Matias Vangsnes

Internet, communication and the concept of open source

Posts Tagged with "endorsement"

Dubai: Domain name

Tuesday, July 24th, 2012

The California-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has published the long-awaited list of organisations seeking to obtain new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), commonly recognised as internet address endings or suffixes. Dubai eGovernment (DeG) is one of the more than 1900 applicants for gTLDs and is hoping to secure the recently dubbed dotDubai [...]

.Physio New gTLD Applicant Revealed

Friday, June 8th, 2012

Smartcompany.com.au,  just covered the story of Glenn Ruscoe, who applied for the .physio domain, which he plans to sell to physiotherapists worldwide. “Ruscoe told SmartCompany “I was reading the newspaper one morning when I heard about the ICANN initiative and I thought, ‘That’s fantastic’, I want one of those for my practice website.   I [...]

Video of North Carolina pastor’s plan to ‘get rid of’ gays goes viral

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

By Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor (CNN) – Video of a North Carolina pastor preaching that gays and lesbians should be rounded up inside an electric fence is going viral on the Internet, two weeks after North Carolina passed a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage and President Barack Obama voiced personal support for legalizing such [...]

Xen Hypervisor Enjoys Enhanced Support In Ubuntu 12.04

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

If there’s one thing the Xen hypervisor and Ubuntu Linux probably will always have in common, it’s names that no one is quite sure how to pronounce. But at a less superficial level, the two software projects are also becoming more integrated than ever, with newly released Ubuntu 12.04 boasting unprecedented support for Xen software. [...]

Ubuntu signs HP as heavy-metal support act

Friday, April 20th, 2012

Canonical’s cloudy ambitions and Metal-as-a-Service vision for Ubuntu have landed the muscular backing of Hewlett-Packard. HP will certify Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server, due to land on 26 April, for selected ProLiant servers, making this the first time users of the Linux distro can receive HP’s hardware warranty support. Newer ProLiant servers will be added to [...]

HP to certify Ubuntu 12.04 LTS for its Proliant servers

Thursday, April 19th, 2012

Mark Shuttleworth has announced at the OpenStack conference that Canonical has received a ringing endorsement from HP in the form of certification for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on the ProLiant server systems. Responding to customer demand, HP has decided to officially support the popular flavor of Linux giving sysadmins another flexible software option to leverage their [...]

Sizing Up Canonical’s Ubuntu One Service

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

As of next month, Canonical’s Ubuntu One file-syncing service will be 3 years old. Since its introduction it has evolved considerably and taken some unexpected turns. At this juncture, then, it seems appropriate to ask: What is Ubuntu One, exactly? What makes it different and where is it headed in the future? Read on for [...]

Canonical Narrows Linux Focus By Dropping Kubuntu

Saturday, April 14th, 2012

As Linux users look forward to the release later in April 2012 of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Canonical’s decision to cease sponsoring Kubuntu as an official Ubuntu variant has passed largely under the radar — a sign, perhaps, that Kubuntu’s user base is small. But as the first member of the Ubuntu family to lose official [...]

Canonical Narrows Focus By Dropping Kubuntu

Friday, April 13th, 2012

As Linux users look forward to the release later in April 2012 of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Canonical’s decision to cease sponsoring Kubuntu as an official Ubuntu variant has passed largely under the radar — a sign, perhaps, that Kubuntu’s user base is small. But as the first member of the Ubuntu family to lose official [...]

Euro banks slam dot-bank plan

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

European banking regulators have slammed an American-led plan to create a new “.bank” top-level domain, saying it could give way to “a more dangerous form of phishing”. The European Banking Authority wrote to California-based domain name industry overseer ICANN earlier this month to say that plans for financially oriented extensions such as “.bank” and “.fin” [...]

Euro banks slam dot-bank plan

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

European banking regulators have slammed an American-led plan to create a new “.bank” top-level domain, saying it could give way to “a more dangerous form of phishing”. The European Banking Authority wrote to California-based domain name industry overseer ICANN earlier this month to say that plans for financially oriented extensions such as “.bank” and “.fin” [...]

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