Science & Engineering
- IBM Rolls Out System z10 Mainframe, Plus Dev Tools
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2/27/2008
IBM Tuesday announced the debut of its new System z10 mainframe computer for enterprise data centers. The company also rolled out various software products and programs aimed at helping its customers and business partners support mainframe operations and enterprise application development efforts.
- Blogs and Streams From Sun's WWERC Annual Conference
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2/26/2008
This week in San Francisco, Sun Microsystems is bringing together thought leaders in education from more than 30 countries for its annual Worldwide Education and Research Conference, this year themed, "The Power of Communities." Conference organizers are maximizing the reach of the conference through live broadcasts and blogs...
- Sun Completes MySQL Acquisition; Universities Deploy Sun Infrastructure
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2/26/2008
Sun Microsystems Tuesday completed its $1 billion acquisition of MySQL AB, a decision that was announced back in mid-January. Coinciding with the completion of the acquisition, Sun also made available MySQL's complete portfolio of products through its global sales and services organization. The company also recently announced several new universities deploying its systems.
- Bungee Offers Platform-as-a-Service Dev Beta
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2/26/2008
Bungee Labs last week rolled out the full public beta of a hosted service designed to provide a complete Web-based application development environment. The new Bungee Connect service includes development tools and staging platforms for creators of browser-based business apps.
- University or Oregon Dedicates Nanoscience Research Center
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2/25/2008
The University of Oregon has joined the fast-growing nanotechnology industry with the dedication last week of a new science and technology research complex. The new underground Lorry I. Lokey Laboratories building is a signature research center associated with the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute, a consortium that includes the University of Oregon, Oregon Health & Science University, Oregon State University, Portland State University, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories and the region's high-technology companies.
- Adobe Releases AIR Runtime for the Desktop, Opens Flex
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2/25/2008
In a move that will let Web developers use their existing skills to build rich Internet applications for the desktop, smart clients and browsers, Adobe Systems Monday released the first version of its widely anticipated AIR cross-operating system runtime, along with updates to its Flex framework for Windows and Mac OS X platforms.
- Unify Offers Enhanced RIA Dev Tool for SOAs
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2/25/2008
Unify Corp. has released the next version of its rich Internet application (RIA) development and portal integration platform. The product, NXJ 12, is based on Java 1.5. It includes enhancements designed to speed application deployment and better integrate with third-party application servers, according to the company's Web site.
- Automated RBAC Java Security Tool Released
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2/22/2008
McLean, VA-based Advanced Modeling Concepts recently released a Java security tool designed to help developers add security to existing Java applications. The product adds role-based access control (RBAC) security via a tool called AfterthoughtSoft-Secure.
- NetBeans Giving Away $100K+ in Open Source Grants
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2/22/2008
Earlier this month, NetBeans announced its Innovator Grants program designed to award "ideas on how to improve the NetBeans Project."
- Microsoft D Latest Piece of Oslo Initiative
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2/21/2008
As part of its broad Oslo initiative, Microsoft is developing a new declarative programming language, code-named "D," that is expected to serve as a textual modeling language that will let business managers and non-technical stakeholders manipulate digital assets.
- Silverlight 2.0: The Wait Is Almost Over
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2/21/2008
The first public beta of Silverlight 2.0 is expected from Microsoft in the next few weeks. By all accounts, those that have seen the private beta report that the features outlined by the General Manager of Microsoft's Developer Division, Scott Guthrie, in a November blog posting are pretty much on track.
- Red Hat's JBoss for Enterprise SOAs Coming This Month
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2/21/2008
Last week Raleigh, N.C.-based Red Hat announced that its new JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform will debut by the end of February.
- Microsoft Unveils Software Giveaway for Education
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2/19/2008
Microsoft has announced a software giveaway program targeted to college and high school students. "DreamSpark" makes available, at no charge, a number of development and design programs for download. The program is now available to more than 35 million college students in Belgium, China, Finland, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the U.K. and the United States.
