NoMachine announced it has joined the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) Program. This brings all the benefits of NoMachine NX software to the virtual suite of VMware, ensuring customers successful remote access to their virtual environments. VMware's TAP Program enables NoMachine to combine the powers of NX with VMware to provide new solutions to their mutual customers. NoMachine products are optimized for and support VMware's entire line of virtual infrastructure products. This partnership enhances the value of VMware by ensuring NoMachine's NX technology is available to VMware customers for secure remote access to applications and hosted desktops deployed on virtual machines. More info

SOASTA announced a new, enhanced release of its Web testing application, SOASTA Concerto. SOASTA Concerto now supports Web UI/Ajax testing ensuring Ajax-based Web applications and services meet the reliability and performance demanded by today's Web 2.0 business requirements. With this release SOASTA delivers the best, most powerful cross-browser Web UI/Ajax testing solution available. More info

Openwave Systems announced the availability of Openwave Rich Mail 3.0, a new solution designed for carrier-scale deployment by broadband and mobile operators. Openwave Rich Mail 3.0, which is an extension of Openwave's AJAX-based Rich Mail offering, offers a central point of access for all of the communications needs of customers, enabling new ways for mobile and broadband operators to personalize, brand and monetize their Web messaging offerings. More info

Quasar Technologies, a global provider of AJAX-based, Web 2.0, services-oriented Enterprise Content Publishing (ECP) solutions, has successfully integrated its automatic pagination software, Paginator, for Medicom Editorial to automatically create Vademecum International, the prestigious medical reference journal in Spain. More info

ICEsoft Technologies is a leading provider of standards-compliant, AJAX-based solutions for developing and deploying Java EE, rich Internet applications. The company's portfolio of enterprise level Java products includes ICEfaces, an AJAX application framework that enables Java EE application developers to easily create and deploy thin-client rich Web applications in pure Java. More info

The OPC DataHub from Cogent Real-Time Systems now provides even more ways to visualize and interact with real-time data in a web browser. Its new streaming AJAX Web Data Browser displays immediate updates to data from a wide range of sources like databases, spreadsheets, and OPC servers. This streaming AJAX technology can be used in conjunction with new Java applets for live displays of gauges, trending graphs, progress bars and other animated objects. More info

'Could the acquisition of Yahoo! allow Microsoft...to extend unfair practices from browsers and operating systems to the Internet?' That's the question raised today in a statement just posted by Google on the Official Google Blog concerning Microsoft's bid for Yahoo! - posted by David Drummond, Google's Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer. More info

Reviewers overuse the phrase 'required reading,' but no other description fits the new book 'Ajax Security' (2007, Addison Wesley, 470p). This exhaustive tome from Billy Hoffman and Bryan Sullivan places the specific security concerns of the AJAX programming model in historical perspective. It demonstrates not only new security threats that are unique to AJAX, but established threats that have gained new traction in the Web 2.0 era. It then details both the specific technical solutions and - more importantly - the mindset that are necessary to combat such threats. If you call yourself a professional web developer, you need this book. More info

For applications that run via the Web, should they be AJAX-based, or do AIR/Flash/Flex, JavaFX, or Silverlight offer better results? To inspire you to come to AJAXWorld 2008 East and choose your direction for Rich Internet Applications, here's a brief selection from among the many dozens of sessions that you really ought to consider joining us in New York City (18-20 March) to enjoy. More info

Web application developers and designers often give up on building rich, interactive user interfaces because they lack the JavaScript skills to make it happen. AJAX development power tools - including Dreamweaver, Spry and off-the-shelf AJAX components - make it easy to build rich user interfaces in AJAX with no JavaScript coding. Andre Charland will demonstrate how to install, set up and configure extensions to Dreamweaver, and will use them to build simple, rich interface AJAX apps. More info