IDC announced the launch of a new service, IDC’s Private Vendor Watch Service (PVWS), which focuses on emerging and disruptive private IT vendors. The new service is designed for venture capital (VC), private equity, and merger and acquisition (M&A) analysts interested in IDC’s business and technology assessment of smaller private IT vendors playing in hot and emerging markets.

The PVWS is an important new offering in the technology research market, addressing major gaps in small vendor analysis. The service centers around company profiles supplemented by deep market assessments. The profiles, written by IDC analysts in the relevant market areas, address corporate strategies, funding activity, technology and market analysis, factors for success, and business enablers.

The PVWS profiles and market assessments are highly complimentary to the due diligence work performed by VCs and private equity organizations when evaluating private companies in the IT space. Additionally, larger organizations reviewing potential technology-related M&A candidates will benefit from the service. IT strategy planners managing technology portfolios for Fortune 2000 companies will also be able to use the PVWS to review emerging technologies that can round out or enhance their vendor portfolios.

Originally posted on April 22, 2008 @ 11:45 pm

Etelos, Inc. announced its new technology that enables true data ubiquity and application portability beyond simple online and offline synchronization. Any browser-based application from the Etelos Marketplace enabled with these new technologies can exchange data swiftly and securely with any other AOP-enabled application, bringing collaboration in the workplace to new heights.

Etelos has filed multiple patent applications for technology that enables browser-based applications to function offline, reconcile changes made while offline, and synchronize data with any other AOP-enabled application when returning to the cloud. In addition, Etelos AOP Beta is now available to users and developers.

Regardless of the availability of an Internet connection, this technology manages the potential conflicts between multiple users and their edits and allows for interaction between different applications.

These patents are the basis of the technology behind the Etelos ecosystem, which includes the Etelos Application Server, Version 6. The system for running a Web-based application offline is encompassed in Apps on a Plane, which enables any Web-based application distributed through the Etelos Marketplace to function offline, online and anytime. Etelos App Sync manages applications when synchronizing.

Originally posted on April 21, 2008 @ 6:44 am

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is marking 2008 as its 10th year as a business. Born out of an academic research project at MIT, Akamai’s early focus on providing services to allow Web sites to handle ever-larger audiences set in motion an Internet revolution. Akamai’s proprietary technology, based on years of software development, ensured that a Web site could always deliver the intended end-user experience quickly and reliably irrespective of audience size or location. The result was an unparalleled solution for providing guaranteed business performance on the Internet.

Since its start in 1998, Akamai has grown from a research “big idea” into one of the world’s most successful technology companies, with 2007 revenue of more than $630 million, consistent profitability, and inclusion in the S&P 500 since last year. With more than 1,300 employees in locations around the globe, Akamai is committed to innovation in technology and service.

Today, Akamai serves:

* hundreds of billions of daily Internet requests
* an average of 20 percent of total daily Web traffic
* 75 of the top 100 U.S. online retail companies
* nine of the top ten global auto makers
* the leading media companies around the world
* seven of the top ten social media networks
* the top five anti-virus companies
* e-commerce sites that are generating a total of over $65 billion dollars in annual revenue
* thousands of mission-critical business applications for enterprises and SaaS providers that have users located in nearly 150 countries

Originally posted on April 7, 2008 @ 6:46 pm

Translations.com has merged with Alchemy Software Development. Translations.com, headquartered in New York with 50 offices worldwide, is into software localization and Globalization Management System (GMS) technology solutions. Alchemy, based in Dublin with offices in the US and Germany, is a provider of visual localization technology. Alchemy’s flagship technology product, Alchemy CATALYST, has over 20,000 licenses worldwide and is used by 80% of the world’s largest software development companies. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Alchemy will be run as a division of Translations.com and will continue to be led by its current President and CEO, Tony O’Dowd. O’Dowd co-founded Alchemy with Director of Engineering, Enda McDonnell. McDonnell will also continue in his current capacity. Both O’Dowd and McDonnell will join Translations.com’s senior management team. There will be no layoffs or staff reductions at either firm as a result of the merger.

Originally posted on March 6, 2008 @ 4:35 am