High-end ESB vendor IONA is aiming Artix at the service provider market. The company's history in this space through its CORBA products, and its expertise in emerging standards such as ...

Microsoft launched SQL Server 2005. Long overdue, the database offering provides a range of capabilities that will prove attractive to customers. Still, the company had announced some features ...

Check Point has integrated anti-spyware into its endpoint security solution, but the move follows behind competitors' enterprise solutions, and the company is being coy in outlining its detection methods. ...

Intellisync and Novell are embedding push e-mail/PIM into the next revision of GroupWise; another nail in the coffin for middleware? ...

Swisscom is launching a portal for its fixed customers providing SMS messaging, standard call features and dynamic content - all enabled by voice commands. The real test is whether the ...

Entrust has announced that it will release IdentityGuard 8.0 later this year. The product builds nicely on the original release and provides customers with considerably more authentication flexibility. ...

Cablevision has upped its Optimum Online speeds for Internet access as well as launched new data tiers in a bid to pre-empt Verizon FiOs. In terms of bandwidth for the ...

Microsoft launches BizTalk 2006 for the second time and announces a plan to include application adapters with the product at a slightly higher price. This builds on the firm's advantage ...

McAfee has announced that it will field a fully functional network access control solution that builds on ePolicy Orchestrator and technology it acquired from Foundstone. The move will help McAfee ...

Good Technology enhanced its security proposition with Mobile Defense. However, the middleware vendor lacks the European profile and presence to turn this great enhancement into a significant threat. ...

With the recent influx of $35 million in funding, NexTone essentially doubled its capitalization. Smart is more important than rich, however, and NexTone needs to demonstrate that it can apply ...

ECI Telecom announces ShadeTree Management Suite that leverages existing management capabilities, adding significant new functionality to support subscriber self management and automatic configuration to simplify service definition and deployment. ...

Good Technology announced Mobile Defense, a security solution for WWAN access; this will help the vendor diversify in the face of a competitive middleware market, and it will help IT ...

Apptix takes a big step forward in expanding its offering with the acquisition of hosted e-mail provider MailStreet, but at the risk of leaving its wallet empty. However, a successful ...

BEA purchased SolarMetric, maker of the cutting edge Java persistence engine Kodo. This helps the firm match JBoss' Hibernate, although it is still a niche technology. The company ...

Avaya's plans to partner with SAP to create a connector between mySAP CRM and Avaya's contact center solutions is unremarkable, but its plans to telephony-enable SAP's CRM and ERP applications ...

The acquisition of media-streams.com provides a foundation on which Microsoft may later build a set of calling features for its real-time communications platform. But partners remain needed to extend telephony ...

Cox is selling 940,000 basic cable TV subscribers in its smaller markets to Cebridge Connections. Cox is streamlining its operations and focusing on its bigger markets, yet the fact remains ...

MessageLabs continues to build out its e-mail and Web security services portfolio, adding IM to the mix through an acquisition of OmniPod. ...

BPM up-and-comer Lombardi complemented its flagship TeamWorks product with Process Optimizer. This add-on provides better simulation and more detailed analysis, including suggestions for modifications to a process. ...