HyperOffice is now available by download from Apple's new App Store, putting the business collaboration suite within easy reach of any iPhone user. HyperOffice transforms the iPhone into a tool for mobile business. Users connect to secure corporate email, contacts, calendars, tasks and notes - and share documents and data without Microsoft Exchange and Sharepoint.
SpringSource, the company behind Spring, the de facto standard in enterprise Java, and a provider of infrastructure software, announced a strategic partnership with Carahsoft Technology Corporation, a government IT solutions provider. Under the terms of the partnership, Carahsoft will resell SpringSource products and services to the public sector for the first time. SpringSource Enterprise and Application Platform software offerings, as well as commercial support offerings around Apache Tomcat and other Apache technologies, will be offered under numerous contract programs, including the Federal GSA.
Commercial systems are developed with a huge range of performance requirements and we are concerned in this article with the small number of systems where absolute maximum performance is demanded either in terms of execution speed or available memory. We'll discuss the role of bespoke implementation and show that writing programs that utilize novel data structures and new algorithms designed with knowledge of the specific problem context is a necessary complement to the generic components and automatic optimizations offered by compilers and modern JVMs to maximize performance.
Active Power, Inc., inventor and manufacturer of energy-efficient critical power systems in the world, announced it has sold and shipped one of its CleanSource UPS (uninterruptible power supply) 1200 kVA system to Sun Microsystems. The flywheel based UPS system will provide power protection and conditioning for Sun’s Broomfield, Colo. based data center facility.
It seems that Apple has another winner on their hands with the new Apple iPhone 3G. There are now millions of people connected to the Internet every minute of every day using this device. The fast adoption has created a tremendous opportunity for software vendors and companies to take advantage of an extremely large ecosystem of end users. The ecosystem is alive and well with the streamlined experience of the Apple App Store.
Sun has got multi-year OEM deals with Avanquest Software, Q-layer and Zenith InfoTech to move its bought-in cross-platform xVM VirtualBox widgetry. The stuff is free from Sun and runs multiple operating systems on the same desktop at the same time, which means OEMs can use virtual machines as self-contained distribution mechanisms for their solutions. Sun claims five million VirtualBox downloads since January 2007 although it only bought the stuff in February.
Organizations are rapidly consolidating multiple physical servers to virtual environments. There is no debating the cost savings and operational benefits of virtualization. The issues that are now arising as virtualization continues to proliferate are rooted in management and how organizations can gain cost visibility and recover the costs of their virtualization projects. As a result, corporate finance and IT functionalities are moving ever closer together.
Sun has released a new development kit aimed at mobile software developers. The toolkit will allow developers to create user interfaces for Java-based mobile phone applications. The package is being made available for download by the company under the title 'Light-weight UI Toolkit' or LWUIT.
First there was the failure of MediaMax/TheLinkUp, which was based on the idea of pairing online storage with social networking. In its wake comes Wuala, a new service from Zurich-based Caleido that pairs a similar plan with some unique technologies and capabilities.
A pair of critical vulnerabilities in Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java technology for mobile devices could be used by hackers to surreptitiously make calls, record conversations and access information on Nokia Series 40 cell phones, a Polish researcher said.
Skyway Software, the experts in simplifying software delivery, recently entered into a relationship with The Hershey Company. The Hershey Company markets such iconic brands as Hershey's, Reese's, Hershey's Kisses, and Ice Breakers and is the largest North American manufacturer of quality chocolate and sugar confectionery products, with annual revenues of nearly $5 billion and more than 13,000 employees worldwide.
Aladdin Knowledge Systems, an information security specialist in authentication, software DRM and content security, announced the release of Aladdin HASP SRMv 3.50, adding automatic file wrapping for Java applications, enhanced security and ease-of-use to Aladdin's award-winning, fully-integrated hardware- and software-based copy protection and licensing solution.
The Instinct smartphone will gain a wide range of new software as the result of a contest for Java programmers, despite a behind-the-scenes dispute about standards compliance. Co-developed with Samsung, the Instinct is positioned as Sprint’s answer to the Apple iPhone, exclusively sold by rival AT&T in the United States. Unlike software for the iPhone, new programs for the Instinct do not require Sprint’s certification.
SourceLabs, the company innovating support and search technology for open source software, released SourceLabs' Self-Support Tools with hardware recognition and advanced tagging. The new features represent a substantial expansion to the company's Support Suite technologies that enable engineers and IT professionals to quickly discover issues and find solutions for open source software.
The SYS-CON Media Annual Readers' Choice Awards program is a carefully orchestrated user-centric process in which SYS-CON Readers are able each year to nominate and/or vote for the products, services, and applications that they feel are most deserving in the numerous key categories that our team of experts choose each year. Here in the form of an FAQ are the answers to some questions we commonly receive on the Readers' Choice awards.
Aerial and satellite imagery, topographic maps, and terrain data available from ESRI's ArcGIS Online Services can now be accessed and purchased via the Web application DataDoors for ArcGIS. Developed by ESRI business partner i-cubed, the application enables geographic information system (GIS) users to select, order, and acquire a variety of raster data, available online, for offline usage in their GIS projects.
Morph Labs has announced a web application support program designed for iPhone developers. The Morph program brings together resources for iPhone web application developers and allows them to build applications and deploy them to the Morph AppSpace service, a fully managed environment for running web applications.
Skyway Software announces a strategic partnership with Atomikos, a firm monitoring transaction processing (TP) activities in today’s software development and delivery activities.
Following the launch of its Breeze mobile application development and distribution platform, Cascada Mobile is officially launching Breeze Apps, an online portal for finding and downloading free applications to mobile phones. The Breeze Apps portal makes it easy for anyone with a Java-capable mobile phone to discover new and innovative applications which they can download and install for free. Supported by more than 2 billion phones in the market today, Java is the most commonly used programming language for mobile phones.
Coverity, Inc. announced the availability of Coverity Software Readiness Manager for Java. The product allows development managers, release managers and executives to objectively assess the release readiness of their critical code by combining essential data from multiple sources including Prevent, Coverity's static analysis product. Software Readiness Manager helps development teams deliver high-integrity code that successfully meets quality standards to align product development with business goals.
With the rapid evolution that Java and open source frameworks have made since the release of J2EE, enterprise Java IT seems to be producing too many Java dinosaurs. Developers, technical managers, or architects who no longer pursue their technical skills don't understand the evolution of JEE in comparison to J2EE, persistence frameworks, IOC frameworks, Web frameworks, or Web 2.0 and its effects on enterprise Java. Yet decisions are made based on out-of-date J2EE experience.
T-Mobile has confirmed in the US that it is working with developers to create an Apple like App Store for all, not just some of its handsets.
The finest programmer I've ever worked with told me recently that she was giving up coding altogether. The reason – a succession of inept and incompetent managers had just destroyed her faith in software development. Recounting her experiences over the past couple of years, she categorized management personalities into certain traits.
So I finally got my hands on an iPhone 3G but am currently still favoring my iPhone 2.5G – why? The signal seems better; 3G signal is patchy at best and forget receiving calls when you have 3G on – horrible…; the battery life is **much** better on the original iPhone than on the 3G iPhone; all my accessories such as Power Monkey fit the original iPhone but not the new 3G iPhone as Apple in their wisdom changed the connector.
Eurotech Inc., a provider of application-ready embedded computer systems, launches the Eurotech Software Framework (ESF) middleware solution, based on service oriented architecture and implemented using IBM Equinox. ESF brings a low cost modular approach to application development by using a mature and scalable Java-based software framework.