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Waiting List Wins ICANN Approval
News Anyone hoping to buy expiring Internet domain names that end in .com and .net may be able to place their names on a wait list, according to a preliminary decision that must be approved by the US Department of Commerce before it becomes official.
[March 10, 2004, 8:20]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog For example, the landscape of Britain enthrals and excites many here, especially the hidden history of place names. Take a look at the list of amusing UK locations -- together with maps -- at http://www.jump-around.com/tools/place-names.php, which...
[November 2, 2001, 15:45]
New Domain Names On The Way?
News The non-profit group overseeing the commercialisation of the Internet's domain name structure ended its international meeting in Cairo on Friday by agreeing to study proposals for introducing up to 10 new domain names that will compete with the...
[March 13, 2000, 9:51]
Document As You Code
News Use well-formed function names and skip stupid comments. It doesn't have to be verbose -- just a list of function names with perhaps a one-line comment about what each will do. Choose accurate, descriptive names for variables and functions
[July 30, 2002, 11:36]
Linux Brings VMware Into The Fold
News They object to putting patches into Linux having the 'Xen' prefix on all the function names. VMware didn't mean for VMI to stand for VMware - it's an abbreviation for the generic Virtual Machine Interface - but the company is happy to adjust names...
[April 18, 2006, 11:35]
Ease Your JavaScript Testing And Debugging Load
News JavaScript is case-sensitive, so variable names, JavaScript statements, and such must utilise proper formatting/case. Use a consistent naming convention for your objects, variables, and function names.
[May 8, 2006, 12:35]
Labels Battle To Hold Onto DMCA Win
News They said they would be happy to turn over the names of some of their customers, as long as they don't have to turn over the names of a lot of their customers. While his 'sworn' statements may have a place in law review articles and policy debates...
[February 10, 2003, 9:05]
AddressDoctor For Excel
Downloads It connects you to a database of place and street names to correct postal addresses, validates your customer or partner addresses whenever and wherever you like, and verifies addresses from 240 countries and territories without installing any...
[May 9, 2007, 23:01]
Keep Column Names In Sight When You Scroll
White Papers But the person can keep column names in sight, no matter how far he scrolls down the sheet, by freezing the names in place. Isn't it frustrating when a person loses sight of column names as he scrolls down a worksheet?
[October 13, 2006, 0:00]
Transcribe
Downloads You can place markers for sections, measures and beats, and you can label them with descriptive names and add textual annotations if you want. Transcribe displays the music as a scrollable waveform from left to right.
[April 27, 2008, 16:47]
Web Development Naming Conventions
White Papers The most important part of any code or style document should be consistency, not the minutia of how to place brackets, semi-colons or method names. This paper, while static in its distributable form, provides the information that one can use to...
[October 5, 2006, 0:00]
Benchmark Procurement Guidelines For Government PC Buyers
White Papers Furthermore, such specifications discourage price competition and place government purchases at risk by basing purchasing decisions on brand names instead of accurate measures of computer performance.
[September 1, 2005, 0:00]
The Accountable Net: Let's Take Back Paradise!
White Papers E-mail marketing is less effective because of spam and phishing schemes; businesses register their competitors' domain names to woo their unsuspecting customers; individuals are able to steal and use the good credit of people with similar names.
[June 13, 2005, 0:00]
IBM LAN Distributed Platform: TCP/IP Wide Area Communications Server
White Papers It can be used in place of the LANDP SNA server and/or the LANDP PPC server, and effectively emulates these servers by registering the same LANDP service names and supporting the same server functions.
[February 8, 2007, 23:00]
Hackers Hit Network Solutions
News The hack took place amid a political battle to determine who should keep track of domain names. NSI officials said some surfers are being sent to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, and the Internet Council of...
[July 5, 1999, 8:52]
Intel Avoids Trademark Tangle With New Code Name
News Intel typically selects geographic place names for code names to avoid copyright and trademark disputes. Many of the code names derive from towns in the Pacific Northwest, but other names are creeping in.
[December 19, 2003, 8:45]
Ordnance Survey Opens Up Maps To Developers
News Web developers using OS OpenSpace can add markers, lines and polygons on top of Ordnance Survey mapping, search for place names with a gazetteer-style geographical dictionary and display other location data, such as the whereabouts of pubs, cafes...
[February 1, 2008, 14:33]
ICANN Attacks 'fat And Happy' IPv4 Users
News Big businesses need to start planning now to handle changes that will take place when a new version of the internet's fundamental routing protocol becomes ubiquitous, or risk losing online customers, according to the Internet Corporation for...
[May 9, 2008, 13:16]
Stockpiling Of .eu Domains Can't Be Stopped
News But Wilde argued that registrars had only "really had an advantage over the public" during the initial land-rush for .eu domain names, which took place earlier this year. A registrar and reseller of .eu domain names has denied accusations that his...
[August 9, 2006, 13:55]
ICANN Under Investigation
News A pair of Washington state politicians, on behalf of a collection of companies that register domain names, said they intend to block a controversial procedure that would establish VeriSign as a central place to buy all expiring .com and .net domains.
[June 20, 2003, 9:50]
