“Events and other things”,   Philip Howard , Bloor Research
The advent of IBM’s System S (which I shall discuss in more detail in a subsequent article) raises interesting questions about the nature of event and stream-based processing. The reason for this is that the early adopters of System S are doing some interesting things with [...]

by Wyatt Kash,  Government Computer News
Internet pioneer still envisions an Internet that manages information, instead of just moving data.
It’s been just over 40 years since Robert E. Kahn took a leave of absence from the MIT faculty and helped create a computer networking project whose effects are still being felt today. His design ideas enabled [...]

by Herb Torrens, ADT
The middleware software market has entered the slow lane in 2009, according to a Gartner report announced on Wednesday. The report, “Market Share: Application Infrastructure and Middleware Software, Worldwide, 2008,” examines the AIM market, which includes technologies such as service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions, business process management suites (BPMSs) and other [...]

by Antone Gonsalves, intelligententerprise.com
The company launches a free online service called Abandonment Tracker that helps companies reach out to Web site visitors who abandon shopping carts or start, but never complete, registration forms and other processes.
Web site abandonment is a problem for companies. That’s because up to 70% of Web site visitors abandon shopping [...]

by Joe Francica,  Directions Magazine
As sensory information becomes more advanced, the government is faced with a continuous and ever-expanding stream of real-time information from which it collects intelligence in support of national security. Thousands of small, seemingly insignificant events happen every day. ObjectFX has created a solution that fits within Complex Event Processing.  CEP helps [...]

Internet attacks take many forms, but most of them exploit persistent weaknesses in software.
by Gary Anthes, ComputerWorld
“We are at risk. Computers are vulnerable to the effects of poor design, insufficient quality control, accident and, perhaps more alarmingly, to deliberate attack.” — Computers at Risk, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council, 1991.
Now, 18 [...]

by  Keller,   Blench,  Tolentino,  Freifeld,  Mandl,  Mawudeku, Eysenbach, and  Brownstein, CDC May 2009
Free or low-cost sources of unstructured information, such as Internet news and online discussion sites, provide detailed local and near real-time data on disease outbreaks, even in countries that lack traditional public health surveillance. To improve public [...]