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• Mass of Media: War in Georgia

  Saturday, August 9th, 2008

  Bush says attacks on Georgia “dangerous escalation”
  Reuters
  BEIJING (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Saturday said attacks by Russia on neighboring Georgia outside the war zone of South Ossetia marked a …
  Georgia proposes cease fire in S Ossetia
  The Associated Press
  TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgia’s President Mikhail Saakashvili proposed Saturday [...]

• Mass of Media: Radovan Karadžić

  Thursday, July 24th, 2008

  Radovan Karadžić (Serbian: Радован Караџић, IPA: [râdovaːn kâraʤiʨ]; born 19 June 1945 in Petnjica, SR Montenegro, SFR Yugoslavia) is a former Bosnian Serb politician, poet and psychiatrist who was a fugitive from 1995 until 21 July 2008 after having been indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the [...]

• Italy: two immigrants killed each other

  Monday, July 21st, 2008

  Two immigrants were found killed near Rome yesterday, a Romanian and a Poland. One with powerful blows in his head, the other stabbed with a knife in his neck. The Italian police says that it is possible that the two immigrants killed each other. Or, maybe, they were killed by other [...]

• The digital Europe - i2010 Initiative

  Sunday, May 18th, 2008

  Preparing Europe’s digital future i2010 Mid-Term Review {SEC(2008) 470}
  INTRODUCTION

  Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) continue to be a major driver of economic and social modernisation. Today, businesses in the EU devote 20% of investment to ICTs, and the sector accounts for 26% of overall research expenditure. Moreover, 60% of basic public services [...]

• You pay for domain name, Dreamhost register it for itself

  Friday, February 22nd, 2008

  I had 5 web hosting packages with Dreamhost, all of it including a free registration of a domain name. But they do not say the person that will be the registrant, and this way you will see later that it is not you the registrant, but Dreamhost, and they can whatever [...]

• Kosovo, a solution for all the European countries with ethnic minorities

  Monday, February 18th, 2008

  In a public declaration right after the proclamation of the independence of Kosovo, the leader of the Hungarian party in Romania (Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania), Marko Bela, said that Kosovo is a precedent, and a solution for all the European countries that have ethnic problems.
  Marko Bela saluted Kosovo’s independence and [...]

• Kosovo and the Russian dolls, the democracy as the new religion

  Sunday, February 17th, 2008

  Kosovo will proclaim soon, in some hours, its independence. It’s a fact. Kosovo will be the world’s newest state. And it will be recognized by US and most of the European countries, as well as the most other countries. But what if tomorrow, a small area within Kosovo wants to declare [...]

• Dreamhost and the full power of the registrars

  Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

  So, let’s see shortly the problem for the readers that did not see my previous post:
  New Dream Network, LLC is a ICANN accredited registrar and, same time, a web hosting company.
  When I bought 5 web hosting packages from them, I registered with them 5 new domain names, the registration [...]

• Dreamhost, the nightmare web hosting and domain name registration service

  Sunday, February 10th, 2008

  Shortly: some years ago I started to use the Dreamhost web hosting service and now, after they closed my accounts without a reason, they refuse to charge back my money and to get me access to the domain names I registered with them.
  It was ok at the beginning, some years ago. [...]

• The big known surprise: Microsoft buys Yahoo!

  Friday, February 1st, 2008

  So, the decisive step is done: Microsoft Corp. has made a bid to buy Yahoo Inc. for $44.6 billion, in order to better compete with Google Inc. If Yahoo! agree, it will be the problem of the U.S. Justice Department to check if this deal complies with the antitrust [...]

• Creative Content Online for EU

  Thursday, January 17th, 2008

  On January 3rd, the European Commission (EC) launched a public consultation for the preparation of a recommendation on Creative Content Online for the European Union for a common legal environment for online content, proposing multi-territory licences.EU policies should support the rapid implementation of “new services and related business models for [...]

• Romanian football under penal investigation

  Thursday, January 17th, 2008

  The public prosecutors of the National Department for Anticorruption started the penal investigation for some of the most representative persons in the Romanian football:

  Ioan Becali, impresario
  Victor Becali, impresario
  Gheorghe Copos, president and owner of the football club Rapid Bucharest
  Sica Puscoci, attorney
  Mihai Stoica, ex manager of the football club Otelul Galati
  Cristian Borcea, executive president [...]

• Testing the front running practice with Network Solutions

  Thursday, January 10th, 2008

  I red about the practice of Network Solutions to register every name looked-up via their registration-site WHOIS, but I couldn’t believe it, so I tested it myself.
  I choose the domain name “justadomaintastingtest.com”.
  I tried it with the whois at register.com (that I trust and I always use): the domain name was available.

  I tried [...]

• Domain tasting and ICANN’s Report

  Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

  ICANN just releases a report on the domain tasting, known also as domain kiting, where the registrants use the five-day “grace-period” at the beginning os a GTLD (generic top-level domain) to test it. If the domain is a success, it is kept by the registrant. These are usually previously used and [...]

• US FTC new rules on online behavioral advertising

  Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

  After European Union set new rules on online advertising, U.S. Federal Trade Commissions published these days a proposed set of privacy principles governing online behavioral advertising.
  The FTC’s privacy program seeks to balance support for such innovation in consumer services and products photo-sharing, blogging, the creation of virtual communities, and [...]

• EU fights against misleading advertising and aggressive sales practices

  Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

  Just two weeks before Christmas, sweeping new EU rules to crackdown on misleading advertising and aggressive selling practices - including a ban on fake “free” offers and a ban on “pester power” advertising (direct exhortation) to children on the Internet - will come into force across the EU (December 12 [...]