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Photos: World Wide Web 2006 Conference
News The World Wide Web 2006 conference will continue in Scotland until Friday. In a press conference, Sir Tim Berners-Lee weighed into the controversial subject of Net neutrality. Jack McConnell, Scotland's first minister, said he was delighted to see...
[May 23, 2006, 16:25]
Berners-Lee Calls For Net Neutrality
News Speaking at the World Wide Web conference in Edinburgh on Tuesday morning, Berners-Lee gave his views on the growing battle over Net neutrality. The World Wide Web conference will run until Thursday. This will be one of the premier technology...
[May 23, 2006, 12:10]
Google: Semantic Web Must Overcome Incompetence
News On Tuesday, Berners-Lee, the father of the Web and the current director of the World Wide Web Consortium, gave the keynote on artificial intelligence and the Semantic Web at a conference sponsored by the American Association for Artificial...
[July 19, 2006, 10:05]
OpenDocument Could 'turn The World Inside Out'
News Tim Bray, the director of Web technologies at Sun, said at the OpenOffice.org conference in Slovenia, that the file format developed by standards body OASIS has the potential to transform the world as much as the World Wide Web did.
[September 30, 2005, 12:25]
XML 7: Markup Conferences. A Look At The Biggies.
News The Ninth International World Wide Web Conference, May 15-19, 2000, Amsterdam For a technology still very much in its infancy, XML (and its related markup languages) is understandably receiving a great deal of attention on the conference and...
[November 10, 1999, 11:04]
Mobile Web Users Promised Seamless Mobility
News The mobile Web is a key theme at this year's International World Wide Web Conference, being held in the UK for the first time. The W3C launched its Mobile Web Initiative at last year's conference in an effort to make the web more accessible from...
[May 23, 2006, 16:40]
Net Not As Interconnected As You Think, Part II
News He said he would look forward to the study's formal presentation at the 9th International World Wide Web Conference in Amsterdam. It's really good news that someone finally took the energy to map out the World Wide Web and look at its structure...
[May 15, 2000, 9:04]
Date Set For BT Hyperlink Patent Case
News One of these papers was on a hypertext editing system for the IBM 360, delivered at the Illinois Conference on Computer Graphics in 1968, which showed how "any text structures may be (linked) in arbitrary ways, and the user may jump along...
[November 23, 2001, 13:55]
Network Solutions Agrees To Domain Deal
News In a news conference at the Commerce Department Tuesday, Andrew Pincus, general counsel for the agency, said the disagreement is moot, because Network Solutions has agreed to make its database available to the public.
[September 29, 1999, 12:12]
P3P Privacy Technology Slammed
News Karen Coyle, a spokeswoman for Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility and a librarian by trade, agreed in a Wednesday conference call. Known as the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project, or more commonly as P3P, the technology has been...
[June 22, 2000, 8:34]
Berners-Lee Honoured For Creating The Web
News He will collect the Millennium Technology Prize in June at the inaugural Millennium Technology Conference, called "Future Society - Future Technology. Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, has finally received a substantial financial...
[April 15, 2004, 13:10]
Vote For Your UK Tech Titans
News The winner will be announced at a gala dinner on 28 September, the evening of ZDNet UK's IT Priorities conference at London's Park Lane Hotel. Sir Tim later founded the World Wide Web consortium and has been an active proponent of open standards on...
[September 8, 2004, 17:45]
Countdown To CeBIT
News GPS, originally developed by the US military, will go head to head at the conference with Galileo, the global positioning system currently being developed by the European Space Agency. Gosling will also speak at a conference in Westminster on...
[March 13, 2007, 7:46]
Phrack's Closure Worries Security Industry
News The sixty-third and final edition of Phrack will come out as a hardback collectors copy and will be available to attendees at the DefCon hackers conference in Las Vegas between 29 and 31 July as well as the What The Hack conference in the...
[July 12, 2005, 9:35]
Compaq, IBM Map The Internet
News The formal report will be released at the International World Wide Web Conference in Amsterdam later this week. The study, which examined more than 600 million pages, determined that four "regions" of the Web account for around 90 percent of all...
[May 11, 2000, 15:29]
Telecom Standards Face Patent Ambush Threat
News We need to work out which standard to use, as a lot of 'open standards' are not that open," said von Gulik in a talk at the Holland Open Software Conference. Some standards bodies, such as the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), have already set...
[June 15, 2005, 17:45]
Liberty Alliance Unveiling Spec
News Eric Dean, chief information officer of United Airlines and chairman of the Liberty Alliance Project, will release the technical specification at the Burton Group Catalyst Conference, the group said in an advisory.
[July 10, 2002, 16:24]
Tech Giants Partner On Security Standard
News The companies, which are announcing the new security initiative at Microsoft's Tech Ed developer conference, also plan to build five more security specifications in the next 12 to 18 months that will provide other security that businesses may need...
[April 11, 2002, 8:32]
Microsoft Announces XDocs Details
News The software giant is set to announce at a conference in San Diego that XDocs will officially be called InfoPath. InfoPath also runs counter to XForms, an XML-based electronic forms standard being developed by the World Wide Web Consortium, the...
[February 10, 2003, 13:28]
Guy Kewney's Weekend Diary
News I'd quite like a pound for every press conference I've had to miss because of meeting the deadline for the previous one. Which leaves me without time to go and see the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, get his "gong" from the British...
[July 20, 1996, 11:00]
