THE HAGUE - THE INTERNET has only just started to flourish, its founders say, and will expand in the future with appliances and international users.

"The web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past," said Tim Berners-Lee, one of the inventors of the World Wide Web, at a seminar on its future this week.

SEOUL - NORTH Korea runs a cyber warfare unit that tries to hack into US and South Korean military networks to gather confidential information and disrupt service, a news report said on Tuesday.

The North's military has expanded the unit, staffing it with about 100 personnel, mostly graduates of a Pyongyang university that teaches computer skills, Yonhap news agency reported, citing an intelligence agency it didn't identify.

SAN FRANCISCO - AN ONLINE community devoted to helping start-ups duel with venture capitalists is opening an institute to train technology entrepreneurs how to build top-notch businesses.

TheFunded.com has recruited 25 successful chief executives, among them Jason Calacanis of human-driven online search tool Mahalo.com, to be mentors or teachers at an institute to open in Silicon Valley in the coming months.