IDG Adds New Shows to Lineup
IDG World Expo, a leading IT event management company and producer of Macworld, LinuxWorld, and COMNET, has released its 2002 show schedule. The event lineup includes the addition of five new shows: COMNET Wireless, ESPWorld (Enterprise Service Provider) Conference and Expo, Enterprise Application Summit, Federal OpenSource Conference and the Worldwide Developers Conference @ LinuxWorld. IT industry decision-makers are demanding increased coverage of new platforms, which until now have not been heavily explored by event producers.
Cisco Systems Releases New Software
Trying to beef up the ability of multi-protocol label switching to handle traffic engineering, Cisco Systems Inc. this week released software that lets MPLS exploit differentiated services, a standard for prioritizing network traffic. Marketed under the name MPLS Guaranteed Bandwidth Services, the new technology targets service providers as well as customers like bandwidth brokers, who sell fractions of their fiber capacity to various buyers. The features could also be used for voice trunking, to map individual customers to a virtual connection in the network. Traffic engineering is the process of adjusting bandwidth allocations to ensure enough is left for high-priority traffic. In MPLS traffic engineering, the upstream router creates a network tunnel for a particular traffic stream, then fixes the bandwidth available for that tunnel. This lets Internet protocol match the abilities of asynchronous traffic mode or frame relay, which both offer that
capability under private virtual channels (PVCs).
Oracle Hopes to Develop Software With Open Source Code
Oracle is attempting to apply lessons taught by the open source code movement to the 1.5 million developers that it says are registered to participate in the Oracle Technology Network, thus developing applications with Oracle tools and technologies. IDevelop2001 Online is a free service available at www.otn.oracle.com/idevelop that offers courses in eXtensible Markup Language, Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Java programming techniques and samples of code to make it easier to build online applications, said Rene Bonvanie, vice president of OTN and Oracle9i.
Webinar Offers Mainframe Tools
Companies looking for ways to leverage existing mainframe assets into Web applications should take advantage of a seminar being conducted on the Internet. The Webinar, "Web Enabling Mainframe Applications" is being produced NeuVis. The event will take place April 18 at 2 p.m. EST. To register go to http://destinationsite.com/c?c=282614.22184.0.444.0. This Webinar will discuss ways to leverage existing mainframe assets in newly developed web applications. The event will cover ways to reverse engineer from IMS and VSAM databases into Web and wireless applications; an integrated environment with automatic server program and xml generation based on your mainframe applications; 2 phase commit support; modeling your mainframe legacy applications within NeuArchitect; and the ability to download and import xml definitions directly into NeuArchitect.
Handmark Aquires Assets of Paul Platform Developer
Fighter Pilot Software (FPS) has sold its Golftrac, Clock, and Utility applications to Handmark Inc. Last fall Handmark acquired MobileGeneration Software, Inc. and its Web presence, mobilegeneration.com, one of the most popular and highest rated Internet sites serving the exploding PalmOS(R) handheld market. Handmark offers more packaged software for Palm OS devices than any other publisher in the world. Handmark has released an all-new and updated version of Golftrac. Goftrac was the original golf scoring and wager-tracking program for the Palm platform. The new PRO version from Handmark is compatible with all currently shipping Palm OS devices and includes support for tracking multiple games or wagers within a single golf round. Golftrac PRO is available at retail and online for $19.99.
Asia-Pacific Bandwith Community Scheduled to Meet in June
On June 4-6 Sydney, Australia will be the site of an exciting event for wholesalers, traders and buyers from Asia-Pacific's bandwidth community. Carriers World Australasia will give industry players the chance to meet with leading ISPs, ASPs and bandwidth end-users as well as the leaders of the most important fixed line and mobile, IP and voice carriers in the region’s wholesale carrier industry. To register for the three-day event, please call our customer service hotline: +61 (2) 9210 5777 or visit the event’s website at
http://www.carriersworld.com.
Brilliant Digital Entertainment Focusing on 3D Rich Media
Brilliant Digital Entertainment Inc. a leading developer of 3D rich media content creation, distribution and ad serving technologies for the Internet, announced the release of its redesigned website to reflect its position as one of the leading 3D Web animation authoring and playback solution providers. b3d Studio version 2, a 3D rich media authoring software, is now available for purchase. In addition, the company released version 3 of its b3d Projector plug-in. The new b3d Projector v3 includes many unique and enhanced features that significantly improve rendering performance. The newly released b3d Studio is the most advanced authoring tool of its type available today competing with 3D rich media product offerings by Macromedia, Viewpoint and Adobe. The company's marketing efforts are focused on widespread distribution of its Brilliant Animated Music Webeos and Brilliant Banner ads in order to fuel demand for its authoring tools by the animation and Web developer communities and for its ad server tools by the ad serving community.
IBM Offers Double Memory on xSeries Servers
For a limited time IBM is offering to double the amount of standard memory for free with the purchase of an xSeries server. No matter how complex an environment, IBM eServer xSeries can help build a powerful, scalable and reliable network.