News tagged with world wide web consortium

Regulators, ad companies huddle over 'Do Not Track' features

The momentum of a growing multibillion-dollar industry is colliding with online privacy worries this week, as regulators and privacy advocates face off against the Internet advertising industry to hash out how proposed "Do ...

Technology / Internet

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

German researchers break W3C XML encryption standard

Standards are supposed to guarantee security, especially in the WWW. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main force behind standards like HTML, XML, and XML Encryption. But implementing a W3C standard does not mean ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Web standards group gets former tech exec as CEO

(AP) -- A former executive with IBM and other tech companies has been named the new CEO of an organization in charge of coordinating the technical specifications behind the World Wide Web.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 08, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Efforts under way to make Web more accessible

(AP) -- Imagine not being able to use a mouse to open a Web browser or a keyboard to type an e-mail. What if you couldn't distinguish colors on a computer screen or type the distorted letters in order to ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sensoring the World Wide Web

CSIRO scientists will lead an international initiative to develop standards for sharing information collected by sensors and sensor networks over the Internet.

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0