web services
Taxman to save £110m by taking an axe to its IT estate
News HM Revenue and Customs is simplifying its web of computer systems The work will be carried out by outsourcing provider Capgemini under its Aspire (Acquiring Strategic Partners for the Inland Revenue) contract to provide... [30 Oct 2009]
How will you use Google Wave? Recruiting, decision-making, dealing with complaints
News Wave apps are also already making ripples within two of Google's fellow web 2.0 pioneers, Wikipedia and software-as-a-service specialist Salesforce.com. Lars Rasmussen, Google's software engineering manager and... [28 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Augmented reality
Cheat Sheet The Wikitude app (pictured below) made by Mobilizy was among the first to exploit AR in the smartphone world - it used the G1's hardware coupled with data from the Panoramio, Qype and Wikipedia web... [27 Oct 2009]
How Google Apps helped Jaguar Land Rover keep motoring after Ford sale
News Following its sale by parent company Ford last year, car maker Jaguar Land Rover has had to face the thorny problem of cutting itself loose from Ford's web of business applications. JLR's move to Google Apps is the... [26 Oct 2009]
Open source? No good for cost cutting, say CIOs
News Because it lacks the expensive licensing that is often the hallmark of proprietary software, open source is regularly touted as a way for IT departments to make their budget stretch a little bit further and it has already enjoyed... [23 Oct 2009]
How tech is helping gamblers get that casino feeling
News Kiessling feels developing new products and embracing web 2.0 phenomenon such as social networking will be key to attracting more of these gamblers who are making to switch to online.bwin is currently trialling its... [23 Oct 2009]
Increase developer productivity using IBM RationalTM and WebSphereTM.
White Paper This Webcast presentation shows how by using solutions from Rational and WebSphere, development teams can leverage the latest Web and SOA technologies, such as SCA, to develop and deliver services... [20 Oct 2009]
Tangled Web : Undercover Threats, Invisible Enemies
White Paper MessageLabs offers integrated web and email security services proven to stay a step ahead of the bad guys. Its Web Security service, for example, includes anti-spyware and anti-virus... [19 Oct 2009]
Botnets and your Business
White Paper The paper is rooted in MessageLabs experience of providing proven messaging and web security management services for 18,000 clients worldwide, with over 2.5 billion attempted SMTP connections processed... [19 Oct 2009]
Outsourcing - how to make sure it's reliable
Comment Most systems exist within a complex web of interdependence - so predictable performance and outputs are essential for the effective behaviour of the IT environment as a whole. Consistency means that the IT... [19 Oct 2009]
Ensuring Web Service Quality for Service-Oriented Architectures
White Paper Current trends show that the vast majority of companies are moving to services-oriented architectures (SOAs) and deploying Web services within and across their IT infrastructure.... [15 Oct 2009]
SOA Centers of Excellence: Preserving Order Amid Change
White Paper There is only one good way to approach the adoption and facilitation of SOA and Web services, and that is to establish, right from the beginning, a corporate Center of Excellence to guide the revolution... [15 Oct 2009]
How a tech 'watch list' can save CIOs from being caught out
News Other technologies judged by Forrester to be increasingly important over the next few years include policy-based SOA, mobile apps and business processes, cloud-based platforms, web 2.0-enabled business process... [12 Oct 2009]
Cross-Layer Interaction Between TCP and UMTS RRM Scheduling Strategies
White Paper These shared channels are mostly used in UMTS to support services such as web browsing and e-mail that work with the transport protocol TCP. In the third generation wireless system UMTS, Radio Resource... [09 Oct 2009]
SIM Card Based Security and Trust Management in Mobile Services
White Paper Moreover, a servlet architecture on the card allows for the provisioning of smart card based services with an interface similar to that of Web services. A web server on... [04 Oct 2009]