Matias Vangsnes

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ICANN Wants YOU…for gTLD Batching

Tuesday, July 31st, 2012

In an announcement published over the weekend, ICANN issued a request for community input on “requirements for an evaluation and delegation process” for new gTLDs. Essentially, questions raised during the Public Meeting in Prague about the order in which new gTLD applications would be handled – whether at the evaluation, release, or delegation phases – [...]

Torvalds and Shuttleworth to Speak at LinuxCon Europe in November

Wednesday, July 25th, 2012

Torvalds and Shuttleworth to Speak at LinuxCon Europe in November by Sam Dean – Jul. 25, 2012Comments (0) If you’re a Linux user, developer and/or fan and you have any chance at all of being in Barcelona, Spain in early November, a good open source conference is taking shape there. The Linux Foundation has just announced [...]

Runa Capital and ServInt Join Forces to Stimulate Next-Generation Hosted Technologies

Wednesday, July 18th, 2012

BOSTON MCLEAN, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Runa Capital, a global technology venture capital fund, and ServInt, a pioneering provider of managed cloud hosting for enterprises worldwide, today announced a joint program to stimulate the development of next-generation hosted technologies. All companies in the portfolio of Runa Capital who purchase hosting with ServInt will receive a special discount [...]

ICANN’s Yellow Brick Road…and Red, Blue, and Green Brick Roads

Tuesday, July 17th, 2012

It’s summertime. Your new gTLD applications are in, the jury (or in this case, the ICANN Board) is still out on batching, and Initial Evaluation is just barely underway. We couldn’t blame you if you wanted to kick back, relax, or even sneak off to the beach for a day or two. Here at FairWinds, [...]

HardKernel’s Tiny ODROID-X Development Board Packs Quad-Core Exynos …

Saturday, July 14th, 2012

Price-wise, HardKernel’s ODROID-X Development Board ($129) doesn’t hold a candle to the like of Raspberry Pi ($35), but it packs some tasty features that tinkers will love to play with. The ARM-based platform is built around a quad-core Samsung Exynos 4412 Cortex-A9 (1.4GHz) processor and has Mali-400 quad core graphics, 1GB of LP-DDR2 RAM, and [...]

Yahoo! Japan Saves Time Deploying Multiple SSL Certificates with GlobalSign Managed SSL

Tuesday, July 10th, 2012

Yahoo! Japan will save time and money deploying multiple SSL certificates with GlobalSign’s managed solution Yahoo! Japan announced on Monday that it has adopted GlobalSign‘s managed SSL service in an effort to decrease time and resources associated with managing and deploying multiple SSL certificates. This news comes three weeks after GlobalSign announced a partnership with [...]

ICANN’s overlordship of the internet confirmed again by US gov

Friday, July 6th, 2012

ICANN has had its powers over internet domain names, IP addresses and protocol numbers renewed by the US Department of Commerce. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced late last night that it has continued ICANN’s contract to run the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) for the next three to seven years. Crucially, the deal [...]

The GAC Strikes Back

Wednesday, July 4th, 2012

Last week in Prague, the GAC (Government Advisory Committee) relentlessly hammered ICANN over a range of issues relating to the new gTLD program. And while their criticisms were legitimate, one has to wonder to what extent governments were punishing ICANN for past offenses. At the same time, the ICANN board and management seem to have [...]

ICANN cancels Digital Archery program, has no immediate alternative

Wednesday, July 4th, 2012

IDG News Service – The Digital Archery contest, devised by ICANN to determine which gTLD applications would be handled first, was canceled on Thursday, the chair of the gTLD Program Committee announced during the ICANN 44 summit in Prague. No alternative was announced. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was planning to [...]

Blackberry to Pair Up With Android to Rebound in the Smartphone Arena

Saturday, June 30th, 2012

We talked yesterday about how Ubuntu and Google could possibly pair up and in turn bridge the smartphone/PC gap. Well, guess what kids? Surprise! Surprise! It’s Ubuntu RIM talking about pairing up with Google’s Android in order to revive its tarnished image and get the company back on track. As of now, things do not [...]

