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SYS-CON's Open Web News Desk tracks the constant stream of compelling technology and Open APIs being released by or catalyzed by Google and its allies.
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Project Insight Project
Management Software
Releases Project
Scorecard By Open Web Developer News Desk Project Insight has
released Project
Scorecard, a project
scoring system that
enables companies to
measure projects on how
they fit into corporate
goals and objectives.
With the recent economic
downturn, businesses are
hard-pressed to
prioritize major projects
a... Jun. 25, 2008 03:00 PM Reads: 2,547 Replies: 1 | GIS Planning Integrates
Browser-Based Google
Earth into its Services By Open Web Developer News Desk As soon as Google
announced the
availability of
browser-based Google
Earth functionality, GIS
Planning's development
team jumped on the
opportunity to integrate
the application into
their existing Google
Maps-powered services. In
doing so, GIS Planning
became on... May. 30, 2008 08:45 AM Reads: 1,721 | Zoho Invites Google &
Yahoo Users to Login By Open Web Developer News Desk Zoho announced that it is
welcoming Google and
Yahoo users with a
unified login designed to
encourage those users to
try Zoho applications.
Now, Google and Yahoo
users who visit Zoho can
simply log into Zoho
using the usernames and
passwords associated with
their ... May. 14, 2008 03:15 PM Reads: 2,674 | Google Reports 31%
Profits Increase in First
Quarter of 2008 By Open Web Developer News Desk After a
better-than-expected
quarterly earnings report
called 'amazingly good'
by the New York Times, it
would seem that Google is
defying macro-economic
downtrend. 'It's clear we
are well positioned for
2008 and beyond,
regardless of the
business environment we
... Apr. 18, 2008 03:15 AM Reads: 4,273 | Google VP of Engineering
To Become EMI Music's New
President of Digital By Open Web Developer News Desk Douglas Merrill, Google
VP of Engineering, is
leaving Google to become
EMI Music's new President
of Digital. Merrill
joined Google late in
2003 as Senior Director
of Information Systems.
In this capacity he led
multiple strategic
efforts including
Google?s 2004 IP... Apr. 2, 2008 02:45 PM Reads: 2,262 | Krugle Makes Code Search
OpenAPI Available for
Partners By Open Web Developer News Desk Krugle, the company that
provides code search for
the world's leading
developer networks,
including IBM
developerWorks,
CollabNet,
SourceForge.net, and
Yahoo! Developer Network,
has announced the
availability of its
OpenAPI for partners.
'With the opening of thi... Feb. 12, 2008 08:15 AM Reads: 3,949 | IT Mill Integrates Google
Web Toolkit By Open Web Developer News Desk IT Mill Ltd has released
version 5.0 of its IT
Mill Toolkit under the
Apache 2.0 open source
license. With IT Mill
Toolkit 5 developers now
have the building blocks
for RIAs that will allow
them to work with Java
alone. Toolkit 5.0 unites
client-side AJAX tools
wi... Jan. 11, 2008 09:00 AM Reads: 5,317 | Federal Trade Commission
Clears Google's
Acquisition of
DoubleClick By Open Web Developer News Desk Google welcomed the U.S.
Federal Trade
Commission's clearance of
its planned acquisition
of DoubleClick Inc., a
premier provider of
display ad serving
technology and services.
Google announced in April
2007 a definitive
agreement to acquire the
company for $3.1 b... Dec. 20, 2007 10:00 AM Reads: 5,930 | New Report Discusses
Google Android and
Funambol Open Source
Impact on Mass Market for
Mobile Email By Open Web Developer News Desk Funambol announced the
availability of a free
Funambol position paper
entitled 'How Google
Android Stimulates the
Mass Market for Mobile
Email and how Funambol
Mobile Open Source
Monetizes It'. The paper
discusses how Android
will spur adoption of
mobile email by ... Dec. 19, 2007 01:00 PM Reads: 5,641 | Open Web Developer Summit
to Take Place April
21-22, 2008 in New York
City By Open Web Developer News Desk In keeping with the
longstanding SYS-CON
tradition of being at the
very forefront of
software development with
all its online and
offline resources,
SYS-CON Media & Events
jointly today announced a
double whammy, launching
both 'Open Web
Developer's Journal' (htt
... Dec. 12, 2007 02:45 PM Reads: 36,555 Replies: 1 | SMobile Predicts Spike in
Mobile Viruses Once
Google Phone Hits the
Market By Open Web Developer News Desk  According to SMobile
Systems, the launch of
Google Phone platform
will be among the most
positive transformational
moments in mobile
communications history by
further merging computers
with mobile devices. But
while millions of people
will now be able to
'compute ... Dec. 10, 2007 08:00 PM Reads: 12,296 Replies: 2 | emoze's Push-Email
Upgrade Supports Google
Apps By Open Web Developer News Desk emoze has upgraded its
free software that
provides secure push
email to mobile phones
all over the world, to
support Google Apps. This
service from Google
enables consumers and
businesses to use their
own custom domain names
with several Google
products. Dec. 10, 2007 07:45 PM Reads: 9,047 | SMobile Systems' Security
Solution for Google's
Android By Open Web Developer News Desk  SMobile Systems has
created a mobile security
solution for devices
coming to market using
the Android platform, the
Google-initiated,
Linux-based open source
mobile operating system.
