Latest network applications news.
Podcast: Webcasting to the masses: Video conferencing technology was suppose make it easier to stay at the office for meetings and reduce the need for costly business travel. While that hasn’t been the case for videoconferencing, it is a reality for Webcasting technology. Network World Multimedia Editor Jason Meserve talks about the webcasting market today with Sharat Sharan, CEO of On24. (14:21)
Akamai unveils IP application accelerator, 10/09/07: Akamai announced today that it is expanding its Web application acceleration services to include any IP-based application, including VoIP.
SAP/Microsoft relationship hurt by SAP’s acquisition: SAP’s purchase of business intelligence vendor Business Objects could add more pressure to the increasingly strained relationship between SAP and Microsoft. (See: SAP to buy Business Objects for $6.78 billion )
BitTorrent hopes to speed commercial content streaming, 10/09/07: BitTorrent wants to shake up the way content is streamed online by taking its method for downloading large files and applying it to multimedia streaming.
Tool offered to nervous Vista migrators, 10/08/07: ScriptLogic customers worried about migrating to Vista have been offered a new tool from the company to help spot potential problems.
Application blocking diminishes iPhone, 10/03/07: Forget bricked iPhones. For many iPhone users, the biggest disappointment with last week’s iPhone software update wasn’t that it rendered unlocked phones inoperable but that it disabled third-party apps that have sprung up for Apple’s device. And that could lead to ongoing grief for the company, analysts say.
Modifying Software-as-a-Service, 10/04/07: One of the complaints about Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), at least from large companies, is the inability for a customer to modify the software.
Redefining personal Web space, 10/08/07: I wrote extensively about Webtops in both Gearhead and here in the Web Applications newsletter and in the intervening time not much has happened in that market that could be described as being “of note.” Until this week.
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