BEA Systems has announced continued momentum in the public sector with new state and local government customers selecting the BEA AquaLogic User Interaction products for its collaborative and service-oriented platform. As the public sector strives to manage the myriad of transactions b

BEA Systems has announced new results demonstrating that customers using BEA's JRockit, the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), on servers powered by new Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors (formerly code-named Woodcrest), demonstrated approximately a 2X performance gain over competing JVMs runnin

Google has announced the availability of several mobile services that further demonstrate its commitment to making the mobile phone a more convenient and dependable device for accessing useful and relevant information while on the go. Already available in U.S. and U.K. English, mobile

Yahoo and FIFA have announced that fans are visiting FIFAworldcup.com, the official Web site of the 2006 FIFA World CUP, in record numbers. FIFAworldcup.com is jointly hosted, produced and marketed by Yahoo and FIFA.

Oracle has announced that Oracle Portal 10g, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of the 2006 Gartner Horizontal Portal Products Magic Quadrant. According to Gartner, demand for horizontal portal products remains strong, driving most ente

Oracle has announced immediate availability of the industry's first integrated, standards-based product offering to help organizations build, deploy and manage event-driven applications, based on an Event-Driven Architecture (EDA). Oracle Event-Driven Architecture Suite is comprised of

Microsoft has announced that it is teaming up with telecommunications providers to deliver a broad set of unified communications devices that enable choice for information workers and enterprise IT departments. Devices include innovative business Internet protocol (IP) phones, PCs and

Siemens Communications and Microsoft have announced the expansion of global collaborative efforts to advance the transformation of telephony, audio-, video- and web conferencing, instant messaging, and e-mail into a single unified communications platform. Cooperation between the two co

Sun Microsystems has announced that it has withdrawn from the Aperi open source storage management initiative started by IBM in October 2005. Sun is a proponent of open source projects across its portfolio and has been a major supporter of this initiative in its formative phases. Given

iWay Software, an enterprise integration solutions company, and Active Endpoints, an independent provider of BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) products and services have announced a strategic technology alliance in which iWay Software will integrate and resell Active Endpoints

BEA Systems has announced that it has seized the top spot in the application servers segment based on total software revenue in 2005 according to analyst firm Gartner. Gartner has also again positioned the company second overall in its application integration and middleware report base

Back in October of 2005, Google and Sun made a deal to include Google's toolbar as an option in downloads of Java Runtime. Yesterday, Adobe announced the signing of a multi-year agreement with Google to distribute the Google Toolbar. If you are not excactly sure what is this all about,

Oracle has unveiled the fourth Oracle Grid Index, which charts the global adoption of Grid Computing and investigates related technological issues and their implications for the business world. The latest research confirmed that Grid Computing is a maturing technology and highlighted t

Oracle has announced that it is expanding its CRM On Demand offerings with the acquisition of Telephony@Work, a provider of IP-based software infrastructure for hosted contact center services. Telephony@Work's CallCenterAnywhere is a carrier-grade, multi-channel contact center solution

Google co-founder Sergey Brin recently revealed that the company was likely to abandon its China-based search engine Google.cn. On Jan. 25 of this year, Google established Google.cn that operates on servers based in China, but now the users of Google.cn are not even up to 1% of people

Google Earth, which combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at users' fingertips, yesterday was released in its latest version - Release 4 (Beta). Google has added several new features.

With Splunk 2.0, data access, processing and indexing can be partitioned to run across multiple hosts for greater scalability. The company itself reports that it runs its own software to index its internal logs from email, VoIP and QA environment.

'A bug can exist for half a century despite our best efforts to exterminate it,' wrote Google's Joshua Bloch (formerly of Sun) last week, as he highlighted something called the 'binary-search bug' and reminded the world that it applies equally to mergesort, and to other divide-and-conq

Microsoft has been testing adCenter with 6,000 accounts and reportedly those who tested it got more clicks converted to paying customers than Google or Yahoo. Looked at that way, Google tends to come in last behind AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo. Which might explain why Microsoft might be in

'I look forward to working for Microsoft and with the many talented people there who have the ability to be a force for change to continue to shape this still nascent industry.' With that bland stock sentence, written surely by a PR flack as an all-purpose quote for any new recruit to

Baidu.com, the leading Chinese language Internet search provider, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with 2006-Intel China Ltd., a subsidiary of Intel, for cooperation in the development of Internet search and related applications in China.

