Monday, May 2, 2005Streamload Appoints VP EngineeringSan Diego-based Streamload announced this morning that it has added a new VP of Engineering to the venture-backed startup. David Dudas will join the company from SIPphone, where he was VP of Engineering. Dudas has also served as Director of Engineering at Vivendi-Universal/MP3.com.
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Ixia Upgrades Test PlatformCalabasas-bsed Ixia announced this morning that it has upgraded its test architecture platform and strategy. The company's next generation Optixia test platform and Aptixia test application software involves a new test chassis line. The company said that its new generation of hardware and software will be backward compatible with existing Ixia interface cards and applications, and will support high density ports, hot-swappable interface cards, add higher performance backplace speeds, and service (More info...)
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SOA Software Ties Into OracleSanta Monica-based SOA Software announced this morning that its Web Services software is now supporting Oracle BPEL Process Manager customers. The software adds Service Oriented Architecture support for Oracle's process management tools, extending Oracle's platform to support Web services and SOA. Oracle's BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) tools support the emerging BPEL standard for managing services for process flow. SOA connectivity allows for better integration with external manage (More info...)
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Fastclick Taps Into Text Ad FormatSanta Barbara-based Internet advertising company Fastclick said this morning that it has begun offering Text Ads to its publishing and advertising clients. The new text ad format provides text-based ads similar to Google's AdWords program, and allows publishers to fit ads into a different format. Fastclick said that the ads can easily be fit into a publisher's web site by allowing them to make the ads any size they need. The new format comes on top of Fastclick's 10 other ad formats for Interne (More info...)
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Interview with Rudy DeFelice, Founder of Practice TechnologiesSanta Monica-based Practice Technologies (www.practicetechnologies.com) is a company developing software for the legal profession. I spoke with Rudy DeFelice, the President and CEO of the company, and a longtime reader of the newsletter, to understand what Practice Technologies does and how the company was founded. BK: What does Practice Technologies do, and what products do you offer? RD: We develop software and content-based products for law firms. Our focus is on tools that enable lawyers (More info...)
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