Tim Berners-Lee

Guardian Daily podcast: Chilcot inquiry into Iraq war opens; plus the 23-year 'coma' that wasn’t

Political commentator Michael White wonders whether the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war, which opens today, will yield a "smoking gun" or will satisfy those who accuse previous official investigations of whitewash. Kate...

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How To Fix Net News? Here's A Start

Monday Note: First Order Of Business Is To Fix Flaws In The Web's Design covers the intersection between media and technology and the shift of business models. Understandably, he used the page as his metaphoric vector; that was...

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CERN's LHC pioneers quantum leap in cloud computing

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN(the European Centre for Nuclear Research) in Geneva, , in an attempt to advance knowledge of energy and matter, but most significantly to piece together the events immediately after the big...

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OS maps to go online

Ordnance Survey mapping data should be free from April 2010. Ordnance Survey map data will be freely available online to everybody from 2010, the Government has announced. "Making all that data available doesn't make much sense...

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Speech to CBI conference

The Prime Minister has delivered a speech to the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) conference in London on 23 November 2009. Read the transcript CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY Let me first of all congratulate you, Helen, on being...

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Why are cyberlockers such a problem?

Companies offering online storage know that they can be used to store illicit files. But they don't need extra powers to root them out. The first question is simply: why? What's wrong with the existing copyright laws, and the...

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Henri Sivonen: Thou Shalt Not Spec a Feature that Might Inadvertently Compete with RDF when Used...

From the minutes of the TAG meeting on November 2 nd 2009: RESOLUTION: to request that the data-* section be removed from the HTML 5 spec A bit later: [Sam Ruby]: hmm... not sure I’d heard concerns around data-* before [Paul...

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Growing and Monetizing News Media

Is it possible? How can news media businesses both grow and monetize their online properties? Tough questions mainstream media publications need to ask themselves at the moment. This past week the media announced massive staff...

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History of Internet and WWW Revisited

Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web, ISP, Broadband and Wireless A rewind and brief history of Internet and the World Wide Web, WWW Inventor Tim Berners-Lee, the early Internet players, ISPs, the Net now, broadband and wireless....

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Taking the web to new heights

Viviane Reding, EU commissioner for the information society and media. It was able to attract $8 billion in foreign direct investment over the last four years and offer mobile technology to 54 million subscribers, in addition...

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