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Hydra Demo Available: See and try out our demo of the Hydra Middleware. This demo runs an application that newtworks and controls a number of more or less intelligent devices.

IPSO good news for Hydra: The recently established industry alliance IPSO (IP for Smart Objects), is well inline with objectives and developments in the Hydra project. See IPSO press release.

Hydra 2nd Newsletter available: Read about the current developments in the Hydra project in the latest Newsletter.

Hydra organises 1st “Internet of Things & Services” research workshop: The 1st international Internet of Things & Services research workshop at TrustAmI, organised by the Hydra consortium, is one out of three workshops related to security issues in ambient intelligence environments featured by the Smart Event’08 (September 16-19, 2008, Sophia Antipolis). The workshop is designed for the exchange of insight between leading researchers and experts in the whole area of Semantic Interoperability, Ambient Intelligence, Sensor Networking, and generally the Internet of People, Things and Services. For detailed program information click here. Registration for the workshop click here. Read full press release.

Price winning VNS manual: SurfinBird from our customer Intertex has been selected as the best IP-telephony product by the magazine Mikrodatorn. One of the winning points is the easy to use and personalised online documentation, which is driven by VNS.

Digital Artwork Distribution & Control: Ad Center is a major Scandinavian center for digital artwork control and distribution to newspapers and magazines. CNet has been selected as the main contractor in development of a new production system, partly based on CNet's product AdeTransact. The project is CNet's second within the advertising materials management area in a short time and shows an increased interest in CNet's products and know-how of the advertising business work flow, from bookings to production.

Advertising Materials Management: CNet has been awarded a project by Swedish media house VLT AB that aims to develop a complete advertising materials management system handling all external communication with advertisers, repro houses and agencies about artwork files. The system includes functionality for recieving ad files, pre-flight control, confirmation, reminders etc and is integrated with back-end ad booking systems via IfraAdConnexion messages.

New release of AdsML: AdsML Framework 2.0, release 7 was roled out June 1st. AdsML is the international data-exchange standard for managing the electronic transfer of information in the advertising industry. Ulf Wingstedt from CNet is a technical expert participating in the specification and development of AdsML standards. Read more at adsml.org.

New editorial interface in NewsToBuy: A new editor's module of NewsToBuy has been release. It has been much improved and is easier and faster to use.

AdeTransact connects ad buyers and sellers: Based on the established XML server Visual Net Server, CNet is now launching a new e-commerce product, AdeTransact. AdeTransact allows buyers and sellers of advertising space to engage in completely electronic workflows for bookings, materials and more. Advertising e-commerce is all about replacing manual and error prone business processes with efficient electronic transactions, connecting trading partners' business systems. AdeTransact has been developed in close cooperation with customers and pilot systems are already running in the UK and Sweden.

CNet builds historic portal: CNet has been selected to build a portal for the old IT research institute SISU (Swedish Institute for Systems Development). Research reports and other material will be scanned and digitised and made available in an interactive web portal designed by NewsToBuy.

VNS automates page production: Swedish media house VLT with production of custom pages for a long list of Swedish newspapers has selected CNet and Visual Net Server for their next phase in developing a system for automatic production of custom designed pages for TV and cable schedules. The project includes developement of new functionality as well as support of running production and will allow VLT to produce more pages with further customization within existing resource frames.

EU-Domain gets green light: Our European R&D project EU-Domain was reviewed by a panel of independent experts in Budapest. In this project we are developing a new platform for mobile ambient intelligence applications. The expert panel found the project innovative and performing well and gave the project a green light to continue.

AdeTransact at IfraExpo: We wish to thank all our visitors at the IfraExpo in Amsterdam for making the show a big success!

CNet investigates eGovernment research: Vinnova (The Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems) has selected CNet to investigate european research on eGovernment. The study will propose a new way of coordinating eGovernment research across Europe.

eGovernet accepted: Our proposal for coordination of European research on eGoverment has now been approved by the commission. The project, eGovernet, will start from January 2006 and is led by Vinnova.

New UK partner: CNet has signed an agreement with CyberUK as distributor of CNet's products in the UK and Ireland. CyberUK is at the forefront of advances in electronic commerce in advertising in the UK and is a founder member of the AdsML Consortium. Cyber UK is responsible for the AdeTransact pilot installations running in the UK currently.

