The interview features Sir Tim talking about the many different aspects of his work, his views on the world wide web today and answering questions sent in via Twitter. Read more…
Archive for November, 2009
…One final bit of irony. Over ten years ago, Microsoft was sued for bundling a browser with Windows 98. Does it amuse anyone else that Google is bundling an operating system along with their browser? Read more…
The shock and awe over the thousands of hacked pager messages from September 11, 2001 just anonymously published online isn’t just about painful memories. There’s also the big question as to how all those mundane, terrible and weird messages — 573,000 lines and 6.4 million words, to be exact — were stolen to begin with. [...]
Fraudsters who targeted the Runescape virtual game with a phishing attack are being sought by police in the UK and US. Read more…
The death of Boyzone singer Stephen Gately was fastest rising search topic on Google’s UK site in 2009, the firm says. Read more…
BT admits its chairman is the only person in a village on the Oxfordshire-Buckinghamshire border with broadband. Read more…
Not satisfied with your holiday weekend shopping? Don’t worry, it’s Cyber Monday. Read more…
Greg Colip had a comfortable life as a Houston attorney specializing in the oil-and-gas industry. He never thought he’d become an expert in cancer screening. That changed when a friend arranged a quick chat with Jerry Bryant, a local scientist, in a hotel lobby. That led to the creation of Cell>Point, a company that plans [...]
Bernard Bailyn, the Harvard historian who won a Pulitzer for his 1967 book “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution,” wrote about the critical role pamphlets played in 18th century America. Read more…
The drag chute unfurled as space shuttle Atlantis landed on Runway 33 at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida after 11 days in space, completing the 4.5-million mile STS-129 mission on orbit 171. Main gear touchdown was at 9:44:23 a.m. EDT. Nose gear touchdown was at 9:44:36 a.m., and wheels [...]