ICANN Chair Says No Delay or Restriction on new gTLD Programme In an interview, ICANN Chair Steve Crocker said that there would be no delay or restriction of the new gTLD programme. Steve Crocker [said that the ICANN] Board will be holding a special meeting in the first week of January and that the meeting’s [...]
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Saturday, December 31st, 2011Top 100 Stories of 2011 #50: The Net Watchman
Saturday, December 31st, 2011In 1992 a 22-year-old hacker named Jeff Moss set out to throw a farewell party for an online bulletin board that was shutting down. Word spread quickly and the invitation list ballooned. By the time all the guests arrived, Moss’s party had transformed into the first DEF CON, now the biggest hacker convention in the [...]
2011: Piracy Wars and Internet Censorship
Saturday, December 31st, 20112011: Piracy Wars and Internet Censorship Ernesto December 31, 2011 0 2011 Print Looking back at the past 12 months it’s fair to conclude that 2011 was the year that the entertainment industries focused on piracy-fueled Internet censorship. Domain seizures, DNS blockades, raids and arrests dominated the news, and the threat of the SOPA and [...]
The 10 biggest soccer stories in the USA in 2011
Saturday, December 31st, 2011|population_estimate_year = 2011 |population_estimate_rank = 3rd |population_density_km2 = 33.7 |population_density_sq_mi = 87.4 |GDP_PPP_year = 2010 |GDP_PPP = $14.780 trillion |GDP_PPP_rank = 1st |GDP_PPP_per_capita = $47,123 |GDP_PPP_per_capita_rank = 6th |GDP_nominal = $14.780 trillion |GDP_nominal_rank = 1st |GDP_nominal_year = 2010 |GDP_nominal_per_capita = $47,132 |GDP_nominal_per_capita_rank = 9th |HDI_year = 2010 |HDI = 0.902 |HDI_rank = 4th |HDI_category = [...]
GoDaddy Boycott: Domain-Hosting Company Changes SOPA Stance
Saturday, December 31st, 2011Thursday’s GoDaddy boycott may not have been the revolution some had hoped for, but it was enough to convince the domain hosting firm to publicly oppose the controversial Stop Internet Piracy Act (“SOPA”). As reported by CNET, GoDaddy CEO Warren Adelman said on Thursday: We have observed a spike in domain name transfers, which are [...]
Kount Receives Fourth Patent Allowance of 2011
Saturday, December 31st, 2011More Related Stories email article print page <![CDATA[ ]]> December 30, 2011 — Boise, Idaho (PRWEB) December 30, 2011 Kount Inc., a leading provider of fraud prevention technology, today announced it has been notified by the United States Patent Office of its fourth patent allowance this year. Expanding its portfolio of solutions and intellectual [...]
Save Tom’s, Stop SOPA
Saturday, December 31st, 2011Here at Tom’s Hardware, you know we don’t typically get political because with the heated debates between AMD vs. Intel who needs Donkeys vs. Elephants? We’ve got no agenda beyond providing the best hardware news and reviews we can dig up. But here at Year’s end, there’s a subject we want to share with you [...]
Natural gas price plunge puts heat on producers
Saturday, December 31st, 2011|population_estimate_year = 2011 |population_estimate_rank = 3rd |population_density_km2 = 33.7 |population_density_sq_mi = 87.4 |GDP_PPP_year = 2010 |GDP_PPP = $14.780 trillion |GDP_PPP_rank = 1st |GDP_PPP_per_capita = $47,123 |GDP_PPP_per_capita_rank = 6th |GDP_nominal = $14.780 trillion |GDP_nominal_rank = 1st |GDP_nominal_year = 2010 |GDP_nominal_per_capita = $47,132 |GDP_nominal_per_capita_rank = 9th |HDI_year = 2010 |HDI = 0.902 |HDI_rank = 4th |HDI_category = [...]
The Globe and Mail
Saturday, December 31st, 2011Just when you thought the odds of getting that long-promised apocalypse in 2012 were starting to dwindle, the U.S. government steps in to oblige. Even if the planet manages to survive the year intact, there’s a very real chance that the Internet could be a very different place in a year’s time, thanks to new [...]
DNS Made Easy Increases Focus On Training and Education
Saturday, December 31st, 2011DNS Made Easy is using video as the preferred choice to increase learning and overall ROI for all of their clients. Reston, Virginia (PRWEB) December 30, 2011 DNS Made Easy, the world leader in enterprise IP Anycast DNS services, has recently increased focus on education and training for clients and casual observers alike. After the [...]
