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By - Darren Straight

ICANN to Ban Use of “WWW”

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is set to ban the use of www in domain names as recent studies show that office productivity is affected by workers having to type www when surfing a website. Requiring employees to type ‘WWW’ cost companies over $25 billion last year,” said ICANN representative Emil Scharnsdorf. “The average Internet surfer takes

By - Darren Straight

Hurricane Rita misses Houston and Galveston!

Hurricane Rita hit the US Golf Coast this morning at around 0600 GMT (0100 local time) with winds of up to 120mph (193km/h) but luckily enough the winds have since dropped to around 75mph and have missed the cities of Houston and Galveston! I say luckily enough that they have missed the cities of Houston and Galveston because it would