Microsoft, IBM push Web services advances. The two companies, usually bitter rivals, demonstrate Web services interoperability and pledge to establish new specifications for building more advanced applications. [CNET News.com - Front Door]

Making sense of weblogs in the intranet (in Lucent)..

Thanks Dina for bringing it in. headshift moments on Excellent presentation on supporting K-logging within a large organisation:

Lucent's Michael Angeles has posted the slides from his presentation to the (US) Usability Professional Association's Blogging in Corporate America event in New York. His talk was called Making intranet weblog data usable.

The presentation, which is actully called "Making sense of weblogs in the intranet: What they are, why people are using them, making them useful for knowledge management", is must read. It gives a good example of talking about weblogs in a corporate world, tells a lot about intranet in Lucent and describes Lucent's approach to internal weblog support (strategy, which is not implemented yet).

[Mathemagenic]

A really interesting presentation, definetly a must read.

This is exactly the kind of environment we are developing K-Collector for. [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog]

Web Services Transaction Framework Updated.

An update from the Cover Pages:

A revised "Web Services Coordination (WS-Coordination)" specification has been published by Microsoft, BEA, and IBM, together with a new "Web Services Atomic Transaction (WS-AtomicTransaction)" document. The Atomic Transaction coordination type is used when strong isolation is required until a transaction completes. A third "Web Services Business Activity (WS-BusinessActivity)" document will be added to the Web Services Transaction Framework.

Pluses include integration of WS-Policy and a focus on WSDL, but I'll continue to hold my breath until there is a specification of a reliable network protocol in a WSDL-suitable form...

[java.blogs Day's Entries]

Intel announces death of copper. IDF New WLAN standards to deliver wire robustness, scalability [The Register]

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Voice over IP users will soon have an easier time staying in touch while on the road.

Pulver Innovations will be releasing it's long awaited WiFi-enabled SIP phone, a small cellular phone that allows a user to make and receive IP-to-IP VoIP telephone calls from an internet "hot-spot," on September 22nd.

The WiSIP, as the phone is called, will have a price tag of $249.95, and will come pre-configured to work with the Free World Dialup VoIP community directory. The WiSIP, which will operate on the 802.11b wireless networking standard and support the G.711 codec, will also be able to make and receive calls to and from other networks, such as SIPPhone and IAXTel.

Jeff Pulver, CEO of Pulver Innovations, said the WiSIP will be released to coincide with the first day of VON 2003, a four-day conference for VoIP industry leaders and users that will open in Boston on Sept. 22.

The WiSIP will be the second SIP cellular phone on the market. Earlier this year, Cisco Systems released its $595 cellular SIP, though the phone, marketed primarily to corporate office users, requires a PBX environment to operate.

Pulver said his offering will work in an office or anywhere there is an "open hot-spot." Initially, the phone will not operate in a paid WiFi environment, such as those in Starbuck's coffee houses and other locales.

"We're working on authentication so that the WiSIP can be used at Starbuck's," said Pulver, noting that the WiSIP will be user upgradeable via TFTP. "That functionality will be released soon."

The WiSIP will be packaged with a recharging stand and battery that allows 4 hours of talk time and 3 days of standby time.