The bright new Internet world of web-based services and open APIs delivered by Google and others just had a big shadow cast across it by Microsoft. Several news outlets like the Wall Street Journal got a leaked copy of a Microsoft internal email from Bill Gates…
MS Answers GoogZilla With Online Services
For months, the blogosphere was abuzz about potential “Microsoft killers,” mainly because of the advent of open source, customizable, server-based applications put forth by whippersnapper companies like Google and Mozilla. Worldwide governments, too, forced the Redmond, Washington-based software giant to open up its code to competition. How would Microsoft deal with it? Gates and company answered today during a preview of two Web-based software services-Windows Live and Microsoft Office Live.
Microsoft Challenges Google On Web Services
Bill Gates gave demonstrations of Windows Live and Office Live to journalists in San Francisco today, as the 30-year-old software company tries to show it isn’t quite ready to be pushed aside by Google.
Evaluating Vendors of Ecommerce Fulfillment Services
Once your website has secured an order, you have to fulfill it. While the fulfillment of digital goods is usually handled online, the delivery of physical goods is handled in a “brick-and-mortar” world.
Google Pushes Services To PHP Coders
The search engine company sent an executive to keynote the wrapup of the Zend/PHP Conference and Expo; Adam Bosworth noted the move to web services in his talk.
Big Choices in the UK for Internet Phone Services
If Skype paved the way for free and low-cost telephone calls via the internet for early adopters, enthusiasts and others who ‘saw the light,’ …
Amazon Adds Shutterfly Photo Services
The folks out at Amazon added Shutterfly photo services to the world’s largest online retailer’s list of services. The new service will allow Amazon users to order a wide variety of custom image based products to their basket.
An Extensive Examination of Web Services: WSE standards
As we’ve discussed in the previous installments of this article series, Web services are comprised of a number of core standards, including:
Turning Your Services into a Product
One of the biggest challenges in selling professional services is that what you are offering is intangible.
Web Services Interoperability
Interoperability is one of the main promises of Web services. Web services are designed to be independent of the underlying operating system and programming language.