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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The US tech giant Amazon's cloud unit Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Monday that the technical issue that began in the morning and blocked access to many applications, primarily in the US and Europe, has been resolved, and most AWS services are functioning normally.

A status page for Amazon's cloud unit showed more than 80 of its services and features were affected early Monday.