Google Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf, Father of ‘Net and Chair of ICANN This week Google hired Vinton Cerf, the “father of the Internet” and the Chairman of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), to serve as their Chief Internet Evangelist. While working at the US Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency …
Firefox 1.5 Alpha 2 Release : Deer Park The Firefox Roadmap states that Firefox fans would be able to download Firefox 1.5 beta in August 2005 while the final release of Firefox 1.5 would hit the shelves in September. Firefox is asking users to report about websites which are not working properly in Firefox. (From …
Dell Computers Drops on Disappointing Sales Numbers I purchased a Dell computer for the first time earlier this year for my parents to use and for me to work on while visiting them. The investment into the basic Dell desktop model with flat screen monitor was about $400 – a flash in the pan considering …
President Bush Indicted for Podcasting? Two pieces of blog related news today centered around the President of the United States have nothing to do with his stance on speaking with Iraq War protesters, making millions by injecting Jose Canseco and the Texas Rangers with steroids, or whether or not Bush plans to “pull out.” No, …
AOL Expands Wireless Offerings With Wildseed Acquisition In an initiative to integrate AOL services into mobile phones and wireless devices, Time Warner’s AOL has acquired the privately held wireless technology company Wildseed Ltd. Wildseed Ltd. was founded by G. Eric Engstrom, who co-invented Microsoft’s DirectX multimedia and games technology. AOL’s goal to expand its messaging …
50 Million Americans Visit Popular Blogs in Q1 2005 A new study from comScore Networks today found that nearly 50 million Americans, or about 30 percent of the total U.S. Internet population, visited top blogs in Q1 2005, representing an increase of 45 percent compared to Q1 2004. The study, funded by Six Apart and …
Microsoft Brands Longhorn As Windows Vista Microsoft has announced that it will be launching its long awaited Longhorn operating system as Windows Vista – not to be confused with AltaVista. Windows Vista will be the next large offering from Microsoft, which has burried the Longhorn name for an identity which is more consumer friendly and …
Brazilians Used Google’s Orkut to Manage Drug Ring Social networking has been on the verge of taking off for about a year now, and Google’s social networking system Orkut has been red hot in Brazil since its launch. However, the network has run into some controversy as of recently with a murder between two Orkut …
Firefox Site Hacked With Intention to Spam Recently the Mozilla Firefox promotional site, SpreadFirefox.com, was hacked by someone exploiting a vulnerability in the CMS package used by the site. Apparently the intention of the hackers was not only to shame SpreadFirefox.com, but also to (ahem…) Spam! SpreafFirefox.com site manager Asa Dotzler posted a message on …
Identity Theft – Scarier than Click Fraud Many search industry observers see click fraud as the number one threat to the growth of the Internet economy. An even greater threat has emerged one that not only places the entire infrastructure of the Internet at risk, it also threatens non-Net users. Identity theft has always been …
