A Web service can help you catch a bus. Or test an electronic circuit from a dorm room. Or even take English writing tests in a new way. These creative uses of Web services--a method for connecting ...

PRIOR TO TAKING on the role of CTO at Systinet, Anne Thomas Manes was the peer-to-peer evangelist for Sun Microsystems, where she championed the adoption of SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) ...

It’s one thing to create a business mantra and quite another to live by it. What’s even rarer is for that mantra to inspire the development of an IT system that improves a company’s sales distribution ...

Apple has posted two separate documents that may be of interest to Internet developers. One focuses on JavaScript in Mac Web browsers, and the other examines Web ...

The AARP is dedicated to making life better for people 50 and older, offering its 35 million members discounts on insurance, travel and more. Likewise, IT executives are dedicated to providing an ...

It’s not hard to find companies that have dipped their toes into the water to explore how Web services might help address some of their nagging integration problems. But few have launched major ...

These creative uses of Web services–a method for connecting software systems over the Internet–at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology stand in stark contrast to the more mundane, workaday uses ...