RIA News Desk

"The BBC iPlayer Desktop beta on Adobe AIR will help extend their popular browser-based Web video broadcasts to more viewers with a high-quality, instant-on Internet TV experience outside the browser and across all major operating systems," said Jim Guerard, Vice President and Ge... (more)

Today, Farata Systems has released a new version of the free Eclipse plugin Clear Data Builder 3.1. This version includes a new feature – CRUD generation based on Java DTO without the need to provide SQL. Dr. Victor Rasputnis, Managing Director of Farata Systems explains, "During ... (more)

Developer Express has announced the following new performance enhancements across its ASP.NET and AJAX product line. AJAX Callback Compression for faster page loads and reduced network bandwidth/traffic JavaScript Files now combined for fewer server requests and roundtrips. Menu... (more)

Appcelerator has secured $4.1 million in Series A funding, led by Storm Ventures. Appcelerator will use the proceeds to further advance and extend the functionality of its Open Web platform that allows applications to be easily built and deployed as a rich Web application, a nati... (more)

Appcelerator has announced the public preview release of Appcelerator Titanium, an open source platform for building desktop and mobile applications using a common set of Web technologies. Titanium allows developers to use standard Web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScr... (more)

InfoStreet has announced that it is responding to market demand for improved workplace efficiencies with an enhanced software suite that will target small- to mid-sized businesses. Email is the ultimate delivery mechanism, however, tagging, categorizing, prioritizing and organizi... (more)

"The Internet marketplace has evolved within and well beyond the traditional Web browser, fueled by an explosion of Java-powered smart phones and consumer electronic devices from RIM's Blackberry to Amazon's Kindle," said Jonathan Schwartz, CEO & President of Sun, as JavaFX 1.0 w... (more)

Magic Software has announced the release of uniPaaS version 1.5, the company's flagship Rich Internet Application (RIA) and SaaS Enabled Application Platform (SEAP), designed to allow organizations to develop and deploy applications in approximately one-fifth of the time and effo... (more)

Aptana has announced the 1.0 release of Aptana Jaxer and the introduction of Jaxer Pro, both "AJAX servers" that let developers create entire web applications using the ubiquitous set of languages common to web browsers: JavaScript, DOM, CSS, and HTML. To achieve this, Jaxer embe... (more)

ILOG has announced that it has been designated by International Data Corporation as the Business Rule Management Systems market leader in the October 2008 report "Worldwide Business Rules Management Systems 2008 - 2012 Forecast and 2007 Vendor Shares". ILOG is the sole vendor res... (more)

AJAXWorld launched today, the first day of the 6th International AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo, a new iPhone Conference Scheduler, an iPhone application, in San Jose, California. The iPhone application has been developed by Chris Laffra of IBM, and it will also serve the deleg... (more)

In his keynote at AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo, Scott Guthrie stated that his team is devoted to helping AJAX developers build great Web experiences. Microsoft's Scott Guthrie runs the team that launched Silverlight 2 on October 13. He also runs the teams that built IIS, ASP.NE... (more)

AJAXWorld delegates today saw a no-slides, code-only presentation that started with a blank directory and built a data-driven, AJAX enabled, ASP.NET web application from scratch that implemented common AJAX patterns with the rich set of AJAX Control Toolkit, accessed data with L... (more)

JavaScript is currently the world's most used programming language, JSON creator Douglas Crawford told a very full keynote room full of delegates at the 6th International RIA Conference & Expo in San Jose, CA, today. "The very best part of JS is its stability. That is what made A... (more)

"Performance management is changing," declared Ben Rushlo, who runs Keynote Systems' Web performance consulting group, in a great General Session at the 6th International AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo in San Jose, CA. To a packed Imperial Ballroom crowd, Rushlo engaged everyon... (more)

At AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo, Yehuda Katz presented a lively session on AJAX with jQuery. jQuery is a rapidly growing, popular JavaScript library. Its powerful and modular architecture, which emphasizes a simple yet heavily extensible API, has helped it to become one of the... (more)

Today at the 6th International AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo in San Jose, CA, Pieter Humphrey of Oracle presented a hugely popular session on Rich Enterprise Applications...what he calls (inevitably) REAs to a packed General Session. Pieter Humphrey of Oracle gave a hugely po... (more)

SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global rich Internet technology provider Isomorphic Software named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's upcoming AJAX World Conference & Expo 2008 West, which will take place October 20-22, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon... (more)

At the 6th International AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo that opened in San Jose, CA, today, ICEsoft Technologies Inc. - leading provider of standards-compliant AJAX-based solutions - announced a technical integration with ILOG. The joint efforts will enable developers to use IL... (more)

XAware has announced that founder and chief scientist Kirstan Vandersluis will be a featured speaker at the AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo to be held October 20-22, 2008 at the Fairmont San Jose Hotel in San Jose, Calif. Presentation: "Hands-on Data Services for RIA, WOA and SOA"... (more)