Alliance forms to fix DNS poisoning flaw Register, UK - 27 minutes ago Microsoft has fixed a few vulnerabilities in the way Windows handles domain names - issues that could have lead to easier eavesdropping or simpler phishing …

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In brief: Big rise in .ie domain names Irish Independent, Ireland - 42 minutes ago The IE Domain Registry (IEDR), which manages .ie web domain names for Ireland, said that registrations rose 29pc in 2007. A non-profit organisation, …

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Sweeping Changes To The Internet On The Horizon Mondaq News Alerts (subscription), UK - 1 hour ago On 26 June 2008 the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ('ICANN') – the body which manages the domain name system – concluded its 32 nd …

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Understanding the fundamentals of Domain Name Registration Best Syndication, CA - 1 hour ago One of the many vital aspects of internet is “Domain Name Registration”. One must understand the concept optimally to use the internet power, …

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Virtual worlds are getting quite a bit of attention at work at the moment and for good reason. Clearly there is a huge potential for their use in education and momentum in this area is really building. Like many I have experimented a bit with platforms like Second Life but am now wanting to do more. Second Life, while being great for some uses may not meet all requirements for everyone. I am particularly interested in installing my own virtual world and there are a number of options. Once installed, the first thing I need to do is start building or populating my virtual worlds and so far this is not easy for a novice. A lot of effort seems to be required to start creating appealing and useful artefacts for these worlds. What I’d really like to do once I have created something is to be able to transport it into another virtual world so that I can get some re-use out of it. Some sort of standards and mechanisms for such transportation would be great here. Interoperability specs here we come!
So it was with interest I read this post on the readwriteweb blog.
‘Teleporting’ sounds a lot more interesting than ‘harvesting’ (metadata). Sharing and re-using assets from virtual worlds is going to be very important and I look forward to hearing more about work in this area (perhaps we will see an OpenSocial for virtual worlds).

Cheers,
Jerry.

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A while ago I blogged about companies providing time to their employees to innovate. Google do it, Atlassian are trialling it and being public about it. Here are some updates from the Atlassian blog on the trial so far.

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Time to patch DNS servers and clients InformationWeek, NY - 5 hours ago His recommendation is that if your DNS server can resolve domain names from the Internet, patch the system and patch DNS clients, like your workstations. … DNS at Risk From Multivendor Cache Poisoning InternetNews.com Details on Tuesday's DNS cache poisoning announcement CNET News Major DNS flaw could disrupt the Internet NetworkWorld.com SC Magazine US - GCN.com all 82 news articles

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Regulator cools attempt to control Uganda domain name NetworkWorld.com, MA - 6 hours ago The country code is registered to and controlled by Charles Musisi, an Internet entrepreneur who has managed Uganda domain names over the past 12 years. …

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Chinese, Arabic and Hindi domain names to go up for sale – finally! The Industry Standard, CA - 2 hours ago Specifically, that international domain names (IDNs) will soon be able to include non-Roman characters. This was by far the more important announcement. …

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WA on line, SA next for Fairfax? The Age, Australia - 5 hours ago The company also bought domain names that are variants on its publications in others cities — SAage.com.au and AdelaideAge.com.au, after Melbourne, …

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