SOA & Web Services

Google Buzz looks like it will be an interesting application. But those who use it need to be very aware of how much information they are releasing in public.

In today's podcast: SAP's CEO resigns, effective immediately; Chinese man jailed for importing fake Cisco gear; and judge reverses dismissal of class-action suit against Dell.

So goodbye then, Scott McNealy. Your company, Sun Microsystems, broke the mold and made more than $200B over 28 years. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers pay tribute to a departing leader. Not to mention a Haiti charity infographic...
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Today Google released its very own DNS service.    As someone with an on-again, off-again relationship with OpenDNS, I am intrigued.

New Google services are coming fast and furious these days. Today, amongst other things, Google released its Dictionary project. It is pretty much what you'd expect: You look up a word and Google gives you definitions from various trusted sources.

News hot off the wires is that Google is about to purchase the leading mobile ads vendor (besides Google itself), Admob .

The companies say that this new business Linux desktop will offer a 50% savings over Windows 7 while running on existing hardware.

Ariba's Tim Minahan thinks that SaaS is transforming the CIO into a "best practice business assembler." But while SaaS may have transformed Ariba, the jury is still out on whether or not cloud computing will transform IT.

The Active Sync 'end round' that Google used to get calendar and contact sync to work on the iPhone is now being used to get push Gmail. Here's how:

In today's podcast: Motorola banks on Cliq; Microsoft forms open source foundation; Apple issues more patches.

Google is firing up a Google Apps campaign to try to convince small and medium businesses in four metropolitan areas (New York, San Francisco, Boston and Chicago) to "go Google". They've set up a special site called "Apps At Work" for the campaign.

One veteran software development executive sees services-oriented architecture as undermining the long-held man-month myth in programming projects.

The new commands will allow the platform to do things like serve apps that create new Twitter tweets.

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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.