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 ...

Emphasizing SOA, the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) on Monday is publishing draft documents on Web services and security, and seeks public feedback. SOA architects have been ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BALTIMORE — IBM, Microsoft Corp. and other vendors that have been pounding the Web services drum for more than two years claim that more and more of their customers are building Web services. But the ...