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By SD Times News Team
November 1, 2006 — 
Palm has announced that it will phase out its PluggedIn developer program in favor of the Palm Developer Network (www.palm.com/us/developers), a new program for hardware and software developers that includes elements for Palm OS as well as for Windows Mobile. Services available immediately are a device loaner program and the “Designed for Palm” software compatibility testing and certification program. Being launched later this year will be a multiplatform support knowledgebase and Palm Solutions Directory, a promotional program for qualified applications . . . Early September saw the formation of the dotMobi Advisory Group (MAG), a not-for-profit consortium with the purpose of ensuring that the .mobi Top Level Domain is operated in the interests of mobile developers and content providers. On Sept. 26, .mobi, the first TLD dedicated to content for mobile devices, began accepting general domain-name registrations. Members include Ericsson, Microsoft, Nokia, Samsung, T-Mobile and Vodafone . . . The Itanium Solutions Alliance celebrated its first anniversary last month by observing two milestones. The alliance announced that demand chain software supplier JDA Software Group had joined, pushing membership over the century mark. At the same time, the alliance noted that more than 2,000 vendors had released 10,700 applications for the Itanium 2 platform, more than twice the number available at the alliance’s founding last year . . . The Liberty Alliance has released the final version of ID-WSF 2.0, Liberty’s open Identity Web Services Framework. Among the key areas addressed in this release is the ability to deal with identity transactions at all levels. A new Liberty People Service was designed to provide more privacy and security for social networking applications. Also, for the first time, the alliance is releasing the requirements and use cases that supported the development of ID-WSF 2.0.

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ComponentArt has announced the immediate availability of Web.UI 2006.2 for ASP.NET AJAX beta, which it says is the first suite of controls designed specifically for Microsoft’s forthcoming rich Internet application development framework that was formerly known as Atlas. The tool offers deep integration into the ASP.NET AJAX framework: All controls inherit from the Sys.UI.Control client-side base class, implement type descriptors and expose extensive client-side object models built specifically for the AJAX Library type system. It also can use Atlas client-side syntax to modify or even create the structure of any UI control on the client, without callbacks or postbacks.

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Quest Software has announced the release of an expanded freeware version of Toad for DB2, in conjunction with IBM’s DB2 “Developer in a Box” freeware package, featuring the DB2 Express-C database. The new version includes the Toad Project Manager, a DB2 work area that allows users to organize project resources, and offers users a data grid with unlimited viewable rows. The freeware has no expiration or limitation on the number of users . . . TechTracker released VersionTracker Pro 4.2 for Macintosh at the end of September. New features include the ability to scan Unix volumes, filtering at OS dot level (for example, 10.4.5 versus 10.4.8), additional control over how external devices are scanned, and a so-called Universal binary, supporting Intel as well as Power PC hardware . . . VMware has announced the availability of updates to its product line that add full support for 64-bit operating systems to VMware Infrastructure 3. VMware ESX Server 3.0.1 offers users an easier upgrade path from ESX Server 2.x hosts and storage, and both ESX Server 3.0.1 and VMware VirtualCenter 2.0.1 are now available in localized German and Japanese versions . . . Red Gate Software has unveiled the latest version of ANTS Profiler 2.7, a code- and memory-profiling tool for .NET Framework languages. The new version will run on Windows Vista, includes interface enhancements and can cope with larger codebases than previous versions. The next version, ANTS Profiler 3.0, is planned for release in mid-2007 . . . 6th Sense Analytics has released an update to its namesake software-as-a-service for collecting software development data and metrics aggregation. Version 2.0 extends the service’s reach into the maintenance phase of the development cycle. It supports Eclipse, Emacs and Microsoft Visual Studio. The service remains available in a free, stand-alone Personal Edition and a for-charge Team Edition that allows metrics aggregation for an annual cost of US$960 per user . . . McCabe Software has released McCabe CM with full support for IBM PowerLinux on the Z-Series mainframe, enabling such mainframe attributes as performance, scalability and reliability to be applied to enterprisewide configuration management. Critical servers can be consolidated and maintained in the security and reliability of the IBM PowerLinux environment, taking advantage of seamless disaster recovery, dedicated I/O processing and integrity checking . . . Python 2.5 was released in September, incorporating an estimated 350 patches and 450 bug fixes against Python 2.4, according to the project’s Web site. Performance improvements are claimed in the areas of exception handling and string operations, and the compiler now produces an abstract syntax tree as an intermediate step before generating the bytecode. Python structures that were limited to 2^32 objects now support up to 2^64, through use of the “Py_ssize_t” type . . . Toronto-based Lucid Models Software has released an update to its VR visual requirements tool. Version 1.4.4 helps keep requirements organized through the use of structures. Users can define use cases visually and create linked diagrams to make requirements navigable . . . Oracle has announced the general availability of the Content Database and Records Database options for Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition, each priced at US$50,000 per processor. As part of Oracle’s content management offering, the Content Database allows organizations to consolidate unstructured content, while Records Database manages the retention and disposition phases . . . Integration solutions provider NetManage has updated its OnWeb legacy-to-Web tool and Librados, its environment for building JCA and .NET adapters. OnWeb 7.2.4 now integrates with Eclipse, and includes a fast configuration tool for building Web interfaces. Librados now plugs into Eclipse, supports JRE and JDK version 1.5, and is in sync with the latest versions of Oracle E-Business apps, SAP and Siebel. The tool also can now browse business methods using a GUI . . . Paradigma Software has made available Valentina Studio 2.4.2, a database modeling tool that now includes a visual SQL query builder plug-in for use with Valentina databases.

PEOPLE
Web application security software provider SPI Dynamics has named Michael Sutton to the new position of security evangelist. Sutton will work to educate and inform security professionals and developers about best practices for securing software, and will help the company’s SPI Labs team identify emerging issues and trends in Web application security.


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