Stories by Johan Bostrom

EBay sets up open source community

EBay on Tuesday began providing open source code for some of its search and access applications to expand its external developer community. The software will be available under a new program called Community Codebase, which was announced at the eBay Developers Conference in San Jose.

Report on China-Japan tension stirs IT debate

IT industry insiders are downplaying a Gartner report on tensions between China and Japan. The analysis says that shaky relations between the countries should make companies rethink their reliance on suppliers from Northeast Asia.

Target marketing via RFID to debut in Seattle

Some cafes and retail stores in Seattle next week will begin individually marketing products and services to bypassers in Seattle using RFID (radio frequency identification) technology.

Berners-Lee seeks killer app for Semantic Web

The Semantic Web could be the key to unlocking scientific data that's sequestered by disparate applications formats and organizational limitations, and could allow scientists to harness computation's full power, World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee said Tuesday.

RFID expansion at JFK highlights issues

The RFID (radio frequency identification) system that tracks and identifies vehicles used to transport aircraft fuel at John F. Kennedy (JFK) International Airport in New York is now being used on hundreds of food-service and employee transportation vehicles at the air traffic hub.