Depending on your frame of reference, it wasn't that long ago that Web services was an IT buzz word bantered about but little understooda lot more hooplah than moolah, so to speak. Just how long ago?

Web services standardize the format (XML) and the protocol (SOAP) for application-to-application communication. Such standardization spurs software vendors to create quality applications with focused ...

Learn everything you need to know about two of the leading cloud-based infrastructure as a service providers, including how ...

A web service is an agreed way for different computers to share information across the Internet. An example of a web service is, in a way, RSS (see R - Do you speak my language: R is for RSS, Router, ...

The Web and XML have changed our perspective about what data can do. Instead of regarding data as something to be stored in a database and shuttled across existing networks by systems locked in a ...

A recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage disrupted popular apps and sites – including Snapchat, Reddit, and some banking ...

VB.NET allows you to use Web services as if they were entirely local objects since most of the marshaling between the client and the server is taking place in the background. This tip shows you how to ...