Sun Microsystems is linking two prominent Web development languages--Java and XML--to simplify e-commerce software development and to better position Java against rival technologies. Sun on Monday ...

XML seems unstoppable. On the Web, this general-purpose document display language is rapidly replacing HTML. In the office, Microsoft Corp. and OpenOffice have both moved to XML document formats. Even ...

What if every bit of data in every computer included instructions about its content that would allow any other computer to interact with it? Such interoperability could unleash amazing new automation ...