From today, all registered Google Account users - that's to say, users of Gmail, AdWords, AdSense, Personalized Search/Homepage, Google RSS Reader and Google Groups - can use the beta of Google Calendar, the latest AJAX-powered application from Mountain View, CA.

According to Australia's Sydney Morning Herald, the 26-year-old Israeli-born student Ori Allon - a University of New South Wales doctoral candidate - has not only successfully created his own search engine, called Orion; he has also succeeded in having himself (and the engine's all-imp

Google has opened up its AdWords keyword research tool by allowing it to be accessible from outside AdWords accounts. The company has also added seasonal search volume data for global and local searches, and allowed it to be accessible by match type (ie: broad, phrase, exact.)

Search marketing network Miva has partnered with 118 118 to launch a new pay-per-text ad channel that lets advertisers reach potential customers via their mobiles. The new product enables advertisers for the first time to buy space within 118 118 text messages.

CBS Corp. said it will showcase segments from its popular '60 Minutes' television news magazine on Yahoo as it seeks a wider audience for its news programs. The site will also feature special '60 Minutes' segments created for the Yahoo site and previews of upcoming broadcasts.

Scotsman Guide, a resource for mortgage originators, has announced the release of its complete line of free online wholesale-lender search engines at scotsmanguide.com. All matrixes from Scotsman Guide's residential and commercial magazines are now searchable online.

Yahoo Japan said Friday personal data on 8,223 deals for a wine-selling firm on its shopping website have been leaked through the Winny file-sharing program on a virus-infected personal computer of the firm.

Yahoo has notified subscribers to its Yahoo Plus service that the bundle of fee-based premium content and services will be discontinued in April. The move is another indication that such brin g-your-own-broadband-acce ss packages, while popular a few years ago, are losing their appeal.

The 3 group has announced a deal with Microsoft that will allow third generation mobile phone users to use MSN Hotmail and MSN Messenger through their 3 mobile handset.

Cgogo,Beijing-based mobile search service provider plans to provide mobile search services, free of charge, to more than 10,000 WAP portals in China, allowing them to add mobile search functions onto their sites.

Metamend, a SEM/SEO firm, has unveiled its new services, market segmentation, and website. Metamend services include utilizing Metamend's monitoring capabilities and technologies to meet client requirements for relevant and accurate SEM/SEO services.

SearchArize.com has returned strong results in its quest to provide small businesses and professionals with a solid online presence and search engine marketing campaign that is both affordable and effective. While many search engine marketing firms focus on selling the advantages of pa

Yahoo has launched Instant Message Phone in the United States that lets people make phone calls through the company's instant messaging software. The service allows people to make calls from their computers for 2 cents a minute or less to the top 30 national phone markets, including t

Google and Nike have launched a Web site,Joga.com available in 14 languages for soccer fans that offers video, information on games and players and social networking.

Elastic Path Software announced today the general availability of Elastic Path 4.1, an update of its Java-based ecommerce software, enabling marketers to engage in advanced search engine optimization (SEO) campaigns.

Oracle has announced Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g, a comprehensive, standalone search engine that enables customers to make critical business information available to authorized users while enforcing corporate security policies.

Hot Banana Software announced a new technology solution - Hot Banana For Agencies - targeted exclusively at online, eMarketing and interactive agencies, as well as traditional marketing and advertising agencies. Hot Banana For Agencies is designed to help all kinds of agencies manage

A recent blog entry from SYS-CON West Coast Bureau Chief Roger Strukhoff suggests that Google's motto gets in the way of the company's business. He thinks Google is wrong to think it can have things both ways. But he could be wrong, too. What do you think?

57 bloggers/online experts gathered in Redmond yesterday at the 'MSN Search Champs' event were invited to discuss with senior MSN management the recent news and concerns around the data MSN Search, Yahoo and AOL provided to the US government. The precise nature of the information hadn'