ICANN organisation, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, for the third time now finally refused to start with a special “.xxx” domain for sex-sites an “online redlight-district”.
“As a consequence of this vote, we will not accept any further proposals,” said ICANN Chairman Vinton Cerf on nydailynews.com.

The free AntiVir anti virus software in its yesterdays update suspected the windows program winlogon.exe to be the trojan horse “TR/WLHack.A”. An update later this morning corrected the mistake in the software newest signature data.

If a user already moved or quarantined the file “winlogon.exe”, he has to move it back to its original location […]

The postmasters gallery in New york currently runs an exposition of 13 pictures of very special beauties: virtual beauties posing in front of virtual camera’s, just like they are really having their pictures taken in real life. They are styled like real models, the two men and eleven women, coming from the virtual world ’second […]

The Shutdown Day starts in two hours. In these 24 hours users are encouraged to go out with friends or spend the time outside, for example. A month ago, more than 18.000 people had assigned to take part (announced by computerhilfen), now it is more than 55.000 users worldwide.
It takes part on a saturday on […]

Not only Apple offers owners of an iPod the possibility to use the portable media device at home also. Other producers as well have equipment on sale to make the most of Apple’s mp3-player. Next to small docking stations, which are connected to the hi-fi-system, there exist entire music systems with already integrated docking stations.

Currently, […]

The russian security experts from antivirus firm Kaspersky criticized security in new Windows Vista. The major problem would be that security firms do not get a direct access to the system anymore according to Natalja Kaspersky on german CeBIT.
At the moment virus authors have a major advantage towards security companies who first needs to let […]

With “Feedback 2.0″, eBay is trying a new evaluation-system. With this the users have much more opportunities to evaluate a seller or bidder and can give a score for the item description, the contact, the delivery-time and the shipping-costs. According to the german heise magazine, the new evaluation will be tested first in Australia, Belgium, […]

To built smaller notebooks with less cooling and less power-consumption, Apple plans to realease a laptop that uses flash-memory instead of a harddrive, rumors say. Apple uses NAND memory chips since 2005 for its iPod players.
With using flash memory, the Apple notebooks could get even smaller and thinner, and the battery lasts longer. The main […]