The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers voted Thursday to relax rules for naming Web sites.
Paul Twomey, CEO of ICANN
The new naming process will begin in 2009. The first suffixes will likely be given to businesses and other major organizations. Countries are expected to keep their specific suffixes, but as in the example above [...]

While Ballmer walked away from Yahoo over the asking price and other issues, he might be back if Yahoo fails to show that it can gain momentum.
In 2004, Microsoft and SAP were in talks to merge but nothing came of it. It could be that Kagermann hopes that Microsoft acquires Yahoo so it will be [...]

If you’re planning to create your own test material in preparation of an exam, you should consider crafting that online as well. While you can technically–and fairly easily–compose questions and answers within Cram, typing a series of multiple choice entries is faster work with a standard keyboard. If you intend to reuse multiple choice answers [...]

On Thursday, security vendor SecureMac reported seeing new variants of AppleScript.THT Trojan horse in the wild affecting users of
Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5.

The new variations exploit a vulnerability within the Apple Remote Desktop Agent, and can avoid detection by opening ports in the firewall and turning off system logging. The new Trojans can log [...]

One might have hoped that those responsible for approving the Gates-Seinfeld spots would have managed internal expectations. You don’t create something so radically different and potentially market-changing and expect to be clutching favorable data by the time your CEO has finished dinner. A new ad is not a new Intel chip. (Though I know there [...]

This is a particularly clever solution in Chinese, which, because of its ideographic writing system, is probably easier to read in odd inversions than most alphabetic languages. One way to imagine this is to remember the English phrase “bass ackwards,” a well-understood inversion. Because Chinese splits words into meaning-based units rendered in characters, reading reverse [...]

Adobe Systems on Tuesday issued a security update to fix a critical vulnerability in Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9 that could allow an attacker to take complete control of a computer and for which exploits had been reportedly found in the wild for nearly two months.

In its advisory, Adobe said it plans [...]

Subsequent posts by Rubico to the /b/ board over the last few days have provided additional insight into how the hack was carried out, although many of the posts have now been deleted.

There are mixed reports on Friday whether or not the son of a Tennessee state representative has been contacted by the FBI or [...]

Lawsuit divided
Cell phone users fed up with these fees took their complaints to a California court and formed a class in a lawsuit against the four major carriers in 2006. The court separated the cases and has been dealing with them individually.
Phone companies say they must impose these fees to recover the cost of [...]

Also worth noting is that the company hasn’t spent a dime on advertising, and doesn’t plan to until it raises its first round of funding. In the meantime, it’s expanding into other areas of New York, including Brooklyn and Queens, before launching in two more major cities later this year.
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