An MIT-Microsoft research project called iCampus aims to show that Web services can help realize the promise of the Web browser: broad access to information. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

COMMENTARY--The prevailing wisdom holds that enterprises currently working on Web services will be in an excellent position to realize benefits such as cost savings, productivity enhancements and new ...

Service-oriented architectures hold out the promise of reinventing IT as we know it, according to proponents of Web services. With Web services standards such as Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) ...

End-users don’t care about distributed application bases, data sources, or Web services. They simply want their information served up in the most seamless and productive means for their workflow.

A Web service can help you catch a bus. Or test an electronic circuit from a dorm room. Or even take English writing tests in a new way. These creative uses of Web services--a method for connecting ...