Web regulators Thursday voted to allow the creation of thousands of new domain names, from .paris to .Pepsi, in one of the biggest shake-ups in Internet history, a French web official said.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) board approved the change at its annual general meeting in Paris, according to Loic Damilaville, deputy head of the French domain name body, the AFNIC.

1983: Paul Mockapetris and Jon Postel run the first successful test of the automated, distributed Domain Name System. DNS will lay the foundation for the massive expansion, popularization and commercialization of the internet.

Their solution was brilliant. It still used an underlying system of numerical designations, but allowed you to reach a computer by name as well. It was also hierarchical and distributed. Top-level domains would mark out various types of users,…

This tutorial illustrates how to design a FORM using list to simulate a “table” structure where to place your form elements (input, radio, checkbox, button…)

I think this is a great start, but there's a long way to go here (and I encourage your readers to dig in deep). For example, those radio buttons are a group of related fields, so they should be in a fieldset, and what about inline…

Another Awesome PSDTut created to help liberate you in the arts of photoshop.

Two photographers i’d reccomend are Pete Carr and Marcin Stawiarz, they do some good hdr images, Pete carr does a mix of the ‘real’ and the ‘fake’ looking hdr, and Marcin Stawiarz images are…

Second Life and World of Warcraft are two the most popular multiuser games, but generally require a laptop or desktop computer. Until now. 3D Streaming technology developed by Comverse and Intel allow 2nd Life for mobile platforms by using a powerful backend server, to compute and render scenes, then smartly compress and stream to a mobile phone.

What does this mean for users of Intel platforms? In fact, the Comverse 3D Streaming capability offers a great user experience across all Intel platforms. On the backend, its the opportunity to offer the power of visual computing on…

The UK government’s education technolgoy agency has snubbed Ubuntu and a host of top notch open source companies and awarded a contract to promote open source in schools to a company that boasts its ability to develop vocational qualifications. Looks like the Microsoft tax lives on…

I\'ve written a number of times about BECTA, charting its constant flip-flops on open source in schools – sometimes damning it, sometimes driving it. Like me, you\'ve probably been increasingly confused about BECTA\'s…

Rumor has it that Apple will be seeding developers with Mac OS 10.6 early next week at WWDC 08.

I don't buy it either. If Apple excels at one thing over anything else it's marketing, and showcasing a new OS that doesn't have anything new to Woo us is illogical.I do hope they leave the PPC and 32-bit users behind. While the…

What is Sitelinks? Generally some links are shown below some sites in Google search engine result page (SERP), is termed as Sitelinks. In fact is helpful to user. They can easily navigate to the website with the help of Sitelinks.

For non branded keyword search, Google can by own decide which company should come up with sitelinks, and here they can make mistake, people can claim for the results that they are biased. Like as if you search for “Cool News”…

Learn how to make your very own DIY multitouch pad in just a few minutes and at a minimal cost.

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The computer attackers who took down Comcast’s homepage and webmail service for over five hours Thursday say they didn’t know what they were getting themselves into. In an hour-long telephone conference call with Threat Level, the hackers known as “Defiant” and “EBK” expressed astonishment over the attention their DNS hijacking has garnered.

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A new living computer, bred from E. coli bacteria instead of stamped from silica, has for the first time successfully solved a classic mathematical puzzle known as the Burnt Pancake Problem.

The Burnt Pancake Problem works like this: Imagine you are a diner owner. To promote your delicious fare, you want to create a golden pyramid of pancakes. Using a spatula, you have to rearrange an existing stack of different-sized pancakes,…

Almost every week a new site pops up that allows you to search eBay for mis-spelled auctions. I've just stumbled across another new player called Missing-Auctions.com. Why is it better? Because it allows you to restrict your search to a particular category which results in much more accurate results. I've already picked up some deals.

Although it is hard to believe many eBay sellers really do fail to check their eBay auction listings before they submit them. This means that their eBay listings contain spelling mistakes in the titles or in the the auction item description….

WordPress seems to be everywhere these days, and it's no wonder with it's ease of use and ease of customization. In this tutorial, I'll be dissecting the default WordPress theme's comments.php structure and giving you various snippets of code to make your skinning easier.

<?php comments_popup_link($zero_comments, $one_comment, $more_comments, $css_class, $comments_closed); ?> The first 3 parameters in this function are the same as the above comments_number function. $css_class is, obviously,…

You probably know by now that VoIP calls can save you money on cell phone bills, landlines and Web conferencing. But is that really all your VoIP service can do for you? From giving your dating life a boost to earning extra cash from a side job, VoIP gives you the possibility to explore all kinds of new tools and mischievous shenanigans.

You probably know by now that VoIP calls can save you money on cell phone bills, landlines and Web conferencing. But is that really all your VoIP service can do for you? If you only knew. From giving your dating life a boost to earning extra cash…