James Kobielus

It's sad to see our fondest e-business visions become stale jokes

it's exciting to follow industry initiatives that are attempting to define universal e-business directory interoperability frameworks and services.

We rely so heavily on e-mail that it's a bit of a shock to realize how insecure today's messaging systems are.

The Internet won

E-commerce will not mature until it becomes truly mobile -- available anywhere, amenable to our every whim and so easy to access that we barely think twice about it. And in fact, e-commerce is becoming increasingly portable, as convenient as the wireless terminals we stash in our briefcases, install in our automobile dashboards and embed in all manner of everyday appliances.

Who among us hasn

Every few years, a new computing language comes along to save the world. Not long ago the messiah was Java, a language that has grabbed some important niches but has not noticeably eroded Microsoft

Every few years a new computing language comes along to save the world. Not long ago the ...