Enterprise mashups have been going steadily more mainstream since 2006, when the AJAXWorld Conference & Expo first began giving houseroom to sessions by the pioneers of enabling the fusion of employee expertise and rich information to produce new insights and winning strategies. This March at AJAXWorld 2008 East in New York City (March 18-20) there are more sessions than ever before highlighting the enterprise potential of harnessing mashups to maximize competitiveness. 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

Keynote Competitive Research, the industry analysis group of Keynote Systems, announced it would make itself readily available to media immediately following Super Bowl XLII 2008 for reporting on the technical quality (responsiveness and reliability) of four leading mobile sports Web sites, three popular sites streaming Super Bowl commercials and 35 of the Super Bowl advertiser's Web sites. Leveraging the company's global test & measurement network, Keynote will collect mobile performance data to measure the response time and availability of the following four mobile sports Web sites: ESPN, Yahoo Sports, FOX Sports and CBS. Keynote will also offer comparisons between the sites average performance to their Super Bowl Sunday performance. More info

Atmel Corporation and Trango Virtual Processors announced the availability of Trango's Hypervisor for users of Atmel's AT91CAP9 customizable microcontroller. By creating multiple machine-independent virtual instances of the underlying CAP architecture, Trango's Hypervisor reduces the time taken to develop CAP application software, and enables existing software to be re-used with minimal modification. Trango's Hypervisor runs on both the AT91CAP9ASTK Starter Kit for rapid prototyping and on the AT91CAP9A-DK Development Kit for in-depth application development. The joint solution enables customers to benefit from highly flexible customization, faster time to market and significant cost reduction in their CPU and system designs. More info

'Lightstreamer gives us some unique capabilities and it was really the only choice for us when we examined all the alternatives,' said Markus Skytter, CTO of Panopticon Software, as it was announced today that Lightstreamer has been selected by Panopticon Software for their Enterprise product which is web-deployable and server-based. More info

INOVx Solutions announced RealityLINx version 5.0, its innovative Virtualization technology. Extensive new functionality will be available in this version including management of change features such as 3D modeling, improved laser scanning image support, and enhanced synchronization with popular CAD systems. INOVx continues its long-term commitment to ever improving asset management solutions for the process industry. More info

Open source web infrastructure management provider Hyperic's CEO, Javier Soltero, says the company is seeing rapid growth on a number of fronts. The firm, which says it is complementary to the big four systems management companies (IBM Tivoli, CA, Compuware, and BMC) because they don't focus enough on web infrastructure management, recently increased its European presence with new community managers in Germany and Spain. More info

Project Insight has released new upgrades in 7.1 that feature the ability to create Project Insight tasks and issues from Outlook e-mails, an AJAX-enabled, team member customizable time entry grid; portfolio, project, and task snapshot reports; project profitability and recovery reports; and new time/expense configuration options. 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

'We chose Lightstreamer because with this technology our Trading Platform will enter a new era as a sophisticated solid system in both business functionality and Technology perspective,' siad Tareq Saleh CEO & Vice President at EDATA, as it was announcd today that Lightstreamer, the streaming engine for AJAX applications, has signed a distribution partnership agreement with EDATA. More info