On Monday, November 12,
the Open Handset Alliance
released the Android's
software... Dec. 10, 2007 07:45 PM Reads: 5,849 | db4objects Announces db4o
Database as Android Ready By Open Web Developer News Desk db4objects announced that
db4o runs seamlessly on
the Android platform, a
software stack for mobile
devices introduced
recently by the
Google-backed Open
Handset Alliance. The
Android stack comes
complete with application
framework, development
environment, tools,... Dec. 6, 2007 10:00 AM Reads: 6,512 | Credit Suisse Says
Google's Good for $900 By Open Web Developer News Desk Credit Suisse has pushed
its 12-month price target
on Google from $800 to
$900, causing the stock
to regain some of the 125
bucks it's lost to the
market roiling since
Google grazed $750
earlier this month. Most
of Wall Street believes
in its heart that Google
wil... Nov. 29, 2007 10:00 AM Reads: 6,036 | Google To Take Online
Storage World By Storm By Open Web Developer News Desk  According to the Wall
Street Journal this
morning Google's
preparing a service that
would let users store on
its computers essentially
all of the files they
might keep on their
personal-computer hard
drives - such as
word-processing
documents, digital music,
vid... Nov. 28, 2007 06:00 AM Reads: 9,723 Replies: 1 | Wireless Google - Next
Steps: Bidding for a
$4.6BN Chunk of Spectrum
from the FCC By Open Web Developer News Desk  A Google spokesman told
the Wall Street Journal
today that Google is
'making all the necessary
preparations to become an
applicant to bid' for a
chunk of 700MHz spectrum
from the FCC. 'Our goal
is to make sure that
American consumers have
more choices in an open
a... Nov. 19, 2007 06:00 PM Reads: 6,848 | Google Announces $10
Million Android Developer
Challenge By Open Web Developer News Desk The Android Developer
Challenge will provide
$10 million to developers
who build mobile
applications for Android,
a complete, open, and
free mobile platform. The
Challenge is designed to
support the developer
community and spark
innovation on the Android
platform ... Nov. 12, 2007 11:00 AM Reads: 9,823 | Plaxo Is First Site To
Publicly Implement
OpenSocial By Open Web Developer News Desk Less than 24 hours after
the launch of OpenSocial,
not only was it running
live in Plaxo, but there
were already several
first-class gadgets from
top developers like
RockYou and Slide. 'This
is just the beginning -
there's so much more to
do to truly open up the
s... Nov. 6, 2007 06:00 AM Reads: 8,937 | Google and 34 Others
Launch Android Platform,
Form the Open Handset
Alliance By Open Web Developer News Desk  A broad alliance of
leading technology and
wireless companies today
joined forces to announce
the development of
Android, calling it 'the
first truly open and
comprehensive platform
for mobile devices.'
