Rattle
your brains on a Monday morning
It’s
that time of year again when the mornings are just like the
nights- cold wet and miserable. The last thing you feel like
is getting out of bed and going into work with those Monday
morning blues. So when you get into the office, why not start
your day with a simple jigsaw (www.jigzone.com), to get your
brain into gear. It’s simple and easy and only takes
a few minutes. Alternatively, a quick wrestle with a cryptic
crossword might do the trick. Try one – oh, go on. It’s
useful if you have a brilliant solver in the workplace but
if this isn’t the case and the crossword makes no sense,
buy the following day’s paper and look at the answers!
You’ll soon get the hang of it.
Or …
if you really want to know what’s happening in the world
of IT log on to The Register (www.theregister.co.uk), where
you will be updated with all the latest information on any
new services or products.
Who
rules the internet?
The US
government has won the right to retain control of the internet
at the UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS),
held in Tunisia at the beginning of the month.
At the
moment the internet is run by an international non- profit
making organisation - Icann (Internet Corporation
for Assigned Names and Numbers), which was set up by the US
government in 1998. Since its establishment, Icann have introduced
competition among domain name registrars, created a dispute
resolution process for trademark conflicts as well as administering
the domain name system.
Although
the summit caused much controversy in Tunis, (the Tunisian
Government have been accused of filtering and blocking websites
which they do not agree with), where the world’s media
saw a lot of protesting, a new deal was struck. A new Internet
Governance Forum will be set up next year which will
help decide upon public policy issues of the internet. It
will be made up of governments as well as private and civil
society, but they will have no power over the existing bodies.
Many governments, from both the rich and poorer countries
would like to share the running of the internet, instead of
one country, to benefit from the information and communication
technologies and to close the gap between the richer and poorer
countries.
So, for
now, it looks like the US will retain full control of the
internet, where the US based IT companies will benefit mostly.
But the battle of who runs the internet is not over, and there
will be more controversy to come.
Cheaper
internet providers- are they better than us?
Everybody’s
looking for a cheaper alternative for anything that they buy.
They will always get several different quotes from different
companies before deciding which one is best for them. It’s
no different for any business either, they will shop around
for the best deal for them and this includes buying a domain
name for their company, that will give them a presence on
the World Wide Web (www).
There
are at the moment one of two options, either you get an internet
service provider (ISP) to do that for you OR
you can register the domain name yourself on sites such as
123.register. The only difference is when you do it yourself,
it really means DIY!!
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