On an Oracle Java/XML-strategy tour, John Magee, director of
product marketing for Oracle’s Internet Platform Group, told
CRN Tuesday that despite all the hype, Microsoft’s XML strategy
is not all it’s cracked up to be.
IBM today announced the opening of the industry’s first Linux supercluster briefing center for customers developing scalable applications on Linux systems, from NewsAlert.
Business Wire reports, the Open Source Computer Vision Library provides a wide range of functions, including gesture recognition, object-tracking, face recognition and camera calibration, that will help researchers develop ways to use “computer vision” as a method for people to interact with computers.
Reuter is reporting, The Secure Digital Music Initiative is offering $10,000 to any
computer cracker who can break the encryption that the organization has developed to protect online entertainment.
The number of subscribers to wireless data services will grow rapidly
from 170 million worldwide in 2000 to more than 1.3 billion in 2004,
according to a study released Tuesday by market research company
Cahners In-Stat Group, from IDG News Service.