Google, T-Mobile, HTC,
Qualcomm, Motorola and
others have col... Nov. 5, 2007 02:00 PM Reads: 11,452 Replies: 2 | Google Goes On
Disrupting: Last Week
OpenSocial, This Week
Open Phones By Open Web Developer News Desk  In a move likely to be
hailed as the final blow
for the walled gardens
favored till now by the
wireless operators,
Google is leveraging
Linux and Java to open up
the wireless handset
market in the same way
that it just launched
OpenSocial to break open
social netw... Nov. 5, 2007 08:00 AM Reads: 11,373 Replies: 3 | The OpenSocial Era of
Cross-Network Social
Applications Begins By Open Web Developer News Desk  We already brought word
last week of Marc
Andreeseen's detailed
overview of OpenSocial,
but what of other leading
participants in the
introduction of common
APIs to the world of
social networking? Here
is a round-up of what is
being written, thought,
and said abou... Nov. 5, 2007 05:30 AM Reads: 8,441 Replies: 1 | OpenSocial: "It's Good
for Developers" Says
Google's Joe Kraus By Open Web Developer News Desk  Google saw a problem with
the way social networks
were going, according to
Joe Kraus, Director of
Product Management, and
OpenSocial was its way of
overcoming it. Till now,
to get an application to
run on all the diferent
social networks a
developer had to
customi... Nov. 3, 2007 09:45 AM Reads: 8,856 | Google's OpenSocial
Initiative Gains Massive
Momentum By Open Web Developer News Desk  OpenSocial, the
industry-backed
application programming
interface (API) developed
by Google to promote
interoperability and
shared data across all
online social networks,
is gaining momentum at a
rapid pace. The sites
that have already
committed to supporting
Op... Nov. 2, 2007 04:00 AM Reads: 12,065 | Social Network Wars:
Google + Everyone Else vs
Facebook By Open Web Developer News Desk  In a move to bolster its
attempt to add a social
layer on top of the
entire suite of Google
services, Google
yesterday joined other
leading social networking
players in introducing a
common set of standards
to allow software
developers to write
cross-network progr... Oct. 31, 2007 12:45 PM Reads: 22,144 Replies: 3 | Google Sales Surge 57%
and Net Income 46% in
Quarter 3 By Open Web Developer News Desk  Google, whose shares hit
a record of $641.41 a
week ago, reported that
sales in its third
quarter had surged by 57%
compared with the period
a year ago, and net
income by 46%. 'We are
very pleased with the
impressive growth we
experienced across our
business,' sai... Oct. 23, 2007 06:00 AM Reads: 23,199 Replies: 1 | Google Doodle Celebrates
Birthday of the Search
Engine That Changed the
World By Open Web Developer News Desk Larry Page and Sergey
Brin registered the
google.com domain in
1997, and Google was
officially launched one
year later, making Google
9 this year. Google's
birthday has alweays been
celebrated on September
27th with a doodle
displayed on the
homepage, and today is no
exception. Oct. 1, 2007 09:00 AM Reads: 12,708 | Google Is 9 Years Old
Today! By Open Web Developer News Desk Larry Page and Sergey
Brin registered the
google.com domain in
1997, and Google was
officially launched one
year later, making Google
9 this year. Google's
birthday has alweays been
celebrated on September
27th with a doodle
displayed on the
homepage, and today is no
exception. Sep. 27, 2007 09:00 AM Reads: 16,237 | Will Google Gears Be the
Basis for Online/Offline
Version of Gmail? By Open Web Developer News Desk Google Gears specifically
allows AJAX web apps to
run offline without a net
connection. An open
source runtime, it allows
you to build offline Web
applications, so
presumably the bright
folks at the Googleplex
are keen to eat in their
own kitchen. Sep. 21, 2007 09:15 PM Reads: 16,746 | Google Search Page Today
Features Children's
Author Roald Dahl By Open Web Developer News Desk September 13 being Roald
Dahl's birthday (he was
born September 13, 1916),
Google is celebrating
today with a special
celebration logo on the
Google search page
featuring items and
characters from Dahl's
world famous children's
books. Sep. 13, 2007 08:45 AM Reads: 9,054 Replies: 1 |
PBDJ LATEST STORIES . . . Adobe's Kevin Lynch and
Microsoft's Scott Guthrie
to Keynote AJAX World RIA
Conference & Expo By RIA News Desk  Two of the biggest
launches in Rich Internet
Application history took
place in 2007/2008 when
Adobe launched AIR 1.0 in
February '08 and
Microsoft launched
Silverlight (September
'07). At the 6th
International AJAXWorld
RIA Conference & Expo in
October SYS-CON Events is
delighted to be | PowerBuilder and
EAServer: Uniting the
.NET and J2EE Communities By Jim O'Neil  In PowerBuilder 11.2,
.NET meets J2EE head-on
with the capability to
deploy .NET Windows Forms
and Web Forms
applications (as well as
assemblies and Web
Services) that access
Enterprise JavaBeans
(EJBs) in Sybase's own
EAServer. As you'll see
over the course of this
article, integratin | HarPB Tool Review By Al Soucy  HarPB is a specialized
utility for checking
PowerBuilder source
objects in and out of
AllFusion Harvest. It
handles the special
requirements of checking
objects out to
PowerBuilder Libraries
(PBLs) and checking
objects in from PBLs.
