As interest in mobile AJAX gathers in the wake of the Apple iPhone release, the ICEfaces open source project is poised to deliver mobile AJAX solutions today. Come to this presentation and find out why the server-centric nature of the ICEfaces technology provides inherent advantages in

SYS-CON Events announced today that 'AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West' main sponsorship opportunities are now sold-out! Limited number of expo and event sponsorship opportunities that are still available are expected to be completely sold before the end of the month. The new spons

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

iPhone, whatever its sales, was disruptive from the moment Steve Jobs first showed it off in January. It immediately started redefining the smartphone business and focused the attention of smartphone makers on the importance of software, according to serial entrepreneur Pauline Alker,

I usually skip BarCamp and other hackathon coding events because they consume a lot of time and I don't usually get as much accomplished as I do at my desk. That said, when a major new platform like the iPhone gets released, an event such as the iPhone Dev Camp seems like a great idea

If you take a look at the success of the Nintendo Wii, you'll see an innovative device with an incredibly compelling user interaction design (the Wiimote, nunchuck, steering wheels, fitness pads, etc). The device itself has what the industry might actually refer to as 'last gen' hardwa

So yesterday I was happily catching up on my RSS feeds when I noticed that there was some Apple buzz. I took a look and saw some photos of the new iPod Touch, which is basically an iPhone that can only use WiFi instead of EDGE and obviously has no phone in it. It's quite impressive-loo

Dojo Toolkit Co-Creator Dylan Schiemann, Laszlo Systems Co-Founder & Chief Interface Architect Bret Simister, Alacrity Ventures Founder Christopher Allen, UI Architect Joe Johnson, Laszlo Sr. Software Engineer Ben Shine, Vodafone Senior Technology Strategist Daniel Appelquist, Next-Ge

We're working on an iPhone-optimized version of Ta-da List. As I was working on some UI ideas, Ryan and I were talking about some of really cool things about designing for the iPhone. I remarked that I loved the constraints. For example, we know the exact screen size/resolution, we kno

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

Tomorrow Apple is going to announce something new, people say it's an iPod of some sort, and there are rumors that its big innovation is that it supports digital radio, with a tie-in to the Apple site that sells music. Okay, that's all speculation, let's get that objection out of th

Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive, is going to brief journalists today at the BBC's headquarters in London and at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. It is expected he'll announce a new full-screen version of the Video iPod. Jobs will be hoping that a revamped iPod product line can

'It's likely that the speed of the iPhone's rise to competitive dominance in its segment is unprecedented in the history of the mobile-handset market,' said a report by research group iSuppli yesterday, as it was revealed that Apple's iPhone outsold every other type of smartphone in th

The perennial rumors of a mobile phone from Google are currently in full flower with the Engadget blog claiming to have heard from reliable sources that Google's been working on a Linux mobile device OS and shopping it around to carriers and handset makers and that it could go public w

'In conjunction with Oracle's ERP, supply chain, inventory management and network discovery solutions, Oracle plans to provide service providers the ability to improve their network ROI and increase their operational efficiency as they launch, deploy and profit from next-generation IP

Nokia launched this week a new brand, Ovi (Finnish for 'door'), for its Internet-based initiatives in the direction of photos, maps, music and games. In a clear challenge to Apple, Nokia will - in Europe anyway - launch its very own Nokia Music Store in Q4 2007.

Eating blackberries is easy; but eating BlackBerry would be more challenging. That was the conclusion of one analyst commenting on the rumors this week that Microsoft might be thinking of buying BlackBerry-maker RIM. Barry Richards of Paradigm Capital in Toronto told The Canadian Press

'The service is faster and more direct than accessing eBay via the mobile internet, as updates are sent automatically without the customer having to proactively monitor their bid,' Ian Jordan, head of product development, operations and innovation at eBay UK, told a UK technology repor

Skype is blaming a 'massive restart of our users' computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they rebooted after receiving a routine set of patches through Windows Update' for its system being down for two or three days last week. Well, that and a software bug in its o

