Apple changed its privacy policy with iOS 8 and it has many in law enforcement up in arms. In an article on Mashable written by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, members of law enforcement expressed their displeasure with some saying that the new policy could cost lives. One even went so far as to say that the iPhone will become the phone of choice for pedophiles. From the article: "[Criminals'] … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
The Bash Bug Has No Easy Fix and Could Be More Problematic Than Heartbleed
Earlier in the year it was Heartbleed and now there is another bug that has been uncovered, Shell Shock, which could be even more problematic. Many outlets have covered the topic and NPR did a good job breaking down, the who, what, where and what potential steps to take. From the article: Hundreds of millions of computers and networks are at risk after a bug called Shellshock was found this … [Read more...]
1st Day New gTLD Totals .Beer 2,078; .Surf 635; Here Are The More Interesting Registrations
Two new gTLD's launched into general availability on Thursday by Minds + Machines and including Sunrise Registrations by trademark holders the number of domain names according to nTLDstats.com are .Beer 2,078 .Surf 635 .Beer marks the best first day of any Minds + Machines extension other than .London. Matter of fact other than .London, .Beer already has more registrations that any … [Read more...]
Mark Cuban Does Not See Long Term Future for Bitcoin as a Currency
Mark Cuban does not see Bitcoin being a long term play as far as being a currency. Cuban told Entrepreneur that if ever got into Bitcoin it would be purely for the entertainment value, kind of like buying and selling baseball cards. This is not the first time Cuban has expressed a disinterest in the crypto currency, back in March at SXSW that he did not see the long term play. From the … [Read more...]
Iron Man Star; Actor Robert Downey Jr Files UDRP on The Domain RobertDowneyjr.actor
The star of the Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes movie series, Robert Downey, Jr has filed a UDRP on the new gTLD domain name RobertDowneyjr.actor. The domain was registered less than a month ago on August 31st by a Shashank Agarwal of India at Godaddy.com The domain name RobertDowneyjr.actor is going to a Godaddy placeholder. The actor does seem to own the domain name robertdowneyjr.com … [Read more...]
CENTR Domain Report: There Are Over 282.5 Million Domain Registered As Of August 1
CENTR’s just published its quarterly publication covering worldwide domain name statistics. As of August 1, 2014 there are 282,525,140 domain name registered in the world. CENTR is the European ccTLD not for profit association dedicated to supporting the interest of country code TLD managers. The objectives of CENTR are to promote and participate in the development of high standards and best … [Read more...]
SeekingAlpha: Facebook May Become Bigger Than Google AdSense
In very interesting post was just published on SeekingAlpha.com, entitled "Facebook May Become Bigger Than Google AdSense" The author of the post is Alex Cho who is according to his bio a "top contributor on Seeking Alpha in both the long ideas and technology section of the website. Alex Cho's articles have been featured on The Motley Fool, The Street, and Benzinga. Alex Cho has been featured … [Read more...]