Internet/Intranet
- First Look: Komodo IDE 5.0
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12/2/2008
Last month, ActiveState released Komodo IDE 5.0, the company's latest integrated development environment (IDE). Komodo supports multiple programming and markup languages, including HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, Java, Python, C++ and more. It does not support some .NET languages at present, such as ASP/ASP.NET, C# and VB.NET.
- IBM Offers Cloud Computing Help
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12/2/2008
IBM last week announced consulting services specifically designed to help organizations assess their options in using cloud computing technology. "Cloud computing" is a much argued term, but it typically refers to solutions delivered over the Internet, rather than via customer premises-installed software.
- IE8 Release Candidate Coming on Q1 2009
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11/24/2008
Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 apparently will have its product debut sometime next year, according to an announcement released Wednesday by the company. The Web browser is currently available as IE8 Beta 2, and Microsoft hopes to get some more feedback from the public and technical community before finalizing it.
- Microsoft Unveils Exchange and SharePoint as Services
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11/20/2008
Microsoft exec Stephen Elop on Monday announced two hosted solutions from Microsoft--Exchange Online and SharePoint Online--which are now available to organizations of all sizes in the United States. The software, paid for by annual subscriptions, is hosted on Microsoft's servers and supported by Microsoft's channel partners.
- IBM Launches 'Pass It Along' Social Networking, Knowledge Sharing Tool
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11/19/2008
IBM has launched a new social networking tool aimed at facilitating collaborative knowledge sharing within organizations.
- CourseCast Integrates Closed-Captioning Service
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11/18/2008
Software developer Panopto is reporting that it has partnered with Automatic Sync Technologies to integrate closed captioning into its CourseCast lecture capture system. The solution was developed jointly on behalf of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, which is using the system to capture, caption, and publish classroom presentations.
- Wimba Pronto 2.1 Adds Accessibility, Spanish Language Features
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11/18/2008
Wimba this week released Wimba Pronto 2.1, an update to the company's academic instant messaging software. The new version adds a Spanish language option and new accessibility features.
- Office Web Apps Will Work on iPhones
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11/17/2008
Microsoft's Office Web applications, announced late last month at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference, will work on "multiple platforms," including Apple's iPhone, according to a Microsoft Channel 10 blog.
- Microsoft To Add Smooth Streaming in IIS7
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11/12/2008
Web sites will be able to get improved bandwidth management for streaming media using a new extension to the Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS7) Web server. The extension, earlier this month, is called "IIS Smooth Streaming."
- Agile Solution Provider Rolls Out Java SDK
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11/12/2008
Agile project management tools provider VersionOne has updated its V1: Agile Enterprise product to include a Java software development kit (Java SDK). The 8.3 version, now available, comes with an extensible API, object model libraries, source code, documentation and sample applications for Java jocks.
- Open Source Java Libraries Debut for uPortal
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11/10/2008
Phoenix-based Cernunnos Team has announced the public launch of Cernunnos 1.0.0, a set of Java component libraries for use with uPortal, an open source enterprise portal designed for universities.
- Dimdim Launches Hosted Virtual Classroom
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11/10/2008
Videoconferencing software developer Dimdim recently announced that it's releasing a Web-based conferencing solution specifically for education. The company's new Dimdim Virtual Classroom Pack, which debuted late last month, allows 10 teachers to host up to 40 students at a time in an online environment.
- Small College Makes Big Leap in Wireless
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11/6/2008
Small colleges can often be just an innovative and leading-edge in their technology rollouts as large ones, or even more so, with the right approach and know-how.
- Bryant University Takes On-Demand Approach to Multimedia Delivery
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11/5/2008
Extending classroom walls through educational videos and other multimedia offerings has become common in higher education but often brings its own set of challenges. Managing the increasing amount of multimedia content, along with cataloging new material, such as live recordings, can be costly.
- Cedarville U Overhauls Campus-wide Wireless Network with 802.11n
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11/4/2008
Cedarville University in southwestern Ohio has embarked on a program to upgrade its campus-wide wireless network to 802.11n. Approximately 90 of the university's 500 wireless access points have been upgraded so far; the remaining 30 buildings on Cedarville's 400-acre campus will be upgraded over the next several years.
- Security Concerns May Slow Cloud Computing Adoption
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11/3/2008
Speaking about his company's "Digital Disruptions" report released this past month, Computer Sciences Corp.'s Chief Innovation Officer Lem Lasher said questions over data security will be a major impediment to enterprise adoption of cloud computing.
- First Look at Live Mesh and Live Framework
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11/3/2008
David Treadwell, Microsoft's corporate vice president of the Live Services Platform, announced the new Live Framework during a keynote address at last week's Professional Developers Conference that addressed Windows 7 and other tools and technologies that will make up the front-end infrastructure of the company's unfolding Software plus Services strategy.
- Spam Attacks on the Rise in Q3
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10/31/2008
Identity thieves and hackers appear to be coming at Windows users from all fronts, most commonly with spam. They were particularly active during the third quarter of 2008, when they did it eight times more frequently than in the previous quarter, according to a report released Monday by Sophos.
- North Carolina State and IBM Expand Open Source Educational Cloud
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10/30/2008
North Carolina State University and IBM have announced plans to provide every student in North Carolina access to educational resources through NC State's Virtual Computing Lab (VCL), an open source, Web-based technology. Through this cloud--which is a set of Internet-based resources--students at the university, as well as K-12 schools and other colleges around the state will have access to educational materials, software applications and computing and storage resources.
- PDC: Microsoft Calls New Cloud Computing OS a 'Turning Point' for Company
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10/30/2008
At its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles this week, Microsoft is unveiling the end-to-end vision for its Software plus Services platform.
- Zimbra Brings Collaboration Suite to the Clouds for Education Institutions
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10/29/2008
Zimbra has launched a new edition of its Zimbra Collaboration Suite specifically for education institutions, a completely cloud-based solution called Zimbra Hosted for Education.
- Singapore Students Tackle Mobile Widgets Using Yahoo Blueprint
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10/29/2008
Singapore university students recently competed in a competition to create mobile-optimized widgets using Blueprint, a programming platform for the development of mobile content from Yahoo. Twenty-four teams from six higher education institutions competed to build the best mobile widgets for four corporate brands.
- Microsoft Outlines Windows 7, Slew of New Dev Technologies
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10/28/2008
Coming off yesterday's launch of its Azure cloud-based services, Microsoft today articulated how it will bridge PCs and mobile devices with an extraordinary blitz of announcements that included the first demonstration of Windows 7, its Live Framework, a bevy of new offerings for developers including WPF support for Visual Studio, and the first preview of Office 14.
- Open Ajax Alliance Offers New IDE and Mashup Tools
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10/28/2008
The OpenAjax Alliance wants to make it easier--and safer--to build applications using the Ajax Web development technique. The group unveiled two standards initiatives at this year's AjaxWorld RIA Conference & Expo last week in San Jose, CA, including a new metadata specification and a new version of its mashup runtime.
- Elluminate Phases In Learning Suite Upgrades
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10/28/2008
Ed tech developer Elluminate announced Tuesday that it's beginning a phased rollout of new versions of its Elluminate Learning Suite components, including Live V9 and Publish V2, as well as Elluminate vSpaces. New features are being rolled into these virtual learning applications now through December.