'The availability of Windows Live services for Nokia's devices demonstrates our commitment to delivering great mobile experiences and extending people's online lives - taking it from the PC to the device,' said Steve Berkowitz, SVP of the Online Services Business from Microsoft, as Nok

Skype now says that the instability of its network that began on Thursday, followed by what it calls 'critical disruption,' was triggered by a massive restart of Sykpe users' computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they re-booted after receiving a routine set of pat

'Take a deep breath. Skype is back to normal.' With these two sentences, the management of Skype announced the company's return from the worldwide outage that began early Thursday afternoon as users around the world began to find they couldn't log on and make phone calls or send instan

Microsoft's latest Office for the Mac, which hasn't seen an upgrade since Office 2004, has been pushed out until Macworld in mid-January so bugs can be fixed, losing Microsoft the Christmas shoppers. Last year Office on Apple represented 20% of the money spent on Office in US retail sh

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

Sybase 365 has announced its mobile banking services are available to financial institutions in the Americas, extending its reach from Asia and Europe. In addition, the company commissioned a mobile banking survey across the United States, Canada, Mexico, Argentina and Brazil, demonstr

Sybase Chairman, CEO, and President John Chen discussed his company's overall strategy, as well as key aspects of ASE 15.0 and Sybase's growing wireless business in an exclusive interview with SYS.CON.TV. He also went into the challenges and opportunities offered by China today.

'The Unwired Enterprise is already a reality - now we are taking it to the next level, enabling companies to easily develop and deploy mobile applications that extend the reach of business-critical information to users on the front lines,' said John Chen, chairman, CEO and president of

Sybase iAnywhere highlighted opportunities at TechWave 2007 for the use of Information Anywhere suite mobile management and security technology in virtualized environments. Meeting demand for multi-tenancy and hosted applications, partners can leverage virtualization technology to incr

Sybase, Inc., a provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, and HTC Corp., a provider of Microsoft Windows Mobile-based smart devices, have formed a global alliance. The companies are teaming on strategic business, engineering and marketing initiatives designed to delive

Apple's official announcement that AJAX is the iPhone's SDK of choice reinforced Laszlo Systems' vision, having already built its OpenLaszlo RIA development platform to inherently support AJAX. This session will discuss how OpenLaszlo is architected to work with iPhone today, and will

A blogger calling himself 'Fake Steve Jobs,' whose parody of the Apple Inc. (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) chief executive amused and enthralled Silicon Valley, revealed himself on Sunday as an editor of Forbes business magazine. Dan Lyons is also known with his 'Who is Pamela Jone

Sony and the Cell chip, used in its bedeviled PlayStation 3, have been charged with patent infringement in the patent-savvy prosecution-leaning Texas federal courts by an entity nobody ever heard of that can't be found on the Internet - or for that matter in corporate filings in Califo

The AJAX Company Backbase announced that its Enterprise AJAX software suite will support Apple's long-anticipated iPhone. Aligning its development with Apple's unfolding strategy for the sexy new device, Backbase has added support for the new platform, including Apple?s Web browser for

Last month an EU ruling limited how much providers can charge for 'roaming calls' i.e. those call made whilst abroad. At the moment users are charged between 50p to £1.50 to make calls and are also charged to receive them. The new legislation cuts the maximum charge for European calls

Flat-data rate tariffs introduced by Orange, Vodafone and 3 networks in the UK are the first sign that the Mobile Web is set to become as ubiquitous as normal web use with the these flat tariffs bringing affordable mobile web access to nearly everyone who has a mobile web enabled phone

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

In the past if you cannot access the Internet then you cannot use your Web 2.0 applications. This model is rapidly changing. New pogramming models are emerging that alllow Web 2.0 to be offline /online dependent on what is needed. The first of these is Adobe Apollo, which is a cross-pl

Wall Street got vicious and took nigh on to a $9 bite out of Apple on Tuesday, the stock's worse day in seven years, after AT&T, the iPhone's sole carrier, reported that only 146,000 of the gadgets were activated in the first 30 hours of sales. That was the 30 hours before the second q