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 ...

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has an even grander vision for what the web can be. He and his allies have been working through the World Wide Web Consortium on an evolving ...

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 ...

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Once upon a time, search was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Most of us still couldn't live without it, but hardly an hour goes by that we aren't cursing the lousy results from our otherwise ...

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 ...

Today, digital information about nearly every aspect of our lives is being created at an astonishing rate. Hidden amid all of these data is the key to knowledge about how to cure diseases, make more ...

With the ongoing rapid increase in both volume and diversity of 'omic' data (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and others), the development and adoption of data standards is of paramount ...