ICANN cancels Digital Archery program, has no immediate alternative

Saturday, June 30th, 2012

The Digital Archery contest, devised by ICANN to determine which gTLD applications would be handled first, was canceled on Thursday, the chair of the gTLD Program Committee announced during the ICANN 44 summit in Prague. No alternative was announced. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was planning to use a Digital Archery [...]

ICANN Cancels Digital Archery Program, Has No Immediate Alternative

Friday, June 29th, 2012

The Digital Archery contest, devised by ICANN to determine which gTLD applications would be handled first, was canceled on Thursday, the chair of the gTLD Program Committee announced during the ICANN 44 summit in Prague. No alternative was announced. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was planning to use a Digital Archery [...]

Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom… But Watch Out for Weeds

Friday, June 29th, 2012

When ICANN committed — after no small debate — to an open, rather than limited application process for new gTLDs, supporters likened it to “letting a thousand flowers bloom.” On reveal day we got our first glimpse at the thousand (plus) flowers they promised. Now it falls to ICANN to tend this wild new garden. [...]

New gTLDs: Competition or Concentration? Innovation or Domination?

Thursday, June 28th, 2012

This guest post was writting by Phil Corwin. Mr. Corwin is Founding Principal of the Virtualaw LLC consultancy and serves as Of Counsel to Greenberg Lieberman and as for the Internet Commerce Association (ICA), all located in Washington, DC. This post is his personal opinion. Expect the unexpected. Because it will happen. And it has [...]

New gTLDs: Competition or Concentration? Innovation or Domination?

Thursday, June 28th, 2012

This guest post was writting by Phil Corwin. Mr. Corwin is Founding Principal of the Virtualaw LLC consultancy and serves as Of Counsel to Greenberg Lieberman and as for the Internet Commerce Association (ICA), all located in Washington, DC. This post is his personal opinion. Expect the unexpected. Because it will happen. And it has [...]

ICANN suspends Digital Archery contest for gTLD program

Wednesday, June 27th, 2012

June 25, 2012, 8:15 AM — ICANN has suspended the Digital Archery contest part of its new Generic Top-level Domain (gTLD) Program, which was destined to decide which gTLD applications would be handled first, the organization announced on Saturday. The future of this application process is still to be determined, ICANN said during a news [...]

Registry Hub Sees Opportunity In ICANN’s gTLD Expansion

Tuesday, June 26th, 2012

Carl Franzen June 26, 2012, 5:45 AM In June 2011, the future of the Internet as we know it was forever changed by a group of 16 people in Singapore. The group, which made up the board of directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a nonprofit Los Angeles-based organization that [...]

ICANN Suspends Digital Archery Contest for gTLD Program

Tuesday, June 26th, 2012

IDG News Service — ICANN has suspended the Digital Archery contest part of its new Generic Top-level Domain (gTLD) Program, which was destined to decide which gTLD applications would be handled first, the organization announced on Saturday. The future of this application process is still to be determined, ICANN said during a news conference in [...]

Galaxy S3 Ubuntu installation possible, if you got the urge for some …

Tuesday, June 26th, 2012

Tweet Tweet In case you haven’t heard this a million times so far, the Samsung Galaxy S3 comes with Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich on board, on top of which you’ll find Samsung’s own user interface called TouchWiz 4.0. But that may not be enough for certain Android fans, especially those of you that would [...]

ICANN Suspends Digital Archery Contest for GTLD Program

Monday, June 25th, 2012

ICANN has suspended the Digital Archery contest part of its new Generic Top-level Domain (gTLD) Program, which was destined to decide which gTLD applications would be handled first, the organization announced on Saturday. The future of this application process is still to be determined, ICANN said during a news conference in Prague on Monday. The [...]

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