Microsoft Windows NT was launched on July 27, 1993. The Windows NT core continues to be in use in many Microsoft products, including Windows 8, Windows Phone and Xbox One.
ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley takes a look back at Windows NT:
http://www.zdnet.com/microsofts-windows-nt-turns-20-7000018597/
The Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (TATT) has posted the Draft Telecommunications (Universal Service) Regulations for the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago for public comment until August 12 2013.
To quote from the introduction :
Considering the importance of telecommunication services, the concept of universal service was developed. Universal service focuses on facilitating accessible and affordable basic telecommunication services to all citizens of Trinidad and Tobago.
The Authority’s policy considerations in relation to the determination of universal service obligations are set out in the Universal Service Framework for Telecommunications Services in Trinidad and Tobago (“the Framework”), a document which has been subject to two rounds of public consultation. This document seeks to identify the services in respect of which universal service obligations shall apply, set out the Authority’s operational procedures for the Universal Service Fund into which contributors would be bound to contribute a percentage of their revenues and to identify the Universal Service initiatives which would be supported by the Fund.
The purpose of the draft Telecommunications (Universal Service) Regulations 2013 is to provide the necessary legal bases for the operation of the Universal Service Fund and for the imposition of obligations on concessionaires to implement such Universal Service initiatives as may be identified by the Authority.
View/Download:
The deadline for comments is August 12 2013. Comments can be posted to TATT, in accordance with TATT’s Procedures for Consultations in the Telecommunications Sectors of Trinidad and Tobago.
ICANN has published a Beginner’s Guide to Policy Advice in the At-Large Advisory Committee [PDF, 816 KB]
This guide explains how policy advice is developed within the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC), why it is important to the end-user, and how you can make your voice heard within that process.
Download the Beginner’s Guide to Policy Advice in the ALAC at
http://www.icann.org/en/about/learning/beginners-guides/alac-policy-advice-10jul13-en.pdf [PDF ; 816K]
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers 47th public meeting begins this Sunday July 14th to Thursday July 18 2013.
The full meeting schedule can be viewed at http://durban47.icann.org/full-schedule
Each meeting on http://durban47.icann.org/full-schedule has a link to aseparate meeting page (for example, the ALAC and Regional Leadership Working Session 1 meeting at http://durban47.icann.org/node/39587 ) has remote participation details and the agenda that allows anyone with a broadband connection to attend the live sessions and participate.
Note that the times of meetings are listed in the local time in Durban which is UTC/GMT +2 hours. This means that the time in Durban is 6 hours ahead of the time in Trinidad and Tobago. This means that a time of 2pm local time in Durban is 8am in Trinidad and Tobago
The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society (TTCS) is involved in ICANN At-Large. At-Large is the name for the community of individual Internet users who participate in the policy development work of ICANN. Currently, the vice chair of TTCS, Dev Anand Teelucksingh serves on the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) which provides advice on ICANN activities as it relates to the interests of the individual internet end users. The agendas of all the At-Large meetings can be found at
See also the ICANN meeting guide at http://durban47.icann.org/meetings/durban2013/meeting-guide-03jul13-en.pdf
According to the latest Adobe Security Bulletin dated July 9 2013, Adobe has released updated versions of its Adobe Flash Player on various platforms, specifically for:
to “address vulnerabilities that could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system”.
You can read the Adobe Security Bulletin at http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb13-17.html but the vulnerabilities in versions of Adobe Flash before July 9 2013 could allow for execution of unwanted code (typically malware), without your consent just by visiting a website with malicious Flash applications or video (SWF). Therefore, you should update your Adobe Flash Player to the latest version to close this loophole.
To determine what version of the Adobe Flash player you have on your Windows, Macintosh or Linux system, visit http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/
To verify the version of Adobe Flash Player for Android, go to Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > Adobe Flash Player x.x.
To download the latest version of Adobe Flash Player, visit http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html.
Windows users should note that the Flash Player in v9 and earlier versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer v9 and the one in web browsers like Opera, Mozilla Firefox and Safari are separate installs. You should install and update both versions of Adobe Flash.
Internet Explorer v10 (for users for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and Windows 8) has Adobe Flash Player built-in and users should update to the latest Internet Explorer 10 browser version.
Google Chrome browser users has Adobe Flash Player built-in and users should update the Google Chrome browser to the latest version. See http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=95414 on how to do so.
Apple App Store turns 5 years old. Apple launched its App Store on July 10, 2008 with 500 apps for its iOS devices (then iPhone and iPod Touch).
Today, there are more than 900,000 apps and Apple announced over 50 billion apps were downloaded from the App Store, with customers downloading more than 800 apps per second at a rate of over two billion apps per month on the App Store.
To celebrate the 5 year anniversary, Apple is giving away 5 games and 5 apps for a limited time and also noting various milestones in the App Store’s 5 year history.
The 5 free apps (text from the Apple Store) :
and the 5 free games –
Visit the links separately or visit the 5 years of the App Store link (note this link will ask you to open the link in iTunes)
From the Stanford page :
“On December 9, 1968, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers working with him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA, presented a 90-minute live public demonstration of the online system, NLS, they had been working on since 1962. The public presentation was a session of the Fall Joint Computer Conference held at the Convention Center in San Francisco, and it was attended by about 1,000 computer professionals. This was the public debut of the computer mouse. But the mouse was only one of many innovations demonstrated that day, including hypertext, object addressing and dynamic file linking, as well as shared-screen collaboration involving two persons at different sites communicating over a network with audio and video interface. “
YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
Douglas Engelbart died Tuesday at the age of 88. See also the NYTimes and Ars Technica related articles.
“(Reuters) – Douglas C. Engelbart, a technologist who conceived of the computer mouse and laid out a vision of an Internet decades before others brought those ideas to the mass market, died on Tuesday night. He was 88…..”
Read rest of article:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/03/us-engelbart-obit-idUSBRE9621AA20130703
What does ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) do?. Here’s a useful short video
The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society (TTCS) is an accredited ICANN At-Large Structure (ALS) and a founding member of the Latin American and Regional At-Large Organisation (LACRALO), comprised of 42 At-Large Structures in 16 out of 33 countries in the Latin American and Caribbean Region. At-Large is the name for the community of individual Internet users who participate in the policy development work of ICANN.
The vice-chair of TTCS, Dev Anand Teelucksingh is currently serving on the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC). The ALAC is responsible for considering and providing advice on ICANN’s activities as they relate to the interests of individual Internet users (the “At-Large” community).
Interested in learning and getting involved in policy issues related to domain names included new generic Top Level Domains and IP addressing?
Contact me at admin@ttcsweb.org
Microsoft has announced that its TechNet Subscriptions service which debuted in 1998 will be retired and would discontinue sales on August 31, 2013. For an annual fee, subscribers to TechNet Subscriptions could download and install Microsoft’s latest software offerings ostensibly for evaluation use.
See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/ms772428 for the announcement and a FAQ at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/ms772428
Via :http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-to-shut-down-technet-subscription-service-7000017541/
