| Avanquest buy is software boost | | Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 3:20:31 PM by Blog57 Team | | Avanquest Software, whose U.S. division is based in Pleasanton, is expected to announce today it has acquired competitor Nova Development Corp. of Calabasas for $48 million in a deal that propels Avanquest to the big leagues of software publishing. Paris-based Avanquest said buying Nova should make Avanquest one of the top six consumer software publishers in the United States, in league with Adobe Systems Inc., Symantec Corp., Intuit Inc. and McAfee Inc., but not Microsoft Corp. Together Avanquest and Nova sell about 175 software titles. Nova's leading titles include the "Hallmark Card Studio" application, "Art Explosion" and "Photo Explosion" for managing digital photographs, and the Berlitz language learning titles. Avanquest's popular titles include "PC Mover Moving Kit" and "Fix-It Utilities" and small-business titles "My Deluxe Invoices & Estimates" and "My Professional Business Cards." Christina Seelye, president and chief executive of Avanquest Publishing USA, said the merger means "we will be a top player in 10 categories" of software applications for consumers and home businesses.... | |
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| | | Eclipse moves on device software development | | Posted Monday, November 27, 2006 1:22:14 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Eclipse Foundation on Monday is announcing three milestone releases as part of its Eclipse Device Software Development Platform (DSDP), which is intended to provide a standards-based development platform for building software for devices. DSDP project milestones being revealed include: * Embedded Rich Client Platform, release version 1.0, for extending the Eclipse Rich Client Platform to embedded devices. The release enables the same Eclipse development model used to create applications on desktop machines to be used on devices. * Target Management release version 1.0, for building data models and frameworks to configure and manage embedded systems and their connections and services. * Mobile Tools for the Java Platform release version 0.7, for extending the Eclipse platform to support mobile device applications based on Java.... | |
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| | | Betfair reaps benefits of agile software development | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 3:09:55 PM by Blog57 Team | | Agile software development methods are now being used in about 25% of IT projects at Betfair, as the online gambling company seeks competitive advantage by bringing products to market more quickly. Rorie Devine, chief technology officer at Betfair, told the City IT financial services forum that one of his key programmes this... .... | |
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| | | Mitrionics' Provides Free Software Development Kit to Accelerate FPGA Supercomputing Application Development | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 11:10:41 PM by Blog57 Team | | Mitrionics(TM), Inc., developer of the Mitrion(TM) Virtual Processor and software-centric Mitrion-C programming language for FPGA Supercomputing acceleration, today announced a new free version of its software development kit (SDK), the Mitrion SDK Personal Edition (PE). The new SDK is designed to allow researchers, scientists, developers, institutions, and independent software vendors (ISVs) to develop and accelerate a wide range of supercomputing applications to run on the Mitrion Virtual Processor installed on FPGA-based computer systems. The software-centric Mitrion SDK is the fastest and easiest way to accelerate an application's performance by programming the computationally intensive part of the application to run on the Mitrion Virtual Processor in an FPGA. The Mitrion SDK is different from all other FPGA programming solutions because it requires absolutely no hardware design skills or experience.... | |
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| | | Real Intent Announces Promotion of Rich Faris to VP of Marketing and Business Development | | Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 3:44:01 PM by Blog57 Team | | Real Intent, Inc., the leading supplier of static formal verification software for electronic design, announced today that Rich Faris has been promoted to Vice President of Marketing and Business Development and will have responsibility for the company's marketing and strategic business development efforts. Mr. Faris reports to Real Intent founder and CEO Prakash Narain and was previously Real Intent's Director of Marketing. "We are fortunate to have Rich as a member of our executive team," remarked Prakash Narain. "His EDA experience and knowledge of the verification market have made a considerable impact on how we market our products, extend their reach to new electronic design applications, and support our customers." Before joining Real Intent in 2004, Mr. Faris was a marketing manager at Mentor Graphics, and held positions in Marketing, Services, Customer Support, and Information Technology at IKOS Systems.... | |
