Monday, April 14, 2003

Palm Pulls the Plugs at Work Free at last: A case study in learning to love the unchained corporation of tomorrow. A look at Palm's bid to turn itself into a wireless workforce. By Brad Stone from Wired magazine. [Wired News] 1:10:21 PM     XML joins handcuffs, perp walks in corporate... XML joins handcuffs, perp walks in corporate accounting crackdown In the wake of accounting scandals that have resulted in imprisoned corporate executives and distraught investors, eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), an offshoot of XML, promises to help make public companies more consistent in the way their financial data is transmitted, reported and presented to investors. If corporations actually committed their financial statements to a standard XML syntax it would be pretty simple to tailor an application to extract that information. Since we produced a medical information system this seems an ideal place to reapply that development effort. [IBM DeveloperWorks: XML News] 12:34:57 PM

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