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Thursday in Paris, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) completed its 32nd International Public Meeting. The biggest decision made at the meeting was increasing the flexibility of top-level domain names, and this could be a huge change for users of the Web.
Most people are aware of top-level domains, [...]

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This probably shouldn’t come as any surprise to anyone who’s experienced interference of one type or another from a wireless device of some kind. After all, we have all these signals filling the air around us. You would think someone would have tested this before.
But it took a team of Dutch [...]

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By Michael Santo
Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
Depending upon who you are listening to today, Microsoft either still has no intention of dealing with Yahoo!, is back to discussing a buyout of Yahoo!’s search engine technology, or is back to discussing a total buyout.
According to News.com, Microsoft is looking at sweetening the deal for Yahoo!’s search technology, according to [...]

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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
In the super-fast world of the Internet, if a story breaks, you can expect the Wikipedia entry for that subject to be updated faster than you can blink. In the case of Tim Russert’s sad death on June 13th, NBC contacted other networks and media outlets in an attempt to hold [...]

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“Comedian George Carlin, a counter-culture hero famed for his routines about drugs and dirty words, died of heart failure at a Los Angeles-area hospital on Sunday, a spokesman said. He was 71. Carlin, who had a history of heart [...]

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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
Lending a little humor to the semi-frenzied executive departures at Yahoo! is this Yahoo! resignation letter generator. After all, since last week the following have announced their departures:
Jeff Weiner, Executive VP of the network group, and Usama Fayyad, Executive VP of research and computing infrastructure; Qi Lu, Executive VP in [...]

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By Michael Santo
Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
As I indicated earlier, Facebook first surpassed MySpace in terms of worldwide visitors in April, according to research firm comScore. While that was a very narrow “victory,” it widened the separation between the two social networking sites in May.
According to comScore, Facebook had 123.9 million unique visitors in the month of [...]

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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
For that matter, will Rocketmail? Starting later today, Yahoo! will be opening up ymail.com and rocketmail.com email domains for users. Why?
It’s obvious that if you wanted to get the email address john@yahoo.com, you couldn’t. Saturation has meant that if you want to get an email address at Yahoo!, or [...]