On the 25th anniversary of .com, he describes how he gets information
In a forum today marking the 25th anniversary of the first .com registration, former USPresident Bill Clinton spoke about his favorite devices, the grim outlook for newspapers and the need for policies to improve Internet access.
Global network is among record 237 nominees for this years edition of the Nobel prize
The Norwegian Nobel Institute yesterday announced there are 237 nominees for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. Though the the institute doesn't normally disclose who made the list, an official did confirm to Computerworld that it includes the Internet.
BBC study also finds that many users also worry about privacy, state censorship
Nearly four out of five people around the world believe that Internet access is a fundamental human right, according to a BBC World Service study released this week.
Today's Internet has 1.7 billion users
Forty years after it was invented, the Internet is straining under the weight of cyber attacks, multimedia content and new mobile applications.
A radical proposal to change the Internet infrastructure is content-centric networking, which is being developed at PARC.
To borrow from John Lennon: Imagine there's no latency, no spam or phishing, a community of trust. Imagine all the people, able to get online.
New spur links Japan with China, Taiwan, South Korea and the U.S.
A new undersea fiber-optic cable has gone into operation that links Japan with the regional Trans-Pacific Express Cable Network (TPE), Japanese carrier NTT Communications said Monday.
He will be officially launching the World Wide Web Foundation on Sunday
The World Wide Web Foundation, Tim Berners-Lee's latest brainchild, is now officially open for business and involved with two initial projects, as it embarks on using the Web to empower people worldwide and bring about positive socio-economic change.
Now users of non-Latin scripts will be able to write domain names entirely in their own language
Starting in mid-November, countries and territories will be able to apply to show domain names in their native language, a major technical tweak to the Internet designed to increase language accessibility.
On this day in 1969, what would became the Internet was used for the first time--and crashed.
Why do we today celebrate today -- October 29 -- as the Internet's 40's birthday? Because on this day in 1969, what would later became known as the Internet was used for the very first time -- and crashed.
Internet congestion will be exacerbated by localities which may choose to close schools and these students, confined at home, will likely look to the Internet for entertainment
While sounding a bit like Chicken Little, US Federal government watchdogs today said that the H1N1 pandemic will cause a significant increase in the use of the Internet by students and teleworkers that would create serious network access congestion.
UCLA research finds that online searching can increase brain activity in older adults
Could it be that the Internet actually - gasp! - makes you smarter?
The new agreement sets up international review panels to oversee the organization
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has reached a new agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce allowing the nonprofit greater independence, while giving more countries oversight of the organization.
The payday lenders falsely threatened customers with arrest, the FTC said
A group of Internet payday lending companies that allegedly threatened customers who didn't make payments with arrest and called customers at work and swore at them has agreed to pay US$1 million to settle charges from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the state of Nevada.
Predecessor IPv4 is running out of available addresses, Vinton Cerf warns at industry event
Internet pioneer Vinton Cerf has repeated a call for migrations to IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) to stave off an anticipated lack of available addresses on IPv4.
Experts predict an expanding online 3D world and much more collaboration
As the Internet hits 40 this week, it's not difficult to look back and see the changes it's brought to the world.
