The registry gets blocks of addresses from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, or IANA, in the United States before allocating these to Asia-Pacific ISPs and other bodies who ask for them. It provides allocation and registration services that...
These published specifications, which are not yet widely adopted industry standards, are designed to work with Web Services Security, another Microsoft-backed security specification now being standardized at OASIS, the Organization for the...
The virtual working model which we've adopted means that instant messaging is vital to our business," says David Horwood, co-founder of ihotdesk, an IT services firm that makes a virtue out of its virtual status.
California joins numerous government bodies that have adopted or considered procurement policies that favour open source software as more cost-effective and secure. While organisations connected with the software industry were most alarmed at the...
Most of those resources currently fall within the remit of Icann, which lists its main responsibilities as IP address space allocation, protocol identifier assignment, generic and country code top-level domain name system management and root...
In the region where I live we have been equipped with high-density plastic bins so we can pre-sort our rubbish for the special collection service. It is this background that makes me sceptical of all decisions and policies made on the fly for...