CSR Unveils Reference VoWiFi Design for ODMs
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Bluetooth and WiFi silicon developer CSR Plc has launched a reference design for low-price WiFi phones for ODMs developing products for the residential and SoHo markets.
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SGI begins work on an open-source version of a development tool for high-performance computing programmers.
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W3C has issued a second published Working Draft of Web Services Choreography Description Language Version 1.0, an XML-based language that describes peer-to-peer collaborations of parties by defining, from a global viewpoint, their common and complementary observable behavior; where ordered message exchanges result in accomplishing a common business goal.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft says it will focus on four key areas to improve interoperability between its own software and other vendors' products. Senior Microsoft representatives met with InfoWorld on Thursday to highlight identity management; Web services and related development; collaboration between information workers and system management comprise the new interoperability focus. "We are really working on new protocols in the WS-* [spoken as Web services star] space that enable interoperability across identity systems," said Jean Paoli, Microsoftâs general manager of interoperability and XML architecture. Lat week, Microsoft vowed to integrate its CardSpace identity management system with the OpenID Web authentication standard. Paoli emphasized the move as evidence of the commitment. WS-* represents a series of Web services-related specifications for standardization in areas such as security and messaging. A lot of the issues Microsoft has in interoperability tend to fall into these four categories, said Tom Robertson, the companyâs general manager of interoperability and standards. "Those are the four areas that we're hearing about now," as needing attention, Paoli said. "It doesn't mean the list is closed." Microsoft's identity management push, however, apparently will not be centered on its previous Passport initiative for Internet security.Â  "I've not been hearing about Passport in so long," Paoli said. Microsoft plans to be creative in addressing interoperability, using a host of tools at its disposal. "It's going to mean making IP available in a range of ways," Robertson said. The company already has dabbled in open source as a way to boost interoperability, offering a bridge between the OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Microsoft's Open XML electronic document formats, said Robertson. Paoli and Robertson listed multiple Microsoft interoperability projects in the past several years, such as its work with Novell on interoperability between Windows and Novell's Suse Linux. The company's interoperability effort with Sun Microsystems also was noted. But they remained upset with IBM for what Microsoft perceives are IBM efforts to block Open XML from becoming approved as a standard by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The two co-authored an open letter this week entitled "Interoperability, Choice and Open XML," that pointed fingers of blame at IBM. "The open letter is an effort to clearly articulate what Microsoft is trying to do," Robertson said. It is important to shine a light on what IBM is doing to block Open XML and block choice, he added. In response, an IBM representative pointed to the ConsortiumInfo.org Standards Blog, which states there is "significant commercial opposition" to Microsoft's electronic document proposal. Microsoft made a "bad bet " that ODF would fail in the marketplace, the blog stated.
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openCRX is a professional CRM solution (customer relationship management) deployable to all major platforms. openCRX is multi-entity enabled, scalable, a real enterprise-class CRM-solution - new: Activity Management, Bug Tracking - try our Demo Server   openCRX - Limitless Relationship Management     openCRX version 1.11.0 is available from:   http://www.opencrx.org/     The release notes are available at:  http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=535085&group_id=95219    If you have openCRX v1.10.0 installed, you can upgrade to openCRX v1.11.0 by following instructions available at:  http://www.opencrx.org/faq.htm#110to111   Highlights:   * support for JDK 1.5 * JDO/JPOX compatible DB schemas * GUI: multi-level grid drill down * DataBindings * enhanced facility management with inventory items * new locales: es_CO and ja_JP   see http://www.opencrx.org/opencrx/1.11/new.htm for details     We also published new/updated guides at:  http://www.opencrx.org/documents.htm       Your openCRX Team
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The ADL Resource Libraries provide a complete object-oriented Document Object Model (DOM) for working with the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) and the IEEE 1484.1.1-2002 Learning Object Metadata (LOM) specification. These foundation resou   The ADL Resource libraries were developed under US government contract at the Joint ADL co-Lab to help facilitate the development of new innovative tools for the Development of SCORM courseware. These libraries are intended to proved foundational support for developers to begin building tools with a reduced barrier to entry into the marketplace.
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Two new specifications are published by Microsoft, Systinet, Sonic Software, and BEA. WS-Enumeration is a protocol for enumerating a sequence of XML elements that is suitable for traversing logs, message queues, or other linear information models and WS-Transfer is a protocol for accessing XML representations of Web service-based resources.
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This third and final article in the Metasploit series covers the msfcli scripting interface as well as the intuitive web interface to the Framework. The article also discusses what's new with version 2.2, and then introduces the exploit development process through an example.
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How often have you thrown up your hands in disgust at the poor quality of documentation for an open source project?  Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if someone put together a documentation coverage tool that worked like test coverage too ls?  Well, you&#8217;re in luck&#8212;dcov is here (at least for Ruby code).
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Company's third open-source contribution is the first time it has shared code for actual application.
