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  • Access for all as Wap walls come down

    Antony Savvas Mobile phone operators are pulling down their "walled gardens" to allow any company to have their corporate Web sites read by mobile...22 Mar 2000

  • Facebook is threat to web, warns Tim Berners-Lee

    Net neutrality is a basic value of the internet according to web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, accusing Facebook and Apple of threatening the web's future development. Writing in an essay for Scien...22 Nov 2010

  • Photos: 20 years of websites - the defining moments of the web

    1995: eBay launched under the name AuctionWeb eBay was founded as AuctionWeb in California, on September 3, 1995, by French-born Iranian computer programmer Pierre Omidyar as part of a larger perso...05 Aug 2011

  • Net neutrality: do you feel lucky?

    The buzz created by the Google-Verizon proposals on net neutrality to the US Federal Communications Commission has given impetus to consultations on the same topic issued by Ofcom and the European ...25 Aug 2010

  • Vaizey 'gives go-ahead for two-tier internet'

    Communications minister Ed Vaizey on Wednesday aligned himself against two key figures in internet history, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and Vint Cerf, by giving the tacit go-ahead for the development of a...18 Nov 2010

  • Rocky road ahead for mobile market

    Device technology is advancing so fast that legislation and network infrastructure are falling behind. The mobile landscape resembles the seabed moments before the tsunami hits: as the uptake wave ...31 Jan 2011

  • Buyers guide to network security

    For years network security has been seen as central to preventing the undesirable outside world gaining access to corporate networks. The rationale was that if the network perimeter was protected, ...05 Apr 2010

  • Photos: Key events of the past 20 years of the web

    In 2006, Twitter launched as an SMS service Twitter's origins lie in a "daylong brainstorming session" held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo. Dorsey introduced the idea of an individ...12 Mar 2009

  • Mobile search revenues to reach £2.4bn by 2013

    Revenues from internet searches on mobile devices will reach £2.4bn globally by 2013, says Juniper Research. A report by Juniper says that although revenue generated by data charges associated with...18 Mar 2008

  • Berners-Lee: patented technology impedes mobile web

    Patented technology is a major obstacle to development of a mobile web, Tim Berners-Lee, founding father of the world wide web, said yesterday. Speaking at the Pinkerton lecture of the Institution ...21 Sep 2007

  • 3 Group boosts mobile broadband content

    Mobile operator 3 Group has signed a number of content and access deals to make it easier for users to take advantage of 3G mobile networks. The company, the UK’s first 3G operator, has signed a de...16 Nov 2006

  • Mobile operators defend VoIP ban

    Mobile operators have defended their decision to block mobile VoIP services over their networks. Last month, it was revealed that Vodafone and Orange had blocked contract users from using the Truph...04 May 2007

  • Elata gateway opens up telco systems to mobile apps

    Mobile content supplier Elata has launched a "network gateway" to give customers easy access to mobile applications. Elata said the product, Elata Connect, provided a secure network gateway for thi...14 Feb 2005

  • Web will become omnipresent service platform, conference told

    “As a general rule the web does not work very well on mobile devices at the moment, even though almost two-thirds of mobile devices are web capable,” Dominique Hazaël-Massieux of the W3C Mobile Web...27 Jun 2006

  • The reality of convergence

    Convergence has become one of those words in telecommunications -- a buzzword that has many definitions and little tangible impact on the everyday consumer. We have, as an industry, freely used thi...14 Nov 2006

  • Any information, any time, any network - how close are we to the full take-up of 3G?

    Last month's 3GSM conference suggests 3G is taking its first steps to maturity The 3GSM conference in Cannes in February may not have been the first of its kind, but it could be the most important ...29 Mar 2005

  • US carriers team up on MMS

    US wireless operators have created a plan for MMS (Multimedia Messaging Services) interoperability across networks, the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA) has announced. The ...27 Oct 2004

  • Andreessen: Microsoft to make IE more competitive

    The success of web browsers such as Mozilla Foundation's Firefox may ultimately cause Microsoft to be more aggressive in ensuring its dominance of internet client software. So said Marc Andreessen,...07 Oct 2004

  • Wireless access demand spurs release of gateway technologies

    A raft of new products has emerged to support the increasing demand for wireless technologies, writes Antony Adshead. To meet the rise in the use of "hotspots", where wireless access is provided to...05 Sep 2002

  • Fresh approach lets users access all their PC programs and files from a mobile

    Scottish firm shows how a user's PC can act as a server to offer anywhere access. Edinburgh-based technology firm Pocketwatch has come up with a way of to allow users to access everything on their ...12 Sep 2003