What pops into your head when thinking of the World Wide Web? Words such as boundless, huge and even trampoline might cross your mind, yet the first adjectives it got were “vague but exciting.” Quite far from what we think of it today, on its 25th birthday.  A confusion still surrounding the World Wide Web is that it is often mistaken for the Internet. The Internet is the network of computers that circulates data around the globe, whereas the Web is one application that delivers data in form of webpages. Before Sir…

All Ukrainian on-air broadcasters have lost their audience in Crimea in the past week, according Valentyn Koval, the general manager of M1 and M2 TV channels. In a statement provided to Broadband TV News, he adds that new management of retransmission centres across Crimea switched off all Ukrainian TV channels and re-routed signals of Russian TV channels to transmitters instead. “I should add that most Ukrainian channels used their own transmitters and antennas, so this re-routing was made without any agreements and we consider our property is stolen or “annexed””. Koval…

New flexible service, hosted on HP’s FedRAMP-authorized cloud, simplifies device and app management to accelerate government mobility, improve workforce productivity PALO ALTO, Calif. — HP Enterprise Services today announced a new service designed to help accelerate the U.S. public sector’s adoption of mobile technology to drive workforce productivity, while securing IT assets. The growth in adoption of high-bandwidth mobile services presents the opportunity for a new era of digital government. Government employees expect broad and seamless access to business and personal applications and data from their device of choice. In…

The exchange currency Bitcoins is being used more and more often as a means of payment on the Internet, whether in online shops or for web services. However, even institutions like the environmental organization BUND accept donations In this new digital currency. In fact, customers can even pay at bars in Berlin In so-called Sitcom Kiez. Bitcoins are bank independent and therefore expected to form an extremely stable, globally accepted currency. They are protected by a digital signature and shown in their owner’s Bitcoin wallets after they have been exchanged…

Citizen scientists help cut time taken on cancer research from six months to one. Smartphone gamers have helped Cancer Research UK shorten the time it takes to analyse DNA for signs of cancer from six months to one. Last month, Cancer Research UK launched smartphone game Play to Cure: Genes in Space. While the game looks much like a shoot ’em up in space, it actually analyses DNA for signs of cancer. Players have to guide a spaceship through an asteroid belt to collect cargo called “Element Alpha”. Cancer Research…

The NTIA plans to let its domain-name contract with ICANN expire in late 2015, its administrator says The U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration will end its formal relationship with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers in late 2015, with ICANN developing a new global governance model, the agency said Friday. The NTIA plans to let its contract with ICANN to operate key domain-name functions expire in September 2015, while requiring the organization to develop a new global Internet governance model, NTIA administrator Lawrence Strickling said during a press conference.…