Oracle Spearheads Data Management Standards Effort

Oracle is aiming to help companies improve their ability to manage and protect sensitive customer information with a new initiative that encourages businesses to isolate such data outside of individual IT applications.

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Updated Hyperwave eConferencing Suite available

Hyperwave Ltd., a supplier of Collaborative Enterprise Content Management solutions has launched an updated and improved version of the Hyperwave eConferencing Suite (eCS) Version 3.0.

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Newest Opera Mini eases mobile photo uploading

Opera Software plans to release the third version of the Opera Mini mobile phone browser on Tuesday, adding features that aim to boost its social networking capabilities and improve functionality overall.

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YouTube takes videos to mobile phones

Video-sharing website YouTube announced its first foray into distributing video clips on mobile telephones through a tie-up with Verizon Wireless.

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Why We Need an Open Source Second Life

A great article from Glyn Mody on linuxjournal.com.

I think that’s an interesting idea to develop an open source second life. The open source community has to pay attention to this development and I think an open source second life has great chances to develop an outstanding virtual world. The reason for that is, that open source works with a community and a virtual world is also a community. So why the professionals in communities don’t develop a virtual 3D community?

Get a Life: Enterprises Eye Potential For Second Life

For the last six months, Little Wonder Studio, based in Burbank, Calif., has been using SL to create virtual models of complicated wind-up toys before building actual prototypes.

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It puts the X in Ajax: How to structure XML for interactive Web apps

XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a popular choice for Ajax, simply because it is the standard intermediate language that all programming languages are able to share. It is also supported both on the server side and client side, which makes it the most flexible solution. XML is essentially a custom tag-based structure that you, the developer, define. XML’s tag-based structure is similar to that of HTML, except that HTML has predefined tags that represent its structure, such as the head, the body, tables and so on.

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XWiki - Web Applications in a Wiki

Ludovic Dubost’s talk at the ObjectWeb Conference in Paris on February 2, 2006. Discover how XWiki, and advanced open source Wiki written in Java, can be used to develop modern web applications.

How To Use Wikis For Business

Content management systems will always have their place in the publishing world, but they’ve never been the best tools for business collaboration. A simple open-source app called the wiki may soon rule the knowledge management roost.

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Wiki as a KM and PM tool

I’ve found an interesting article about Wikis as a KM (Knowledge Management) and PM (Project Management) tool.

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