Visual Net serves the content industries with XML: Today, CNet Sweden launched Visual Net Server, an XML-server for web portals. Visual Net Server functions as a core component in XML-based portals and provides complete support for XML and related standards, parallell publishing to different media, personalisation, caching and security.

Norwegian hacker attack: Yesterday one of CNets customer sites was subjected to a Norwegian hacker attack. Thousands of database calls where generated in parallell from multiple computers over the net. The site stood tall despite the attack, while the offending sites where tracked.

CNet reviews EU: Peter Rosengren, CEO of CNet, has been appointed as technical advisor and reviewer of one of the European Union's largest project in the field of Knowledge Management, ECOLNET.

First complete XML news site: 25timmar, leading Swedish news agency will feed all their client sites with the help of Visual Net Server from CNet. "CNets solution allows us to grab new market shares, says Micke Jaresand, of 25timmar.We're now able to manage more customers, offering them tailored content and at the same time providing faster delivery".

New retail portal: Dagens Handel is now based on Visual Net Server platform. The portal is bringing news, interviews och columns to their members. The portal is covering retailing in general and more spefically e-business.

Rumours from Visual Net: A new Visual Net-portal has been launched. It is the Swedish version of the entertainment portal EOnline! that has been developed using Visual Nets XML technology. The portal publishes the latest news and gossips in the entertainment world.

Vision premier in new media: The Visual Net portal Vision was elected "Magazine of the year" at this years media nominations. "As the leading news provider to media and to the new economy, they set the stage for how the magazine business will be required to work within 6,12 or 24 months" was the jurys motivation.

Media coverage with XML: Version 2 of Visual Net Server has been released. It provides developers with an XML content delivery and transformation system for publishing and content commerce applications. Visual Net Server has been designed to meet the demands of professional publishers. It provides complete support for XML and related standards, parallel publishing to different media, personalisation, caching and security.

Visual Net brings XML to media: Version 2 of Visual Net Server has been released. It provides developers with an XML content delivery and transformation system for publishing and content commerce applications. Visual Net Server has been designed to meet the demands of professional publishers. It provides complete support for XML and related standards, parallel publishing to different media, personalisation, caching and security.

Leading media agency chooses Visual Net: The largest media agency in Sweden chooses Visual Net Server as the platform for their competitive intelligence system. With a simple keystroke analysts are able to import statistics from external sources to their internal analysis system.

CNet is expanding: Mattias Axling has been employed at CNet. He will strengthen our competence on SOAP and other XML-technologies. Prior to CNet he was a researcher at the swedish IT research institute Framkom leading several projects on object-oriented development and electronic payment systems.

News will increase Yellow Pages traffic: Visual Net Server is now delivering news to the Yellow Pages web site. It is done from the news agency 25timmar. This is part of the Yellow Pages strategy to increase the traffic to the site.

Justab joins as a CNet Partner: The system integration consultant Justab has joined CNet's partner program. They will offer XML solutions based on Visual Net Server to their clients in the highly expansive region Öresund.

VNS runs fastest XSL processor: A performance test carried out by XML.com shows that Microsoft's XSL-T processor is the fastest one available on the market. Visual Net Server uses this XSL-T processor as it's platform for XSL processing.

Ericsson chooses Visual Net: Ericsson Radio Systems have selected Visual Net to develop a large scale documentation system. The new application will enable them to offer a more user-friendly and customer adapted documentation.

Customised handbooks with Visual Net: Intertex, the leading modem supplier in Sweden, is using Visual Net to produce their end-user manuals for their new product line of modems. The handbooks are dynamically assembled depending on the configuration of a particular modem and published to the web. The result is lower production cost and more user-friendly handbooks.

Visual Net Server Release 3.0: Version 3.0 is now available for immediate delivery. The new version features functions for converting Word documents to XML. The graphical media component administrator has been improved and several new application templates have been added.

Wireless publishing with Visual Net: Svenska Dagbladet, a leading Swedish newspaper, have selected Visual Net Server to publish news and stock quotes to parallel media including web, mobile Internet and SMS.

TV4 selects Visual Net for cross-media publishing: TV4, the largest private TV channel in Sweden, have chosen Visual Net Server as their platform for cross-media publishing. News, sport results and recipes are published to a wide range of media and formats using Visual Net.

