web services

When people moved from paper to digital files on a computer, it didn't take long to realize that you can get just as burdened by digital stuff as by hard copies. Before long, companies sprang up to sell utility programs to help you find and organize the stuff on your computer. We're going through a similar cycle right now, with many of us moving our digital assets to servers in the cloud, and finding that managing stuff scattered across a myriad of sites belonging to a myriad of companies can be terribly frustrating.

Just two days after Yahoo announced the layoff of 650 employees -- about 4 percent of its workforce -- another shoe appears to be dropping. And this one will land squarely on a number of web-based services that are familiar names to millions of Internet users.

Web services interoperability group formed by Microsoft, IBM, and Oracle says it is going out of business because it has concluded its charter to document best practices for Web services

One of the challenges that you face when you are selling web services is this: "how do you showcase your product to a potential customer". The solution: an engine that can dynamically render a user interface for any given web service on demand.

For SAP SOA design and development, it is important to understand the best practices for identifying the granularity and technical characteristics of the enterprise service. Here, we provide essential design principles and best practices for designing such enterprise services.

Over the past few years, Web-based voice mail services have been adding features that go beyond just storing your messages online. Most can automatically transcribe recorded messages. And some have evolved into virtual command centers to handle your calling needs, whether it's receiving calls, making them or forwarding them to other phones.

Turbocharge your workday with free downloads and Web services like Ecofont, MakeSomeTime, and Tinychat.

Save time on tasks involving your PC or mobile gear, with tools and services like CacheMyWork, Connectify, and Ninite.

There are several compelling reasons to employ AWS, even for those IT managers that haven't considered the cloud yet.

It was 30 years ago this week that the first electronic spreadsheet began shipping. Here are some things to put that event into context, along with a new service from Socialtext that is worth looking at.

Box.net used to be just an online file storage service, but lately it has become this Swiss Army Knife of integrated Web services that they call OpenBox. Here are just a few of the more interesting things that you can do with the service.