Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, has joined the Cabinet Office in welcoming eight new countries to the Open Government Partnership (OGP). The OGP was launched in September 2011 by the UK and seven other founding ...
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mobiLead, which specializes in NFC and QR code information tag generation and management, today announced that it has joined the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an international community that develops open Web standards. The W3C's ...
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Google is hoping to make it easier for developers to integrate SMS or voice communications into applications running on the company's App Engine platform. Working with Twilio, Google has created native Python and Java libraries for ...
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There are three technologies that will fundamentally change the nature of video over the next few years, and these are having a significant impact on the collaboration market, according to Cisco. The first technology is High Efficiency ...
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The first Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering to five men whose work was fundamental in creating the World Wide Web. Engineers Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf, Louis Pouzin, Tim Berners-Lee and Marc Andreessen were today announced as the ...
Nowadays, there is an increasing need to keep the society protected from all the contaminants emanated by industries. In order to make the milieu protected and habitable, it is crucial to take care of the surroundings in an end-to-end ...
A security researcher has found a loophole in how the HTML5 Web Storage standard is implemented in the Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Apple Safari browsers that could allow malicious websites to fill visitors' hard disk drives with ...
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Mozilla previewed the first commercial build of its Firefox operating system and announced several operator and smartphone rollout plans on Sunday at Mobile World Congress. The OS is being pitched as a better alternative for low-end ...
Ericsson, Mozilla and AT&T will demonstrate a Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) proof of concept at Mobile World Congress 2013 this week. The joint demonstration builds on Ericsson’s Web Communication Gateway, the Mozilla Social ...
The second draft of the controversial Communications Data Bill, which aims to allow unparalleled interception of data about UK citizens' online communications and voice calls, is to be released next month. Government publishes draft ...
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is bringing its technical and management staff to China for the first time as a way to increase collaboration between the nation's Internet industry and the Web standards group. W3C said on Sunday it ...
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Tim Berners-Lee may be the celebrated British "father" of the world wide web as we know it, but a hugely important ingredient of the modern internet was switched on 30 years ago yesterday, as the US government's ARPANET started running the ...
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IDG News Service - With an eye toward updating the World Wide Web to better accommodate complex and bandwidth-hungry applications, the Internet Engineering Task Force has started work on the next generation of HTTP (Hypertext Transfer ...
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EC vice-president and leader of the digital agenda Neelie Kroes says website owners still need to obtain consent to use cookies,even if web users have browsers that offer'do not track'(DNT). Kroes,who is seeking a way for web users to opt ...
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With HTML5 and the Canvas 2D specifications now "feature-complete," the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) is mapping out enhancements for subsequent versions of these technologies. W3C is proceeding with refinements that could turn up in ...
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