By Grant Gross, IDG News Service\Washington Bureau 30 Sep, 2009
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has reached a new agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce allowing the nonprofit greater independence, while giving more countries oversight of the organization. read more »
By Carolyn Duffy Marsan, Network World (US) 29 Sep, 2009
Google on Wednesday will send out more than 100,000 invitations to developers to preview Google Wave, a new communications and collaboration tool that Google plans to release next year. read more »
Mozilla executives today took shots at Google for pitching its Chrome Frame plug-in as a solution to IE's poor performance, with one arguing that the move will result in "browser soup." read more »
By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service\San Francisco Bureau 29 Sep, 2009
Look for a way to fix your credit or transfer money on Microsoft's Bing these days and you'll get some friendly advice from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. read more »
Microsoft today warned Internet Explorer users that they could double their security woes if they installed and used Chrome Frame, the plug-in that provides better JavaScript performance and adds support for HTML 5 to IE. read more »
Google keeps telling us its applications are business ready, but again this morning we have learned otherwise, thanks to another Gmail outage. OK, it has been a bad week, but a Google News outage on Tuesday, followed by a Gmail failure today is just too much to bear. read more »
Microsoft has opened up a sneak peek at the Technical Preview of the upcoming Office Web Apps, and you can take it for a spin. Using the cloud-based SkyDrive storage as a backbone, Microsoft Office Web Apps enables to access and work with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote files using any (compatible) Web browser from any Internet-connected device in the world. read more »
By Rebecca Wanjiku, Computerworld Kenya 16 Sep, 2009
The Highway Africa conference, held last week in Grahamstown, South Africa, is the largest gathering of African ICT journalists. Computerworld Kenya interviewed Anne-Rachel Inne, Africa's regional liaison at the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). read more »
Google's privacy policies are a consistent thorn in the company's side. Whether it's about Google's upcoming OS, its Webmail Gmail, or location-revealing Latitude, critics of the Internet giant are always nipping at the heels of some perceived slight or potential error that could release private information into the world. In an effort to ward off future detractors, Google has published a [detailed privacy policy surrounding its Google read more »
If the IPO fairy suddenly appeared at the foot of my bed and promised to grant me control of any company in technology, I think I would pick Facebook. read more »
The new pastime for governments at different levels in Nigeria is the development of ICT resource centers. It is a pastime that state governments and local councils love to indulge and one that the federal government is not shy to get involved in. read more »
