HP teams up to ease app assembly
HEWLETT-PACKARD TEAMED UP with ObjectVenture, a Milford, Mass.-based manufacturer of PCML (Pattern and Component Markup Language) developer products, the companies said Tuesday. Under the alliance, ObjectVenture will support Palo Alto, Calif.-based HP’s Application Server 8.0 by integrating with Forte for…
Was your last choice really voluntary?
Lack of options may have an adverse effect on choice How many choices have you made today? Lots? How many of them were voluntary? All of them? Don’t be so sure. For example, the last time I used one of…
NetManage delivers latest version of its hosting and integration software
NETMANAGE ON TUESDAY delivered the latest release of its OnWeb host integration product that includes beefed up support for Web services by including the Web Services Description Language (WSDL), as well as support for the Simple Object Access Protocols (SOAP).…
Drumming up support for the Tablet PC
Vice President Alex Loeb talks about how Microsoft expects to redefine mobile computing ALEX LOEB, AS vice president of the Tablet PC division for Microsoft, will be very much in demand this week as she tries to gain more support…
Microsoft, Philips pen Freestyle pact
IN AN EFFORT to distance future Windows users from their PCs, Microsoft representatives on Tuesday announced that the software giant has designated Philips Electronics to license its IR (infrared) remote control protocol to system builders wanting to design computers using…
Many Web sites aren’t designed well for kids
Age differences often overlooked in design A new study of the way children actually use Web sites shows they don’t always use them the way adults often think they do. The Nielsen Norman Group, usability testing consultants, watched 55 U.S.…
Breaking the bottleneck
CEO Uri Raz explains how AppStream is bridging server- and client-centric computing models ONE OF THE fundamental propositions of Web services is that applications will be manifested as a set of more discrete components. Today that model flies in the…
Bowstreet founder extols Web services automation
Frank Moss explains why the major vendors are not to be trusted FRANK MOSS IS now back at the helm at Bowstreet, which this week launched Version 5.0 of its Business Factory offering. Bowstreet helped pioneer the Web services category…
The MapPoint .Net development key
MapPoint .Net is not Microsoft’s first attempt at providing mapping capabilities to developers. MapPoint, the desktop mapping app in Microsoft Office, uses ActiveX to embed maps in applications. In many ways, MapPoint .Net behaves as would a hosted copy of…
Across the universe
Virtuoso speaks SQL, XML, and Web services, delivering tomorrow’s universal server today IN 1993 MICROSOFT first demonstrated Cairo, based on a prototype of its Object File System. The concept is slated to return, as Yukon, in 2003. Meanwhile, the industry…
