The next generation of Visual Studio contains the new version of the .NET Framework 2.0 that enables an easier and more robust programming model. In these sessions we will cover these new programming models and how they can be used to develop a variety of applications.

eBay, The World's Online Marketplace, has more than 114 million registered users, 10,000 developers, and over 700 live, third-party applications.

Microsoft showed its true colors and has released MSN Search, its first search engine completely built by Microsoft.

Sonic Software is the inventor and leading provider of the enterprise service bus (ESB). Sonic enterprise integration and messaging products deliver flexibility, scalability, and continuous availability through patent-pending innovations. Sonic Software enables ...

During its quarterly Network Computing '05 (NC05Q1) launch today, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) and Archipelago Holdings Inc. (PCX: AX), operator of the Archipelago Exchange (ArcaEx), the first totally open, all-electronic stock exchange in the United St...

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 vote...

SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com), 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 t...

What does Apple have in common with Google, Ikea, Starbucks, and Al Jazeera? Answer: it has been rated one of the 'most influential brands of 2004' in a survey of about 2,000 advertising executives, brand managers and academics, conducted by the online magazine, B...

The Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) yesterday sent Sun Microsystems Chairman and CEO, Scott McNealy, an open letter about the announcement earlier this week that Sun was granting the open source software community access to more than 1,600 patents. PUBPAT's l...

On Thursday, in a ceremony held in the UK's Royal Courts of Justice in London, the creator of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, received a $47,000 award and the title - the latest in a line of recent awards and plaudit including his knighthood from HM The Q...

An 'Internet advertising agency' last November successfully registered the domain name OpenJava.org, leading to speculation that Sun has no immediate plans to follow up on its OpenSolaris.org strategy with a similar open-sourcing of Java.

Microsoft's quarterly earnings for its fiscal second quarter more than doubled, on sales of a record $10.82 billion, up from $10.15 billion in the same period in 2003.

'If Solaris is from Venus, and Linux is from Mars,' wrote HP's Linux VP in his blog, adding - in a barb at Sun Microsystems: 'Venus is way too close to the Sun.' It drew a heated reply on behalf of the Solaris open source community. With the CDDL release of Solari...

Software maker Intergraph Corp, which sued HP, Dell Computer Corp. and Gateway Inc. in 2002, claiming the companies infringed patents related to cache memory technology, has just agreed to pay Intergraph $141 million in cash in settlement of all pending litigation...

'We've repeatedly passed along customer interest in having IBM support Solaris 10 with WebSphere, DB2, Tivoli, Rational and MQSeries products,' wrote Jonathan Schwartz yesterday in an Open Letter to IBM's CEO Sam Palmisano. 'They'd like the choice to run IBM produ...

Borland has purchased TeraQuest, a leading process consulting firm. Borland can now provide enterprise customers with fully mature, integrated software and services solutions.

Prior to its announcement of the financial details of the takeover, which is due to take place next week - on January 26 - in New York, Oracle met with reporters yesterday at its Redwood Shores, CA, headquarters. The agenda: how Larry Ellison's Oracle-PeopleSoft is ...

Bill Gates has been trying to neutralize the shock waves he sent through the open source community when in a press interview he made an analogy between 'communists' and people who advocate a less restrictive IP environment, such Creative Commons licenses and th...

Distancing itself ever further from arch-rival Microsoft, whose CEO Bill Gates tried during his keynote at CES 2005 to liken open source software development to a kind of modern-day communism, IBM will today be giving away rights - so it is announcing - to 500 of its software patents.

Pervasive Software is open-sourcing its Postgres database. Postgres is the most advanced database given to the open source community to date.

Jonathan Schwartz in July delivered what must be a leading candidate or the title of 'i-technology quote of 2004' - but who has even better suggestions?

Did the geek-fest just finished in Las Vegas, Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2005, herald the return of technology and the beginning of the 'post-PC' world?

In case anyone doubts that the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2005 that ended yesterday in Las Vegas marks a turning-point in the geek technology market, here is a round-up of some of the week's highlights, featuring Microsoft, Samsung, Hitachi, and HP. The bounceback has begun.

The bounceback has begun. In case anyone doubts that the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2005 that ended yesterday in Las Vegas marks a turning-point in the geek technology market, here is a round-up of some of the week's highlights, featuring Microsoft, Samsung, Hitachi, and HP.

The bounceback has begun. In case anyone doubts that the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2005 that ended yesterday in Las Vegas marks a turning-point in the geek technology market, here is a round-up of some of the week's highlights, featuring Microsoft, Samsung, Hitachi, Sun, and HP.

Gigablast is the latest entrant in the elite world of Web search engines. The company is setting itself apart with highly customizable search features.

Hewlett-Packard said it would marshall its resources to develop more offerings aimed at consumer entertainment. Carly Fiorina is scheduled to provide details at the annual CES in Las Vegas, on Friday.

Yesterday at CES 2005 in Las Vegas Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect at Microsoft, and Judy McGrath, CEO and chairman of MTV Networks, addressed conference attendees. Gates was talking at CES for the seventh successive year.

The battle to bring digital media into consumer's living rooms is heating up, with AMD and Intel taking radically different routes.

Four Moscow-based security experts with Kaspersky Labs have reported that the number of new entries to its malware database jumped by more than 30 in 2004 - with the two record holders for damage caused being Mydoom.a (February) and Sasser.a (May).

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 ...

China announced it is the first country to implement a large network using IPv6. This next-generation Internet protocol can transmit data at 10 gigabits per second. China says it has achieved speeds of 40GB per second, a world record.

'I had the weirdest dream last night,' wrote Scott McNealy in a seasonally satirical piece which has been doing the rounds of the Internet since it was published on December 23. The 'dream' featured a cast of the i-Technology's world's great and good, including Bi...

'This transaction is an exciting opportunity that will give us increased depth in key sectors, geographies and markets, and an increased ability to seize revenue opportunities,' said Gene Hall, Gartner Inc's chief executive, in a statement accompanying the news th...

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, ...

Security giant Symantec, The New York Times is reporting this morning, is 'close to acquiring' Veritas for more than $13 billion, trumping yesterday's $10.3 billion acquisition of PeopleSoft by Oracle, and dwarfing Honeywell's $1.5 billion bid this week for Novar. ...

'While the stock market can be unpredictable, the technology running it can't be,' said IBM's software chief Steve Mills - Senior Vice President and Group Executive, IBM Software - this morning as Big Blue announced in New York that it's working with the New York ...

Linus Torvalds currently leads over Alan Turing, C++ author Bjarne Stroustrup, Richard M. Stallman, C author/Unix coinventor Dennis Ritchie, and Sir Tim Berners-Lee in our quest to identify the Top Twenty Software People in the World. Here's how the top of the pol...

In an all-cash deal worth approximately $10.3 billion, Oracle is going to acquire 100% of PeopleSoft's shares, at a newly increased price of $26.50, a $2.50 increase on its 'best and final' offer which expired in November. PeopleSoft's board has approved the deal....

Linus Torvalds currently leads over Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Richard M. Stallman, and Dennis Ritchie in our quest to identify the Top Twenty Software People in the World. Here's how the top of the poll is looking as of today (Sunday). Voting - and heated discussion - continues.