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| | | Japanese Companies To Outsource Software Development To India | | Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 7:18:18 AM by Blog57 Team | | (RTTNews) - Japanese information technology companies, including Fujitsu and Hitachi, are seeking to outsource software development to India, the Nikkei reported Monday. The companies are channeling their focus to India in an attempt to reduce costs and to mange employee shortage, the report said. Further, the report added that the move comes in the backdrop of diminishing number of engineers and rapidly narrowing population. The Japanese companies have been transferring software development work to China, the Nikkei report stated. U.S corporations increasingly outsource their work to India, in a process called offshoring, making it the world's software development center. Fujitsu, currently employing 1,000 engineers in China, intends to rope in 2,000 engineers in India by fiscal 2009.... | |
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| | | The Best of Both Worlds | | Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 1:11:09 PM by Blog57 Team | | These days the size of almost all the resources available to a programmer (memory volume, CPU speed, etc.) are on the rise except for one: the time required to complete a project, which is shrinking. So it's important to work with tools that are convenient and make you productive. It's also important to keep the cost of software development in check by keeping as much as possible of the investments that were already made. Windows - and currently XP Home and Professional are the most widespread versions - has a huge number of installed copies that can be measured in the hundreds of millions. Linux, on the other hand, is supported by a dedicated community of developers and often provides high-quality software. At the moment Unix operating systems (like Solaris 9 and 10) are widespread for servers.... | |
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| | | Valtech Days Technical Conference a Resounding Success; Featured the Latest Topics in Agile Software Development | | Posted Saturday, October 21, 2006 3:10:18 AM by Blog57 Team | | Last week, Valtech successfully completed its 2nd edition of Valtech Days, held October 2-3, 2006 in Dallas, TX. Valtech Days was designed to give the 234 attendees one-stop access to the latest thought leadership, best practices and process innovations in Agile software development. The Valtech Days was divided into three "Planets": * The Agile Planet featured topics such as agile project roles, agile documentation, architecture, offshoring, and metrics from an Agile perspective. * The Open Source Planet covered subjects such as EJB3, Seam, Rails, and Fit/FitNesse. * The Emerging Technologies & Trends Planet was comprised of presentations about SOA, AOP, TDD & Web services, Lean Thinking, ORM and Rural Shoring. For the first time, the morning sessions were preceded by keynote addresses from renowned thought leaders in the industry.... | |
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| | | M5T Adds Symbian OS Support to its Secure Software Development Suite | | Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 3:13:06 AM by Blog57 Team | | Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, October 12, 2006 - M5T, the leading provider of software solutions for secure real-time multimedia communications over IP, today announced that it will offer developers creating software components of Symbian OS a comprehensive secure and portable SIP client engine on the Symbian OSTM in Q4 of 2006. M5T has worked closely with its Symbian customer base to produce a comprehensive and integrated solution that addresses the requirements of developers working with the Symbian OS. M5T offers its clients an advanced set of features including: IM , Presence, Security - TLS, MIKEY, SRTP, SIP, NAT/FW traversal with STUN, TURN, ICE necessary to quickly develop comprehensive application for the fixed mobile convergence (FMC) market on Symbian based devices using the same engine available for PC based soft phones and embedded applications (IP Phone, Gateway).... | |
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| | | Siemens to Merge Service, Software Units to Cut Costs (Update6) | | Posted Thursday, October 12, 2006 11:07:19 PM by Blog57 Team | | Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Siemens AG, Europe's largest engineering company, will combine its unprofitable SBS computer- services division with four software development subsidiaries in the second major overhaul of the unit in less than a year. Munich-based Siemens will forge a new unit with 5 billion euros ($6.3 billion) in sales and 43,000 workers, the company said in a statement today. The division starts January 2007 and will go by the name of Siemens IT Solutions and Services, or SIS. ``It's not the big bang that suddenly solves all problems at SBS,'' said Michael Busse, an analyst at Helaba Trust in Frankfurt, who rates Siemens ``hold.'' The plan is ``a sound decision, as Siemens has to slash costs.'' The new structure aims to overcome years of losses at SBS, which turned into Chief Executive Officer Klaus Kleinfeld's biggest obstacle in his quest to move all 11 main divisions to profit goals he's set for April.... | |
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