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Open Data Institute will act as biz incubator

...republication. It will open later this year under the leadership of Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt. "We don't just want to lead... Read more

23 May, 2012 by David Meyer

Berners-Lee: We need PGP for the people

...World wide web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has set security professionals the challenge of coming up with... Read more

17 October, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Berners-Lee: Personal clouds could offset privacy risks

...control the information found online about themselves, world wide web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has suggested. Sir Tim Berners-Lee has suggested people could... Read more

14 October, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Berners-Lee: Work is needed to harmonise HTML 5

...duplication of effort and divergence of technologies, according to web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Tim Berners-Lee has warned that lack of harmonisation in... Read more

18 April, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Government unveils £100m for urban broadband

...new Open Data Institute, to be established under the leadership of Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt. The graphene money will come in the... Read more

29 November, 2011 by David Meyer

Web to get 'do not track' privacy standards

The World Wide Web Consortium has released the first drafts of standards that will let people opt out of being tracked as they surf the web, and give companies a way of showing they comply with those privacy choices Read more

15 November, 2011 by David Meyer

W3C declares HTML 5 at 'last call' status

...Language is a key plank of the worldwide web technology created by Tim Berners-Lee, who remains involved as the W3C director. "We now invite... Read more

31 May, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

Berners-Lee, BBC, Vodafone focus on web's potential

...the web of the future... Tim Berners-Lee is helping with the... <a href=Read more

21 April, 2011 by Tim Ferguson

Tim Berners-Lee: Facebook poses threat to web

Tim Berners-Lee has warned that the future of the internet could be... Read more

23 November, 2010

Berners-Lee: Wipo web-patent remark 'unimaginative'

Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee has criticised an "uninformed" and "unimaginative" remark made by the... Read more

13 October, 2011

Book review: The Myths of Innovation

Who's innovative? Who's not? Newton? Apple? Henry Ford? eBay? Tim Berners-Lee? This dryly humorous update of a classic account of how... Read more

20 December, 2010

Berners-Lee: 80 percent of the world isn't on the web

...welcome Mark Selby, vice president of industry collaborations for Nokia introduced Sir Tim Berners-Lee — inventor of the Web — for the Nokia World second day... Read more

15 September, 2010

CISPA cybersecurity bill clears US Congress

...in America tends to affect people all over the world," web inventor Tim Berners-Lee said last week in a Guardian interview. "Even though the... Read more

27 April, 2012
A tour of the Large Hadron Collider

A tour of the Large Hadron Collider

Cern is where Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web. This is the handwritten note... Read more

7 July, 2010 by Stephen Shankland

Book reviews: Holiday reading

...sketched out the future social implications of their drawing-board machine. Although Tim Berners-Lee has credited Nelson's vision, Nelson argues his original vision... Read more

16 December, 2011

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I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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