Thursday, May 22, 2003

Keeping the Web Free and Open: Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented up the World Wide Web, proposes a sensible patenting policy to protect the Web from commercial ownership threats while making it a more commercially viable environment for new business and invention. [Wired News] 8:13:44 AM

Time Warner Cable Dials Up Phone Service: AOL's Time Warner Cable on the verge of entering the telephone biz, with unlimited local, in-state and domestic long-distance digital "Voice over IP" service to it's cable subscribers, starting in Portland MN/US. [CNET News.com] 8:00:29 AM

Anticipating a Post-Web, Post-Windows World: The world's technology is becoming heterogenous, commoditized, decentralized, and ubiquitous. "Yesterday's technology is pervasive and mature today. It's an indispensable part of our personal and business lives." The driving force today is wired and wireless intercommunication between every kind of device. Closed, proprietary devices are writing their own obituaries. The inescapable truth is that the context has shifted. [CNET News.com] 7:33:42 AM

Buses on Biodiesel: A fleet of new buses in Palm Springs CA/US will soon be running on cleaner burning fuels; exhaust fumes replaced with the faint odor of french fries. [Future Energies] 7:14:58 AM

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