Stories about: Sonic

Critics of the US ISP Comcast aren't backing down after the company defended its traffic management practices in a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) filing last week by asserting that its tactics fall well within the bounds of reasonable network management practices.

A British consumer advocacy group is charging that Microsoft and other major software companies engage in misleading and unfair practices related to end-user license agreements (EULAs), and has asked for an investigation by the U.K.'s Office of Fair Trading (OFT).

Sonic Solutions has come up with a way to help Hollywood studios and other providers of video content distribute their movies over the Internet without fear of rampant, illegal DVD burning.

Intel on Monday is shipping three threading tools to enable developers to better take advantage of newfangled multicore processors. The tools include Threading Building Blocks 1.0, a C++ runtime library to introduce threads to an application; Thread Checker 3.0, a threading analysis tool to minimize the potential for errors, and Thread Profiler 3.0, which provides insight into how application threads interact. Threading Building Blocks is a new product; the other two offerings are upgrades to existing products.

Progress Software is adding Eclipse integration to its OpenEdge application development and deployment platform as well as links to affiliate Sonic Software's ESB (enterprise service bus).

Go beyond a few basic protocols, and confusion still reigns in the wild world of Web services and SOA. Not just the towering, complex stack of Web services specs, but also fundamental questions about how those specs should work together and how Web services should be deployed and managed.

Progress Software will announce its membership in the Eclipse Foundation for open source tooling. With this move, Progress will follow companies such as Borland Software and BEA Systems in joining the IBM-spawned Eclipse organisation.

Users last week expressed some skepticism about Sun Microsystems' plan to offer its application server software under an open-source license.

Three of Japan's largest IT companies have developed an open-source implementation of a standard from OASIS to ensure reliable messaging between Web services applications.

Several vendors including Sun Microsystems and Oracle on Monday announced support for the WS-MessageDelivery specification recently submitted to the World Wide Web Consortium.

At InfoWorld's CTO Forum in April, BEA's Adam Bosworth talked about missing pieces of the Web services infrastructure. Some were usual suspects: reliable asynchronous transactions, more flexible programming techniques. But one of the items on Bosworth's wish list -- the high-performance XML message broker that he said BEA is developing -- struck me as novel.