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Yahoo says no deal
Multiple news sources are reporting today that Yahoo Inc. has rejected Microsoft bid to buy it. Microsoft wanted Yahoo as part of a strategy to create a new Web services environment that would challenge Google Inc. News
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RIA technologies compared
As rich Internet application (RIA) development accelerates, a variety of technologies are becoming available including DHTML, Ajax, Adobe Flash, and Microsoft Silverlight. This article compares these choices to help RIA developers determine which one... News
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Microsoft/Yahoo could rock Web services world
If Microsoft succeeds in acquiring Yahoo it could create a new Web services environment that might change the entire online marketplace, writes analyst Dana Gardner. With the history of how Microsoft used Internet Explorer in the 1990s to eliminate t... News
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Squish updated for Ajax testing
Squish, the GUI testing tool, has been updated by froglogic GmbH. Squish 3.3 supports creating and running automated GUI tests of applications based on a variety of user interface technologies including Ajax and Eclipse RPC, and supports a variety of... News
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Is Web 3.0 for real?
Versioning of the Web with Web 2.0 is often seen as marketing hype, but this author sees it as a way of designating the evolution of the Web, starting with Web 1.0, which is the original 1990s version, followed by Web 2.0 with the advent of Ajax and ... News
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WSO2 releases mashup server
WSO2 Inc., an open-source SOA vendor, combines Web services and JavaScript in its release of Mashup Server 1.0. WSO2 also announced creation of a hosted online version of the Mashup Server, which provides a community site for developing, running, and... News
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W3C publishes HTML 5 draft
A draft of HTML 5, "a major revision of the markup language for the Web," is now available from W3C. New features include APIs for drawing two-dimensional graphics and ways to embed and control audio and video content, according to the W3C HTML Worki... News
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New open source portal released
Liferay 4.4.0, an open source portal, has been released with new features including an improved user system, better content management, developer improvements, and usability improvements. Liferay supports multiple application servers, including Geron... News
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StrikeIron offers new 'Data as a Service'
StrikeIron Inc., a provider of Data as a Service (DaaS), recently announced two new financial and business data services for its Web Services Marketplace. The data services provide financial and corporate information on hundreds of thousands of U.S. ... News
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PHP Eclipse tools released
The Zend Studio for Eclipse IDE plug-in for the PHP scripting language, a cornerstone of the Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) stack for Web services development, is now available for download from Zend Technologies Inc. The company is also releasi... News