I will be teaching a one day Bootcamp course on Ajax at the AJAXWorld Conference in Santa Clara, California on September 23, 2007. Details are at http://aja xbootcamp.sys-con.com I will be expanding the Ajax construction tools section from the Ajax Bootcamp I taught in New York at the S

The inaugural iTVCon - Internet Video Conference & Expo (November 12-13, 2007) is building out its program and the Conference Advisory Board is busy sorting through the hundreds of proposals for technical and strategic sessions that have been coming in. Final deadline for proposals is

Google has started looking for a new CFO. The post's current occupant 53-year-old George Reyes said Tuesday that he wants to retire. Google said he'll stick around to help with the search and ensure an orderly transition, a process it expects to occur by the end of the year. Reyes has

'Google has caught the attention of enterprises with the low price [of $50 per user per year] of its Google Apps Premier Edition (GAPE) solution. However, there's a catch: limited functionality and new information technology (IT) risks.' Burton Group senior analyst Guy Creese claims Go

TV is approaching its 'iPod moment,' according to Google's Vint Cerf, in the sense that 'You're still going to need live television for certain things - like news, sporting events and emergencies - but increasingly it is going to be almost like the iPod, where you download content to l

We may all yet live to see Google drop the pretense and try taking on Microsoft Office head-on. In its latest poke in Redmond's eye, Google has added Sun's StarOffice 8 to its Google Pack of free software - a motley collection of downloadable stuff like Google Earth, Norton Security Sc

A few years ago, along with a bunch of other bloggers, I was invited to a Microsoft event to discuss their search engine. Having been to many such Microsoft events in the past, I thought the format was they would talk, and then we would talk, and then they would talk and we'd talk and

PeekYou.com (www.peekyou.com), the innovative search engine dedicated to finding people on the web, announced today that it has updated its tool set to offer users the quickest and most relevant online people search capabilities. The Web site is the Internet's first true openly-edited

By making it possible to search and index code found in any Perforce repository, Krugle helps enterprise developers easily find code, see updates made to particular code files, see who made them and better understand their own code base. In addition to Perforce, Krugle also directly in

AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 East sponsors included: Laszlo Systems (Diamond Sponsor), JackBe (Platinum Sponsor), Adobe (Platinum Sponsor), Cynergy (Platinum Sponsor), Backbase (Gold Sponsor) Google (Gold Sponsor), Nexaweb (Gold Sponsor), ICEsoft (Gold Sponsor), Oracle (Gold Sponso

Despite Google's $159 billion market cap - or rather, one suspects, because of it - Jimmy Wales, the guy who created - for better or worse - Wikipedia, figures Internet search is broken - because it's proprietary - and needs to be reinvented, freeing 'the judgment of information from i

As web applications evolve to contain more functionality and content, 80-90% of the time it takes a web page to load is spent downloading components in the page (images, scripts, stylesheets, etc.). Solutions that reduce the number of components improve the user experience greatly by m

Seems we're waiting for Microsoft to make a defensive chess move against Google's freebie, ad-supported Docs & Spreadsheets software play and test a free hybrid version of the next release of its low-end productivity kit, Works, whose word processing, spreadsheet, database and calendar

AJAXWorld 2007 West will take place on September 23-26, 2007, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, California, and will offer a new dedicated 'iPhone Track.' Another dedicated track will offer a comparative education opportunity for conference delegates on emerging RIA

Wall Street Journal reported today 'The company, which has made billions of dollars in Web advertising on computers, is courting wireless operators to carry handsets customized to Google products, including its search engine, email and a new mobile Web browser, say people familiar with

A seasoned Java professional has to know more than just the syntax of the Java language. Java EE offers a set of standardized technologies for enterprise development. A number of open-source frameworks such as Spring or Hibernate are widely used in a variety of Java applications. Famil

This session will serve as an overview of Google's AJAX APIs and describes how to create cool hacks and fun mashups with several of Google's hottest AJAX APIs, including Google Maps, AJAX Search/Feed, Google Web Toolkit, as well as Google Gadgets. Special attention will also be given t

European Commission regulators have authorized Germany to chuck roughly $165 million into next-generation Semantic Web-style multimedia search engine research evidently to take on Google. The Germans call the project Theseus after the legendary Greek hero who went about overthrowing ty

Sir Harold Evans has survived a libel action brought by Tom Paterson, the guy who wrote QDOS, the mother of PC-DOS, MS-DOS and Windows. In his 2004 book 'They Made America: From the Stream Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators,' Evans dredged up those old contention

Digg, the increasingly ubiquitous reader-powered web site and popular with the Linux set, has fired Google and hired Microsoft and its AdCenter to place ads on Diggs' site for the next three years, describing Microsoft as 'a young ad service-innovative-[and] willing to work with us on

