Infrastructure

Start-up Cape Clear Software Inc. on Thursday released data integration software based on XML and Web services that is designed to help companies integrate disparate data and applications.

Using its own integration engine, Integration Broker, PeopleSoft Inc. has come in approximately one quarter ahead of schedule in delivering cross-component integration between the suite of PeopleSoft Enterprise applications and seven J. D. Edwards & Co. suite components.

While the holiday season traditionally provides a key revenue surge for retailers, it's also a prime time for fraud.

Leveraging advances in communication and integration, a new kind of application

Microsoft Corp. will stop distributing several older products this week as a result of a legal settlement with Sun Microsystems in a dispute over Java, Microsoft said.

For Steinback, Man.-based Loewen, selling windows and doors got one step easier with the help of IBM Corp.'s application server, WebSphere 5.0.

In what has to be the most intriguing examples of jurisprudence this year, British courts have now ruled three times that computer owners being prosecuted for various computer crimes were not guilty because they were dead at the time: that is to say, they didn't do it, Trojan horse code did.

While many observers of the night sky gaze upward to simply enjoy the stars, Sam Roweis, assistant professor of computer science at the University of Toronto, is using statistical data analysis to tell him more about what he sees in the cosmos.