CNet reviews EU: Peter Rosengren, CEO of CNet, has been appointed as reviewer and technical advisor for one of EU:s largest R&D projects in the field of collaboration and knowledge management. The project, LENSIS (Leveraging non-profit organisations toward the information society) aims at developing software tools to support non-profit organisations.

TT chooses Visual Net Server: Sweden's largest news agency, TT, have chosen Visual Net Server as development platform for their next generation of XML-based news services. The first service will be based on the new standard NewsML.

Sport results on the Net: TV4 is now launching a new web service – Sporten i siffror – which uses Visual Net Server. It is a unique service in Sweden. New sport results are presented directly on the web as soon as it happens.

Largest news site switches to VNS: TV4.se, the largest news site in Sweden (1 000 000 unique visitors/month) is now switching to Visual Net Server. The reason is the excellent performance shown by VNS during high traffic load.

Visual Net Server on Teletext: VNS is now delivering sport results for the Teletext format, see TV4 page 341-352. More and more customers are discovering the flexibility of VNS for cross-media publishing to different formats.

VNS 4.0 speeds development of XML applications: Today, CNet Sweden launched Visual Net Server 4.0, an application server and integrated development environment for XML publishing and syndication applications. With Visual Net Server 4.0 developers can deliver large-scale, highly interactive and content-rich, cross-media publishing applications at a low cost.

Success at Internet World: We were exhibiting at this year's Internet World in Stockholm. To CNet it was a successful event with many visitors in our booth. There we were showing the latest version of Visual Net Server and launched NewsToBuy and Zino Pro.

CNet wins large EU contract for e-learning: The European Commission is now launching a large R&D project to develop the next generation IT-systems to support e-learning in primary and secondary schools in Europe. Visual Net Server from CNet has been chosen as the technical platform.

NewsToBuy offers XML content publishing for rent: Today CNet launched NewsToBuy, an easy-to-use ASP service offering small and medium sized publishers all editorial tools and cross media publishing functions needed to run a professional publishing business.

Mana Communication selects NewsToBuy: Mana Communication a leading supplier of medical and health care news have chosen NewsToBuy as their technical platform to deliver and syndicate news feeds to their customers. They deliver in a variety of formats, including web and FTP transfers.

FAR Publishing selects VNS: FAR Förlag, a specialist publisher focused on tax, business law and accounting have selected Visual Net Server as their platform for cross media production of trade books and e-media.

Pharma Industry selects NewsToBuy: Pharma Industry, the trade magazine for professionals in the medical, pharmaceutical and bio technical industry has chosen NewsToBuy to manage and publish their web portal.

NewsToBuy trials available: It is now possible to try out the features of NewsToBuy, our powertool for small publishers. Visit the NewsToBuy web site and sign up for a free trial subscription.

VNS Supports SOAP: The new 4.3 release of VNS supports SOAP (Structured Object Access Protocol). This gives developers exciting opportunities to incorpate and use external web services from VNS.

Validate with XML Schema: We are now introducing support in VNS for validating incoming documents and all other types of data sources using the latest version of the W3C standard XML Schema.

CNet Exhibits: CNet will participate at the exhibition Information Management&Business Software in Sollentuna, 15-16 May. Visit our stand 2A:30! We will be showing both Visual Net Server and NewsToBuy plus examples of applications built with our tools.

Ericsson selects VNS: Ericsson, Finland, has selected Visual Net Server as a platform for producing and delivering advanced technical documentation systems. The new application will enable them to offer a more user-friendly and customer adapted documentation.

CNet develops European standard for ad orders: Ulf Wingstedt, CNet, has been appointed as project coordinator to assist Ifra , the world's leading association for media publishing, in carrying out tests of Ifra AdConnexion, a new european XML-standard for improving the ad order booking process.

Searchable news archive based on VNS: TT, the largest news agency in Sweden, now offers their customers to search the news archive. The new service has been developed with VNS. The database is filled with news from 1990 and are open to TT:s customers.

VNS 4.3 provides support for SOAP and XML Schemas: Today, CNet launched Visual Net Server 4.3. The new version supports SOAP, XML Schema and is fully integrated with existing scripting languages. It provides XML developers with a complete framework for building their XML applications.

NewsToBuy gets updated: NewsToBuy, our ASP-based publishing service for small and medium sized publishers, has been re-designed with a new editorial interface. NewsToBuy allows you to run a professional web portal entirely over the Internet, without having to buy and install any software. Demo subscriptions are available.

