Microsoft Sets Smart Card Rollout
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will be introducing the Microsoft Windows Smart Card Toolkit version 1.1 during its second smart card developers conference at the company's (stock: MSFT) headquarters in Redmond, Wash. About 400 smart card and chip manufacturers, analysts and ISVs are expected at the June 29 event. The event is taking place exactly one week after the planned rollout of Microsoft's Next Generation Windows Services, which was delayed by developments in the antitrust trial.
Many Couch Potatoes Are Online, Too
Some 44 million Americans currently watch TV and surf the Web simultaneously, according to a report released Thursday by Dataquest. Their ranks are expected to swell to 52 million by early 2001. These so-called "telewebbers" are prime candidates for the early adoption of a single device, either a TV or a PC, that offers interactive programming, the researcher found. This interactivity, however, cannot be intrusive or take away from the primary activity of watching TV. Dataquest, a San Jose, Calif., based unit of Gartner Group (stock: IT), conducted the study in February among 40,000 U.S. households.
Macromedia Ships New Product Duo
Macromedia (stock: MACR) this week shipped Dreamweaver UltraDev and Generator 2 Enterprise Edition. Generator 2 aims to help companies field fast, interactive, data-driven sites. Generator 2 Developer Edition is $999 per server and supports Windows, Solaris, and Red Hat Linux. Dreamweaver Ultradev lets developers design Web applications to run on Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) and Allaire Cold Fusion Markup Language (CFML) sites.
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