Time to step down from the soap box now. Now that's a hack with style that had us laughing down the aisles (of Waitrose). Not that we condone hacking of course. Or dodgy rhymes, come to that. Then came Oxfam, which was also hacked on Tuesday, when...
But in terms of practical utility I think the Microsoft system, based on a SOAP and UDDI stack, is clearly going to kick ass. The core of the project is based on Framework 2.0, which specifies how businesses should implement XML and the SOAP...
The Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (Oasis) is to use SOAP as the message level protocol for its ebXML B2B standards, which are aimed at simplifying and standardizing commercial transactions over the web.
And with these modules there is a need for clearly defined interfaces, as offered by existing object technologies. The most prominent include Microsoft's COM (component object model), Sun's Java and Corba (common object request broker architecture...
It's strange, like I am an actor in a soap opera who plays himself. Once every six months or so Larry Ellison grants an interview with a UK broadsheet, passing judgement on anything and everything - some of it even IT-related.
Endemol UK has teamed up with premium messaging provider Opera Telecom to release the first soap opera to be played out over mobile phones, using MMS picture messaging. Due to launch later this month, FanTESStic charts the highs and lows of Tess, a...