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THE Immigration Department will reduce its release cycles for the $495 Systems for People project to ease pressure on staff members.

Enterprise service buses may be synonymous with services orchestration and related capabilities in an SOA. But there is another approach to SOA -- resource-oriented architecture -- that does not rely on the centralized bus but focuses on Web-style integration.Presenting at TheServerSide Java Symposium in Las Vegas Wednesday evening and interviewed afterward, Brian Sletten, a partner at solutions integrator Zepheira, explained the ESB alternative. While not dead-set against ESBs, Sletten does not always believe they are always necessary."My concern about ESBs is people are being sold things they don't necessarily need," he said.ESBs do provide capabilities such as services registration and discovery, message-handling, standard transformations, process orchestration, and choreography, Sletten pointed out. But there are issues such as a lack of standards.The Web, meanwhile, has no central authority and no ESB, and it thrives, he said. With resource-oriented architecture, a pipeline can be

Hutchison Whampoa's 3G businesses grew their subscriber numbers by a total of 20 percent last year and the company said adoption of its 3 Skypephone "has been encouraging," when it released 2007 full year earnings Thursday.

The next generation Eee PC laptop by Asustek Computer will come with a multi-touch trackpad in addition to the larger screen, better Web cam and increased Data storage, a company representative said Thursday.

It's the most anticipated matchup in the hacker world: Linux versus Mac OS X versus Vista. Who will get hacked first?

Straight talk and tips on improving the offshore Indian vendor selection process from IT management consultant Dustin Walling.

PROPOSED new offences for identity crimes are needed to fill "gaps" in existing federal and state laws and should carry jail terms of up to five years.

Availability Zones lets developers set up multiple instances in different physical locations, while Elastic IP makes EC2 better suited for Web hosting.

Clock is ticking on ISO standards vote and Microsoft is counting.

High-end and low-power quad-cores show AMD can still deliver.