Ephraim Schwartz

Version 2 of the Voice XML markup language is all but signed and sealed, but not quite delivered due to a snag in nailing down IP (intellectual property) rights.

While Covisint LLC is still in the midst of deploying all of its online business-to-business marketplace functionality, online procurement via its quote manager for electronic RFQs appears to be gaining traction in the industry, to the tune of US$96 billion for General Motors Corp. and its suppliers.

The results of a study on the brain's ability to process two cognitive tasks simultaneously appears to prove that hands-free use of cell phones while driving impairs a driver's ability to perform at 100 per cent.

Oracle Corp. acknowledged Friday that it has received the latest volley in a war of words and deeds that is heating up between the database and applications vendor and a large segment of its customer base.

As the value of public exchanges and semi-private exchanges such as the Covisint LLC consortia are increasingly called into question, a third type of closed-loop, private exchange appears to be gaining some traction.

Despite the recent disintegration of premier speech technology company, Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products NV (L&H), the technology that it helped pioneer continues to move forward off the desktop PC

If there were an award for the most important technological concept of the past 20 years, to my mind there would be no question of the winning conception: no other technology comes close to middleware.

Don't talk to me while I'm in the shower. What has that got to do with wireless? Bucketsful.