CNN.com
Handheld devices and mobile phones will offer easier access to the Web; this is the goal of [the World Wide Web Consortium's] recently launched Mobile Web Initiative. [The consortium's] Web Services will enable organizations to communicate data more efficiently and securely to their customers and suppliers. The Semantic Web will enable computers to do more [...]

WebProNews.com
One of the more recent developments in web design is the use of CSS and semantic markup. CSS and semantic web design has several benefits: clarity in code, browser and other web-enabled devices compatibility, seperation of content and presentation, smaller burden on bandwith, and better visibility to search engines.
Back in the day, we designed sites [...]

DMReview
The software industry as a whole seems to be migrating toward semantics like a flock of birds heading South for the winter. Slowly, I am beginning to see the term “semantics” being used in various disciplines, such as the Semantic Web, SOA, business intelligence, information integration and business process management. In all these contexts, the [...]

ZDNet India
Stanford, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and many other universities are working to solve problems presented by the library of tomorrow, which will be largely digitized. Sifting through and organizing billions of digital documents will require new search technology.
MIT, for example, has teamed with the World Wide Web Consortium to create next-generation search technology [...]

ZDNet
Regarding search, Raghavan said, “We have two views of better search. Most people are not interested in search—they want to get things done. The future has to be more friendly to people getting tasks done. You don’t want to spend two weeks of evenings sitting at a keyboard and piecing together a vacation plan. You [...]

eWeek.com
Graham Glass, founder of successful software companies, supporter of Web services and service-oriented architectures, and former chief technology officer at webMethods Inc., has announced his resignation from the business integration software vendor.
Glass, who joined Fairfax, Va.-based webMethods when the company acquired Glass’ previous venture, The Mind Electric Inc. (TME), in October of 2003, said he [...]

Information Society Technologies
The system uses advanced technologies, like metadata and ontologies, for information management. Metadata is ‘information about information’, a means of archiving Web languages, while ontologies are the formal specifications of a system. Combining the two allows a computer to match up course materials with a topic.
Diogene also deployed ‘fuzzy’ learner modelling, which like [...]

Tech World
Fujitsu is developing two applications that could help enterprises make better use of their data and better handle information flowing into the company.
The first is a search tool for the “semantic web,” which refers to a web of interconnected servers filled with information that is tagged so it can be easily understood by machines. [...]

UK.Buikder.com
The body responsible for web content labelling has adopted the principles and standards of the Semantic Web
The Internet Content Rating Association released a new content labelling system on Tuesday, using RDF as the base for the new standard.
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The move is being billed as a fundamental shift in [...]

Information Society Technologies
A major step towards establishing Semantic Web services as the new e-work and e-commerce infrastructure has been made by a group of European researchers following the submission of a new framework to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C).
In June 2005 the DIP project announced the submission of the Web Services Modelling Ontology (WSMO) [...]