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Phorm serves up 'recommendation engine'
News Technology experts including Tim Berners-Lee have questioned the privacy implications of organisations using DPI, but Phorm executives on Tuesday said there would be no privacy problems with the tool.
[June 3, 2009, 15:31]
Big Bang project sparks supercomputer plans
News The new, more powerful particle accelerator, known as the Large Hadron Collider, is being built at CERN, the same Swiss laboratory where Tim Berners-Lee developed the World Wide Web. Scientists in Switzerland are hard at work building a machine...
[April 2, 2003, 7:38]
W3C launches mobile standards push
News Mobile access to the Web has been a second-class experience for far too long," Web founding father and W3C director Tim Berners-Lee said in a statement. The Web's leading standards body has launched a ground campaign to promote its mobile Web...
[May 12, 2005, 9:50]
Semantic web on verge of commercial viability
News Semantic web — a concept championed by 'father of the web' Tim Berners-Lee — is the development of a world wide web where the context of information and services is defined to make web content more searchable and useful.
[August 12, 2008, 9:08]
W3C and WAP Forum team up on wireless Web specs
News Our liaison relationship with the WAP Forum will work towards the seamless integration of mobile devices and the Web," said Tim Berners-Lee, director of W3C, in a statement. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the WAP Forum have announced a...
[December 10, 1999, 10:53]
W3C releases draft of HTML 5
News HTML is of course a very important standard," said Tim Berners-Lee, author of the first version of HTML, and W3C director. The World Wide Web Consortium has published a public draft of the first major upgrade to HTML in over a decade.
[January 25, 2008, 13:59]
File under ground
Leader Some of the most exciting ideas online are to do with data, metadata and the tools to handle them: when Tim Berners-Lee uses a public forum to ask Frank Mantek of Google to implement a SPARQL interface, take note.
[June 27, 2006, 16:55]
W3C backs XML-based digital signature
News XML Signature is a critical foundation on top of which we will be able to build more secure Web services," W3C founder and director Tim Berners-Lee said in a statement. The premier Web standards body on Thursday recommended a way of signing...
[February 15, 2002, 11:20]
Open source - feel good, but work better.
Blog Comment The ability to be benevolent is always nice but acting for the greater good often means acting for the greater economic good as well -- case in point is Tim Berners-Lee opening up the web in the first instance and not cashing in.
[May 5, 2009, 10:28]
UK regulators 'relaxed' on net neutrality
News Net neutrality advocates, including web pioneers like Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Vint Cerf, insist that this could corrupt the egalitarian nature of the internet. There is currently no need to introduce net neutrality legislation in the UK, according...
[March 20, 2007, 16:42]
Jane Wakefield: Waiting for the WAP train
News She has just returned from a big adventure in America, visiting high-tech firms on the East Coast and meeting important people such as Nicholas Negroponte and Tim Berners-Lee. Anyone who has sat on a tube platform waiting for a Circle Line train to...
[March 28, 2000, 12:16]
CBI calls for cybercrime laws to be updated
News The Computer Misuse Act was passed in 1990 — years before hacking became the widespread threat it is today, and before Tim Berners-Lee created the Web. The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has added its voice to the growing clamour calling...
[November 22, 2005, 13:00]
Briton appointed chair of IETF
News Before joining IBM, he worked alongside Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, for 20 years and helped pioneer advanced Internet applications during the development of the World Wide Web.
[March 4, 2005, 16:45]
Web consortium issues privacy standard
News Web site privacy policies are good, but understanding privacy policies is better," W3C director Tim Berners-Lee said in a statement. The World Wide Web Consortium has endorsed a new standard for privacy online.
[April 16, 2002, 16:20]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News I'm sure he remembers) or chatting with Tim Berners-Lee about Web design is having a wee porky-fest. Psion Series 5 day! Delighted to find before the press conference that the company has set up the Web pages for the new PDA, and although it hasn't...
[June 21, 1997, 8:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I'm sure he remembers) or chatting with Tim Berners-Lee about Web design is having a wee porky-fest. Psion Series 5 day! Delighted to find before the press conference that the company has set up the Web pages for the new PDA, and although it hasn't...
[June 21, 1997, 9:00]
A billion internet users can be wrong
Leader Invented in 1991, it's taken exactly the same time for the web to spread from Tim Berners-Lee in his Geneva cubicle to a billion people worldwide as it has for Guns N' Roses to record a new studio album.
[January 26, 2009, 16:53]
W3C sums it all up
News Since then it's had its charter updated as the Web has developed, with the latest version being published in October of this year.All TAG participants, past and present, have had a hand in many parts of the design of the Web," said Tim Berners-Lee...
[December 21, 2004, 14:50]
Sorry but you have made some very serious errors
Talkback If you are right and claim that non-compliant code is being added by non-developers, what in the name of Tim Berners-Lee are you doing exposing your system to allow for code to be entered unchecked? .
[November 18, 2007, 15:24]
Cities worldwide celebrate OneWebDay
News Other webby personalities to get involved in OneWebDay include Craig Newmark of craigslist.org and Drew Schutte of Wired magazine, while a Friday celebration in Boston will honour the biggest Internet personality of all, World Wide Web pioneer Sir...
[September 22, 2006, 13:35]
