Cognos, an IBM company and the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, announced that IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence software is now available, for the first time, for Linux on System z.

Workers across an organization can use information to quickly identify and respond to critical business trends with this. Highly targeted information delivery and analysis capabilities let knowledge workers, ranging from front-line managers to executives, receive strategic business information where, when and how they need it to make better business decisions.

Adobe Systems Inc. is teaming up with search industry leaders to dramatically improve search results of dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications (RIAs). Adobe is providing optimized Adobe Flash Player technology to Google and Yahoo! to enhance search engine indexing of the Flash file format (SWF) and uncover information that is currently undiscoverable by search engines.

This will provide more relevant automatic search rankings of the millions of RIAs and other dynamic content that run in Adobe Flash Player. Moving forward, RIA developers and rich Web content producers won't need to amend existing and future content to make it searchable; they can now be confident it can be found by users around the globe.

Zenith Software Limited announces partnership with Norway based company .Bangalore based Zenith Software Limited (ZSL),an IT and ITES service provider, has announced its plans to foray into the Scandinavian market through a partnership with Norway based Software Offshoring Consulting (SOC). SOC is part of the Norwegian Data-Invest Group who have been providing progressive and market oriented solutions and services to clients in the Nordic region. This partnership will expand ZSL's footprint in the European market which has been growing rapidly. The European operations of ZSL are expected to contribute about 40% of the revenues in the next fiscal.

ZSL, part of the Zenith Group (pioneers in the IT industry for over 30 years with a Group turnover of $120 M ), provides IT/ ITES services across various domains with major focus on insurance, travel, retail and financial services with global offices in US,UK and Australia.

According to Infonetics Research, the WLAN infrastructure market,which includes independent and dependent access points and WLAN switches and controllers, sequentially increased in revenue but decreased in units shipped in 1Q08,evidence that higher-priced 802.11n products are now shipping in increasing volume.

The 802.11n products are said to be on the rise, as per Infonetics Research, in the WLAN infrastructure market.

Bungee Labs announced built-in support for Mozilla Firefox 3.0 within the Bungee Connect platform-as-a-service (PaaS).Bungee Connect completely eliminates the complexity, time and cost of browser-specific programming from the lifecycle of creating and delivering business-grade web applications.

All applications built on the Bungee platform are inherently accessible from the most popular browsers (Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari).

Research and Markets has announced the addition
of Frost & Sullivan's new report "European Open Source Telephony Market" to their offering.Open source telephony is gradually gaining traction in Europe
due its cost advantages over IP PBX, proprietary call centre products and those supporting proprietary technology.

Frost & Sullivan's analysis shows that the cost of an open source telephony 'line' can be up to 40 per cent less than an averagely priced IP PBX/Communication Manager.