2/22/2006 11:44:37 AM - InfoWorld: Top News
(InfoWorld) - The ObjectWeb open-source consortium announced Wednesday the creation of the EasyBeans project. EasyBeans aims to offer a pluggable, easy-to-use, open-source container based on the EJB 3 (Enterprise Java Beans) spec.
EasyBeans can be deployed on a Java EE application server such as JOnAS, or used stand-alone without requiring the deployment of a full-fledged J2EE app server. More information on the EasyBeans project can be found at: http://easybeans.objectweb.org.
Fluke enhances VoIP with Visual UpTime Select update
February 22, 8:05 a.m. PDT
Fluke Networks has enhanced Visual UpTime Select to better help enterprises optimize their VoIP deployments. Visual UpTime Select helps assess, monitor, and manage application and network performance and availability across the entire enterprise. It enables network managers to troubleshoot both real-time and intermittent VoIP performance issues, and provides in-depth performance reports for complete VoIP lifecycle management. The new release is available this week at no additional charge to existing VoIP module customers. New customer pricing begins at $795 per site. For more information visit: http://www.flukenetworks.com/visual.
Quality concern delays Nokia launch with NTT DoCoMo
February 22, 8:05 a.m. PDT
The launch of Nokia's 6630 handset with NTT DoCoMo is being postponed because the carrier isn't satisfied with the quality of some software in the phone. The phone, the first Nokia 3G handset to be announced by NTT DoCoMo, was to have gone on sale on Friday under the NM850iG model name. However, the launch has now been put-off until a later, unspecified date. The quality concern lies with software required to support certain proprietary NTT DoCoMo services, a spokeswoman for the carrier said. She wouldn't disclose any further information about what software is involved or when the phone might go on sale. The Nokia 6630 first went on sale in December 2004 through carriers around the world including the Japanese unit of Vodafone Group.
Philips designs watermark system to curb video piracy
February 21, 8:25 a.m. PDT
Dutch electronics manufacturer Koninklijke Philips Electronics has developed a new system, based on watermarking technology, to help the movie industry battle video piracy. CineFence embeds watermarks with information about date, time, and place into the picture and soundtracks of movies, allowing moviemakers to trace camcorder-captured copies back to the cinema in which the illegal copying took place. The watermarks are imperceptible to viewers. The forensic watermarks embedded in the picture and sound by CineFence remain detectable even when camcorder recordings are compressed into formats such as BCD, DivX, and MPEG4. Philips watermark technology can be used to trace illegal copying in other areas, such as broadcast media and Internet, the company said.
WebMethods Access helps create, monitor business processes
February 17, 8:15 a.m. PDT
webMethods has unveiled webMethods Access, a new component of webMethods Fabric that provides a framework for rapidly assembling new proces...
