(CNN) — From the continuing rise of tablet devices to the daily-deals craze and the return of the Internet IPO, 2011 has been a transformative year for technology. The pace of change has become blisteringly fast, with traditional industries — bookstores, video-rental chains, newspapers — crumbling more quickly than we could have imagined. read more
16.29% of all traffic to Affiliate Window’s 10,000 sites stemmed from mobile devices in November, the U.K. affiliate network reports. That’s up from 13.25% in October. 9.45% of traffic was on smartphones in November, up from 7.76% in October; 6.84% of traffic was on tablets, up from 5.49%, the company says. During the last week …
June 13 was a big day for the domain name industry. It’s the time of year to review what has transpired in the domain name industry over the past year and look forward to 2012. We’ll start with one of the most anticipated dates in the domain industry this year: June 13, 2012. That was …
ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) will draw 1900 new sponsored top level domains (TLDs) in a “prioritisation draw”, Tuesday Australian time. Successful bidders will be chosen through a lottery draw – which means for the first time we’ll have some foresight on what kind of names we can expect to hit …
In a recent Blog by the Ombudsman Chris LaHatte while responding to DCA’s complaints of Conflict of interest against two board members Mike Silber and Chris Disspain . In his conclusions LaHatte states “I consider that no disqualifying conflict of interest, or indeed any conflict of interest at all,”. . He notes however that …
“It is likely that this complaint has led to increased awareness of the possibilities of conflict of interest, which the Board will carefully consider in terms of the existing policy about conflict, when the issue arises. I consider this should continue to be a matter for consideration in gTLD decision making by the Board.” Wrote …
Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple with Steve Jobs, is now chief scientist for Fusion-io. He notes that these predictions on the outlook for next year stem from a series of conversations he had recently with Brett Shockley, senior VP and general manager of applications and emerging technologies atAvaya. read more
“The United States has announced today that it cannot sign” the treaty’s provisions “in their current form,” said Terry Kramer, the U.S. ambassador to the World Conference on International Telecommunications, on Thursday as the 12-day conference draws to a close this week. Representatives of several other of the world’s largest economies also spoke out against …
The World Conference on International Telecommunications (#WCIT-12) currently taking place in Dubai is now in full swing. A number of high ranking officials and dignitaries are in attendance at the conference, including Mohamed Nasser Al-Ghanim, Director-General of the UAE Telecommunications Regulatory Authority and Chairman of the Conference; Fadi Chehadé, President and CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and …
Are ICANN and the International Telecommunications Union going to start playing nicely? That’s the message coming out of the ITU’s World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai this morning, when ITU secretary general Hamadoun Toure said the two organizations are “complementary”. Read More