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John Battelle’s Searchblog carries an interesting article about Google open sourcing some code. The new Google site code.google.com contains a few interesting projects and some Google APIs.
Tags: Google, Open Source
Written by John McCormac on March 18th, 2005 with comments disabled.
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The BBC reports that US food corporation Kraft won Milka.fr from French fashion designer Milka Budimir. The principle of large companies protecting their trademarks and brands in ccltds is an old one. Many cctlds now have dispute resolution procedures that are based on ICANN models. The .ie resolution procedure is shown on the WIPO page detailing .ie cctld. The domains that went as far as the dispute resolution procedure were shopelectric.ie, ebay.ie and office1.ie. The number of French (.fr) domains that involved in dispute resolution seems small as well with four decisions in 2004 and one case pending in 2005.
The .ie cctld has been rather lucky when it comes to examples of glaring me-too registration attempts. The examples of ebay.ie and qxl.ie were dot.bomb echoes. Both domains had an associated Irish limited company. In the directorship of both companies, there was a connection to Irish auction website ebid.ie which sought to replicate Ebay’s success in Ireland with a comparatively miniscule market and poor technology. The Ebay.ie domain was transferred to Ebay in the last two weeks and now points to Ebay’s site.
A Microsoft related registration msn.ie changed ownership recently but the original site had all the appearance of one of the few remaining Irish dot.bomb ventures, Online.ie though it was clearly evident that it was not owned or operated by Online.ie.
Tags: ICANN , Domains, URDP , IEDR
Written by John McCormac on March 18th, 2005 with comments disabled.
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An interesting project for exploring Bluetooth’s security at a distance. Ever since GSM smartcards were reverse-engineered and the algorithms compromised, the security models of mobile phone systems has been examined, often with devastating results for the security. The format of the hack would be a bit inconvenient for Ireland.
Tags: IrishBlogs,Bluetooth, Security
Written by John McCormac on March 14th, 2005 with comments disabled.
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A post on fmk’s blog shows that Fianna Fail still does not get technology. Shane Cassells’ election diary was revealing in more ways than one.
Written by John McCormac on March 9th, 2005 with comments disabled.
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According to an interview on News.com, Microsoft is considering opening up the source for SQL Server under its Shared Source programme. This move, if it actually happens, would be significant as the SQL Server product is seen as one of Microsoft’s crown jewels. Microsoft has been eradicated from the low end web side of the market by Open Source databases like MySQL and Postgres. The move seems to be more an attempt to assure current users of the product of the security of SQL Server rather than to create a new Open Source product.
Tags: Microsoft, Databases, Open Source
Written by John McCormac on February 24th, 2005 with comments disabled.
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According to a report in the Irish Times (sub required), the collapse of Medialab Europe is to be investigated by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). The reasons for the collapse and the contract with MIT will come under scrutiny.
Tags: IrishBlogs, MedialabEurope, MLE
Written by John McCormac on February 23rd, 2005 with 7 comments.
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Internetnews.com reports that Microsoft is getting involved in Television over IP. It has come to an agreement with Alcatel to combine Alcatel’s access and integration technologies with Microsoft’s IPTV software. I don’t particularly have any great respect for Microsoft as a software company but this could make the problems that RIAA and MPAA have with p2p downloading insignificant. When it comes to conditional access systems, Microsoft hasn’t clue zero.
Microsoft probably sees this a way of quitely infiltrating its Digital Rights Management systems into domestic equipment. However the interesting aspect is that IPTV may become a lot more important in the near future as it would provide a method of legitimising the distribution of movies and television programmes. The big problem is the fact that copyright areas still dominate the television and movie business.
Tags: Microsoft , IPTV , MPAA , RIAA , Conditional Access Systems, DRM
Written by John McCormac on February 23rd, 2005 with comments disabled.
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The Register reports that Nominet, the UK ccTLD registry has won a legal action against Peter Francis-Macrae and his company Ultra Technologies Ltd. Domain owners would be more familiar with Francis-Macrae’s “Domain Registry Services” and the fake renewal/pseudo invoice scam. The .uk WHOIS had apparently been datamined by Francis-Macrae and his companies and bogus renewal/pseudo invoices were sent out to .uk registrants. The court also ordered Francis-Macrae to pay £81,000 and damages are to be decided at a separate hearing.
Written by John McCormac on February 12th, 2005 with comments disabled.
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