The US government is asking for comments on how the internet should be run, and anyone is allowed to comment - but you’ll need to be quick.

The NTIA - an arm of the US government’s department of commerce - is holding a public meeting at the end of July over what should happen to the current Internet overseeing organisation ICANN when its contract is renewed in September. In the meantime, it has opened a public comment board where you are able to email comments for the US government and the rest of the world to see. The board is open now but comments need to be sent by this Friday, 7 July. The email postal address is DNSTransition@ntia.doc.gov.

Source: TheRegister

Vic Gundotra, a 15-year veteran general manager at Microsoft Corp., has left the company to join rival Google Inc. in one year.

Gundotra’s departure was first reported by Business 2.0 and confirmed by Mountain View, Calif.-based Google. A Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft Corp. spokesman wasn’t immediately available for comment.

Source: businessweek

Microsoft Corp. denied speculation that it plans to cripple copies of Windows XP for users who refuse to install its controversial antipiracy tool, Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA).

But the software company confirmed that for its upcoming Windows Vista operating system, companies will be required to activate their software differently than they do today in order to prevent the leakage of volume licenses that are the source of most Windows piracy.

Source: computerworld

The tables have been turned on at least one Nigerian scammer after an online vigilante successfully played him at his own game with an intricately laid “anti-scam” operation.

The campaign netted a life-sized wooden carving of a Commodore 64 computer keyboard which was sent all the way from Africa to the scambaiter who is code-named Shiver Metimbers.

With some creative photo editing, Shiver Metimbers was able to string along his quarry with claims that the two carvings sent had mysteriously been damaged enroute, the first through a mysterious shrinking process, and the second by a rogue African hamster.

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Source: theage