It was exactly 15 years ago that the Web was made free:
Heute vor 15 Jahren erhielten Tim Berners-Lee und Robert Cailliau vom Genfer Kernforschungszentrum CERN die offizielle Erlaubnis, den Code der ersten Web-API und Webservers libwww als freie Software zu vertreiben.
[It was 15 years ago today that Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau received official permission […]
You may remember that a little while back there was a bit of a kerfuffle about the BBC’s decision to go with a Microsoft-based DRM solution for its download service. Initially we were told that only six people and a couple of mangy dogs ever accessed BBC sites with GNU/Linux, and therefore it wasn’t […]
An analysis of a regulatory filing by the Associated Press has revealed that XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. CEO Nate Davis received a cool $4.85 million in compensation last year.
Davis received a salary of $560,416, plus $747,500 in nonequity incentive-based compensation in 2007, according to the SEC filing. In addition, he also received stock […]
Keep up with who’s in and who’s aught at the SOS site here. Best of luck to all our Democratic candidates qualifying this week.
Jim Martin was the only Democratic US Senate candidate to qualify today, and he came out swinging. Yes, Deak. One, two, three, swoon.
“At the end of the day, my race is going […]
You can’t make this stuff up:
Microsoft has developed a small plug-in device that investigators can use to quickly extract forensic data from computers that may have been used in crimes.
The COFEE, which stands for Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, is a USB “thumb drive” that was quietly distributed to a handful of law-enforcement agencies last […]
- With all the venture capital moving around in the Silicon Valley, where is the real innovation?
He makes many good points especially that there is a lot of money flowing into companies that only offer incremental improvements over what is already available.
The situation may leave the technology industry in another downward spiral if none […]
Today Cox Enterprises announced it had acquired Adify, a leading ad network, for $300 million in cash. I spoke with Joelle Kaufman, VP of marketing at Adify, and Rodney Mayers assistant VP of interactive media at Cox.
Mr Mayers characterized the acquisition as being strategic to Cox and that Adify would continue to operate as an […]
Amy Graham over at Poynter.org has written a great article about the attitudes of some journalists towards the changes happening in the industry.
The only journalism that counts is that done by mainstream news orgs, especially in print or broadcast form. Alternative, independent, online, collaborative, community, and other approaches to news are assumed to be inferior […]