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is suing Google in federal court in Sydney charging it with misleading and deceptive business practices because it fails to adequately distinguish between pay-per-click sponsored links, the bedrock of Google's business, and so-c

As a way of diversifying - this time exploiting its core competency - and bringing in still more money, Google wants to sell SMBs a way for visitors to search their sites. It calls the hosted, extranet service Custom Search Business Edition and is offering it for $100 a year for 5,000

Concern about Google's proposed acquisition of DoubleClick - some of it presumably fanned by the Microsoft lobby - is rising. Besides a pre-merger investigation by the Federal Trade Commission and a newly confirmed review by the European Commission, the Senate Judiciary Committee's ant

I just searched on Google for 'flatdown opml' and it returned the article I wrote 15 minutes ago. In 1997 I wrote about Just-in-Time Search Engines and how important they would be. Back then I was thinking about overnight indexing. Now we've got instant indexing. Knock that one off the

Well, fancy that. Google may not be completely indomitable in its core market. According to comScore Networks, Google lost share in US search to Microsoft in June, when Google's numbers apparently tends to decline because of the vacations and the summer school break. Total queries hit

The Q2 profits that Yahoo reported Tuesday were shaky, down year-over-year from $164 million to $161 million, and its second-half forecasts were limp, which might explain why CEO Terry Semel bailed. Semel's replacement Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang promised a new strategic plan in a hund

Google, which as we all know (wink, wink, nod, nod) isn't competing with Microsoft, is acquiring privately held Postini for around $625 million cash. The deal just coincidently happens to strengthen its applications push into the enterprise, which may explain why Google is paying more

The single-day, multi-track Real-World Java Seminar will be held at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York on August 13. Produced by SYS-CON Events, this is the largest Java developer event on the East Coast, and features a business track as well as two technical tracks. All attendees will ha

'With this transaction, we're reinforcing our commitment to delivering compelling hosted applications to businesses of all sizes. With the addition of Postini, our apps are not just simple and appealing to users -- they can also streamline the complex information security mandates with

Can afford to take just one day off, get out of your cubicle and see what other people up to these days? Is J2EE still in favor? What's this ESB is about? Have you even heard of using Flex as a Web front end of your Java applications? Do not miss an event in NYC this Monday, that is cr

Krugle, the code search engine for developers, was founded in 2005 around the concept of search-driven development. The Krugle Enterprise appliance indexes code and presents it in context of other software assets that developers manage throughout the application development process. Kr

In response to Google's mollifying offer to cut the time it holds onto the personal data it amasses on searchers to 18 months, the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, the European Union's privacy watchdog, has basically said, 'We'll get back to you on that.' It's reportedly prepa

Wall Street wants Yahoo! to do more than just kick Terry Semel upstairs to be chairman. There seems, however, little pixy dust in the notion of Rupert Murdoch throwing MySpace into Yahoo in exchange for 25% of the combined operation. Murdoch paid $580 million for MySpace in 2005; the Y

Microsoft has cut a deal with the US government and is going modify Vista to hush Google's complaints that it discourages users from using Google's local desktop search as opposed to Vista's own desktop 'Instant Search.' The move comes after Google charged Microsoft with violating its

There's only a Google logo, the words 'Google has acquired Zenter' and a pointer to a Google blog left on the web site of the precocious six-month-old start-up said to have software for creating online, viewer-polling slide presentations, assets that are supposed to embellish the piece

Privacy International says Google, the self-proclaimed 'do no evil company,' has an 'entrenched hostility to privacy,' a rating shared by no other web site it has been following. The British watchdog put out an interim report over the weekend called 'A Race to the Bottom - Privacy Rank

The Justice Department has brushed off a complaint from Google alleging that Microsoft is violating its 2002 consent decree because Vista supposedly discourages users from using Google's local desktop search as opposed to Vista's own. The New York Times broke a story on its front page

At press time, the Wall Street Journal was reporting that the Federal Trade Commission is investigating Microsoft's proposed $6 billion acquisition of aQuantive and Yahoo's $680 million buyout of the rest of Right Media as well as Google $3.1 billion DoubleClick deal. Neither Microsoft

Yahoo has dumped its CEO Terry Semel--regarded lately as a main barrier to progress and thereby preventing the company from cutting Google-addressing partnerships and acquisition bids. Goodness knows Microsoft might be on the phone right now. The surprise news hit right after the marke

This coming Saturday (16th June) will be Yahoo! Hack Day here in London, and a few members of my buddy's company (the Nestoria team) will be on hand. But rather than just attending, they though it might be a bit of fun if they tried to subvert the event and turn it into their own hack