Gmail data feed switched off says Google.com Monday, November 08, 2010, 9:50:17 AM Google have confirmed that it has switched off its Gmail data feed. Google said that the policy switch was primarily aimed at Facebook, complaining that the social network left users in a “data dead end”. Originally, like other web firms, Google allowed others get at the data it holds on users of its many services via its Application Programming Interface (API).

The French Constitutional Court has declared that article L.45 of the French Electronic Communications Act, the legal framework for domain name management under .FR, is unconstitutional however it ordered that the current rules remain in place until 1 July 2011. The order was given on 6 October to AFNIC, the registry for .FR, by the French Constitutional Court who considered unconstitutional article L.45 of the French Electronic Communications Act. The order from the court includes provisions that mean past decisions and any decisions made up until 1 July cannot be challenged on the basis of its decision.

Loomis Leads Team That Ensures Physical Integrity of ServInt’s Network Infrastructure MCLEAN, Va.–( BUSINESS WIRE )–ServInt, a pioneering provider of managed web hosting for businesses worldwide, today announced it has appointed Brian Loomis to the new position of Director of Provisioning. “Brian is at the heart of the decision-making team that has guided all of these hardware-related strategies, and we’re happy to recognize his significant contributions with this appointment.

Dell exec says 3Par loss won’t affect enterprise strategy Dell may have lost out to Hewlett-Packard in the bidding war for storage vendor 3Par earlier this month, but the computer maker wasn’t pained by the decision to walk away. “At some point, winning is losing

[news release] The body responsible for the development and promotion of Internet Standards (the Internet Engineering Task Force or IETF), has approved IDNA 2008 as the official Internet protocol for Internationalised Domain Names by publishing the Internet Drafts as official RFCs.  This important milestone marks a significant step in the advancement of Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs) and will ensure the Internet continues to become more usable and accessible to non-Latin language communities. AusRegistry International, a global provider of IDN-enabled Domain Name Registry Services that support the IDNA 2008 protocol, congratulates the IETF on this latest announcement

Many website owners in search of top web hosting often turn to a web hosting forum to get some opinions and ideas about who they should go with. For many, this has taken the place of using web hosting review sites as a source of information, as many of those are notorious for being thinly disguised promotional pieces for either the web hosts themselves or their affiliates. Let’s see how a web hosting forum may be a better bet, and some of the places people are turning to today.

Appeal lodged against EU approval of Oracle-Sun merger Monty Widenius, a leading open-source software proponent, lodged an appeal on Friday against the European Union’s antitrust authorities over their decision to green-light Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems at the beginning of this year. The appeal was filed to the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.

07|05|2010 9:26 am EDT WIPO Panel Debates Definition of “Bad Faith” in UDRP Decision by Frank Michlick in Categories: Legal Issues – 0 Comments In a recent decision in the dispute for the domain name Evoq.com , the WIPO panel let the original registrant keep the domain name. However the 3-person panel did not agree how exactly the “bad faith” criteria should be applied. The panel was not clear whether it mattered if a domain name was registered in bad faith when compared to the complainant’s trademark, or if this criteria could be applied against any existing trademark

06|24|2010 2:00 pm EDT .XXX TLD To Be Approved Tomorrow? by Frank Michlick in Categories: ICANN / Policy – 0 Comments According to Kieren McCarthy ICANN’s general counsel read a statement at the start of the public forum at the current ICANN meeting in Brussel, stating that the Board had accepted the results of the independent review panel and thus would approve the .xxx TLD tomorrow .

Google Wins Viacom Copyright Lawsuit Google has prevailed in the $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit brought against the company and YouTube in 2007 by Viacom. A federal judge on Wednesday granted Google’s motion for summary judgment, finding that the company had taken sufficient steps to deal with infringing content to meet the safe harbor requirements of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Google VP and general counsel Kent Walker characterized the decision as “an important victory not just for us, but also for the billions of people around the world who use the Web to communicate and share experiences with each other.” ..