Addresses set to lose county name

The global agency overseeing Internet domain names said Egypt, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates can begin creating online addresses in their native languages.The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) effectively broke the Latin alphabet's three-decade hold on Internet domain names."This marks a pivotal moment in the history of Internet domain names," said ICANN chief executive and president Rod Beckstrom."These international names will now allow people to type entire domain names in their own language."

Global internet regulator ICANN Friday approved a new multilingual address system which ends the exclusivity of Latin characters for internet addresses. Domain names will be the first to be affected by the change.

A shadowy hacking group obtained the email addresses of over 114,000 owners of Apple iPads by exploiting a vulnerability at US telecom giant AT&T, a Silicon Valley website reported on Wednesday.Valleywag, a property of Gawker Media, said the hackers turned over the email list and it contained the email addresses of a number of high-profile iPad users including US business leaders, politicians and military officials.

Today, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released estimates of personal income at the county level for 2007 based on newly available source data. The percent change from 2006 to 2007 in county personal income ranged from -11 percent in McPherson County, Nebraska to 88 percent in Campbell County, South Dakota. For the nation, personal income grew 6.0 percent. A surge in farm income accounted for the bulk of the growth in 29 of the 31 fastest growing counties (the top 1 percent of the nation's counties) as they rebounded from sharp declines in farm income in 2006.

A global regulatory body Friday approved a new multilingual address system which it said would open up the Internet to millions more people worldwide.The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced an end to the exclusive use of Latin characters for website addresses.In future it will be possible to write an entire website address in any of the world's language scripts.

The first applications were accepted on Monday for internationalised domain names (IDNs), in one of the most significant steps to making the Internet more accessible around the globe.The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has opened the application process, ending the exclusive use of Latin characters for website addresses.On the first day, "we have already received six applications from around the world for three different scripts," ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom told an Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

Today, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released estimates of personal income at the county level for 2007 based on newly available source data. The percent change from 2006 to 2007 in county personal income ranged from -11 percent in McPherson County, Nebraska to 88 percent in Campbell County, South Dakota. For the nation, personal income grew 6.0 percent. A surge in farm income accounted for the bulk of the growth in 29 of the 31 fastest growing counties (the top 1 percent of the nation's counties) as they rebounded from sharp declines in farm income in 2006.

The agreement, approved by a judge in Toronto, settles a class-action, or group, lawsuit filed by the customers over the disclosure of their names, social insurance numbers, account numbers and balances, addresses and signatures