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The domain frontrunning issue isn't exactly an open-and-shut case. In fact, it's more like an X-Files case. ICANN can't find evidence the practice really exists, and the one entity who says he has proof won't provide that proof.It's not like enacting policies against ghosts, exactly. You don't need proof of the existence of frontrunning to enact a policy against it. But in this case, proof might have helped Network Solutions not look so bad.

The big three voting machine folks need to start spinning some PR here, ever since 2000, with the election of George Bush by a decision of the Supreme Court; electronic voting machines have come under increasing scrutiny.

For now, we'll put off dark fantasies of robots taking over. No, no, no. No Skynet, no iRobot, none of that. If you don't want go cross-eyed trying to read a recent Google patent application, just take some smart people's word for it. Google's working on a phone technology that knows more about you than you do.

I make a living in the computer world. I love gizmo's, spec's, and waxing ethereal on all things IT. I wanted to be a rock star, but this is as close as I could come.

Apple has added something they are calling Time Machine to the upcoming "Leopard" release of OS X.

"Da Da Da. Da Da Da." Not to be confused with The Police song "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" from 1983's ZENYATTA MONDATTA album.

With recent reports showing that consumers are sometimes 80% more likely to be influenced by a website to make certain purchases as opposed to other traditional forms of advertising such as television and print, it's become obvious that equal attention should be given to ensure that a website is in fighting form as to capitalize when consumers come calling as is given to other online marketing efforts.

Something old is new again, as Intel displays the small Pandora PC concept last seen in March.