Service providers need to get onboard with IPv6
BBC Oct 31, 07 11:26 AM CDT
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By 2010, new computers won’t be able to get online, warns Internet co-inventor Vint Cerf, unless ISPs adopt IPv6, a new system of assigning IP addresses. IP addresses are unique number strings devices need to get online, but most of the 4 billion numbers possible under the current system are taken. Routing devices are ready for IPv6, but providers are balking at the expensive switch.
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Cerf navigated oversight board through WWW's early days
Associated Press Oct 29, 07 1:22 PM CDT
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Vint Cerf, who helped develop the technological underpinnings of the Internet, is stepping down as head of its oversight board, the AP reports. Many predicted the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers was doomed when Cerf took over in 1999, but he steered it through international criticism for 7 years. “My sentence is up,” Cerf joked, having hit his term limit.
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Less than 1% on continent have high-speed access
BBC Oct 28, 07 10:38 PM CDT
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Fewer than four per cent of Africans use the Internet and less than one per cent have broadband access, helping to keep Africa behind in education, medicine and business, the BBC reports. Dr Hamadoun Toure, head of the International Telecommunication Union, is asking world organizations to make sure a third of Africa has broadband Internet access by 2012.
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Moscow mulling the creation of a Russian-only computer network
Washington Post Oct 28, 07 8:54 PM CDT
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The Kremlin is going 2.0 by extending its reach into cyberspace, where dissidents have found refuge from the government’s tight censorship. While Putin allies mount pro-government websites and snatch up existing independent outlets, Moscow is considering the creation of a separate Russian network. “The attractiveness of the Internet as a free platform for free people is already dimming,” one expert said.
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Agency investigates claims of shady profits from domain names
Associated Press Oct 24, 07 1:39 PM CDT
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Someone call Michael Milken: Insider trading trailblazers may have found a new perch online. ICANN is investigating a poaching practice it's calling “front running,” in which buyers with inside information grab desirable domain names before others can register them. Speculation on the shadowy URL snatchers runs to viruses and other software that monitor interest in available domains, the AP reports.
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Huge gaps in audience estimates are stunting advertising growth
New York Times Oct 22, 07 12:42 PM CDT
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If you think the internet makes tracking audience numbers any easier, think again. Media companies sometimes report millions more online visitors to their sites than tracking companies like Nielsen—because they use different measurements—and the gap makes online advertisers queasy. It's preventing the industry from growing as quickly as it could, the Times reports.
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Some speculate it's retaliation for giving Dalai Lama the Congressional Medal
CNET Oct 19, 07 4:05 AM CDT
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Chinese searchers trying to visit Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Live Search are being redirected to the Chinese search engine Baidu, according to tech news sources. Speculation has it that the Chinese government is blocking the American engines because officials are angry that the US awarded the Dalai Lama the Congressional Gold Medal this week.
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UN unveils plan for 'intellectual cathedral'
Washington Post Oct 18, 07 11:56 AM CDT
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If the World Digital Library works out as planned, it’ll make Alexandria look like a Buck-a-Book. The UN project hopes to collect primary sources from around the world in every medium, digitize them, and offer them online, free, in seven languages. “What they are doing is building an intellectual cathedral, and it may never get finished,” one tech forecaster said.
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Group publishes guide to avoiding Internet censorship
Ars Technica Oct 16, 07 3:09 PM CDT
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Citizen’s Lab is coming to the rescue of righteous Iranian bloggers and Korean porn seekers alike, with “Everyone’s Guide to Internet Censorship,” a free PDF detailing dozens of ways laypeople can get around online censorship. More than 25 countries censor sites, says Ars Technica, from China’s draconian firewall to the Children’s Internet Protection Act filtering US library and school systems.
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Turning Iraq footage into hip-hop videos is one recruiting tool
New York Times Oct 15, 07 4:00 PM CDT
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Jihadists have long used the internet to spread their message, but now a growing number of Western-based extremists are tapping into a Western audience by giving the message a pop-culture twist, the Times reports. They act as middlemen, translating newsletters and relaying videos from militant Islamic leaders; they also turn insurgent footage from Iraq into hip-hop videos.
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Extending the livecasting of
daily existence
from one man to many
New York Times Oct 14, 07 1:07 PM CDT
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In most pix of Justin Kan a small camera is perched above his left ear. He’s a livecaster who co-founded Justin.tv, for people like him who have the tools, and the desire, to broadcast their every waking moment on the Web. The NY Times reports that the founders of the new site are hoping a business will emerge from mass adoption, as with YouTube—but this time, without editing.
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Domain names in non-Roman alphabet
to be tested by Net managers
Washington Post Oct 11, 07 11:25 PM CDT
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On Monday the Internet's global reach will extend further when it tests non-Roman character domain names. For years, non-English speakers have petitioned the US and companies controlling the Internet for domain names in their native language, the BBC reports. But ICANN, the nonprofit corporation which allocates domains, has been afraid of destabilizing or crashing the Net.
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Governments also get first dibs on coveted new address suffix
BBC Oct 9, 07 3:14 PM CDT
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The regional internet domain .asia has opened for registration; businesses and governments will get first crack at trademarked and other protected names. The public will come rushing in to scoop up what’s left of the suffix in February 2008. The second regional domain—.eu began selling in April 2006—.asia will go live next March, and will likely be followed by Latin American and African counterrparts, the BBC reports.
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They hit California especially hard, and not easy fixes are in sight
PC World Oct 7, 07 5:50 PM CDT
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Hackers are wreaking havoc on government websites, and the problem isn't going away anytime soon, PC World reports. Last week, people who visited government sites in California and elsewhere were redirected to porn. The feds began pulling the plug on all of California's sites but reversed course when state officials complained of the drastic measure. No easy long-term fixes are in sight.
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