While June 8, 2011 has been marked as the world IPV6 day to increase public awareness on the importance of switching to IPV6, there are fears that we may run out of IPV4 web addresses as fast as this week. If Asia Pacific Network Information Centre which is eligible for requesting two large blocks of [...]
Will Google – ITA Deal Materialize?
January 29th, 2011There are growing concerns from various quarters regarding the Google – ITA deal. Google’s planned acquisition of ITA is receiving a very close scrutiny. The US Justice Department wants to make sure that if the Google’s acquisition plans should materialize, ITA’s products should be made available to other companies as well including Google’s competitors. Many [...]
Arrrr, Matey! Pirate Terms Walk the Google Plank
January 29th, 2011Back in December, Google promised to tackle the issue of piracy sites: We will prevent terms that are closely associated with piracy from appearing in Autocomplete. While it’s hard to know for sure when search terms are being used to find infringing content, we’ll do our best to prevent Autocomplete from displaying the terms most [...]
Demand Media Goes Public – Is the Content Farm Suddenly Respectable?
January 29th, 2011Demand Media (formerly Demand Studios) has long been alternately hailed as a writer’s paradise and denounced as nothing but a cheap content farm, churning out SEO articles for ad revenue and sorely lacking in solid fact checked content. The middle is probably true – there are good and bad articles posted on the company’s various [...]
Data Privacy Day – 28 Jan
January 28th, 2011Every year, 28th of January is marked as the Data Privacy Day. This day is celebrated as Data Privacy Day to increase the public awareness on their privacy rights and about the importance of data privacy. Today this has become an annual international celebration. This day was recognized as the National Data Privacy Day in [...]