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Three of Japan&#39;s largest IT companies have developed an open-source implementation of a standard from OASIS to ensure reliable messaging between Web services applications.
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The ActiveBPEL(R) engine is a Business Process Management (BPM) runtime environment for executing process definitions created to the Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL) 1.1 and WS-BPEL 2.0 specifications. It is written in Java and   Active Endpoints today announced the availability of Milestone 1 of ActiveBPELÃÂ® Community Edition 5.0 Server. ActiveBPEL 5.0 represents the worldÃ¢â¬â¢s first release of an open-source implementation of both BPEL4People and WS-Human Task. These specifications allow human interactions to be included in services-based applications. By incorporating human tasks in composite applications, WS-Human Task and BPEL4People expand project teamsÃ¢â¬â¢ flexibility and efficiency in delivering standards-based solutions.  Features and availability Milestone 1 of ActiveBPEL Community Edition 5.0 Server is available for download at http://www.active-endpoints.com/active-bpel-engine-overview.htm In addition to containing BPEL4People and WS-Human Task, ActiveBPEL Community Edition 5.0 Server provides comprehensive support of the BPEL 1.1 specification and the WS-BPEL 2.0 standard. The server supports the full complement of BPEL activities including event handling, exception handling and scope/compensation management. The ActiveBPEL Community Edition 5.0 Server also includes advanced capabilities such as deployment packaging, process persistence, event notifications and console APIs. Developers and others interested in gaining early experience with the standards-based systems for creating services-based applications are invited to download the Milestone 1 release as an introduction to the full capabilities of a visual orchestration system.
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Microsoft-sponsored open-source group expected to release ODF translator for Word.
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The PHP Group has announced some big updates to one of the finest manuals for an open source project out there today - the manual found on the PHP website.   Updates to the manual include:  an improved, XSL-based build system that will deliver compiled manuals to mirrors in a more timely manner (goodbye dsssl) manual pages can now contain images (see imagearc() for an example) updated function version information and capture system (fewer "no version information, might be only in CVS" messages)    Of course, help from the community helps things even more, so they request helping out or just submitting bug reports for problems found in the documentation or user comments.
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Microsoft officials preached the company's Oslo computing vision Tuesday, which encompasses services deployment from the client to the cloud and making models a mainstream part of development.Officials discussed Oslo and related efforts in business process management and SOA at the Microsoft 2007 SOA and Business Process Conference in Redmond, Wash. The intent of the event is to make it easier to build applications that matter to business, according to the company.Oslo features two top-level points, said Robert Wahbe, corporate vice president of the Connected Systems Division at Microsoft. "The first is we're doubling down on services," he said. "We've been working in services and [are] a leader on services and we're extending that from the client and making a huge bet on the cloud." Microsoft will host services itself, he said.?The second main point is making a platform that is fundamentally model-driven. Microsoft officials expounded on a new modeling tool and a repository to break down application silos. A modeling language will be featured that interoperates with other modeling languages such as BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) for Web Services.Microsoft technologies shown included an application composer to map application parts to systems.Also emphasized Tuesday was the company's Internet Service Bus concept for SOA, featuring a hosted platform for building composite applications, connecting disparate systems, and providing communication between end points. Microsoft's Internet Service Bus has encompassed hosted building-block services to connect systems across business units and partners as well as .Net Framework extensions.An attendee lauded Microsoft for finally countering rivals by detailing its SOA efforts."I think that prior to this point, it's been hard using Microsoft SOA technologies in competitive situations with other vendors like IBM and Tibco and now what I see is the kind of vision and platform that we need to have in place in order to implement a full SOA [implementation] on the Microsoft stack," said Sam Gentile, principal consultant with Neudesic, a Microsoft technology platform partner.But an industry analyst was less impressed with Microsoft's Oslo vision."I think it made sense from the aspiration perspective, but I thought there's still a lot of details left to be clarified," said Dwight Davis, analyst with Ovum. One detail Davis wanted was whether the new modeling tool would work with pre-existing tools.Also, some of Microsoft's discussion sounded familiar to the company's Dynamic IT plan, Davis said. (Microsoft has noted in a press statement that Oslo builds on the model-driven and service-enabled principals of Microsoft Dynamic IT.)Microsoft's plan also sounded akin to the company?s Dynamic Systems Initiative for agile businesses, which was not even mentioned today, Davis noted.Microsoft also did not mention its previously discussed SML (Service Modeling Language) technology for modeling complex IT services and systems, Davis said. "Where was SML today?" Davis asked.Oslo will not involve new products but instead incorporates Oslo-based functionality into new products, such as a version of Visual Studio currently referred to as visual Studio "10."
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Microsoft, Sun and a trio of other leading hardware vendors today published the WS-Management specification, which spells out how data centers can use Web services
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Details of a new Microsoft Web analytics tool are available online.