Word documents generated by the current version of Office 2007 don't conform to ISO/IEC 29500, the OOXML file format draft standard Microsoft moved heaven and earth to get ISO to accept. At least that's what Alex Brown, the guy in change of the ISO group that's supposed to maintain OOX...

DataDirect announced Benefitfocus is using DataDirect XML Converters to automatically transform thousands of X12 compliant EDI documents from insurance carriers to XML for accelerated processing. DataDirect XML Converters provide bi-directional, highly-scalable software that streams ED...

Against the backdrop of a noisy protest march through downtown Oslo Wednesday by 60 Norwegian software experts - including Opera CTO Haakon Wium Lie - objecting to Norway's Yes vote for Open XML standardization by the International Standards Organization, ISO took control of the contro...

JustSystems was included in the list of 'Cool Vendors' in the 'Cool Vendors in Content Management, 2008' report by Gartner. The report was authored by Toby Bell, Mark R. Gilbert, and Rita E. Knox. According to Gartner, 'Cool vendors in content management are establishing new directions...

JustSystems announced the 'document as the application,' the company's vision for the future of information creation, collaboration, and delivery. JustSystems' 'document-as-application' approach blurs the line between traditional documents, which provide rich context, persistence and p...

The mouse was the original idea of Doug Engelbart who was the head of the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at Stanford Research Institute. Engelbart's philosophy is best embodied, in my opinion, in the design of another device that he invented, the five-finger keyboard - with keys li...

Microsoft has gotten enough votes to make its Open Office XML file format (OOXML), the default file format in Office 2007, an ISO standard, theoretically saving Office from being run out of town by a lot of ODF-smitten government agencies. There have been, as everyone must know by now,...

LogiXML announced the availability of the new Logi ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) product designed to support integration of enterprise data into a consistent format to support a variety of corporate applications. The new Logi ETL product is a Web-based data integration application ...

JustSystems announced that All Nippon Airways ('ANA') has adopted JustSystems' dynamic document vision and the xfy document-centric composite application platform as the foundation of its new system for creating, editing, and managing aircraft rulebooks and operation manuals.

Documents are a key part of manufacturing processes, from requirements and specifications, to bills, parts lists, marketing materials and technical maintenance manuals. However, documents typically provide static views of a dynamic business. In turn, documents can introduce design, dev...

TopQuadrant announced that TopBraid Composer and TopBraid Live now include a Semantic email importer. This technology enables organizations to develop Semantic applications that combine email metadata with other data sources, which can be searched and analyzed. This allows organization...

The OOXML Ballot Resolution Meeting (BRM) in Geneva ended in tears. Sun's Tim Bray immediately recorded his thoughts on the meeting, and his verdict was withering: despite some good that perhaps came of it ('With a very few exceptions, everyone really tried hard to work together and ma...

OASIS announced that its members have approved the XML Localisation Interchange File Format (XLIFF) version 1.2 as an OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification. Developed through an open process by the OASIS XLIFF Technical Committee, the new standard de...

I am always being told off by i-technologists for quoting Picasso as having said that computers are useless. But I still love his reasoning: 'Because they can only give you answers.' Picasso, like AJAXWorld Magazine, liked questions. So we thought we would share with you what some of t...

An online course about meta-technology, a new type of strategy to understand technology, has recently been launched online via the website, TheMetaTechnology.com. According to founder, Luca D'Angelo, 'Meta-technology is created by taking a piece of technology and modifying its standard...

The European Commission has started poking around the rough-and-tumble of the standardization process looking for evidence that Microsoft broke anti-competitive antitrust laws trying to get its Office Open XML format (OOXML) memorialized by ISO, according to a story last Friday in the ...

DataDirect announced its DataDirect XML Converters are being used by leading healthcare organizations to comply with the X12 electronic data interchange (EDI) and Health Level Seven (HL7) clinical and administrative data standards in an effort to accelerate application development effo...

ExtraLabs Software announced the release of Feed Editor 4.76. Designed for the Windows OS, this application enables you to create, edit and publish RSS feeds and podcasts surprisingly fast and easy. Compared to other RSS editors in its category, Feed Editor combines an unprecedented nu...

Layer 7 Technologies announced its XML Firewall and XML Networking Gateway software products support the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) running on SPARC platforms from Sun Microsystems. Layer 7 is the only XML security and networking vendor to offer server software for Solaris 10 OS ...

ZANTAZ, an Autonomy company, announced that ZANTAZ Introspect is compliant with EDRM's Extensible Markup Language (XML) standard, EDRM XML 1.0. Autonomy ZANTAZ Introspect is one of the first e-discovery products to achieve compliance with the newly released XML standard, which was desi...

