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TigerLogic unveils database management systems

The TigerLogic Corporation today revealed its next-generation multidimensional database management systems, D3 v9.0 and mvBase v3.0 plus a new development tool, the TigerLogic Dashboard to make visual displays of multi-value data via widgets. "The new interfaces we've made for the Java and .NET development environments enable D3 and mvBase developers to expose their existing software applications to the latest technologies for Web and Microsoft application development," coomented John Bramley, vice president of Product Development and Operations at TigerLogic. Features of D3 v9.0 and mvBase v3.0 includes: * Enhanced APIs to ease integration for both Java and .NET development environments * Ability for developers to expose and process multi-value data via open standards, including XML for multi-value data and Web Services caching utilizing TigerLogic's XML Data Management Server (TL XDMS) * Full failover recover solution for the D3 v9.0 Windows platform * Numerous customer requested enhancements "We are very excited about the release of D3 v9.0. The new features built into version 9.0 are allowing our developers to make the next-generation Dockmaster experience with .NET, which makes version 9.0 the platform of choice for future releases," said Cam Collins, president and CEO of Exuma Technologies. The new TigerLogic Dashboard for D3 AIX, D3 Linux and D3 Windows database management systems is a development tool to produce graphical reports of real-time business intelligence specifically for multi-value databases via dashboard widgets. Further released details specified that the TigerLogic Dashboard enables multi-value developers to select and present critical business data, that's distributed throughout the multi-value database environment, and present it in intuitive and Web-based graphical interfaces. "The new TigerLogic Dashboard is an brilliant application for the D3 environment that allows our customers to easily make impressive reports from finance to sales to inventory analysis," said Janet Cioffi-Kennedy, vice president of Sales at TigerLogic.

Google Gmail allows users to turn off threaded email

Google recently made known its advances to its very well loved email service, including a way to make phone calls through the service and a feature that can organize emails by their importance. Now, just for a change, Gmail is using an thought from its larger competitors in the market, Yahoo and Microsoft. When it launched in 2004, Gmail stood apart from competitors because of a feature that automatically threaded, or pooled together, related messages in order to make inboxes less cluttered. Most email users grew up with the traditional, unthreaded approach in which all messages were showed in chronological order. On Wednesday Google announced that over the next few days it will start giving users the option to have an unthreaded inbox, akin to Yahoo Mail or Microsoft’s Hotmail. Google said the go was intended for the growing number of employees who work for businesses that adopted Google’s broader suite of online business software, called Google Apps, which includes Gmail. Many of those businesses previously used Microsoft’s Outlook email system, which doesn’t thread email conversations. Dong Chen, a software engineer at Google, said in a blog post on Wednesday: “We really hoped everyone would learn to like conversation view, but we came to realize that it’s just not right for some people.” Brett Bullington, an advisor and investor in Web companies, said the change would help Google in its ambitious attempt to wean corporations off of Microsoft’s business software in favor of its own. Google says there are more than 200 million users of Gmail, and third-party numbers show it is growing quick worldwide. Research firm comScore says Gmail had 191 million unique visitors in August, up 22% from the same period last year. Hotmail had 364 million visitors in August, up 3% from last year, while Yahoo Mail had 280 million visitors, down 9% from last year. All of these services are direct competition for social networking service Facebook, which is growing rapidly and has its own email service, though it does not make its usage figures known.

UK ISPs dump up to 25% of marketing email

Marketing emails are increasingly being consigned to spam folders or just dropped without even being delivered to the target recipient, a study by consultancy firm Return Path has shown. In the first half of 2010, around 1 in 8 marketing emails - from bona fide companies rather than pumped out by spammers - never reached their intended recipients, the study says. The proportion of such emails that done get there is rising: in the second half of 2009, the figure was about 1 in 9 emails not arriving. The study by Return Path shows that Demon, the UK's oldest ISP, is the toughest for marketers to reach. This will of course have marketers crying into their Appletinis - but customers of the ISPs may be pleased. What's at issue is quite how desired such emails are. Many sites will sign you up to emails, or say that you haven't opted out, or buy email lists from elsewhere and act all surprised when you contact them to complain. And as there's no equivalent of the Telephone Preference List (which also works for mobiles) for email, having a public email can be a trial. Guy Shelton, vice-president for European Sales and Service at Return Path, said ISPs are just trying to do their jobs. "ISPs are battling extremely hard to protect their customers from the scourge of spam," he said. "Marketers have their work cut out to prevent themselves from becoming friendly fire casualties in ISPs' war on illegal unsolicited bulk email." Indeed, given that around 98% of email traffic is spam, it's not surprising if ISPs are dumping lots of similar-looking stuff heading for their customers. Still, they have it harder in France, where only 84.1% of those emails reach the recipient; in the UK it's 86.5%; and in Germany it's 87.0%, though Germany tends to regard them much more as spam. There's one glaring omission from Return Path's study, in our opinion: what are Google going to do about this? They have a quick growing share in this market. Perhaps we'll get a response some time soon.