A Web service can help you catch a bus. Or test an electronic circuit from a dorm room. Or even take English writing tests in a new way. These creative uses of Web services--a method for connecting ...

Peter starts integrating a TypeScript client-side object with a server-side Web API service. Along the way, he looks at method overloading (not good), making JSON calls (good), testing asynchronous ...

It’s not hard to find companies that have dipped their toes into the water to explore how Web services might help address some of their nagging integration problems. But few have launched major ...

Only a few years ago, the high-tech industry was afire with talk of "network computing" and "push technology." Then "PC-TV convergence" came into vogue, only to give way to "B2B" and "ASPs," which in ...

End-users don’t care about distributed application bases, data sources, or Web services. They simply want their information served up in the most seamless and productive means for their workflow.

These creative uses of Web services–a method for connecting software systems over the Internet–at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology stand in stark contrast to the more mundane, workaday uses ...