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W3C Chief Worries Mobile Internet Will Be 'Walled Garden'
15. November 2007
Tim Berners-Lee opines on the direction of the mobile Internet on the opening day of Mobile Internet World conference in Boston.
There may be all kinds of technology issues, business plan problems and potential failures to address before the mobile Internet becomes a success. But for Tim Berners-Lee there's really only one issue.
On the opening day of Mobile Internet World in Boston, the man credited with inventing the World Wide Web told a packed hall that the mobile Internet needs to be fully and completely the Internet, nothing more and nothing less. It needs to be free of central control, universal, and embodied in open standards.
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