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Jinfonet Software has announced the general availability of JReport 9 on Monday November 10th. The latest release of this reporting solution touts more than 50 enhancements. JReport 9 delivers these enhancements in three key areas: performance, usability and standards support. P... (more)

Sun Microsystems has announced the immediate availability and support of the Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server version 3 Prelude, a lightweight Web application server that is based on a modular OSGi architecture. Sun is also providing a preview of features that will be available in... (more)

Gartner Magic Quadrants position vendors within a particular market segment based on their completeness of vision and their ability to execute on that vision. According to Gartner, vendors in the Leaders quadrant "have a full range of capabilities to support a range of portal dep... (more)

InterSystems Corporation has announced that the Department of Veterans Affairs has renewed a contract for Four Points Technology, LLC to provide the InterSystems CACHÉ high-performance object database for the VistA electronic health record system. The contract for enterprise soft... (more)

AccuRev and Coverity have announced a new technology partnership that will help software development teams to improve the quality and security of their applications in today's fast paced agile development environments. Leading development organizations rely on Coverity's advanced... (more)

JNBridge has announced a new version of its JNBridge JMS Adapter for BizTalk Server. The JNBridge JMS Adapter for BizTalk Server enables enterprises to integrate BizTalk Servers into any existing JMS (Java Messaging Service) infrastructure, allowing messages to be passed between ... (more)

Comcast Corporation the nation's provider of entertainment, information and communications, announced that they are working with Intel Corporation to bring Internet Protocol (IP) based applications to the television experience set using a new technology co-developed by Intel and ... (more)

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, Carahsof... (more)

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... (more)

JOT Object Technologies has released version 3.0 of the JOT Servlets Java web components framework. JOT Servlets is a software development framework for dynamic content web applications. This release includes new demonstration applications that illustrate JOT Web Components. The ... (more)

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 Toolki... (more)

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. One reason ... (more)

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. Adam Gowdiak, a research... (more)

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... (more)

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,... (more)

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, exclusive... (more)

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 e... (more)

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... (more)

Skyway Software announces a strategic partnership with Atomikos, a firm monitoring transaction processing (TP) activities in today's software development and delivery activities. TP monitor technology controls transaction applications and performs highly efficient business logic/... (more)

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... (more)