By Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service\Miami Bureau 23 Jul, 2008
Google has launched Knol, its user-generated online encyclopedia, which it announced in December but had kept under wraps in private testing. read more »
The researcher whose speculation led to an early disclosure of information about a critical flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS), the Internet's traffic cop, wasn't the first to come close to the truth, said the security expert who found the bug and organized a massive patching effort. read more »
By Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service\Miami Bureau 23 Jul, 2008
Yahoo reported a modest revenue increase and a considerable drop in profit for its second quarter, along the way missing Wall Street's expectations in both categories, results that are unlikely to please its nervous shareholders. read more »
He's only three months into the job, but a passion for education is what led Nick Hutton to his role as CEO of U21 Global, an educational institution focusing on graduate studies that operates on a 100 percent online environment. read more »
IBM/Lotus is banking on the integration of its Sametime platform and collaboration software with tools from telephony partners to fuel its climb up the ranks of unified communications contenders. read more »
By Rebecca Wanjiku, IDG News Service\Nairobi Bureau 22 Jul, 2008
The government of Rwanda has kept its promise to spearhead local content generation by launching an online instant messaging service known as Intego. read more »
By Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service\Miami Bureau 22 Jul, 2008
Two well-known Web sites have completed implementations of MySpace's data portability program, which has also been modified to allow a degree of user data caching and storage by external Web sites and to support the OpenID single sign-on method, MySpace announced Monday. read more »
By Carolyn Duffy Marsan, Network World (US) 21 Jul, 2008
Two years ago, the Chinese government adopted a controversial approach known as network address translation to bridge the gap between IPv4, the Internet's main communications protocol, and an emerging Internet standard known as IPv6. read more »
By Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service\Miami Bureau 21 Jul, 2008
Facebook has begun delivering to its members its site redesign, which is aimed at reducing the clutter of members' profile pages and protecting the social network's trademark clean and organized layout. read more »
By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service\London Bureau 21 Jul, 2008
Russian security company Kaspersky Lab's Web site for Malaysia was defaced on Saturday along with one of its online shopping sites, according to Zone-H, an organization that documents such attacks. read more »
In Johannesburg (or Jozi), street lights work and are obeyed; the computerized system has cracked down on all errant motorist until they have all towed the line. I even commented to a friend that we need such a computerized system in Kenya, but we have to get rid of the thugs who carjack motorists at night before we can obey lights at night. read more »
