Libraries - All libraries to be online by 2002. The Labour Party reiterated its intention to form one giant regulator, called Ofcom, to cover the newly converged media market. English is the language of the internet.
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has appointed a team of advisers who will talk to schools, hospitals, libraries and other public bodies in areas where broadband is not available to help them club together to persuade telcos to bring...
But both companies have stated they would only grant rights to use the technology under "reasonable and non-discriminatory" terms, meaning they reserve the right to charge royalties to companies that want to use the SOAP 1.2 standard.
IBM said last year that it would not charge royalties on patented technology that is part of an ecommerce web standard. If approved as is, the patent would cover application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow actions related to accessing the...
IBM said the patents it's liberating cover a broad range of technologies, including linking operating system processes dynamically; protocols for exporting files; interoperability between databases and operating systems; language processing; user...
A component called a "Java Virtual Machine", assisted by libraries of pre-written code, translates programs so they run properly on a particular computer. The Java platform is a collection of software components that lets a program written in the...