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Is the UK an open source laggard?
News Firstly, we have a feature-rich Content Management System that we're using on an increasing number of our web sites and this success is encouraging us to look for other open source solutions. CIOs are split on the controversial issue of adopting... [21 Jul 2008]
Berners-Lee and friends promote web science study
News Shadbolt explained BT is keen to boost knowledge within its own workforce especially with the company likely to deliver more and more content via the web in the near future. The study of web science is being promoted by a group of top academics to... [14 Jul 2008]
Google open sources web 2.0 security
News Google has released as open source a web application assessment tool, Ratproxy, that is designed to root out potential security flaws. The proxy works passively by analysing existing, user-initiated traffic, and is particularly tuned for complex... [14 Jul 2008]
High-speed uplink coming to T-Mobile
News HSUPA will be crucial for those who want to upload content to the web from their phones or laptops, rather than simply downloading it. T-Mobile will today turn on its fast uplink mobile broadband service, claiming it is the first UK operator to do... [01 Jul 2008]
Kangaroo web TV faces competition scrutiny
News The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) says the joint venture could create an excessive concentration of video content. Kangaroo - which is headed up by ex-BBC director of future media and technology, Ashley Highfield - aims to bring together content... [30 Jun 2008]
BBC takes wraps off iPlayer 2.0
News Almost a year after its beta launch, the BBC has added more functionality and improved the interface of the successful web TV service. The refreshed homepage now has a "Last Played" section which uses anonymous cookies to show the last programme... [25 Jun 2008]
Google: It pays to make ads work
News A new study showed growth slowed for display ads on the web, hurt by a weakening economy. Google has a financial incentive to make sure advertising can support companies that supply high-quality content, Schmidt said during an on-stage interview in... [12 Jun 2008]
Workers waste company time online
News The British economy is losing billions through workers surfing the web when they're supposed to be working. Separate research from web monitoring group Nielsen Online, found people are spending four per cent more time using the internet compared to... [11 Jun 2008]
Google looks to the cloud to woo business
News Chandra acknowledged that several well-established competitors, including Microsoft, Amazon.com, Salesforce.com, and others are converging on the same market: delivering business applications via the web with the same reliability and security as... [11 Jun 2008]
Mobile market booming: But there's room for all
News Wi-fi on mobiles is expected to gain critical mass as the chipset costs decline - expected to fall 30 per cent by 2012 - and mobile web applications gain in popularity. One is the increased consumer demand for creating and sharing multimedia... [06 Jun 2008]
'Noisy' anti-Phorm tool developed
News The privacy group added that, running in "silent mode", AntiPhormLite does not access any content on the web pages it visits, download images, execute scripts or run videos. Phorm aims to serve targeted adverts to people by observing their... [20 May 2008]
Virgin Media to ramp up capacity on core network
News As web users' thirst for bandwidth soars, cable broadband purveyor Virgin Media is looking to squeeze four times the capacity out of its optical network - but without the expense of ripping out and upgrading its fibre. [09 May 2008]
Sun unveils JavaFX for rich web apps
News The company said Java technology is now ready to be used by designers and content authors demanding rich web content. According to Sun, this will bring a new breed of web-application designers and social-application creators to Java, who will... [08 May 2008]
Warning: Web will run out of space by 2010
News Speaking at a Westminster eForum on web 2.0 this week in London, Jim Cicconi, vice president of legislative affairs for AT&T, warned the current systems that constitute the internet will not be able to cope with the increasing amounts of video and... [21 Apr 2008]
BBC hits back at ISPs over iPlayer usage
News Highfield claims broadband usage has "changed beyond recognition" since BBC iPlayer received its full launch on Christmas Day last year, contributing to a significant growth in people watching TV on the web. [04 Apr 2008]
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