Meta data for construction: CNet is developing a prototype of a web-based meta data central for the swedish construction industry. The meta data central will allow reference documents, handbooks, norms, product data, project information and other types of documents to be registered and published together with meta data encoded in XML.

Metis gets green light: The Metis project was reviewed by a panel of independent experts in Luxembourg. This is a normal procedure in all CEC projects. The expert panel found Metis an innovative project that is performing very well and gave it a green light to continue.

New web site for VNS: VNS gets its own web site, http://www.visualnetserver.com . The site contains news, demos, tutorials, white papers and other technical background information, downloads and all reference documentation for Visual Net Server. A free download version is also available.

Termado publishes multi-lingual term catalogues: Today, CNet launched Termado 1.0, a complete tool for management and publishing of term catalogues, lexicons and dictionaries. Using the latest XML technology Termado can publish term catalogues to different media but also export term data to external applications.

TNC selects Termado: The Swedish Center for Terminology, TNC, has selected Termado as their platform for developing and publishing of term catalogues for different subject fields. The first application is within life sciences such as biotechnology and genetics.

Termado gets new web site: To meet the interest in our new product Termado we have created a new web site . The site contains news, tutorials, white papers and other technical background information, downloads and all reference documentation for Termado.

NewsToBuy goes to Italy: We have recently signed an agreement with Alterego concerning sales of our publishing service NewsToBuy in Italy. Alterego is CNet's italian representative and will offer NewsToBuy to local newspapers and news agencies.

VNS Online support available: We have improved our developer support organisation and now developers can query our support department directly from the web. Feedback and suggestions for improvements of VNS can also be submitted from the Visual Net Server web site.

NewsToBuy gets new web site: Our publishing service, NewsToBuy, gets a new web site . The site contains news, tutorials, white papers and other technical background information. There you can also sign up to get a free trial version.

Metis at Frankfurt Book Fair: The Metis project will participate at the Frankfurt book, 9-14 october, where the Metis consortia will present the project and its ideas to the publice.

Evaluation of Termado Publishing Engine: Termado Publishing Engine is now available for downloading. It allows you to publish a term catalogue produced with Termado Administrator to the web. Click here to download.

Search legislations with VNS: In order to streamline parallell publishing processes and improving customer content services, the publisher Liber has launched an Internet service for their Legislations handbook. The service is targeted to health care workers. Using Visual Net Server, collections of Word documents are translated into an XML-based on-line archive connected to a web portal accessed by customers.

New release of adConnexion: IFRA have released a new version of the standard adConnexion for transfer and exchange of ad information over the Internet. CNet has carried out the technical work behind the new release. During the next year the workgroup will focus on further automation of the ad booking process.

New release of VNS: Version 4.5 of Visual Net Server has been launched. The new features include improved support for Web Services, XML processing and conversion of text formats such as classified ads and article texts, support for international character sets, easier management of Word documents and much more.

A new publishing system: We have developed a new and very flexible publishing system for our NewsToBuy publishing service. The system is designed around re-usable information components that can be easily combined to interactive publications. Now, you can also sign-up for a free trial subscription.

Intertex awarded Product of the Year: We congratulate our customer Intertex for the award "Product of the Year" from the magazine Internet Telephony. Intertex's product IX66 Internet Gate is the only broadband router that fully supports the SIP protocol (Session Initiation Protocol) for IP-telephony over the Internet. Intertex uses Visual Net Server to deliver customised on-line manuals for IX66 and other models.

Swedish Rental selects NewsToBuy: Swedish Rental, a trade organisation for rental companies in the construction sector, has selected NewsToBuy as their publishing platform to run their trade portal.

XML Seminars: XML Forum, a swedish organisation for XML, starts a series of seminars focusing on new XML technologies. The first seminar will take place the 5:th of Mars and Peter Rosengren, CNet, will give a presentation on XQuery. CNet is one of the original founders of XML-Forum.

Succesful conference: CNet was participating in the yearly FTI conference. FTI is a trade organisation for translators, technical writers and documentation specialists. We were showing Termado and how it can make the documentation and translation process more efficient.

Metis gets green light: Our European R&D project Metis was reviewed by a panel of independent experts in Barcelona. In this project we are developing new tools for teamwork and document exchange in schools. The expert panel gave the project a green light to continue.

