To take on Apple Computer in the digital audio market, Microsoft is playing favorites, tying its latest effort to dethrone Apple on the soon to be unveiled URGE music service. URGE, due May 17, is a product of Viacom's MTV Networks. MTV Networks includes the youth-oriented MTV properties, the older demographic VH1 offerings, and the country music CMT brands. Announced last December, the service will not provide the only digital music store that can be...

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Vendors have struggled for years to sell thin-client, interactive user interface (UI) technology. These rich Internet applications (RIA) solutions rarely caught on with organizations despite the drawbacks of standard Web interfaces and client-server solutions, such as constant page loads and the high cost of deploying and maintaining thick client applications.Even though RIA offerings appeared compelling in terms of increased interactivity and lower costs, organizations largely ignored them. Why? Because the RIA market was a confusing...

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Celtix, the open source enterprise service bus (ESB), reached a major milestone this past Monday with the release of version 1.0. ESBs are the middleware that enables and regulates the activities in a service-oriented architecture (SOA). While there is no single industrywide definition of the term, an SOA is most often described as a distributed computing architecture based on integrating service-enabled applications (services) and relying on core technologies like Web services and XML.Many organizations are...

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