ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, voted in a pretty big change to domain names at its special session held in Singapore today. They have voted to allow registries to buy and control the top-level domains, or TLDs. Typical TLDs include .com, .net, or .org but after the vote, individuals will be able to apply to run a wide variety of what they want. … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2011
A Rough Road For Bitcoin – Largest Exchange, Mt. Gox, Reports Leaked Account Info and Huge Sell-Off Initiated
At the end of March, I first wrote about Bitcoin, a virtual cryptocurrency with no central management by design. When I wrote about it, you could buy a single bitcoin for about 80 cents. Since then, the value of a bitcoin has skyrocketed to $30USD and stabilized around $16USD as more services and merchants are starting to accept the currency and speculation puts the currency in … [Read more...]
State of Illinois Sued For Unconstitutional “Amazon Tax” Law
I have covered the State of Illinois passing HB3659, commonly referred to as the "Amazon Tax", before the governor signed it and after it was signed into law because it affected me and my income once Amazon disconnected all Illinois-based Amazon Associates. Since then, I've had moderate success regaining that lost revenue stream through other affiliate programs and Skimlinks … [Read more...]
WebGL In The News For Security Concerns in Firefox 4 and IE9
The Mozilla Security Blog announced yesterday that there is a security concern with WebGL in Mozilla Firefox 4. It could allow attackers to capture screenshots of a visitors browser, including private information. The problem is specific to Firefox's implementation of WebGL, not a vulnerability in WebGL itself. A fix will be included in the next update to Firefox, which is … [Read more...]
Microsoft Launches The Xbox Kinect SDK Beta
Microsoft is holding a special event today to announce the availability of the Xbox Kinect SDK beta. The live streaming event is put on by the Channel 9 MSDN group. It includes the announcement, technical information, demos, and plenty of Q&As for the next 4 hours. … [Read more...]