The organization that oversees the Internet domain name registration industry last week revoked the charter of Dynamic Dolphin, a registrar that has long been closely associated with spam and cybercrime. The move came almost five years after this reporter asked the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to investigate whether the man at …
Someone once almost said “what’s good for General Motors is good for America.” The fact that the quote — by a former GM CEO-turned-U.S. Secretary of Defense — got garbled in the translation doesn’t negate the fact that many people feel the U.S. needs to protect its key industries and vendors. Just last week, for …
The European data protection activists behind the Europe v Facebook (evf) campaign group, that has long been a thorn in Facebook’s side in Europe, have filed new complaints under regional data protection law targeting Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Skype and Yahoo for their alleged collaboration with the NSA’s Prism data collection program. The student activist organisation is targeting the …
Microsoft has started the process to recover the XboxOne.com and XboxOne.net domains, according to a report by Fusible. The Redmond, Washington, software giant has filed a claim with the National Arbitration Forum, a body that functions similarly to a court, to settle the domain ownership dispute. The claim is being made against a London resident …
When Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer first revealed his software for the touchscreen world in February 2012, he said he was “betting the company” on it. There were “no compromises” made in replacing the time-honoured desktop with Windows 8‘s colourful tile-based interface, Ballmer insisted. But just six months after the official release, Microsoft – which relies …
ICANN has published a letter from Microsoft.com which is objecting to closed generic strings. Here is the letter sent from the Assistant General Counsel , Trademarks Microsoft Corporation, Russell Pangborn: ”Re: Closed Generic Top-Level Domains (TLDs) read more
The federal government wants to create super WiFi networks across the nation, so powerful and broad in reach that consumers could use them to make calls or surf the Internet without paying a cellphone bill every month. The proposal from the Federal Communications Commission has rattled the $178 billion wireless industry, which has launched a fierce …
Pupils at a school on the green slopes of Mount Kenya no longer have eyes for the blackboard. Instead they are transfixed by a $500 tablet. Belinda, 19, touches the screen gingerly and is amazed to discover an icon that allows her to film herself within seconds of her first touch of a computer. So …
The world’s most-popular web browsers are still failing to recognize new TLDs (top-level domains), many months after they go live on the internet. The version of the Safari browser that ships with the Mountain Lion iteration of Apple’s OS X appears to have even gone backwards, removing support for at least one TLD. read more
As IT leaders think about their SharePoint strategy, here’s a look at the most important changes in SharePoint 2013, broken down by the most likely benefit to line of business teams, end users and the IT organization. read more