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• 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 [...]

• Turn your site into a social network: Google Friend Connect

  Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

  Replacing the thousands of social networks with a single big social network? No, but a golden mine, maybe the best service of Google for me and my 287 web sites and tens of blogs, every one with its own users till now.
  So, from now on any of us can have his own social [...]

• Several regional power grids attacked by hackers, says CIA

  Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

  Some cyberattacks disrupted the power equipment in several countries, causing power outages that affected multiple cities, in accordance with the CIA’s analysts. In some cases the hackers used blackmail, demanding payments before disrupting the power.
  “In at least one case, the disruption caused a power outage affecting multiple cities,” said Tom [...]

• 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 [...]

• Standards for domain names

  Thursday, December 6th, 2007

  RFC 882 Concepts and Facilities (Deprecated by RFC 1034)
  RFC 883 Domain Names: Implementation specification (Deprecated by RFC 1035)
  RFC 920 Specified original TLDs: .arpa, .com, .edu, .org, .gov, .mil and two-character country codes
  RFC 1032 Domain administrators guide
  RFC 1033 Domain administrators operations guide
  [...]