AT&T, Cisco Systems and Procter & Gamble are among the latest companies to join a key Web services standards organization aimed at promoting the emerging technology. The Web Services Interoperability ...

About 50 companies have joined a new nonprofit organization led by Microsoft and IBM to promote Web services. As reported earlier by CNET News.com, Microsoft and IBM on Wednesday launched a new ...

At the RSA Conference in San Francisco, the group's Security Profile Working Group released the Security Scenarios Working Group Draft for public review. The 48-page document outlines common threats, ...

Web services may be the next big thing, but a group of users, analysts and even Web services vendors acknowledged last week at a roundtable on the issue that significant barriers to using the ...

IBM and Sun Microsystems on Tuesday continued their battle for Web services developers by releasing a batch of tools and new technologies. IBM said it will offer a new starter kit that will allow ...

Two new specifications related to message delivery for interoperable Web services applications were published Thursday, along with a white paper produced by IBM and Microsoft. IBM, Microsoft, BEA ...

Imagine a world with no Postal Service nor Federal Express. Whenever you wanted to send a document to someone, you’d have to find out how they accepted documents, find a trustworthy carrier to ...

The first word in SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is “simple,” but the world of Web services has become very complicated. In early 2000 the SOAP specification was published, and it was quickly ...