Matias Vangsnes

Internet, communication and the concept of open source

The old and dirty May, 2012

gTLD seminar to be held in Brussels on June 22

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

The seminar is titled “Challenges in the extended Internet: How to Defend Your Interests and Addressing the Competition in the New gTLDs, Whether you Applied or Not”. It is hosted by ICC Belgium and the arbitration centre Cepani/Cepina. Speakers include Brian Beckham of the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center, Michel Flamée of Cepani/Cepina, John Murino [...]

Ottawa-Based Momentous Corp. Reveals Bold Plan to Open Up Internet Landscape … – Virtual

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

Canadian Applicant Seeks Approval for DotDESIGN, DotSTYLE, DotRIP and DotSUCKS from Internet Governing Body Ottawa, Canada (PRWEB) May 31, 2012 With the window now closed for applications to operate new Internet domain name registries like .com, .net and .ca, Momentous Corp. (http://www.momentous.com), a holding company based in Ottawa, has announced the names of the four [...]

Web.com Applies to be Exclusive Registry for New ".WEB" Designation

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., May 30, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Web.com Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:WWWW), a leading provider of internet services and online marketing solutions for small- and medium-sized businesses, has applied to be the exclusive registry for the new “.WEB” generic top level domain (gTLD), which is part of the first wave of the newly-expanded universe of [...]

Bodhi Linux 2.0 alpha arrives for testing

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

The Bodhi development team has published the first pre-release build of Bodhi Linux 2.0, the project’s next major update. According to project lead developer Jeff Hoogland, the goal of the new version “is not to introduce ground breaking new features”, but rather to “allow our distro to transition to the next major Ubuntu LTS as a [...]

OSCON Nonprofit Pavilion deals with limited space

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

May 31, 2012, 11:41 AM — Due to limited space, the popular O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) has changed the way it is filling the coveted Nonprofit Pavilion for the upcoming 2012 show, which could leave some popular open source projects without show space. The new procedure was not particularly a secret; OSCON organizers outlined [...]

A View of Ubuntu

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

After three weeks in South Africa, the last of which I’d spent on safari near Kruger National Park, I flew to Johannesburg where I had a layover of a few hours before my flight back to the states. I’d scheduled to meet a friend at an airport café. Even after just a week, the re-entry [...]

Which Reigns Supreme in Graphic Design: Functionality or Design?

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

Dallas, TX, May 30, 2012 (PRWeb.com via COMTEX) – This week’s poll on GraphicDesign.com takes readers inside the mind of one of the top WordPress theme developers on the planet, ElegantThemes.com founder and designer Nick Roach. The site is one of the largest distributors of WordPress themes in existence and its head honcho, Roach, has [...]

Monte Cahn Joins Domain Holdings Group

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

May 31st, 2012 By: THN News <!– GA_googleFillSlot(“THN-140×60-1-Rotating”);–> <!–GA_googleFillSlot(“THN-140×60-2″);–> <!–GA_googleFillSlot(“THN-140×60-3″);–> (The Hosting News) - Domain Holdings announced Wednesday that domain industry pioneer Monte Cahn has joined its team as an Executive in Residence and Advisor to the Board. In his new role, he will help shape the company’s growth and strategic direction while also taking a [...]

Public Interest Registry Aims To Broaden International Reach With Creation Of …

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

RESTON, Va., May 31, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ – The Registry Submits Applications to ICANN for Four Top-Level Internationalized Domain Names Public Interest Registry (PIR) – the not-for-profit operator of the .ORG domain – today applied for the creation and management of four internationalized domain names (IDNs) recognized as .ORG in non-Latin-based scripts. As part [...]

Momentous Corp, Owner Of Pool.com Applies For New gTLDs: .Sucks, .Design …

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

Momentous Corp. which owns Pool.com, announced today that it has applied for 4 new gTLD’s domain name extensions. “Some people may be surprised by the TLDs we’ve pursued,” says Rob Hall, Chairman and CEO of Momentous. “But we are confident that our applications will help to create real focus and energy for specific industries, communities [...]

Tech Cores Releases V3 – A Revolutionary WordPress Web Application

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

Research In Motion Ltd., the maker of the BlackBerry, is in steep decline. The company, once the crown jewel of the Canadian technology industry, is now worth 1 percent of Apple’s market capitalization. One way for RIM to stop the downward tailspin: It could sell itself to a competitor or financial firm. But who would … [...]

Which Reigns Supreme in Graphic Design: Functionality or Design?

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

One-on-one with Nick Roach. This week’s poll on GraphicDesign.com takes readers inside the mind of one of the top WordPress theme developers on the planet, ElegantThemes.com founder and designer Nick Roach. Dallas, TX (PRWEB) May 30, 2012 This week’s poll on GraphicDesign.com takes readers inside the mind of one of the top WordPress theme developers [...]

Akismet Just Filtered Its 50 Billionth Piece Of Spam, Now Seeing 700 Spam Comments Per Second

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

WordPress just hit an impressive milestone today: it has now filtered its 50 billionth piece of spam. Akismet, the homegrown comment filtering system from WordPress maker Automattic is the tool responsible for all the spam fighting. And those spammers keep the system busy. In April, Akismet blocked 1.8 billion spam messages, or 60 million pieces of spam [...]

Three Varied Tools for Blogging With a Hand-Held

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

Now, with a mobile device and the right apps, bloggers barely need to touch a conventional keypad to keep readers sated. Popular blogging services like Blogger, Tumblr and WordPress have free apps for Android and Apple, and while those apps are sometimes flawed, they’re generally good enough to download. I found that the WordPress app [...]

Domain Industry Pioneer Monte Cahn Joins Domain Holdings Group

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

Domain Holdings, an industry leader in premium domain brokerage and monetization, adds domaining pioneer Monte Cahn to its growing team. Delray Beach, FL (PRWEB) May 30, 2012 Domain Holdings announced Wednesday that domain industry pioneer Monte Cahn has joined its team as an Executive in Residence and Advisor to the Board. In his new role, [...]

ICANN sets big ‘Reveal’ on new Top Level Domain names

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

ICANN sets big ‘Reveal’ on new Top Level Domain names By William Jackson May 30, 2012 The window to apply for new generic Top Level Domain names is, as of this writing, about to close (official closing: 8 p.m. EDT May 30), and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers plans to publish a [...]

Web.com Applies to be Exclusive Registry for New ".WEB" Designation

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., May 30, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) – Web.com Group, Inc. /quotes/zigman/112641/quotes/nls/wwww WWWW -2.22% , a leading provider of internet services and online marketing solutions for small- and medium-sized businesses, has applied to be the exclusive registry for the new “.WEB” generic top level domain (gTLD), which is part of the first wave of [...]

DNS-changing Trojan leads to phishing banking sites

Wednesday, May 30th, 2012

Latin American Internet users are constantly attacked by cyber crooks who aim to get their online banking credentials in order to perpetrate identity theft and banking fraud. Two of the most often employed ways to do that is to infect users with malware or to trick them into visiting a phishing site, but this latest [...]

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Technical project manager at Futurniture. General interest in Internet, communication and the concept of open source.

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