SOA & Web Services

The idea of working with online apps rather with locally-installed software is no longer revolutionary. In fact, it's slowly becoming a fact of life -- so much so, that it may not be long before you won't have much of a choice as to whether you work online or not.

In today's podcast: EU ruling on Intel could launch civil suits, HP recalls laptop batteries, Google blames routing error for outage.

Google fouled up its own network, so would you trust them, or anyone else, with your applications.

Google is hitting the airwaves this weekend with a flurry of television advertising.

They hope to position the Chrome Browser against Firefox, Safari, Opera but mostly against Internet Explorer which still holds a strong majority of the Browser market share, even theough it has fallen in recent years. Chrome is currently in fourth place just above Opera, according to NetApplications data.

See the commercials pasted below.

Google beat earnings forecasts for the first quarter ended March 31 despite a global recession that is affecting the company's main revenue engine, online advertising.

If you still think Ubuntu is just this cute little Linux for Linux fans, boy do you have a surprise waiting for you in Ubuntu Server 9.04.

Google today revealed what its inventor and maintainer, Ben Jai, calls Google's Manhattan Project. This "holiest of holies" comes down to a bunch of off-the-shelf parts combined into what appears to be a pretty standard server - with some notable differences.

The economy is in the toilet. Foreclosures are skyrocketing. Unemployment is rising. 401ks have lost value. What should you do? Here's an idea: Why not travel the world?

Wait, what?

Putting applications in the cloud doesn't get you off the hook when it comes to integrating with your other SaaS or on-premise apps. Here's a few traps to avoid.

Ease of use made the year-old package tracking service for smart phones a success.

Before businesses invest too much time and effort into creating mashups, the AJAX-based programming method needs better security. Mashup SSL might be the protocol to do just that.

I really like Linux, but why is it so hard to find documentation on removing it and why is it so hard to actually do it?

Facebook grew faster than its design. Now the company is trying to address that with their new homepage design. I think they've hit an in the park home run on this one. Here's why.

CIOs who can best judge the future of IT will be far better for companies than those who endlessly insist on aligning IT with the present-day business. SOA is another proof point.

I was sat in the break area of a company a couple of weeks ago, minding my own business while waiting for a meeting, when I overheard a water-cooler style discussion at another table about cloud computing. The main topic of the discussion was the expectation for many companies and individuals that while many are using cloud computing systems, like Amazon's EC2, but that longer term people want to be able to mix and match their cloud computing environments.