- NC State Signs Agreement with Utilities To Develop New Tech Transport
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2/19/2008
North Carolina State University has partnered with Duke Energy Corp. and Progress Energy to establish a center on campus to develop new technologies for plug-in hybrid and other energy-efficient transportation.
- Director 11 Coming in March
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2/19/2008
Adobe this week announced the impending release of Director 11, the first major update to the company's multimedia authoring tool in about four years. The new version expands 3D features with a new physics engine and new DirectX support and also introduces parity between JavaScript and Lingo for scripting. The new version will ship in March for Mac OS X (Intel) and Windows.
- IBM Partners with UCLA, NC State on Web Development
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2/14/2008
In an effort to promote expertise in Web 2.0 application development among the next generation of IT professionals, IBM has teamed up with two universities--University of California, Los Angeles and North Carolina State University--to provide support for academic programs teaching programming using open technologies like Groovy and Java in conjunction with Eclipse and Ruby on Rails. IBM also said it will be providing its previously announced Lotus Mashups software free to the academic community later this year.
- Lotus Mashups To Be Free for Academics
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2/14/2008
IBM announced Thursday that its commercial mashup software Lotus Mashups will be made free for academic users when it's released later this year. The move is part of the company's plan to expand its Academic Initiative in 2008.
- Ashes2Art: Modeling the Past in 3D
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2/13/2008
An art history project focusing on the ancient Greek site of Delphi has students themselves using three-dimensional modeling software to create exact renderings of ancient structures. The project is part of a collaboration between two universities called Ashes2Art, in which students use computer modeling software to recreate and study ancient ruins.
- Sun SPOTs Go Open Source
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2/13/2008
Recently Sun Microsystems announced that it would open source both the hardware and operating system for Sun SPOTs, its sensor networking product based on Java technology. CT talked with Arshan Poursohi, a staff researcher in the Sun SPOTs lab on Sun's Menlo Park, CA campus to find out how higher education institutions can incorporate Sun SPOTs in research and instruction.
- Lessons from a Yahoo Scrum Rollout
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2/5/2008
Many campuses have fewer developers doing more, making the techniques used in development essential. Yahoo--a leader in Agile development (getting applications off the ground quickly with improvements throughout)--is taking its process to the next level with Scrum, a collaboration-focused technique that it says lets the company get out lightweight, high-impact applications quickly. Find out more about Scrum and what it might mean for your team in this Q&A with Yahoo's senior director of methods and practices, Gabrielle Benefield.
- ADC on iTunes Spotlights IT in Video Collection
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2/5/2008
The Apple Developer Connection has launched a new collection of videos targeted toward IT professionals via its ADC on iTunes service. Dubbed the "ADC Video Collection for IT," the collection features topics ranging from best practices in Mac OS X administration to IT development.
- VMLogix Supports Citrix XenServer
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2/4/2008
Microsoft isn't the only company courting virtualization and app delivery infrastructure vendor Citrix Systems. VMLogix is joining forces with the Fort Lauderdale, FL-based company to make its virtual lab automation solutions available on Citrix's newly acquired XenServer.
- Klocwork Unveils Static Analysis Debug Tool
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2/4/2008
Klocwork last week announced the debut of a new static analysis tool that aims to ensure quality and security in the code development process, both at the level of the desktop and organization wide.
- IBM Opens Jazz Dev Community
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1/28/2008
IBM announced last week that it would open up its Jazz.net development platform to developers. Jazz.net is an open commercial software development community that helps to create global collaboration solutions based on IBM Rational technology. Jazz was originally open only to IBM staff, academics and customers. Now, any registered Jazz contributor can influence projects using the open standards, Eclipse-based Jazz platform.
- Zend Rolls Out PHP App Server and Dev Tools
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1/24/2008
Zend Technologies Wednesday launched its PHP-based Web application server, Zend Platform 3.6, as a general-availability product, while simultaneously announcing the immediate availability of Zend Studio for Eclipse, its IDE plug-in for PHP development.