Rogue Wave Software announced the release of Rogue Wave HydraSDO for XML 2.2 and the next edition of HydraSDO for Databases. Rogue Wave HydraSDO data components automate the creation of high performance, service-oriented data services in Java and C++. The components enable developers t...

Nuance Communications unveiled PDF Converter Professional 5, the best selling PDF desktop alternative to Adobe Acrobat for government, corporate, and academic organizations. With the new release Nuance continues to expand on the features, quality and innovation needed to deliver 'Bett...

IntelR XML Software Suite is a comprehensive suite of high-performance C++ and Java software-based runtime libraries for Linux and Windows operating systems. It is standards compliant, to allow for easy integration into existing XML environments and is optimized to support complex and ...

Eracent has been given a mission to create the XML schema definition for ISO/IEC 19770-2 standard draft. The ISO/IEC 19770-2 standard will define the asset tags for software Configuration items. The asset tags are files in xml format. The definition of the xml tags and values are the c...

DataDirect announced the latest release of its DataDirect XQuery engine now supporting the MySQL Enterprise Server database. For the first time, users of the most popular and widely used open-source database can take advantage of the high-performance, scalability and reliability of Dat...

Managed Methods has announced the availability of their SOA management and runtime governance product JaxView 3.7. While providing full support for SOA and Web service management for the IT operations, JaxView 3.7 expanded runtime policy enforcement features around the creation of Serv...

StrikeIron announced two new Financial and Business data services from Gale, part of Cengage Learning, have been added to its expanding Web Services Marketplace: Gale Business Intelligence Web Service 1.0.0 and Gale Business Information Web Service 1.0.0.

A7Soft has made a significant step in development XML related Java application. Releasing JExamXML, A7Soft transferred XML comparison technologies from the Windows application ExamXML to the industry standard Java platform, allowing mullions of XML developers to embed the XML differenc...

Is JSON better than XForms? That's an apples and oranges argument. I am willing to predict that XForms + XQuery will become a powerful enterprise model for rich form content, because the enterprise is considerably more XML-centric than the consumer stack is. I'm willing to predict that...

A more interesting question is 'Is XML on the web trending up or trending down?' Clearly, it is trending down. For data transfer applications, XML is losing ground to JSON because JSON is simply a better data transfer format. And XHTML has failed to displace HTML in the marketplace. Th...

Google's new-year special logo, which went live briefly as 2008 began, celebrated the 25th anniversary of TCP/IP - adopted by Arpanet on January 1st, 1983. While 'invisible' to most users, many of the layers built on top of TCP/IP are well-known even to laymen: HTTP (Hyper Text Transfe...

Tail-f Systems and IP Infusion announced a strategic partnership to integrate their products and collaborate on sales and marketing. Together the companies will enable network equipment providers to benefit from leading routing protocols managed by standards-based XML configuration ma...

Roughly two years ago, when I was writing an article on 'New Features for Device Developers in Visual Studio 2005' that was published in the August 2005 issues of this magazine, our program management team was already busy shaping the next release of the product, which is soon to be re...

DataDirect Technologies announced the latest release of its DataDirect XML Converters and DataDirect XQuery products. With version 3.1 of its XML products, it offers even greater scalability and performance; broadens its support of popular databases and industry standards; and offers a...

Altova announced that Altova XMLSpy was named as winner of the 'Best of Connections 2007' in the Office category by Penton Media's Windows IT Pro. In the award?s first year, the judges reviewed over 60 IT products and services submitted for the contest and chose 18 finalists that were ...

A robust ecosystem of solutions providers is emerging around cloud computing. Here, SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal expands its list of most active players in the fast-emerging Cloud Ecosystem, from the 'mere' 100 we identified back in January of this year, to 250 - testimony, if any...

AltovaXML, a free XML standards processor, was named 'Best XML Parser' and 'Best XSLT Processor' in the 2007 SOA World Magazine Readers' Choice Awards. XMLSpy, an XML editor and development environment for modeling, editing, transforming, and debugging XML-related technologies, won fou...

For building applications, BundleWorks includes ant tasks and command line tools to allow developers to build standard bundles for both custom and third-party applications. For testing, BundleWorks allows a developer to create and manage multiple environments to test multiple versions ...

So, failing Nigeria, the first 300,000 AMD-based XOs are in production and some of them are bound for Rwanda, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Haiti and Mongolia. The rest are bound for upscale American homes under OLPC's $399 Give One, Get One scheme, which started November 12 and was only supp...

JustSystems, Inc. will promote XML?s evolving role at the XML 2007 Conference & Exposition, being held in Boston at the Marriott Copley Place on Dec. 3 ? 5, 2007. ?XML has grown up, with companies accelerating their XML adoption to support SOA and winding up with an abundance of highly...