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It's good news that the government is considering how to make mapping data freely available under public sector information regulations ( A new landscape unfolds , Technology, 17 November). But care must be taken to make sure...
Science fiction has long inspired real-world technology, but have the authors of sci-fi stories finally run out of steam? Stuart Andrews investigates From the earliest days of Jules Verne and HG Wells, science fiction and...
Companies offering online storage know that they can be used to store illicit files. But they don't need extra powers to root them out. The first question is simply: why? What's wrong with the existing copyright laws, and the...
Kampala — TIM Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web and founder of the Web Foundation, visits Uganda next week. According to the foundation website, he will be coming to make 'an important announcement' and explore how the web...
If you’re reading this article, it’s likely that you spend a fair amount of time online. 1988: First major malicious internet-based attack One of the first major Internet worms was released in 1988. 1990: First commercial...
Recently, I noticed Knight Foundation and Sunlight Labs blogging together . The topic: rallying Sunlight developers to join the Knight’s efforts to reinvent local news for the internet era. And, in particular, to join the...
From the Story: Ordnance Survey map data will be freely available online to everybody from 2010, the Government has announced. The move will allow people to interpret public statistics about crime, health and education by...
The BBC's new technology series, Digital Revolution, is the focus of a new competition to make a short film from BBC-shot footage. Presented by Aleks Krotoski, who writes in today's Telegraph technology section, the series...
Tim Berners-Lee und Nigel Shadbolt argumentieren in der britischen Times für Offene Schnittstellen und Zugang zu Öffentlichen Daten im Rahmen von Open-Government-Initiativen: Put in your postcode, out comes the data. Government...
Only old people use e-mail anymore. I know this is true because I occasionally use e-mail and, at 45, my children consider me practically ancient. This was further confirmed recently in a media conference when a 20-something...
