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Back in January, we reported on a truly stupid idea : making DRM an official aspect of HTML5. Things then went quiet, until a couple of...

As regular readers of this column know, there's still a battle going on over whether standards should be FRAND or restrict...

Apple has been garnering quite a reputation for itself as a patent bully, for example using patents around the world in an attempt to sto...

A couple of days ago I wrote about the deal between the regional government of Puglia and Microsoft, noting that it was frustrating that we...

Yesterday I went along to the launch of the next stage of the UK government's open data initiative, which involved releasing information...

What do you do after Inventing the Web? That's not a question most of us have to face, but it is for Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Heading up the...

When you've invented probably the most important technology for fifty years – and then magnanimously given it away – it's hardly sur...

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Somewhat naively I thought that Nokia was a savvy company on the side of light - maybe because it's Finnish; but I was wrong, it seems :...

Younger readers of this blog probably don't remember the golden cyber-age known as Dotcom 1.0, but one of its characteristics was the co...

I'd have expected this news about a new Emotion Incubator Group at the W3C to have been released on the 1st April: Emotion-oriented (or...

The World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ) is the sticky stuff that holds the Web together; without it, the whole caboodle would slowly come unst...

Here 's an interesting idea for academic publishing: micropayments as an alternative to standard subscriptions or open access. There...

As I have written elsewhere , blogging is as old as the Web itself. In fact, as a perceptive comment on that page remarks, the first blog w...