Java Product News (updated March 15, 2002)

Motorola enhances developer program; VistaPortal introduces first Jxta-based framework; Cape Clear updates CapeStudio; and more Motorola enhances developer program March 15 — Motorola has revamped its third-party developer program. Targeted to wireless application developers, content providers, content packagers, and system…

ISBN.nu becomes lost and found in Google gaffe

Tips on how to deal constructively with Web site issues I thought last week that I’d completed my series on ISBN.nu, an online book-price comparison service that gets 135,000 of its pages into Google.com’s index. But that’s before the relationship…

UserLand adds Community Server to Weblog, publishing system

MILLBRAE, CALIF.-BASED USERLAND Software the week of March 11 plans to introduce Community Server, an add-on product to its Radio UserLand 8 Weblog system and authoring tool. Community Server enables Radio users to build community statistics and other information for…

Applications briefs

Documentum extends content management Documentum extends content management Documentum this week introduced two digital asset management products at the Association for Information and Image Management 2002 Conference in San Francisco. The Documentum Media Services product allows enterprises to manage multimedia,…

Corporate venturing on the edge

Enterprise CTOs are using corporate funding for R&D, to spin off technology, and to incubate a competitive edge WITH LITTLE SURPRISE, large enterprise investment in new technologies and IT startups took a hit in the past year. Some innovations —…

What’s in a name?

I HEADED OUT all by my lonesome to Salt Lake City this past weekend to see if I couldn’t snowboard like those Olympians. No such luck, sorry to admit. But when I got back, Amber had a surprise waiting for…

The moral compass

Corporations aren’t moral agents, creating interesting dilemmas for business leaders MANAGEMENTSPEAK: You are right on target. TRANSLATION: You agree with me. — This week’s unnamed contributor explains the nature of accuracy. ACCORDING TO OUR national philosophy, we have a government…

Steering your platform on wheels

With driver information systems, the wireless network hits the road and never looks back THE EDGE OF the enterprise became a blur ever since people starting taking work from the office to do on their home systems. But what little…

Tale of two Rodneys

The standards battle is being played out over inclusion in the Web Services Interoperability Organization IT’S RODNEY against Rodney — “Why Can’t We All Just Get Along” versus “I Can’t Get No Respect.” In one corner are the Rodney King…

Automate the books

Intacct’s Web-enabled financial suite eases application integration ALTHOUGH MOST OF the buzz about enterprise integration has focused on front-office applications such as sales force automation and online shopping malls, financial software is arguably the true source of most integration-related headaches.…