Onkie updated his tooltip demo to add code to show tooltips on a tabular DataWindow for every row and column. The updated sample also adds support for three different delay times: AutoPop, Initial, and Reshow.

This year it looks certain that a new participation record will be set, as more than 4,000 votes have already been recorded in just the first seven days of voting, as more than 50,000 SYS-CON Media readers are estimated to cast their votes in this year's Readers' Choice Awards. Highlights after just one week's voting are as follows.

SYS-CON Media, the world's leading i-technology media company, announced that its 2005 Readers' Choice Awards polls opened today, February 1, 2005, and will remain open for six months, until July 31, 2005. More than 50,000 readers are expected to cast their votes to select the best software products and services of the year for Java, Linux, Web Services, XML, Microsoft .NET, ColdFusion and Macromedia MX.

SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com), the world's leading i-technology media company, announced today that the first branded blogging community, www.blog-n-play.com (TM), will go beta on February 15, 2005, to coincide with the opening day of the Web Services Edge 2005 East International Web Services Conference & Expo (www.sys-con.com/edg e2005east).

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - whose watchword is 'We believe that the world's toughest problems can be solved - if we work together' - is giving $3M to help those struck by the natural disaster that's wreaked such havoc in South Asia. Amazon.com has helped channel even more, $3.5M - as the wider Internet community joins the fund-raising effort.

No sooner had we begun our reader-driven quest for the top twenty software people in the world than - by popular acclaim, as they say - we're going to extend the field to choose from...from forty to over a hundred. Here we bring you a sneak peek at the sixty contenders that we'll be adding now to the poll, with thanks to everyone who has proferred suggestions. Even 100 won't do this subject justice, but it will be interesting to see how the i-Technology community decides to rank them, when voting on this new, expanded group begins in February.

SYS-CON Media today announced further details of the upcoming cross-platform technology event, Web Services Edge 2005 East - International Web Services Conference & Expo (www.sys-con.com/edge), to be held in Boston at the Hynes Convention Center, February 15-17, 2005. More than 3,000 i-technology professionals are expected to participate this year including the show expo floor, making it the largest Web Services event of the year. The following is the official announcement of the keynotes, sponsors, conference tracks and sessions, tutorials, and the Web Services case studies to be presented during this year's three-day event.

The mood was definitely upbeat on Thursday, October 28, as the 45th Annual Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show commenced with the largest opening day crowd in its history. The YV&C staff was on hand and spent most of their time at Bahia Mar and Las Olas, touring the show's superyachts.

SYS-CON Media today announced further details of the 'Application Server Shoot-Out' due to take place at its upcoming cross-platform technology event, Web Services Edge 2005 East - International Web Services Conference & Expo (www.sys-con.com/edge) - in which leading application server providers are expected to participate. The Shoot-Out, with a particular focus on interoperability, resiliency, security, and ease-of-use in terms of development, deployment, and management, will be staged under the auspices of Burton Group; Web Services Edge 2005 East is to be held in Boston at the Hynes Convention Center, February 15-17, 2005.

SYS-CON Media is inviting BEA, Borland, IBM, JBoss, JOnAS, Macromedia, Microsoft, Oracle, Orion, Sun, and Sybase to an 'Application Server Shoot-Out' at the upcoming Web Services Edge Conference & Expo, in Boston next February. The shootout will be a live competition aimed at finding out which app servers support the latest WS-I standards and how they compare in terms of how many transactions they can handle, how many lines of code they require, how they react to simulated network and hardware failures and a whole range of other metrics.

As part of an effort to provide more comprehensive support and integration with .NET, Sybase has released a new development tool that works in any .NET environment.

Everyone knows the classic milestones - 6 billion documents searched in nanoseconds, plus the inevitable admission of 'to google' into the dictionary, for example - but Google has just passed another one: it's made it from the 'Technology' section of the New York Times to the 'Fashion & Style' section. Googling-as-lifestyle pieces can be expected to proliferate worldwide from now on.

(October 17, 2002) - Join Dave Fish, PowerBuilder technical evangelist, for a presentation and product demonstration of PowerBuilder 9.0! PB 9.0, currently in its first public beta test, offers new next-generation and client-server capabilities.

(August 6, 2002) - At its TechWave 2002 conference in San Diego, Sybase, Inc., announced availability of the beta version of Sybase PowerBuilder 9.0. This updated version of Sybase's industry-leading rapid application development (RAD) tool incorporates new features - including XML, Java Server Pages, and third-party application server support - that allow developers to build for, and deploy into, multi-architectural environments such as distributed, Web, and client-server.

PowerBuilder Developer's Resource released PBDelta V4.0.4, with new command-line features to make integration easier with source control. PBDR also fixed a bug and was rebuilt using PB 9.0.1.

Techno-kitten.com released version 2.2.06 of PBL Peeper with new features including command-line parameters for target and workspace files, XP style interface support, wrap text option for script/portion display, copy contents on browse page context menu, and a script processor to synchronize DataWindow data sets to the database.

(November 20, 2003) - iAnywhere Solutions Inc. and Intel Corporation are working together to further the development of mobilized software for SMBs. The companies unveiled a toolkit that will enable software developers to deliver applications for SMB mobile computing and Wi-Fi users.

(November 20, 2003) - Sybase-powered solutions help organizations today attain maximum value from their data assets by effectively managing and mobilizing data.

Another TechWave has come and gone and it's time to look back at this latest one and see how it compares to the previous ones.

(July 2, 2003) - Sybase, Inc. has announced Appeon™ 2.5 for PowerBuilder, the first comprehensive solution of its kind to allow IT departments to quickly and easily deploy critical client/server applications to the Web. This low-risk, comprehensive solution allows IT departments to dramatically reduce the time and costs associated with bringing development code to market.

Sybase has released PowerBuilder 9.0, the industry-leading rapid application development tool. PowerBuilder 9.0 enables developers to build rich client applications to meet their mission-critical business requirements, and features new capabilities for J2EE and Microsoft .NET environments.

8/5 - Sybase announced the availability of the beta version of Sybase PowerBuilder 9.0. The new version includes support for XML, JavaServer Pages, Web services, and third-party application servers.

With the economy down and corporate revenues stalled, how can companies reinvent themselves, live on tighter budgets, and thrive in the changing markets?

7/11 - Sybase announced that EAServer achieved record-breaking price-performance results, better than BEA, IBM, Oracle, and all other application servers, on a single-node configuration in the independent ECperf benchmark. ECperf is the industry-standard benchmark that measures the scalability and performance of application servers and the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition.

Sybase announced a new plug-in that integrates WebGain Studio and WebGain VisualCafé with EAServer. Sybase announced the Open Advantage Campaign for EAServer, which provides a 50% discount for qualified customers who switch to EAServer.

San Diego - the city by the bay - hosted TechWave 2001, August 12-16, and by all indications the city and Sybase did a great job. As the Sybase loyal fought the economic slowdown and budget cuts to attend the annual gathering, Sybase prepared a show that harkened back to the exciting days of old.

This year's TechWave was a marked improvement over the last few years. Overall I'd have to say that 1994 and 1995 were the best Sybase Tools conferences ever. Since then their value to me has declined, though they were still worth the time and money. The two areas in which I've been disappointed in past years were the technical sessions and Sybase's inability to communicate their vision. TechWave 2000 contrasted sharply.