“Google’s quest to be everywhere continues to grow with news that the
Mountain View search giant will today announce a new deal that will see motorists in the United States hooking up to Google at the gas station.
Full story at TechCrunch
Google has unveiled software it hopes will become the “operating system” for a variety of future mobile phones.
The software aims to make it easy to use the web on a phone and to target consumers with mobile adverts.
The BBC has more
Peter Dengate Thrush is to take over from Vint Cerf as the new chairman of the ICANN board. Vint Cerf is leaving because of Term limits, having first been elected to the position in 2000.
Vint Cerf said before stepping down.
“To those who now guide its path into the future comes the challenge to fashion an enduring institution on this solid foundation,I am confident that this goal is not only attainable, it is now also necessary. The opportunity is there: Make it so.”
Under Vint Cerf’s tenure ICANN has grown from around 12 staff members in 2001 to around 100 staff members and a $41.6 million budget for the coming year.
Vint’s inclusiveness, vision and understanding of not only the technical issues but also the nature of both individual and business interests will be a exceptionally hard act to surpass.
Added:
ICANN Press release
Just announced
Microsoft is to take a $240 million stake in Facebook which values Facebook at $15 billion.
Added: The London Times has more & the BBC has 15 reasons why Facebook may be worth $15 billion
Neustar’s .us contract has just been renewed by the Department of Commerce
fbo.gov notice
ICANN has just launched a forum to discuss the methods for allocating single letter and single digit domain names for all 16 gTLDs (AERO, .ASIA, .BIZ, .CAT, .COM, .COOP, .INFO, .JOBS, .MOBI, .MUSEUM, .NAME, .NET, .ORG, .PRO, .TEL, and .TRAVEL)
a.com b.info 4.biz etc.
Some of the .com’s are already owned z.com by Nissan x.com by Ebay/ Paypal but these predate 1993 when the current reserved names policy was imposed.
ComScore have just released anaylsys of the Worldwide Search market
Searchers (August 2007)
754,459,000 Worldwide Total
257,952,000 Asia Pacfic
209,678,000 Europe
206,278,000 North America
49,995,000 Latin America
30,556,000 Middle East & Africa
And they searched from the following search biz’s
Searches (August 2007)
61,036,000,000 World Wide Total
37,094,000,000 Google
8,549,000,000 Yahoo!
3,253,000,000 Baidu
2,166,000,000 Microsoft
2,044,000,000 NHN
1,319,000,000 Ebay
1,212,000,000 Time Warner
743,000,000 Ask
683,000,000 Fox
441,000,000 Lycos
ICANN has just launched a trial for integrating IDNs into the root. The ICANN blog has an interesting post by Kim Davis, giving nice examples on why viewing IDNs around the world can sometimes be problematic for some and not for others and why these current tests are so important for software developers.
From the Internet2 press release
“Internet2 announced the completion of its new nationwide network infrastructure. With an initial capacity of 100 Gigabits per second (Gbps) nationwide and revolutionary bandwidth-on-demand capabilities, the new Internet2 infrastructure provides researchers and educators the potential to transform disciplines across the board from science, to telemedicine, to network research, to the performing arts.”
For more information: http://www.internet2.edu
GPM Group 