If you type “mobile money” into Google you will be served reams of articles about its runaway success in Africa. That’s great PR for a continent used to bad press, but there is a problem. Mobile money has only really taken off in one country out of 55 on the continent. Read More
“We have told Google to block all YouTube links containing the film. If the company fails to do so we’ll block YouTube completely,” said TITC, the Kingdom’s telecom regulator. Read More
As the number of Internet users expanded by 167% over 2006-2011 in the Middle East and North Africa region, the demand for Arabic-language online content has risen in parallel. Click to Tweet! , Read More
Africa must participate in ICANN’s activities to help shape its policies, and benefit from the domain name industry (estimated at $2 billion in 2008), where it lags behind other regions, given the few African registrars, and that there are no generic top-level domain names (gTLDs) registries that are African. Read more
The China Internet Network Information Center, registry for the .cn domain, has announced the launch of the new .china (.中 国) Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) extension. Sunrise Phase 1 for the .中 国 IDN will begin this Saturday, September 15, 2012, and is open to trademark holders. Read More
Before he handed over the reins of power, the then interim CEO of ICANN, Akram Atallah, gave the WSJ an update on how opening up the generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) process was going. Read more
RIPE’s exhaustion of the IPv4 addresses means that moving forward, “each LIR (Local Internet Registry) can receive only one /22 (1,024 IPv4 addresses) upon application for IPv4 resources,” Read More
Cybercriminals “are out to get you,” said Richard DominguesBoscovich, assistant general counsel for Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit. “They will do whatever it takes. If the supply chain is how they’re going on get on [computers], that’s what they’re going to do.” Read More
The PKI-based alternative from Neustar and ARI would remove some of the cost and complexity for registries, but may create additional file-management headaches for trademark owners. Read More
Information Technology firms are warning of increased cyber-attack should the Government move to ditch copyrighted software. Last week, the Government issued a warning that in the next three years it will move its IT operations to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), Read More