Lensis project finished: The European research project Lensis had its final review in Milano. The project has been run by a European consortium which has developed the next generation IT-support for collaboration and knowledge management in NPO:s (Non Profit Organisations). Peter Rosengren, CNet, has been one of the reviewers/technical advisors of the project which now enters into a commercialisation phase.

CNet evaluates Semantic Web: Peter Rosengren, CNet, has been appointed as an independent technical experts to evaluate project proposals to the European Commission under the sixth framework in the area of “Semantic Knowledge-based Systems".

NewsToBuy for construction: The Swedish Terminology Group has chosen NewsToBuy as publishing platform for their trade portal. The Terminology Group publishes the largest Swedish database over terms used in the construction sector. In the portal news and articles on terminology issues are also published together with links to dictionaries and other terminological resources on the Internet.

New release of Visual Net Server: Version 4.6 of our development platform VNS has been released. Among the new features are improved performance and several new options for creating web services, support for Windows 2003 Server.

Swedish Building Center selects VNS and NewsToBuy: Swedish Building Center, the leading information supplier to the swedish construction industry, has selected VNS and NewsToBuy to implement their new publishing process. Svensk Byggtjänst offers information services to all parts of the construction process from planning to construction and maintenace. Our well-designed support for XML and related standards in the construction industry were the main reasons for selecting our products. The selection was done in competition with all major suppliers of content management systems.

VLT selects VNS: Vestmanlands Läns Tidning (VLT) produces newspaper pages for many different swedish newspapers, typically TV-and radio guides or financial pages. To create a customer-oriented and flexible product VLT has now chosen Visual Net Server as a platform to create their customer pages. A system was implement during the summer and allows VLT to automatically convert XML, Word and text data which is delivered from TV stations et c into ready-made Quark Xpress pages. The production is done using a standardised XML-format, VLTML, which has been designed by CNet.

CNet evaluates Cross-Media: Peter Rosengren, CNet, has been appointed as an independent technical experts to evaluate project proposals to the European Commission under the sixth framework in the area of “Cross-Media Content for Leisure and Entertainment".

New release of NewsToBuy: Version 3.0 of our publishing system NewsToBuy has been released. This version has better support for developers with possibilities to program extensions.

IFRA selects CNet: IFRA, the world's leading association for newspaper and media publishing, has appointed Ulf Wingstedt, CNet, as technical expert to specify and design new XML-based standards for advertising (AdConnexion and AdsML) to improve the working processes of the advertising industry.

CNet standardises advertising: CNet has joined the AdsML consortium. AdsML is an initiative supported by Ifra, an international association for media publishing, and the Newspaper Association of America (NAA), in order to create the first comprehensive, global standard for end-to-end advertising workflow.

CNet selects CIO: We have chosen the trade magazine CIO for this years advertising campaign. It is a well-known trade magazine focused directly on our customers.

CNet standardises terminology: CNet has joined the Swedish Standards Institute and we are ow actively working in the standards group for terminology and terminology management. har blivit medlem i standardiseringsinstitutet

Technology for Event Management: CNet is participating in the LIFE-project together with Interactive Institute and the Arvika Festival. The festival is the second largest music festival in Sweden. The idea of the project is to study the learning and innovation processes of a festival and event organisation and to implement software prototypes to support the processes. The project will last for two years.

Metis has finished: Our e-learning project, Metis, has now finished after a final review in Luxemburg. The reviewers were very positive and approved the project. We are now starting the exploitation phase of the project results, which is a set of software for learning and collaboration among schools in Europe.

FLT launches new web site: FLT Media launches a new site for job advertising . The web site has been developed using Visual Net Server.

Sweden Building Center launches new web site: Sweden Building Center is now launching their new web site . The site is the first of a series of new information services that Sweden Building Center is developing with Visual Net Server and NewsToBuy. The web site has a new look and navigation structure and provides the customers with a set of personalised functions and services.

Building products with VNS: Byggkatalogen is a new service from Sweden Building Center. The service offers search facilities for building products on the swedish markets. Pictures, descriptions, measures and properties of products can easily be found and are updated as often as the suppliers want.

AdsML 2.0 is introduced: Today the AdsML consortium announced that version 2.0 will be launched in october. att version 2.0 av standarden kommer att lanseras i oktober. AdsML is the first international data-exchange standard for managing the electronic transfer of information in the advertising industry. Ulf Wingstedt from CNet is a technical expert participating in the specification and development of the AdsML standard.