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These days everyone from publishers to freelancers wants an edge up on the competition. Thanks to STRATA, now even advertisers can get in on the action. STRATA, a media buying and selling software provider recently released a major update to its Enterprise Agency Management platform.

This week, Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc., one of the leading text imaging solution providers announced the availability of Fonts.com Web Fonts. Serving as Monotype’s cloud-based solution, Fonts.com provides thousands of high-quality fonts for web designers.

Create killer mobile sites and apps without the need for programming skills thanks to Netbiscuits' cloud-based, cross-platform development system.

Adobe wasn't the only one making news at the IBC Conference in Amsterdam last week. Microsoft also had a few good news items to share, including the upcoming IIS Media Services 4.

Want to know how a typeface will look before adding it to your site? Google's new Font Previewer gives you a visual as you tinker with the look and feel of a font, then sits out a block of code for some easy copy and paste action: 

Atlassian (news, site) bags a US$ 60 million investment to open up wider horizons for the Aussie rags-to-riches bug-busting and collaboration company.

Whether you are a small business or a development shop, Microsoft is providing more ways for you to create websites built on their technology and a number of web content management systems.

The tools for Microsoft web developers are getting better and better these days, we've seen that with the SharePoint 2010 tools for Visual Studio 2010. But Microsoft is now also coming out with a new web server to support all ASP.NET developers: IIS Express.

Microsoft (news, site) has sneaked out a new preview version of its upcoming Web browser to highlight its vision of the next-gen Internet.

Regardless of whether you're implementing a Web CMS, iterating a web application or building a new web platform from scratch your technical project environment is probably fairly chaotic — most are. Here are 8 management tips for balancing the oft dueling needs of forward progress and longer term software sanity.

Should you pay the same amount to store non-critical data as you do to store critical data? Amazon (news, site) today says no. The now books, now cloud computing company has introduced a new — and significantly less expensive — tier to their S3 cloud storage service. 

A lot has happened since 1998 when the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published its first standard for XML, the Extensible Markup Language. Soon after, they standardized a few more XML core operations like validation, query, transformation and linking.

This week, 12 years after its first standardization, the W3C announced a spec for managing XML-rich processes such as business processes used in enterprise environments.

According to a recent survey by Evans Data Corp, Microsoft .NET was voted the best overall framework by the developers who use it, beating out Google App Engine, Ruby on Rails and others.

Don’t you just dream of coding away on an iPad from your couch, while taking advantage of JSR-283 and CMIS standards support (leveraging Apache Chemistry) and the ability to develop, package and share your composite content applications?

If that’s the case, Day Software’s (news, site) latest release of CRX (Content Repository eXtreme), Day's commercial JCR repository/application platform, was made for you.

When the CEO of The Human Factor, Holly Green, asks her audience if best practices are their worst enemy, she says she always gets the same reaction: "They look at me like I'm nuts!" And so perhaps the title of this article brought you here to find out if CMSWire had finally fallen off its rocker. On the contrary, we're intrigued by the number of people that agree with Green's notion. 

Last year, Microsoft released a PHP Toolkit for ADO.Net Data Services enabling PHP applications to to connect and leverage the various services offered in ADO.Net Data Services. Now they offer the ability to add some business intelligence capabilities to those same applications, thanks to SQL Server 2008.

There's more than just a little bit of news coming out of Telerik (news, site) these days. The company has announced an expanded product line that includes testing tools and team productivity capabilities.

The movie Glengarry Glen Ross taught us Always Be Closing. In the world of web design, the mantra is Always Be Testing.

Yet, it’s not always clear how to go about testing your site or how to know what exactly you’re testing for. Fortunately, we’re here to provide the who, what and why of usability testing.

So it's April 12 and it is official — Microsoft has announced the availability of Visual Studio 2010 (news, site) and Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0. It's an exciting time for developers. But what if you are not a developer? Well, there's something there for you to be excited about too.

Google's added the OAuth standard to Gmail. Now available to developers through Google Code Labs, the move tightens up e-mail account security when a user authorizes a third-party developer to see their contacts list.