These operations are
non-standard to most
source cont | PowerBuilder Editorial:
The State of the State By Bruce Armstrong  Back in 2002, Sybase
announced their
four-phase approach
toward adding .NET
support to PowerBuilder.
Phase 1 was the
implementation of web
services in PB9 and Phase
2 was the release of
DataWindow.NET, which was
packaged with PB 10.
Phases 3 and 4 were the
more significant phases.
In P | PowerBuilder History -
When Did Sybase Develop
PB and How Did It Evolve? By Chris Pollach  I have been asked many
times by various clients,
students, and the IT
curious about
PowerBuilder: When did
Sybase develop the
product and how did it
evolve? I keep telling
this story and answering
e-mails on the subject. I
am now to the point where
I have decided that I
should have PBD | PowerBuilder 11's .NET
Interoperability By John Strano  PowerBuilder 11 deploys
entire applications as
.NET Windows Form or Web
Form applications and
deploys individual
components as .NET
Assemblies and as .NET
Web Services. Version 11
consumes resources of the
default .NET framework as
well as resources of
custom developer-defined
.NET res |
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Microsoft's Scott Guthrie
to Keynote AJAX World RIA
Conference & Expo Two of the biggest
launches in Rich Internet
Application history took
place in 2007/2008 when
Adobe | PowerBuilder and
EAServer: Uniting the
.NET and J2EE Communities In PowerBuilder 11.2,
.NET meets J2EE head-on
with the capability to
deploy .NET Windows Forms
and W | HarPB Tool Review HarPB is a specialized
utility for checking
PowerBuilder source
objects in and out of
AllFusion Harv | PowerBuilder Editorial:
The State of the State Back in 2002, Sybase
announced their
four-phase approach
toward adding .NET
support to PowerBuilder. | PowerBuilder History -
When Did Sybase Develop
PB and How Did It Evolve? I have been asked many
times by various clients,
students, and the IT
curious about
PowerBuilder: Wh | PowerBuilder 11's .NET
Interoperability PowerBuilder 11 deploys
entire applications as
.NET Windows Form or Web
Form applications and
deploy | Sanity, Strategy,
Sustainability: The New
World of Verification
Platforms The lines between
embedded and enterprise
computing are blurring.
As embedded devices
become more an | Publishing .NET Web
Services Using SQL
Anywhere 10.0.1 In this article we're
going to take a database
and create our own mini
version of an
'Amazon-like' i | PowerBuilder Editorial -
"There You Go Again" If that doesn't ring a
bell, it's from the
Reagan / Carter debates
in the 1980 election
cycle. Carte | Integrated Support for
XML Data Management XML is increasingly being
used as the language of
data exchange. An XML
document based on a DTD
or a | SYS-CON's Virtualization
Conference & Expo: Themes
& Topics From Application
Virtualization to Xen, a
round-up of the
virtualization themes &
topics being discu | How Does NY State Manage
Its PowerBuilder
Applications? Most applications need
upgrades and corrections.
If you maintain in-house
development you want to
be | PowerBuilder and UPS
Shipping Does your shipping
department have these
problems? Extra charges
due to incorrect
addresses? Difficu | Using the Eclipse Data
Tools Platform with
PowerBuilder and SQL
Anywhere The Eclipse Data Tools
Platform (DTP) is now a
top-level project at
eclipse.org. Originally
proposed | 2008 Worldwide
PowerBuilder Survey Novalys is holding its
8th annual PowerBuilder
Worldwide Survey. This
survey is a great
feedback mec | View "Virtualization
Power Panel" Live on
SYS-CON.TV Red Hat CTO Brian
Stevens, Citrix CTO Simon
Crosby, Egenera CTO Pete
Manca, Allen Stewart,
Group Man | Sybase PowerBuilder
Delivers AJAX and .NET
Enhancements Sybase announced that
AJAX development
capabilities and further
Microsoft .NET
enhancements have bee | The PB Future: More on
Graphs in PowerBuilder
11.5 Last week I posted a
screen shot of the new 3D
Rendering capabilities
being added to some of
the 3D | BluePhoenix Expands
Modernization
Collaboration with
Microsoft BluePhoenix announced
that it has expanded its
collaboration with
Microsoft on legacy
modernization | PowerBuilder 11.2
Released: Sybase's
Flagship IDE Sybase has released the
production version of its
flagship .NET development
tool - PowerBuilder vers |
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1983 and worked at MITRE
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