Sheldon Brown, technical guru and internet legend, has died of a heart attack aged 63. Sheldon was born on 14 July 1944. He grew up in Marblehead, Massachusetts, where as a child he would scour the town dump for discarded bicycle parts, assemble bikes and

Typically, each new version of the Python programming language has been gentle on users, more or less maintaining backward compatibility with previous versions. But in 2000, when Python creator Guido van Rossum announced that he was embarking on a new ver

Vint Cerf, the “father of the internet” and one of the world’s leading computer scientists, said that businesses and consumers needed to act now to switch to the next generation of net addresses.

In an agreement reached with the attorney general's office of New York, three service providers agreed to begin blocking access to web sites and bulleting boards associated with child pornography . Time-Warner Cable, Verizon and Sprint all agreed to shu

Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable have agreed to block access to Internet bulletin boards and Web sites nationwide that disseminate child pornography.