Managed Services & Outsourcing

Once a year, we pundits earn our chops by reviewing the predictions we made last year and seeing how well they stood up. Here goes.

China Airlines Ltd. has become the latest Asian carrier to signal that it intends to equip its aircraft with a broadband Internet system supplied by The Boeing Co., the latter company said Monday.

Rival Internet service providers (ISPs) keen to acquire the once-ailing European operations of Time Warner Inc.'s America Online (AOL) division may have to look elsewhere to expand their operations.

Holiday shoppers took to the Web in droves to purchase gifts in 2003, spending significantly more online than they did in 2002, according to preliminary figures released by market researcher and consultancy comScore Networks Inc.

Japan's Miracle Linux Corp. and China's Red Flag Software Co. Ltd. are jointly developing a Linux server platform for corporate and government users in the Asian market.

Microsoft Corp., BEA Systems Inc. and Tibco Software Inc. on Wednesday published a specification, WS-Eventing, which is intended to provide a common way of communicating events within and between Web services.

While it may not be the most fashionable technology, for the Ottawa International Airport, help desk software is proving to be uplifting.

Ten software vendors, including Sun Microsystems Inc., BEA Systems Inc. and Oracle Corp. on Tuesday announced the Java Tools Community (JTP), an organization devoted to improving interoperability in the design of development tools, making it easier for developers to use Java technology.