Category: TECH

Are Your Ill-Informed Policies Widening The Digital Divide?

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“Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.” – Rabindranath Tagore The words above were brought to my attention by Susan Bearden, CIO at Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy and one of The 50 Most Social CIOs on Twitter. Susan took to the podium at the Consortium for School Networking annual conference to implore K-12 CIOs, CTOs, and Technology Directors to tap the power of social media. Of all the compelling reasons Susan spoke about, two warrant special emphasis, not only for K-12 CIOs,…

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Cloud computing: It has already changed the Internet as you and I know it

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This post is brought to you by Rackspace. Go to the Rackspace site for more information at http://www.Rackspace.com/open Ask Mitch Wainer what he thinks about your privacy settings, and he’ll tell you they’re pretty darn important. The marketing director of  DigitalOcean, a cloud service software company based in New York City’s trendy SoHo neighborhood, Wainer experienced the effects of privacy breach firsthand when 3% of his company’s users were at risk of being able to see someone else’s data when logging into their account. And that fact is more than…

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Expanding Internet domain names in China

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An organization that coordinates Internet protocols is discussing the future of online domain names in Beijing. In addition to the familiar dot-com and dot-org suffixes, billions more new addresses could be hitting the web, including those using Chinese characters. China’s new domain name market is attracting experts and stakeholders from around the world. The non-governmental organization that oversees domain names, the Internet Committee for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, is in Beijing to discuss allowing hundreds more suffixes, including those using Chinese characters rather than the western alphabets. With…

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ICANN picks Beijing to open first engagement center

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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will open its first new global engagement office in Beijing, China. “Engagement with China is not merely an option, we simply must engage at every level or we will lose our legitimacy,” said Fadi Chehade, ICANN CEO and President, in a statement Monday. He was making the announcement during the welcoming session at ICANN’s 46th public meeting in Beijing which will run through the rest of the week. adapted from Zdnet.com

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HOW TO MAKE THE TRANSITION TO IPv6 AND KEEP YOUR BUSINESS CONNECTED

The Internet is evolving—and so should your business. So for your business to move forward and tap into the ever-expanding universe of Internet users and network-enabled devices, it’s critical that you learn how to make the transition to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). Sign up today for Verisign’s exclusive online IPv6 webcast and learn the critical steps your organization must take to not only make a seamless transition—but to keep your business world connected. At Verisign we help connect people and businesses to the websites that have shaped the world.…

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Africa hungry for homegrown online content

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(CNN) — Things have never been more exciting in Africa than they are now. The continent’s rising economy and burgeoning tech space is all anyone can talk about. At a recent South by Southwest panel, “Africa or Bust! Content, Monetization, Opportunity,” it was made clear that mobile and connectivity is also changing the content game. Reportedly, around 140 million people in Africa have access to the internet, which represents about 13% of the population. That number is set to explode in the next few years. By 2020, internet penetration in…

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Zodiac Prepares for Chinese New gTLDs, Announces “Chinese Advisory Services” for New gTLD Applicants

April 02, 2013, Zodiac Holdings Limited (“Zodiac”), the largest Chinese TLD applicant, is pleased to announce that 6 of its new gTLD applications have successfully passed the Initial Evaluation. The results for八卦 (gossip) and 集团 (conglomerate) were announced on March 23, 2013 and 网店 (online shop), 商城 (mall), 我爱你 (i-love-you) and 娱乐 (entertainment) were announced on March 30, 2013. “Applications that pass Initial Evaluation may be eligible to proceed to contracting with the execution of the Registry Agreement as early as 23 April 2013.”, according to ICANN. Zodiac looks forward to…

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300 UK domains pilfered, massive security lapse blamed

Exclusive What appears to be a glaringly obvious security hole has been blamed for the snatching of 300 domains hosted by one web-hosting firm last year, The Reg has discovered. A source told El Reg that anyone with a hosting package from 123-Reg, and hence an account control panel, simply had to change the final section of the URL manually (to, for example, /someoneelseswebsite.co.uk) to be able to gain access to another site’s emails, name servers and billing.  With access to the admin panel, would-be domain thieves just had to…

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Computer outage in South Korea hits broadcasters and bank

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Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — South Korean police said Wednesday they are investigating a computer outage that is affecting servers at three leading television broadcasters and a large bank. One television station, YTN, reported that 500 of its computers had been disabled by the outage. Another, KBS, said that its internal networks had been “paralyzed,” but that the problem didn’t prevent it from broadcasting live. A third broadcaster, MBC, was also reportedly experiencing problems. Customers of Shinhan Bank are unable to log into the lender’s website at the moment, the…

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Time to Take Stock: Twelve Internet and Jurisdiction Trends in Retrospect

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With the growing tension between the cross-border Internet and the patchwork of national jurisdictions, it becomes crucial to keep track of key global trends that drive the debate on appropriate frameworks. One year ago, the Internet & Jurisdiction Project initiated a global multi-stakeholder dialogue process on these issues. To provide a factual basis for such discussions, it established an Observatory, supported by a network of selected international experts, to detect and categorize relevant cases via an innovative crowd-based filtering process in order to identify high-level patterns. The following twelve trends…

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