Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has developed a new system that allows non-Latin characters to be used in domain name extensions. This is an interesting progress as it will be beneficial for non-English users. But it surely will face many challenges.
GOOGLE has acquired reCAPTCHA, a company that produces the squiggly words used by websites to guard against spam and fraud.
reCAPTCHA's technology would be used to increase fraud and spam protection for Google products "but also to improve books and newspaper scanning process."
Vogue model Liskula Cohen sought the identity of the blogger so she could sue her for defamation against claims that she was the 'skankiest in NYV.' Manhattan Supreme Court rules that Google who hosted the blogger, turn them over. Is this the demise of anonymous blogging?
A new feature on the Google toolbar-which is installed on millions of computers around the world-lets users comment about the content of any web page they visit; the comments are then visible to other toolbar owners when they visit that site (see screenshot to the left).
Google has tried to made a deal with those opposing it's Google Books deal (such as Amazon and Microsoft) by offering to allow them to resell books from it's site. Amazon has rejected the idea.
Premature results for the weekend's state elections published on social networking site Twitter have raised fears about how much influence such updates could have on German voters. Anyone found guilty of leaking the exit polls could face a fine of up to 50,000 euros.