Thiruvananthapuram: Since the previous Left government named major parks and popular meeting places in the state after Communist Party of India-Marxist leaders, people in Kerala are curious about the names the Oommen Chandy regime plans to give to the three international airports. Incidentally, Kerala is the only state in the country which has three functional international airports and clearance has been given to a fourth at Kannur. These airports are...
12:37 PM, Apr 17, 2012
Beijing: Terming the South China Sea as a disputed region, China has warned India to refrain from undertaking oil exploration in the resource-rich Vietnamese blocks in order to ensure "peace and stability" in the area. "The area is disputed one. So we do not think that it would be good for India to do (explore oil) that," Deputy Director General of Asian Department in Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sun Weidong...
11:34 AM, Mar 25, 2012
London: A controversial attempt to expand Internet addresses far beyond the likes of .com, .org or .net has provoked a rare threat from the US government to withdraw a key license from the body that runs the Internet's core functions. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) depends on its US government contract to coordinate the unique addresses that tell computers where to find each other, without which...
12:19 PM, Mar 24, 2012
California: Google is relaxing a requirement that real names be used on its Plus social network. Many people have been seeking the right to set up accounts using nicknames or pseudonyms, but Google has been suspending them when it knows of violations. Google said Monday that it will now allow nicknames and pseudonyms, as well as maiden names and names in non-Latin scripts. There's a catch, though. Google may still...
11:41 AM, Jan 24, 2012
Vatican City: The Vatican said on Wednesday an unknown buyer had snapped up the internet address vatican.xxx, a domain combining its name with an extension reserved for pornographic content. "This domain is not available because it has been acquired by someone else, but not the Vatican," Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said on Vatican radio. It was not clear from his statement if the Vatican had tried to acquire the...
05:19 PM, Dec 22, 2011
Minnesota: The University of Kansas is buying up website names such as http://www.KUgirls.xxx and http://www.KUnurses.xxx . But not because it's planning a Hot Babes of Kansas site or an X-rated gallery of the Nude Girls of the Land of Aaahs. Instead, the university and countless other schools and businesses are rushing to prevent their good names from falling into the hands of the pornography industry. Over the past two months,...
11:06 AM, Dec 10, 2011
Mumbai: Actor Abhishek Bachchan, who recently became the father of a baby girl, has thanked his fans for their good wishes and is now asking them to suggest names for his newborn. "And suggestions for names are very welcome guys. Something with 'A'," the 35-year-old posted on micro-blogging site Twitter. His wife, Aishwarya Rai, gave birth to their first child Nov 16 at Mumbai's Seven Hills Hospital and since then,...
07:18 PM, Nov 20, 2011
Mumbai: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena would be conducting written examination followed by personal interviews to select its candidates for the upcoming civic polls. "Eligible and efficient candidates who clear the exam would be given tickets to contest the elections," MNS chief Raj Thackeray said while addressing a party meet. Besides the prestigious Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), civic bodies at Thane, Pune, Nashik and Nagpur among others, are due for polls in...
08:31 PM, Nov 19, 2011
Mumbai: Namrata Deokar for the last two decades went by the name 'Nakusa'. Nakusa in Marathi means unwanted. On Saturday she, along with 140 other girls, were rechristened in a unique public ceremony. Some of the girls said for the first time they feel their existence validated. One of the girls Sandhya Melukar said, "I feel happy that all the contempt associated with my name will go now." In a...
10:38 AM, Oct 23, 2011
New York: In preparation for a new triple-x Internet domain that will launch in December, lawyers for the most storied brands in the United States are scrambling to prevent an x-rated rip-off of an invaluable asset: corporate Web addresses. The domain operator administering the .xxx domain is accepting early applications from brand owners who want control over their names. ICM Registry says it has received over 900,000 "expressions of interest"...
01:22 PM, Aug 16, 2011
New York: Jacob, Ethan and Michael were the top boy names in 2010, while Isabella, Sophia and Emma were favorites for girls but celebrities are exerting a big influence of what parents chose to name their newborns. An analysis of 23 million page views of individual baby name pages on a baby names website shows that celebrities have a big impact on name selections. "Five years ago, I might have...
12:01 PM, Jul 27, 2011
New Delhi: With Victoria and David Beckham's daughter being called Harper Seven Beckham, we are taken back to a trauma celeb-kids seem have come to suffer. The burden of a name and years of merciless teasing from classmates and children at the playground. They are born with silver spoons in their mouths, but their parents with a lack of imagination (or perhaps too much of it) proceed to bless the...
07:37 PM, Jul 11, 2011
San Francisco: The parent company of GoDaddy.com, a top registrar of Internet domain names, has been sold to a group of private investment firms for $2.25 billion, a person familiar with the transaction told The Associated Press. Go Daddy Group Inc.'s sale to KKR, Silver Lake and Technology Crossover Ventures comes as the company expects to top $1.1 billion in revenue this year because expanding Internet use has fuelled the...
07:49 AM, Jul 02, 2011
New York: When it comes to branding on the Internet, 2012 may be the dawn of a chaotic new era with companies and other groups expected to battle over suffixes like .cancer, .chocolate and just about .anything. The decision on Monday by the body that governs Internet domain names to stop restricting them to suffixes like .com and .gov will change the way companies interact with consumers and how much...
02:16 PM, Jun 22, 2011
Singapore: The regulatory body that oversees Internet domain names voted on Monday to revamp the domain naming system for websites, allowing them to end with words like "apple" and "orange" instead of suffixes such as ".com" or ".gov". "ICANN has opened the Internet's naming system to unleash the global human imagination. Today's decision respects the rights of groups to create new top level domains in any language or script," the...
12:20 PM, Jun 20, 2011
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