Monthly Archives: November 2008
ICANN Puts EstDomains Registrar Back on Chopping Block
ICANN has placed the EstDomains registrar back on death row.According to ICANN, the embattled registrar will have its accreditation terminated effective Nov. 24. The...
Tracking the Crackers-A Look at Software Piracy
According to the Business Software Alliance, more than one-third of all software installed on personal computers worldwide is pirated, costing the software industry nearly...
Lawmaker Plans Bill on Web Neutrality
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. lawmaker plans to introduce a bill in January that would bar Internet providers like AT&T Inc. from blocking...
Google Voice Search Comes to Apple’s iPhone, Not Android G1 First
When I met with Google's mobile platform and open source evangelist Vic Gundotra 11 months ago, he mused about how great it would be...
Standards Come to Anti-malware Testing
Computer product testing, sadly, has been as much art as science over the years. It's not just that the products are so complicated as...
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Cyber-crime Edition
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Cyber-crime Edition
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Here is a screenshot of a piracy index site listing. It features .nfo files for a variety...
SpringSource Gains Momentum in Enterprise Java
Rod Johnson, CEO of SpringSource, created the open-source Spring Framework as a lightweight alternative to the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition. Spring caught on...
Google, Microsoft: Beware Blind Spots in the Corporate Cloud
When you ask programmers who left Microsoft for Google, they will often say Microsoft lacks native Web speakers. Google would have you think that...
Flipping for HD Video
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One of the most popular products in video from the last year or so isn't an advanced, high-quality camera; instead...
Google Soups Up Site Search with On-Demand Indexing
Google Nov. 13 improved its hosted Google Site Search offering with On-Demand Indexing, technology that enables businesses to make sure their public Web sites...