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Berners-Lee: Demand your data from Internet companies

Posted April 19, 2012 - 8:53 pm

Tim Berners-Lee has said that the problem with companies like Facebook and Google is not that they collect vast troves of data about their users, but that they don't share with them what they learn from it.
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Eolas patents quickly ruled invalid by jury

Posted February 10, 2012 - 11:32 am

Patent troll Eolas stumbles in first case as Texas jury rules patent invalid.
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Poll

Is the Web French?

Posted January 26, 2012 - 12:54 pm

Tim Berners-Lee, British, worked at CERN in Switzerland, but his actual office was technically just over the border in France. Take a stand: Is the Web Swiss, French, or transcendent?
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French? The World Wide Web is French?

Posted January 26, 2012 - 12:05 pm

Tim Berners-Lee, British, worked at CERN in Switzerland, but his actual office was technically in France. Champagne, anyone?
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Web, Internet inventors have cleaned up on awards

Posted June 6, 2011 - 6:27 am

The inventors of the World Wide Web and the Internet sprung their ideas on the public more than two decades ago - and the accolades haven't stopped since.
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Web inventor Berners-Lee fights to keep it open

Posted May 9, 2011 - 10:12 am

A look at how the Web's inventor sees his creation more than two decades after its birth.
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Berners-Lee: Web access is a 'human right'

Posted April 12, 2011 - 5:46 pm

Two decades after creating the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee says humans have become so reliant on it that access to the Web should now be considered a basic right.
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Berners-Lee calls for net neutrality at govt roundtable

Posted March 17, 2011 - 10:52 am

Creator of the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, called for net neutrality at a roundtable event hosted by Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, Ed Vaizey.
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Berners-Lee: Social networks are a 'threat to the web'

Posted November 22, 2010 - 11:09 am

Founder of the web, sir Tim Berners-Lee, has slammed social networks claiming they are "a threat to the web".
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Berners-Lee deconstructs a bag of chips

Posted May 27, 2010 - 2:33 pm

At D.C.'s Gov 2.0 conference, Sir Tim Berners-Lee and others work to explain the abstract concept of linked open data
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Berners-Lee: Govt can’t kill open data movement

Posted May 26, 2010 - 10:47 am

Sir Tim Berners-Lee remains hopeful that the Institute for Web Science and his promotion of open government data has a future, despite Monday’s announcement that plans for the institute are to be axed as part of the government’s plan to slash public spending.
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Fighting the Dark Side: Tech's Heroes and Villains

Posted February 22, 2010 - 11:59 am

The hero and the villain. It's the age-old formula that pervades today's reality TV showdowns, the shenanigans of professional wrestling and cinematic classics like Star Wars. Tech is no different, with its passionate heroes who balance profit with innovation and social responsibility, and the money-mad, egomaniac villains who simply cannot be trusted. Here's a look at tech's good guys and bad guys.
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Tim Berners-Lee: Sorry about the slashes

Posted October 20, 2009 - 8:45 am

Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the World Wide Web, doesn't have a lot of regrets about his creation, but one thing does nag at him: the slashes.
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Tim Berners-Lee is cybercrime victim

Posted March 16, 2009 - 12:31 pm

'Founder of the web', Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has revealed he was the victim of online fraud after purchasing a gift online.
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Berners-Lee starts foundation for Web's future

Posted September 15, 2008 - 10:07 am

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, will launch a new foundation focused on extending the capabilities of the Web and bringing the Internet to all the world's people, he announced Sunday.
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