Internet
IETF Approves DKIM as Proposed Internet Standard
In a combined effort to help combat e-mail forgery, phishing and other types of online fraud, technology industry leaders Yahoo!, Cisco, Sendmail and PGP Corporation today announced that the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the group responsible for technical standards on the Internet, has approved DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) as a proposed standard, RFC 4871. [...]
DMOZ Is Taking New Site Submissions Again
Seems, that DMOZ.org is accepting new site submissions again. After a lot of technical problems lately, DMOZ has disabled site suggestions and also most editor functions. Here is a status update from the Resource Zone Forum: “The Site Suggestion, Update Listing, Editor Reinstatement, and Forgotten Password forms are available again. New editor applications are still disabled [...]
2006 Google Zeitgeist is online
It seems like the 2006 Year-End Google Zeitgeist is online. It shows you the Top Searches, of the year, in different categories such as most popluar Wedding or Divorce search terms and also some graphic charts. And here are the Top Searches of 2006 (family friendly edition):    1. bebo  2. myspace  3. world [...]
Google acquired Internet mapping solutions company
Today John Hanke, Director of Google Earth & Maps announced the acquisition of the Internet mapping solutions company Endoxon. “Endoxon is a developer of internet mapping solutions, mobile services, data processing, cartography, direct marketing and the Trinity software suite. Since 1988, Endoxon and its 75 employees have created ground-breaking solutions for a wide variety of geographic [...]
Google & Orange to release ‘Google phone’?
The Observer has information, that Google and the mobile phone operator Orange held talks about a partnership to create a special ‘Google phone’ which makes it easy to search the web wherever you are. “Their plans centre on a branded Google phone, which would probably also carry Orange’s logo. The device would not be revolutionary: manufactured [...]
Google partnered with GoDaddy and eNom to offer Domains
According to the their Official Blog, Google has partnered with the two domain registrars GoDaddy.com and eNom, to offer domain registration for their Google Apps service. This service allows organisations to set up private-label Gmail, Google Talk, Google Calendar, and customizable start pages for their custom domains. Until now, a organisation needed a already registered domain, to [...]
Live.com top searches for 2006
The Live.com team has compiled a nice list of the most searched terms in 2006. The list contains different categories such as celebrity images, news, products, and travel. Because the FIFA World Cup this year, generated so many soccer related searches, they also added a list with the Top 10 soccer searches.
U.S. Patent Search at Google
Today Google announced the release of Google Patent Search, which allows you to search the full text of the U.S. patent corpus and find patents that interest you. The Patent Search uses the same technology that powers Google Book Search, so you can scroll through pages and zoom in on text and illustrations just like you [...]