On August 6, 1991--20 years ago--Tim Berners-Lee posted a summary of a project for organizing information on a computer network using a "web" of hyperlinks: the "WorldWideWeb," or W3.

The Web has changed the way people think and revolutionized the world as we know it in a remarkably short period of time. From clunky modems to smartphones, Web-based technology has come a long way. The only question is how far will it continue to evolve in the next 20 years?

The "South-Park"-style animations parody everything from officers having sex on duty to certain personnel getting promoted without necessary qualifications. While the city wants to criminalize the cartoons, First Amendment rights advocates say the move is an "extreme abuse of power."

The search warrant says one cartoon statement "discussed a past incident that has already been investigated... regarding a dating relationship (a female detective) had with a suspect." An embarrassing revelation; yes, but criminal?

The latest development has to with Facebook's facial recognition feature that helps users tag photos. After joining in the chorus of European nations that objected to the feature launch in June, German authorities are now the first to declare the feature illegal.

Facebook collected data about non-Facebook users through the Friend Finder feature and then stored it without permission. German authorities threatened legal action then, but it took Facebook nearly six months before they finally disabled the feature.

Still, the company doesn't seem to be responding too quickly. "We have repeatedly asked Facebook to shut down the facial recognition function and to delete the previously stored data," said Caspar in a statement Tuesday.

Here's the dirty secret Amazon don't want you to know, they don't pay developers a single cent.

Amazon gave away 101,491 copies of our app! At this point, we had a few seconds of excitement as well, had we mis-read the email and really earned $54,800 in one day? We would have done if our public agreement was in place, but we can now confirm that thanks to Amazon's secret back-door deals, we made $0 on that day.

Amazon decided to rub salt in the wounds a little further by discounting our app to 99 cents for a few days after the free promotion.

To add insult to injury Pocket Casts relies on a server to parse podcast feeds, and all these new users forced us to buy more hardware just to meet demand.

The music industry will waste no time in demanding ISPs immediately block illegal music websites following last week's landmark court decision requiring BT to prevent its customers accessing pirate website Newzbin2.

If ISPs do not block these sites voluntarily, the BPI will ratchet up the pressure and will seek court orders - citing 97A and the MPA case - requiring them to do so.

The bill's signing came roughly 10 hours before the expiry of a deadline for Washington to raise its borrowing limit.

He urged Congress to now look to boost the economy through measures to create jobs and increase consumer confidence.

Some Democratic and Republican lawmakers have bitterly opposed the legislation in recent days, saying it offered too much of their opponents' agenda.

Recent guesstimates have placed Google's server count at more than 1 million. But new data on Google's energy use suggests that the company is probably running about 900,000 servers.

"Google's data center electricity use is about 0.01% of total worldwide electricity use and less than 1 percent of global data center electricity use in 2010," Koomey writes.

The company has designed a new storage and computation system called Spanner, which will seek to automate management of Google services across multiple data centers.

It sounds counterintuitive to involve the government in anything that has to do with the Internet, but instilling trust means stopping the fraudster email problem.

If they could agree on a third-party service that could be the receptacle on a 24/7 basis for rapid account suspension, the 419 Fraud problem might dwindle down to a trickle quickly.

A fast shutdown process, however, thwarts the predators, and protects the innocents that we let use the Internet, despite its enormous potential for fraud.

The service, called KISSmetrics, is used by sites to track the number of visitors, what the visitors do on the site, and where they come to the site from - and the company says it does a more comprehensive job than its competitors such as Google Analytics.

"Both the Hulu and KISSmetrics code is pretty enlightening," Soltani told Wired.com in an e-mail. "These services are using practically every known method to circumvent user attempts to protect their privacy (Cookies, Flash Cookies, HTML5, CSS, Cache Cookies/Etags...) creating a perpetual game of privacy 'whack-a-mole'."

We recently reported on how Driver: San Francisco will require a constant internet connection to play.

Ubisoft have traditionally been the developer with some of the harshest DRM in the industry. In the games that use their always online "connected services", players can no longer to play if no internet connection is detected.

Sadly, legitimate players often take the brunt of such security measures. Intermittent internet connections and server issues at Ubisoft's end can stop PC Gamers from playing the game entirely.