Forty years on, Cobol is still growing. The latest money-saving idea is to put Cobol on Microsoft .Net Server.
Developers and vendors are being called to give feedback, following the release of a public working draft of a new Web services language by the World Wide Web Consortium.
Creating a popular new computing approach always seems to bring with it a familiar catch-22: security issues. And Web services is no exception.
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Linguistics professor Geoffrey Nunberg talks about how machines struggle to make sense of the way people write and speak, and how the Internet has people writing more now than ever before.
I get the feeling there will be a lot of tired tech buzzwords from fads gone by which will be wheeled out soon with the suffix "2.0" bolted on.
The Web 2.0 meme is percolating through all manner of media and has now reached as far as Bangladesh.
Amazon engineer DeWitt Clinton's ringing endorsement of Atom over RSS as the XML flavour of choice for syndicated feed content for discerning geeks made headlines yesterday, although the points he makes have been made before.
A recent thread of conversation across a couple of 2.0 blogs has been the subject of whether Web 2.0 is suited not only for implementation inside a corporate firewall, but by companies with a view to improving their relations with their customers.
This blog is supposed to be about the concept that is called Web 2.0, so I suppose I had better take a stab at defining it.
Forty years on, Cobol is still growing. The latest money-saving idea is to put Cobol on Microsoft .Net Server.
Developers and vendors are being called to give feedback, following the release of a public working draft of a new Web services language by the World Wide Web Consortium.
Is the recently released Business Process Execution Language for Web Services just the latest in a continuing line of proposals, or will it actually become a universal standard? Find out how BPEL4WS will affect Web services.
The Web's leading standards group has issued a trio of documents on the architecture of Web services and launched an unprecedented effort to standardise Web services lingo.
To take advantage of .NET's promise for increased speed and stability for Web development, you'll need to determine if your system is ready for .NET. Here is what is required to migrate current applications to the new platform.
XMLSpy 5 is an easy-to-use tool that simplifies the process of manipulating XML documents. This latest release also sports a graphical Web services interface for working with WSDL files.
Microsoft has changed the look and feel of its venerable browser while adding some much-needed security features.
Microsoft has changed the look and feel of its venerable browser, while adding some much-needed security features.
This much-anticipated update to Live Meeting faces stiff competition from WebEx and GoToMeeting.
Macromedia's Contribute 2.0 makes it easy for non-programmers to work on Web pages, but beware of sluggish performance and limited editing features.
Microsoft slams Google on privacy
Google's approach to privacy is a decade behind Microsoft, the Redmond software giant's chief privacy strategi… Watch it now
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Storage infrastructure on the tender track
Apple has killed the video store; will ISPs be next?
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