Business Wire announced Thursday that Laura Sturaitis has been named executive vice president, media services and product strategy, a promotion that recognizes her leadership role in leveraging search engine optimization, social media, and web-based technologies into critical PR and IR applications that have transformed the news wire industry.
Beta Systems Software AG (FWB:BSS) announced today that its new generation of Agility products opens up z/OS-based infrastructure software for use by applications and staff in all areas of corporate IT. This significantly increases IT’s cost-effectiveness and helps companies make their business processes even more efficient. The importance of IT in today’s businesses is growing constantly. For this reason, companies need to be able to integrate it quickly and flexibly into their workflows and business processes. This delivers more value from their existing systems – both data center solutions and decentralized architectures. To support this, the new Agility products provide powerful Web services that enable access to the corresponding Beta Systems z/OS-based product. The product family includes Beta 88, 91, 92 and 93 Agility.
Game Developer Conference – The Khronos Group (Beaverton, OR) today announced that the COLLADA™ 1.4 Adopters Package is complete and under final review prior to public release (anticipated in April, 2010). The Adopters Package contains both conformance testing software and documentation intended to drive rapid evaluation, deployment and acceptance of the COLLADA specification in 3D content creation, and asset management software.
While many in the hospitality industry have been eager to usher out 2009 and hope for a better 2010, newly-formed Sabre Hospitality Solutions continues to build upon the momentum it gathered in 2009 and has started 2010 by helping customers experience further growth in bookings and revenues.
Telerik, a leading vendor of development tools and user interface components for .NET, announced today their Q1 2010 release, consisting of a complete update of the Telerik .NET developer toolbox and the official release of Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC and JustCode. This release is further marked by significant performance innovations in the company’s Silverlight and WPF UI controls, full support across all products for Visual Studio 2010 RC, as well as a new productivity-enhancing visual designer for OpenAccess ORM.
As part of the company’s presence at this year’s SXSW Conferences and Festivals, MapQuest is showcasing the latest expansion of its developer platform and demonstrating the company’s newest easy-to-use, developer friendly tools. MapQuest Platform 6.0, MapQuest’s suite of Web services, is aimed at making it effortless for developers to location-enable their applications. The 24th SXSW will take place March 12 – March 21, 2010 in Austin, Texas.
ZyLAB, a leading provider of e-discovery and information management solutions, today announced that the most recent “Hype Cycle for Legal and Regulatory Information Governance, 2009” report includes the company within the section focused on e-discovery software. Gartner Hype Cycles provide a graphic representation of the maturity and adoption of technologies and applications, and how they are potentially relevant to solving real business problems and exploiting new opportunities. Gartner Hype Cycle methodology gives readers a view of how a technology or application will evolve over time, providing a sound source of insight to manage its deployment within the context of your specific business goals.