Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell is doing it. So are financial services company Merrill Lynch and travel technology company Galileo International. Those corporate heavyweights are experimenting with Web services, an emerging approach to application development ...

The cloud-computing division of the internet giant is used by thousands of internet customers, many of whom reported disruptions on Monday.

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT publication InfoWorld. A growing number of companies are ...

Web application firewalls are evolving to support XML- and Web services-based applications, and vendors Teros and NetContinuum are both driving upcoming product releases in that direction. Teros announced today that its Secure Application Gateway family of ...

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) for messaging and Web Services Description Language (WSDL ...

Swingtide will make its formal debut with the introduction of a product focused on the design of Web services networks and the tools to manage them. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in ...

It took a day without Amazon Web Services for Americans to realize how reliant the internet is on a single company.