3GSM World Congress

Father of the Web The world renowned father of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, has made some striking statements, which instructed people not to entrust personal data to internet giants like Facebook or Google. The statements were quickly reiterated through a vast range of online communities all wondering what steps they should begin to recover their personal details. It is widely recognised that through his creation and development of the internet, Mr Berners-Lee has given the world...Read Full Story

As we noted last week, the UK government is toying around with the idea of introducing laws that would open up email and social networks to more surveillance, in an effort that is claimed to be counter-terroristic. The proposed bills will be mentioned and discussed during the Queen’s speech on May 9th. The inventor of the world wide web is having none of this, and has spoken out against the government’s proposal by calling it “destruction of human rights”. He didn’t stop there though, raising...Read Full Story

“The 1990s are in real danger of becoming a digital dark age”. The Next Web’s focus shifted away from panel discussions and keynotes of Internet Week Europe (IWE), moving onto a pretty cool exhibition up in the Farringdon area of London. Digital Archaeology is a call for urgent industry-wide action to preserve the building blocks of the Web before it’s too late. The exhibition charts the world-changing moments of the early Web, with Story Worldwide presenting ten websites that changed the...Read Full Story

Lyon, Apr 20: Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the computer wizard who created the World Wide Web, has criticised the music industry for trying to stop the openness of the web. - Indiatalkies.comRead Full Story

“This post is brought to you by Columbia Pictures “Moneyball”. _____________________________________________________________ They’re the people who dare to do things differently and change our view of the world and our perception of what’s possible. Here, in no particular order, are the people we’ve named as the 10 greatest disruptive thinkers in the recent history of technology. Sure, we could go all the way back to Gutenberg’s printing press if we wanted to, but we’ve decided to...Read Full Story

First web page born on August 6, 1991Now there are more than 19.68billion pagesIt began as a simple page of links that allowed a group of scientists to share data in the confines of their laboratories.But in the 20 years since, it has become an inextricable part of the lives of billions of people.The World Wide Web (WWW) was born on August 6, 1991, when the first web page was launched on the internet by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Basic: Sir Tim Berners-Lee's first web site was simply a page of...Read Full Story

Today is a significant day in the history of the Internet. On 6 August 1991, exactly twenty years ago, the World Wide Web became publicly available. Its creator, the now internationally known Tim Berners-Lee, published the first Web page and gave birth to a new technology which would fundamentally change the world as we knew it. The World Wide Web has its foundation in work that Berners-Lee did in the 1980s at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. He had been looking for a way...Read Full Story

Google co-founder Sergey Brin recently made some mildly incendiary comments to The Guardian about how companies like Facebook and Apple are a threat to the openness of the internet. In the interview, Brin denounced the highly protected practices by the companies, which is commonly known throughout the tech industry as a walled garden, and said, “The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open. Once you get...Read Full Story

I don’t endorse any groups or organizations (unless I am directly working or involved with them during any of my digital projects) Everyone has a right to their opinions. Although, when it comes to end user privacy rights,  I do speak up and  I do support the fight  for end user protected tools & privacy rights for internet.  WE must  give people the freedom to VOICE  and we must empower those that need support – the world would be a safer place for all.  Ashie Hirji Anti-CISPA groups starts...Read Full Story

The-Sale-You-Cant-CloseMark Hunter says: We’ve all been there. After countless calls, meetings and an endless amount of work, you just can’t get the customer to say “yes” and move forward. There can be hundreds of theories and ideas as to why this happens more times than we care to admit. Let’s put all the theories aside and get to a solution you can use right now to determine if the customer is serious.Rise in Mobile Spurs Growth in Search MarketingCynthia Boris says: When asked which trend...Read Full Story