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Internet Adds Non-Latin Letters, Republicans Launch BlackBerry App

by Warren Riddle on October 30, 2009 at 11:50 AM

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines....
  • November 9th marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and now, after 40 years of division, another barrier is coming down. ICANN, the Web address regulatory organization, is set to finally allow non-Latin alphabet characters in domain names, meaning that addresses can appear in languages like Russian and Chinese. [From: Tech Crunch]
  • It may seem a little late to the dance, but the Republican Party is apparently, finally, ready to embrace technology and those Internets tubes things. Republicans have recently complained about Twitter, launched a new Web site, and have even introduced a BlackBerry App. Where was all this two years ago? [From: Yahoo! Tech]
  • Facebook members are some of the most ornery and overzealous people on the Web, prone to instantly revolt against any proposed changes to the site. Yesterday, Facebook announced new alterations to the site's privacy practices, but, shockingly, everyone seems to support these changes, which include the ability to completely remove an outdated, unwanted profile from the site's servers. [From: Facebook Blog via Mashable]
  • The Foo Fighters are putting on a rock show tonight in their Los Angeles studio, and the performance will be streamed live on Facebook starting at 10 p.m. EST. It has already been a significant music week on the Web, as U2's live YouTube broadcast attracted 10 million viewers, and Jacko's red carpet event attracted almost 2 million. [From: Tech Crunch]
  • The Palm Pre rollercoaster ride with Apple continues. The Pre-to-iTunes sync, which was killed over the summer and then revived last month, once again fell at the hands of Apple, this time after the iTunes 9.0.2 update. [From: Pre Central]
  • The 130,000 employees of France's General Directorate of Public Finance have been using both Lotus Notes and Microsoft Outlook on their office computers for some time, but the Department recently decided to go with just one service. It has now completely switched to Thunderbird, which is based on Mozilla code, adding even more impressive numbers to the company's already bloated stats. [From: Download Squad]
  • Yesterday morning, 1,000 people waited in line to experience the grand opening of the Mission Viejo, California location of the Microsoft Store. One woman sat around for over 16 hours. That may seem ridiculous, but the store's wall-to-wall video screens do sound pretty sweet (as long as you can, in good conscience, ignore the ominous 'Fahrenheit 451' parallels.) [From: The Orange County Register]

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