Sun ponders video codec technology
Looking to boost the Web, Sun is working on a royalty-free and open video codec and media system, company officials said Thursday.
Looking to boost the Web, Sun is working on a royalty-free and open video codec and media system, company officials said Thursday.
With energy efficiency and environmental issues of growing concern, Sun is preparing to tune its servers to be more environmentally friendly by introducing power management capabilities.
Sun officials preached on Thursday the benefits and nuances of Project Caroline, a research project pertaining to running Internet services.
In separate moves, Microsoft has released its Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack but discontinued extended support for the Visual Basic 6.0 IDE.
Officials from Google and IBM detailed efforts Tuesday to extend their platforms to developers via APIs and Web 2.0 technologies. But a Sun Microsystems executive cautioned that openness offered via forums such as blogs can have negative consequences if not managed well.
Nokia remains at work on its answer to the Apple iPhone, codenamed "Tube," a company official said on Monday.
Computing in the cloud and Web 2.0 were cited as today's cutting-edge, game-changing innovations during a developer relations conference Monday that featured presentations by Salesforce.com and Cisco Systems.
Sun Microsystems is refashioning customer support options for Java Platform, Standard Edition (SE), extending support to 15 years under one paid plan and reducing it from six years to three years under an alternative free plan.
The popular Eclipse IDE could be at a major crossroads in its development.
IBM has completed its approximately US$845 million tender offer for shares of tools maker Telelogic, IBM said.
Curl has joined the Eclipse Foundation and detailed plans to base its rich Internet application development tools on the Eclipse framework.
With a release of the JBuilder 2008 IDE for Java development on Tuesday, CodeGear is adding a capability called Application Factories, which enables code reuse and makes it easier to update applications.
Microsoft preached its 2008 Dynamic IT vision at the VSLive conference in the US Monday and also touted its Silverlight presentation technology.
WSO2 is releasing its open source WSO2 Web Services Framework for Spring 1.0 (WSF/Spring1.0), providing users of the Spring Java framework with an Apache Axis2/Java Web services engine for use in developing applications.
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