Features: HTML 5 progresses despite challenges
Development of HTML 5, the highly touted upgrade to the language of the Web, is progressing but still faces obstacles, including lack of a standard video codec, said an official of the World Wide Web Consortium at a gathering on Tuesday.
Paul Krill 04/11/2009 09:36:00
Features: Google Chrome: The fast browser with slow adoption
The launch of Google's Chrome browser a little over a year ago brought with it a mountain of hype and expectations, with some suggesting it could be as instantly disruptive and beneficial as Gmail was to the webmail market.
Juan Carlos Perez 31/10/2009 11:18:00
Features: ICANN approves domain names we can't type
This is a bad day for the English language, after ICANN approved non-Latin characters for use in Internet domain names. Having invented the Internet--40 years ago yesterday--the U.S. has given away whatever advantage it offers English-speakers.
David Coursey 31/10/2009 10:46:00
Features: Happy 40th birthday, Internet!
On October 29, 1969, the Internet came in not with a bang, but with a "lo."
Jared Newman 30/10/2009 03:39:00
Features: Can the Internet handle H1N1?
While sounding a bit like Chicken Little, US Federal government watchdogs today said that the H1N1 pandemic will cause a significant increase in the use of the Internet by students and teleworkers that would create serious network access congestion.
Michael Cooney 28/10/2009 01:41:00
Features: Wikileaks leader talks of courage and wrestling pigs
In early March, two human rights lawyers from Kenya were on their way to give testimony about illegal killings by police when their car was blocked and they were shot dead at close range.
Dan Nystedt 28/10/2009 09:56:00
Features: UK investigates online pricing, behavioral advertising
The U.K.'s competition authority launched two studies on Thursday that will probe behavioral-advertising pricing strategies and if some pricing practices could potentially mislead consumers.
Jeremy Kirk 16/10/2009 04:12:00
Features: Companies, lawmakers tell US FCC to dump net neutrality
As the U.S. Federal Communications Commission moves toward developing formal net neutrality rules, some U.S. lawmakers and telecom-related companies have told the agency that new regulations will cause more problems than they're worth.
Grant Gross 16/10/2009 06:47:00
Features: Browser wars redux: Top 5 duke it out
For browser fans, this is the best of times.
Features: The Web browser turns 15: A look back
The Web browser turns 15 on Oct. 13, 2009 - a key milestone in the history of the Internet. That’s when the first commercial Web browser - eventually called Netscape Navigator - was released as beta code. While researchers including World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and a team at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications created Unix browsers between 1991 and 1994, Netscape Navigator made this small piece of desktop software a household name.
Carolyn Duffy Marsan 13/10/2009 09:15:00
 
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