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BT to block rogue diallers
News The percentage of Internet-related complaints about premium-rate services has risen from 43 percent in 2002 to 70 percent in 2003, as a proportion of customers making complaints about high telephone bills, according to the industry's regulator...
[June 29, 2004, 13:30]
Company to release accessible Linux software
News The software lets people connect to online services -- some of which Eazel will charge for -- such as online storage space or computer system updates. Other services could in Nautilus could, for example, send an image to a company that will make a...
[March 13, 2001, 11:37]
Microsoft unveils 'Live Mesh' strategy
News In an internal staff memo sent out on Wednesday, Microsoft's chief software architect, Ray Ozzie, detailed the company's vision for Live Mesh, a set of services and platforms that enables PCs and other devices to connect to each other through the...
[April 23, 2008, 8:13]
Oracle returns fire after Gartner report
News The Gartner report is available free on its Web site but Oracle said the consultancy pushes its other services in the study. Oracle also said in the article that Gartner released a marketing piece "disguised as research" to promote other Gartner...
[August 29, 2001, 8:10]
Passport hits industry barriers
News Passport authentication was built into Microsoft Web services such as its Hotmail email service and The Zone gaming site, and the company unveiled plans to resell Passport services to other sites as part of a broad consumer Web services strategy.
[March 23, 2004, 11:45]
Indigo Community Technology Preview released
News The goal of Indigo is to simplify the process of building distributed applications, where software components communicate across a network using Web services protocols. The software will use a number of the more recent Web services protocols...
[March 16, 2005, 17:05]
Indigo: The colour of Passport security?
News Microsoft is developing new middleware designed to allow developers to build secure Web services to run across globally distributed networks. Indigo will be the crux of the what has been called Microsoft's 'Web services 2' strategy, said developers...
[October 23, 2001, 11:41]
Hackers claim to use iTunes for music sharing
News The rise of the new services threatens to put Apple's software squarely in the centre of a controversy that the company had hoped to avoid with the release of its new iTunes online music store. Nevertheless, the new services say that they offer a...
[May 13, 2003, 8:10]
VeriSign poised to win Net ID struggle
News Known as e-wallets, such services allow consumers to store their personal data in one place, eliminating the need to re-enter credit card numbers, shipping address and other information as they travel from one Web site to another.
[September 28, 2001, 9:28]
Oracle releases data-gathering tool
News Oracle in January introduced Customer Data Hub, integration software sold as a stand-alone product that uses XML (Extensible Markup Language)-based protocols called Web services to centralise information about customers.
[May 17, 2004, 11:45]
Corel to unveil WordPerfect Lightning beta
News WordPerfect Lightning beta, a free, downloadable word-processing and note-taking software application, aims to provide a new distribution and online services model for Corel WordPerfect Office. Corel plans on Tuesday to formally unveil a public...
[February 27, 2007, 7:47]
Borland Janeva embraces Web services
News Earlier this year, Borland licensed Microsoft's .Net Framework, the software "plumbing" that simplifies the building of applications that adhere to Web services standards. Web services-based applications use the Extensible Markup Language (XML) and...
[May 6, 2003, 10:50]
When hacking competitions go wrong
News By taking this step, we achieve a real-time environment with a system that has many services running, just like many other Web servers. And you have to ask yourself who will have a Web server running with this small amount of services activated?
[May 31, 2002, 17:08]
Hotmail sets email limits
News Other Web-based mail services, including Yahoo! The company, which has nearly 120 million email customers through its Hotmail and MSN Internet services, has bolstered internal tactics to thwart spam in recent months above and beyond employing third...
[March 24, 2003, 11:58]
Software makers go portal crazy
News Oracle's Portlet Framework will provide single sign-on to any LDAP directory, as well as access to Web services like discussion groups, calendaring, searches and the like. Megaservices are software components that offer services to users, like...
[September 28, 1999, 11:06]
BT opens Ribbit platform to developers
News BT's Ribbit released its long-awaited web-telephony platform on Monday to developers, which BT hopes will help spur innovation for new products and services in the telephony market. Our vision from the start was 'programmable telephony' — a...
[November 19, 2008, 14:18]
AOL investment fuels feud with Microsoft
News Both companies have been marketing their services to Web partners with mixed success. Such services are seen as a powerful way to develop long-term relationships with consumers. According to a source within AOL, Monday's deal was aimed at boosting...
[July 26, 2001, 10:09]
PalmSource rewrites its OS for business
News PalmSource has licensed IBM's Web Services Toolkit for Mobile Devices so that Palm devices can take advantage of a suite of emerging Internet communications standards. Perhaps the most complex thing we're trying to do is support this emerging field...
[June 19, 2003, 7:43]
Microsoft expo to unveil new devices
News Microsoft will also present a test version of a collection of Web-based services on mobile devices. Microsoft will also present developers with a test version of a .Net extension -- otherwise recognised as a collection of Web services -- for mobile...
[April 17, 2002, 8:40]
Microsoft targets swept-up browser at broadband users
News MSN group product manager Lisa Gurry said MSN Premium will target experienced Web users who want many software services integrated into one product, in contrast to AOL's focus on Internet newbies. AOL and MSN have both responded to these declines...
[August 27, 2003, 11:54]
