yahoo Additions Eying advances from Microsoft, Google and Yahoo throw more effort -- and acquisition dollars -- into free analysis tools for Web traffic. Microsoft Silverlight Use to Triple, Even vs. Flash Market research company Evans Data predicts support of Silverlight in Microsoft's own products will triple use of the Flash competitor. Adobe to Introduce New Digital Movie Standard Debut of CinemaDNG open file format for digital video comes on top of releases of new Media Player and Adobe TV, as Adobe expands into moving pictures as well as still. Adobe Issues Major Flash Update Update designed to plug security hole identified in Pwn to own hacker competition, but might break some Web sites. One Hundred Most Influential People in IT Are you on the list? Is your boss? The editors of eWEEK, Baseline and CIOInsight give their pics for the heavyweights of the computer business. Microsoft`s OpenXML approved by ISO Months of wrangling and at least one revote following vote problems result in approval for Microsoft XML alternative. Adobe Needs Help, Approval to Get on iPhone Adobe needs extra help to get Flash on the iPhone; getting it depends on what Steve Jobs thinks about the whole thing. Google Flub Boosts Webroot Google's decision to change pricing on its Postini products and fumbling efforts in the reseller channel are helping competitor Webroot expand its own base. Google to Buy Adobe? Will Google put together its own competitor to Microsoft's Silverlight, or will it just buy Adobe and have done? How to Succeed with Virtual World Development Tips for successfully deploying a virtual world. Microsoft Product Aims at Universal Patient Data Linkage Microsoft's Amalga products provide access to any relevant patient information, regardless of data type. |
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