ICANN asks Verisign to suspend Site Finder redirects

ICANN, The US Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, on Friday asked Verisign to drop its controversial move to redirect all mistyped and unregistered .net and .com URLs to its own Site Finder search service. ...more

China advised to mandate 'real name system' blogging

The Internet Society of China has recommended to the government that bloggers be required to use their real names when they register blogs, state media said on Monday, in the latest attempt to regulate free-wheeling Web content. The society, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Information Industry, said no decision had been made but that a 'real name system' was inevitable. 'A real name system will be an unavoidable choice if China wants to standardise and develop its blog industry,' the official Xinhua news agency quoted the Internet Society's secretary general, Huang Chengqing, as saying. ...more

Be Inc settles antitrust case against Microsoft

Be Inc and Microsoft Corp have settled the antitrust lawsuit filed by Be in February 2002. Be has been paid $23,250,000 by Microsoft, plus legal fees, to drop the case. At the same time Microsoft does not admit to any illegal practices. ...more

Nokia to buy push-email specialist Intellisync

Nokia is to buy push-email specialist Intellisync for $430mn. The acquisition will provide the phone giant with its own technology for automatically delivering email to handhelds. It will no longer have to rely on BlackBerry Connect technology licensed from push-email pioneer RIM, although it will continue to offer this as an option on its devices. ...more

Clunky-B exploits unpatched IE vuln

Security companies say they have uncovered malicious software using the unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer to infect. UK security firm Sophos said today that the Clunky-B Trojan has already been implanted into some websites which will automatically download it to a system through the vulnerability, if the attacker can get someone to visit the site. Sophos' senior technology consultant Graham Cluley told us that the vulnerability, if successfully exploited, could be used to download any code or virus - so users need to ensure their antivirus software is up to date with the latest definitions. ...more