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Tech heroes in line for 'Greatest Briton' award

Tech pioneers who made computing and the Web possible have been nominated in a nationwide poll to discover the greatest British person ever Read more

22 August, 2002 by Graeme Wearden
How openness unlocks the web's power

How openness unlocks the web's power

...read-write environment by Tim Berners-Lee, the original Cern browser, named WorldWideWeb, necessarily included the ability to view and edit the source code of... Read more

17 July, 2009 by Bruce Lawson

Cern celebrates 20 years of the web

...for funding for the project. Berners-Lee developed a browser/editor called WorldWideWeb on a Next computer system. According to Cern, the address of the... Read more

13 March, 2009 by Tom Espiner

When blogs collide...

...case of wrongdoing, badly handled through a wish to avoid too much worldwideweb mudslinging? A massive egofight? Or are legal machinations at work behind the... Read more

2 July, 2008
Browser benchmarks: IE, Firefox, Opera and Safari

Browser benchmarks: IE, Firefox, Opera and Safari

...When Tim Berners-Lee presented his employer CERN with the first browser, WorldWideWeb, to facilitate information flow between the different departments in the European nuclear... Read more

23 May, 2008 by Kai Schmerer

Sir Tim

...over at CERN the then plain Berners-Lee wrote a program called WorlDwidEweb, a point and click hypertext editor that ran on the NeXT machine... Read more

31 December, 2003 by Matt Loney
Towards a Unified Semantic Model for Interactive Applications Using Arrows And Generic Editors

Towards a Unified Semantic Model for Interactive Applications Using Arrows And Generic Editors

...desktop GUI for widget based programming on a single computer, and the WorldWideWeb for web applications with a multitude of client computers. Applications that are... Read more

24 March, 2006

Tim Berners Lee: inventor of the World Wide Web

...web pages. By the summer of 1991 Berners Lee's browser, called "WorldWideWeb" was available on the internet. Berners Lee's work was recognised last... Read more

22 August, 2002 by CNET Networks

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Dean Talboys

What a farce! Hopefully the European court will see where this is leading.

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SoapyTablet

Wouldn't surprise me if Samsung actually really had problems producing the white model (as Apple did - it would make more sense) and this non-story...

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those conformation letters are hard to figure out what is which letters it is a pain in the back side. Please make it more Ledge-able being better...

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

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...... and PDP11s too

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BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

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Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

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So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

20 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

21 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

24 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

1 day ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

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