Pixo, Inc. announced it has joined the WAP Forum as part of its drive to offer the broadest support for Internet standards in the wireless industry. Through its support of WAP, Pixo gives high-volume mobile phone manufacturers increased flexibility and a means to ensure easy integration of third-party WAP applications. Pixo’s software platform can accommodate both a WAP browser for use in accessing specialized WAP-based content and services as well as Pixo’s own HTML browser. While WAP networks are expected to proliferate in the near future, many wireless networks are expected to be upgraded in the next year to packet data standards compatible with an HTML approach, such as GPRS and CDMA-2000. As a result, Pixo is well positioned to provide wireless Internet support, regardless of the technologies involved. www.pixo.com
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Macromedia, Inc. shipped Macromedia Dreamweaver 3, its professional Web authoring environment. Dreamweaver, which can be easily extended and customized using HTML, JavaScript, XML, Java and C, enables third-party developers to easily modify Dreamweaver to create applications tailored for their needs. Dreamweaver extensions deliver interoperability with application servers, media extensions, databases and software solutions providers. www.macromedia.com
The e-content company, a division of Interleaf, Inc. announced a new addition to their roster of international e-Partners. Salience Netherlands, a consultancy that specializes in XML-based technology will collaborate with the e-content company to deliver e-business solutions with BladeRunner. Salience will work closely with the e-content company in the Netherlands to help companies realize the value of their content to drive e-business initiatives. www.xmlecontent.com
Extensibility Inc. launched XMLschema.com – a Web site that provides ubiquitous access to automated processors for the management and exchange of e-business grammars. Initial services provided on the site include Extensibility XML schema validation and conversion services. Users can test XML schemas for syntactical validation and receive reports confirming validity or reporting errors. Users can automatically convert their XML schemas into other schema dialects, enabling exchange of XML grammars across heterogeneous environments. Initially, XMLschema.com will support Microsoft’s XDR and BizTalk, Commerce One’s Common Business Library and SOX schema dialect and DTDs. XMLschema.com services are available for users to access free of charge until February 2000. Automated processing facilities are commercially available. www.extensibility.com
Reuters is to introduce NewsML to present its news services. NewsML is an open standards-based format for the creation, transfer and delivery of news. It is based on the XML. Reuters has taken the initiative in the creation and adoption of NewsML through the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC). The IPTC recently established a programme, IPTC 2000, which will deliver a single XML-based format for managing news production. An increasing number of Reuters subscribers are establishing themselves on the Internet and requesting delivery in XML. www.reuters.com
Intraspect Software, Inc announced that tSA Consulting Group has agreed to a strategic alliance to resell Intraspect Knowledge Server 3.0. tSA’s major objective is to provide their customers with intelligent E-Business solutions that enable information sharing and collaboration among knowledge workers. IKS integrates with tSA’s existing infrastructure, and also enhances the Microsoft desktop, by providing collaborative knowledge management capabilities that integrate with and leverage Microsoft technology. www.intraspect.com
Versant Corporation announced enhancements to its suite of software products for Enterprise Java Bean (EJB) compliant development environments, plus an early developer release of the Versant XML (VXML) Toolkit. VEC 2.1 now supports IBM’s WebSphere 3.0, IBM’s most current family of application servers. Versant’s early developer release of the VXML toolkit allows Versant’s ODBMS product to be used in applications based on emerging Internet corporate data interchange standard, XML. The VXML toolkit allows XML content to be cached in the middle-tier as objects, thereby leveraging Versant’s ODBMS product as a platform for transactional, fault-tolerant eBusiness applications. WebSphere 3.0 Advanced Edition brings improved deployment of EJB technology, application-level security for EJBs, and the IBM SecureWay Directory, which provides LDAP availability to other LDAP-enabled directories. WebSphere 3.0 also includes advanced XML support, to enable easier, standardized exchange of data between multiple web sites. VXML toolkit includes the XML parser, XSLT for content translation, XML/object mapping tools and APIs. VXML is available from the Versant web site as an early developer release. Commercial availability is scheduled for Q1 2000. www.versant.com
webMethods, Inc. and KPMG LLP announced a joint software and services solution for implementing B2B e-commerce initiatives based on the RosettaNet standards. RosettaNet’s primary goal is to streamline the information technology supply chain and to improve the flow of critical information allowing information technology supply chain partners to fully leverage e-commerce applications and the Internet as a B2B e-commerce tool. This joint offering is specifically designed to address the needs of RosettaNet’s key constituents
