froglogic GmbH announced version 3.3 of the leading, cross-platform automated GUI testing tool Squish. Squish supports creating and running automated GUI tests of applications based on a variety of user interface technologies including Trolltech's Qt toolkit, Java AWT/Swing/NetBeans, Java SWT/Eclipse RCP/JFaces, Web/HTML/AJAX and Mac OS X Carbon/Cocoa. Squish is being successfully used in QA departments across the world in companies such as Reuters Financial Software, EADS, Siemens, Synopsys, Xilinx, Trolltech and France Telecom Group. More info

In this article, I move beyond the basics in the last article and concentrate on more detail about three key parts of this request object, the HTTP ready state, the HTTP status code and the types of requests that you can make More info

Symfony has Ajax helpers that make programming an elaborate interface a piece of cake. This tutorial will show you step-by-step how to create an Ajax-powered symfony application in minutes. More info

'One of the most important (if not the most important) news for 2008, and we are just in February,' remarked Nelson Cienfuegos of the In Digital Marketing blog. He and nearly 60,000 others bloggers have been vigorously chewing over the ins and outs of Microsoft's $44.6BN mega-bid to acquire Yahoo! Inc. More info

FalconStor announced the deployment of a Fibre Channel FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS), powered by the FalconStor IPStor storage virtualisation platform, at the Office National Interprofessionel des Grandes Cultures (ONIGC). The FalconStor NSS solution, installed by FalconStor partner Astelis, ensures that anticipated storage growth over the next five years can be accommodated, providing ONIGC not only the necessary immediate data protection snapshot services, but additionally a clear path to deploying a disk-to-disk backup solution at a later date. More info

Openwave Systems announced Openwave Rich Mail 3.0, a new solution designed for carrier-scale deployment by broadband and mobile operators around the world. An extension of Openwave's successful AJAX-based Rich Mail offering, the Openwave Rich Mail 3.0 offering is designed to enable a converged messaging experience for consumers by offering a central point of access for all their communications needs, enabling new ways for mobile and broadband operators to personalize, brand and monetize their Web messaging offerings. More info

DataCore Software announced that it has developed a series of Feature-Packaged Virtual Storage Solutions that run on VMware, Microsoft VS, Oracle VM, SUN VM, Virtual Iron and Citrix XenServer virtualization platforms, or Intel/AMD based hardware servers and blades. All the Feature-Packed solutions include auto-allocating thin provisioning storage support, SANmotion data migration technology, storage performance acceleration caching software, snapshots for fast disk backups, auto failover and auto recovery data protection via synchronous network mirroring as well as remote site IP mirror replication for disaster recovery. These solutions provide the simplest and most affordable way on the market to get started fully realizing the cost savings and productivity benefits of a full-featured, virtual SAN that can scale and survive hardware obsolescence. More info

Cynergy Systems announced the creation of Cynergy Labs, which is intended to give the company's employees the time, place and funding to build out new applications of RIA technologies. The Labs process provides Cynergy designers and developers with a forum to pitch a new idea to the company's management team. If the idea is deemed to be valuable to Cynergy customers and the larger community, the vetted idea is built out with a dedicated team using Cynergy's LookFirst user-centric development process. More info

Virtualization and provisioning software provider FastScale Technology has unveiled an end-to-end server software management application for enterprise class data centers and web farms. It said FastScale Composer Suite 2.0 features include increased scalability with improved user interface, configuration management, and expanded reporting. It offers support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and VMware ESX Server 3.5. The release follows the launch last August of the FastScale Virtual Manager addition to its Composer Suite. 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