An MIT-Microsoft research project called iCampus aims to show that Web services can help realize the promise of the Web browser: broad access to information. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

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) ...

This eternal struggle between innovation and pragmatism is rapidly coming to the fore as software companies follow a well-worn path by hyping Web services into the stratosphere. This year, anybody who ...

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 ...