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Internet founding fathers win Turing Award
News The 2004 Turning Award, computer science's top honour, has been won by Drs Vinton G Cerf and Robert E Kahn for their invention of the protocols at the heart of the Internet. Their key work "A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection" appeared in...
[February 16, 2005, 15:25]
Vint Cerf in Google recruitment drive
News One of the founding fathers of the Internet will tour the UK to recruit engineers for Google. Cerf is known as an Internet founding father for his role in developing packet switching networks and TCP/IP.
[March 6, 2006, 16:05]
Red Hat expands, funds OS projects
News Shrink-wrap Linux specialist and Open Source evangelist Red Hat has announced the founding of a non-profit organisation it says will support and promote a range of scientific and educational projects that comply with the Open Source ideal.
[November 3, 1999, 15:26]
Technologists assail federal Net-tapping rules
News Federal regulations saying that police must be able to tap into Internet phone conversations with ease are coming under renewed attack from academics, engineers and one of the Net's founding fathers. The nine contributors included Vint Cerf, Google...
[June 13, 2006, 10:25]
Bluetooth: Clever tech will invade our homes...
News While all the Bluetooth founding members have demonstrated products in the US and at this year's CeBIT, companies from other industries have been slow to reveal what they are developing, at least until now.
[April 15, 1999, 16:37]
Straight Talking - The Rise and Rise of Infor
White Papers The difference lies in the two companies' founding premises and their raison d'etre. Infor on the other hand can be described as a company with a founding principle of stopping software companies dying.
[March 1, 2009, 0:24]
Who Controls the Internet? review
Reviews Or even 1990, when the series of arrests that Bruce Sterling profiled in his book The Hacker Crackdown led to the founding of the Electronic Frontier Foundation to defend civil liberties in cyberspace and the first Computers, Freedom and Privacy...
[September 13, 2006, 9:00]
Microsoft's plot to block Sun revealed
News But fearful that the political infighting would derail the organization's efforts, IBM earlier this month proposed adding two new board members in a move that could pave the way for Sun to join as a founding member.
[May 15, 2002, 8:28]
IBM: Let Sun into Web services group
News Sources have said the WS-I board met earlier this spring and discussed whether Sun should be admitted as a founding board member. Sun in February was invited to join as a "contributing" member, but has ignored the invitation, campaigning instead...
[May 3, 2002, 11:39]
Get Safe Online membership costs revealed
News According to the prospectus, intended only to be seen by potential sponsors, those companies already on board, including BT, Dell, eBay, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, MessageLabs and Microsoft, will be paying £150,000 each for a founding sponsor's package.
[October 28, 2005, 14:25]
Sun gets closer to Web services elite
News The WS-I, envisioned as a truce broker in the contentious Web services market, has instead been mired in company turf wars since its founding in February. Sun, which is not part of the organisation, declined an earlier invitation to join the WS-I...
[June 20, 2002, 12:29]
WS-I takes on security challenge
News A high-profile spat between Sun Microsystems and its founding members has generated most of the attention for the group. After initially being shut out by founding companies including IBM, Microsoft and BEA Systems, Sun subsequently joined the...
[February 4, 2003, 15:58]
Sun's a late riser on WS-I board
News In what was perceived as manoeuvring to minimise the role of Sun in the Web services standards process, the company was not invited as a founding member of the WS-I. Microsoft and IBM were among the founding members of the WS-I although Sun later...
[March 26, 2003, 17:06]
WaSP looks to order scripted chaos
News In founding the task force, the WaSP described today's Web programming model as a three-legged stool, one leg being structure (XHTML), another presentation (CSS), the last behaviour (DOM scripting). Just because IE for Windows has 80 percent of the...
[July 19, 2005, 17:25]
Web services group leaves Sun in the cold
News Sun is campaigning to join as a founding board member, but the WS-I's bylaws require a unanimous vote of approval from the current nine board members, and more than a dozen companies have asked to join the WS-I as founding members.
[April 3, 2002, 10:28]
Ethernet alliance formed
News With the strong support of our founding members, the Ethernet Alliance will be that voice, and we will move aggressively to accelerate the growth and expansion of IEEE 802 Ethernet technologies. Founding members of the Ethernet Alliance are 3Com...
[January 11, 2006, 15:05]
Founders at Work review
Reviews Other company founders that Livingston interviewed for this book include Chuck Geschke (Adobe), Steve Wozniak (Apple), Mitch Kapor (Lotus), Ray Ozzie (Iris, Groove), Craig Newmark (Craigslist), Ann Winblad (Open Systems, Hummer Winblad), and less...
[June 19, 2008, 14:59]
Sun signs up to rivals' security standards
News The organisation, called the Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) Organization, is working on a proposal to pave the way for Sun to join on equal footing with WS-I founding board members Microsoft and IBM.
[June 27, 2002, 15:52]
The state of .Net
News Sun's has been on the warpath to join Web Services Interoperability organization as a founding board member. What's Microsoft stance now on Sun being a founding board member? It also means Rudder and his team need to convince software developers to...
[July 30, 2002, 15:00]
McNealy makes pact with his devil
News When a group called the Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) organisation was formed to promote industry collaboration, Microsoft specifically requested that Sun be excluded as a founding member, according to email conversations uncovered during...
[April 5, 2004, 9:20]
