Despite the recession, luggage retailer Ebags.com enjoyed phenomenal 2010 holiday sales — some 33% higher than the previous year. (The online retail sector as a whole reported a 15% gain this past ...

Researchers hope that soon web technology will get to the point where, as you drive into town, an application spots a space in a nearby car park, calculates how long and what route to get there, and ...

A collection of linked data on the Web to make searches more effective. Just as Web pages are linked together via hypertext, the goal of the Semantic Web is to link all available public data. As ...

The BBC’s website for the 2010 World Cup was notable for the raw amount of rich information that it contained. Every player on every team in every group had their own web page, and the ease with which ...

Those who understand the semantic web are split on its future Experts expect online information to be organized in smarter, more useful ways in coming years, but there is a dispute about whether the ...

Earlier this month I had the great pleasure to spend time talking with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and now Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in Cambridge, MA. In ...

Sometimes, you can enter into a technology too early. The groundwork for semantics was laid down in the late 1990s and early 2000s, with Tim Berners-Lee's stellar Semantic Web article, debuting in ...

It might seem like a subtle difference, but the machine-readable nature of the semantic web is likely to have an effect on our exploitation of information that is at least as profound as its ...

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has worked along with many others in the internet community for more than a decade to achieve his next big dream: the semantic web. His vision ...