Michael Meehan

Laurel and Hardy. Peanut butter and jelly. EDI and XML?

Last month, General Electric Co.'s Global Exchange Services (GXS) division gathered its biggest EDI customers in Orlando, Fla., in an effort to build momentum for what it hopes will someday be an electronic world trade centre.

A Gartner Group Inc. analyst touted collaborative commerce as the Holy Grail of the future for U.S. companies at a conference in New York Monday.

Without much fanfare, a group led by vendors such as IBM and Sun Microsystems Inc. yesterday announced plans to incorporate the messaging specifications from a Microsoft Corp.-backed e-commerce protocol into its proposed ebXML business-to-business standard.

Come this fall, Canadian citizens will be able to pass through customs in the blink of an eye. Literally.

This year, Canadian citizens will be able to pass through customs in the blink of an eye....

Last week, Travelocity.com Inc. basked in the glow of an announcement that it expects to be "at or close to profitability" by this year's second quarter. Unfortunately, the online travel agency's zipper was down, in the form of a privacy glitch that exposed the names and e-mail addresses of about 44,000 people.

Before the end of the year, Canadian citizens will be able to pass through customs in the...