Professional services: When thinking about offerings from services organizations, the word 'product' doesn't typically spring to mind. But IBM aims to change that and a tradition of one-off customized services with what it is calling "services products." Big Blue is unwrapping the first two of those today for building converged networks as well as for designing, deploying and managing IP telephony infrastructure.

Podcasts: Nearing some sort of end, Dave Linthicum presents step 10 of his 12 steps to SOA. Select your technology set -- and do so through traditional means. Also, how BPEL 1.1 defeated the purpose of using a standard and why it never worked as advertised.

Q&A: The man charged with building a trust ecosystem around Vista, corporate vice president of Microsoft's security technology unit Ben Fahti, speaks about Vista's progress, and the world beyond Vista -- including two of the half-dozen "big bets" within his unit. Read the full interview.

The news beat: San Francisco to study an alternative to the citywide Wi-Fi plan from EarthLink and Google. Cisco hops on board the enterprise video publishing train. And Nokia unwraps new multimedia phones.

Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 26, 2006 11:18 AM