Archive for March, 2010

BigBlueButton is an open source video conferencing application which is specifically built for remote learning but can be used for standard meetings as well. It enables universities and colleges to deliver a high-quality learning experience to remote students
The application enables multiple users to login & share their webcam or communicate via VOIP at the same [...]

Microsoft has announced the “Preview Release” of Internet Explorer 9 which seems to be a milestone for the IE family considering it gets closer to the standards.
The IE9 has a new JavaScript engine which performs much better than IE8 & some other browsers.
Another good news is, it supports HTML5, CSS3 & SVG almost completely.

The website [...]

HiT Software, a leading provider of data integration, replication and transformation products, has announced DBMoto 7, the newest version of its Change Data Capture and Data Replication solution.
The new solution beings major advances in data integration to enterprises that require data synchronization across multiple databases, remote administration, advanced security options and an easy way to [...]

Want to create a custom video, the kind with photos, video clips, and music? Normally, it’s a time-consuming and/or expensive hassle.
You can use Microsoft’s Windows Live Movie Maker free of charge, but it’s pretty limited–and kind of a pain in the neck, in my humble opinion.
You could also spend upwards of $100 on a movie-editing [...]

FathomDB is one of 65 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2010 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective.
A startup called  FathomDB is launching a new product today that represents the next step in its efforts to run [...]

The founders of DocVerse today announced that Google has acquired their company. In a blog post on DocVerse website, Shan & Alex said the following:
“I’m excited to tell you that DocVerse has officially been acquired by Google (click here for more)!  This is great news for our company, our team, and most of all, our [...]

According to InformationWeek magazine, the US Army is launching an internal Web application development contest, Apps for the Army, that will award cash prizes to soldiers and Army civilian employees who develop software that best fits the judgment criteria of the contest.
The contest, announced at the Gov 2.0 Summit in November 2009, aims to encourage [...]

Vaadin is an open source web application framework for rich Internet applications. In contrast to Javascript libraries and browser-plugin based solutions it features a server-side architecture, which means that the majority of the logic runs on the servers. Ajax technology is used at the browser-side to ensure a rich and interactive user experience. On client-side [...]

MongoDB (from “humongous”) is a scalable, high-performance, open source, schema-free, document-oriented database. MongoDB Combines the best features of document databases, key-value stores, and RDBMSes. Written in C++, MongoDB features:

Document-oriented storage (the simplicity and power of JSON-like data schemas)
Dynamic queries
Full index support, extending to inner-objects and embedded arrays
Query profiling
Fast, in-place updates
Efficient storage of binary data large [...]

Piwik won the ‘Best of Open Source Enterprise Applications (Web Analytics)’ in Infoworld’s annual BOSSIE Awards. The awards “recognize the best free and open source software the world has to offer to businesses, IT professionals, and productive individuals who rely on computers to get work done.”
Selected by InfoWorld’s editorial and test center staff, other winners [...]