DNS Made Easy Releases Q1 2012 Network Expansion Plans
Saturday, December 31st, 2011DNS Made Easy plans for big upgrades to their global IP anycast network in the first quarter of 2012. Reston, Virginia (PRWEB) December 30, 2011 DNS Made Easy, the world leader in enterprise IP Anycast DNS services, announced their Q1 2012 plans for network expansion. Already the premier network for DNS traffic, DNS Made Easy [...]
Oil Prices Mixed in Asia as Mideast Tensions Simmer
Saturday, December 31st, 2011|population_estimate_year = 2011 |population_estimate_rank = 3rd |population_density_km2 = 33.7 |population_density_sq_mi = 87.4 |GDP_PPP_year = 2010 |GDP_PPP = $14.780 trillion |GDP_PPP_rank = 1st |GDP_PPP_per_capita = $47,123 |GDP_PPP_per_capita_rank = 6th |GDP_nominal = $14.780 trillion |GDP_nominal_rank = 1st |GDP_nominal_year = 2010 |GDP_nominal_per_capita = $47,132 |GDP_nominal_per_capita_rank = 9th |HDI_year = 2010 |HDI = 0.902 |HDI_rank = 4th |HDI_category = [...]
US targets money laundering activity for drug cartels
Friday, December 30th, 2011, 5% other |demonym = Lebanese |government_type = Confessionalist, parliamentary republic |leader_title1 = President |leader_name1 = Michel Suleiman |leader_title2 = Prime Minister |leader_name2 = Najib Mikati |leader_title3 = Deputy Prime Minister |leader_name3 = Samir Mokbel |leader_title4 = Speaker of Parliament |leader_name4 = Nabih Berri |legislature = Chamber of Deputies |leader_title5 = Deputy Speaker of Parliament [...]
The secret to getting rich in 2012: Open APIs
Friday, December 30th, 2011Open … and Shut If the last decade was all about open source, the next decade will be about open APIs. However, as with open source, APIs aren’t necessarily a guarantee of billions in the bank. They’re simply the ante for playing the technology game at scale. That scale will be determined by who gives [...]
The Year in Review: Desktop Linux Developments in 2011
Friday, December 30th, 2011The “year in review” pieces that proliferate old and new media alike around this time of year get tedious pretty fast. But because I’ve yet to see a good compilation of the major developments — and there were plenty of them — that affected desktop Linux in 2011, I couldn’t think of any better topic [...]
Avastin Can Help Ovarian Cancer Patients
Friday, December 30th, 2011|population_estimate_year = 2011 |population_estimate_rank = 3rd |population_density_km2 = 33.7 |population_density_sq_mi = 87.4 |GDP_PPP_year = 2010 |GDP_PPP = $14.780 trillion |GDP_PPP_rank = 1st |GDP_PPP_per_capita = $47,123 |GDP_PPP_per_capita_rank = 6th |GDP_nominal = $14.780 trillion |GDP_nominal_rank = 1st |GDP_nominal_year = 2010 |GDP_nominal_per_capita = $47,132 |GDP_nominal_per_capita_rank = 9th |HDI_year = 2010 |HDI = 0.902 |HDI_rank = 4th |HDI_category = [...]
Cloud Registry
Friday, December 30th, 2011Cloud Registry in Joint Venture Bid for dot Sydney and dot Melbourne Cloud Registry, in partnership with Sedari and CoCCA, submitted our response to the RFP for .sydney, .melbourne and .victoria gTLDs. more» Article source: http://www.circleid.com/members/6636
Rockefeller calls for scaled-back domain-name plan
Friday, December 30th, 2011Senate Commerce Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., made a last push on Wednesday to get the international organization that helps oversee the Internet to reevaluate its plans to expand the number of top-level Web domain names. Rockefeller asked Commerce Secretary John Bryson and Larry Strickling, administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, to pressure the [...]
Despite Push Backs, ICANN Announces Just 13 More Days Until Applications Are …
Friday, December 30th, 2011Despite last-minute push backs from the FTC and Senator Rockerfeller it looks like ICANN is pushing ahead with the opening of the application period for new gTLD’s on January 12th. ICANN announced on its Facebook page today: “In just 13 days, the application window for new generic top-level domains opens! ” “Check out the new [...]
Protecting Americans from Web scams
Friday, December 30th, 2011The Stop Online Piracy Act and its Senate counterpart, the Protect IP Act, are provoking a chorus of criticism from the so-called Internet freedom lobby — the people who insisted that “the Internet as we know it will soon come to an end” if Congress didn’t pass a “Net neutrality law” in 2006. They now [...]
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