IBM Corp. and Microsoft Corp. today proposed an XML-based Web standard, the Web Services Inspection (WS-I) specification, which will describe what services a business offers and how users can access those services.
Two research firms say online holiday sales will increase markedly this year, with Nielsen/Net Ratings estimating a 43-per-cent jump in the U.S. and GartnerG2 predicting a 30-per-cent increase overall in North America.
Hewlett-Packard Co. today said it plans to challenge Comdisco Inc.'s decision to sell its disaster recovery unit to financial services company SunGard Data Systems Inc., saying the deal would be anticompetitive.
Telecommunications and computer companies have posted the largest number of job cuts since January, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc.
An electronic numbering system proposed by the communications industry that would link a telephone number to other Web service addresses over the Internet is drawing criticism from privacy groups.
The 17-year-old computer hacker responsible for denial-of-service attacks that crippled several Web sites last year has been sentenced to eight months in a juvenile detention center