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  • World gets together on cyberattack early warning

    Twenty-six countries have united to form a global cyber-security group: the International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber-Terrorism (Impact).

  • ICANN promises a world of domain names

    The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has announced its plans to fast track the development of country-coded top level domains (ccTLDs) and local language scripting at the Internet Governance Forum in Rio de Janeiro.

  • Internet Godfather makes way for new Don at ICANN

    The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has elected New Zealand lawyer Peter Dengate Thrush as its new chairman, replacing one of the Internet's "founding fathers", Vint Cerf.

  • Cerf: Aussies will demand better broadband

    Australians will inevitably demand improved broadband speeds for both upstream and downstream connections, "father of the Internet" and Google vice president Vint Cerf said today.

  • 'Botnets could eat the Internet'

    Father of the Internet Vint Cerf has warned attendees at the World Economic Forum in Davos that the Iinternet is at serious risk from botnets.

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  • Who guards the guards: Security

    Who predicted the death of the password -- and spam? Why is PKI not ubiquitous? Who makes these daft predictions anyway? ZDNet.com.au looks at how the security market was supposed to shape up, according to so-called "experts".

  • The Internet's future is out of this world

    Google's Vint Cerf shares his thoughts on the limitless possibilities of the Internet.

  • Google, Sun, others band to fight spyware, adware

    New coalition to name companies that sneak ads and spying programs onto computers of unsuspecting Web surfers.

  • Google hiring like it's 1999

    The search giant is on a hiring tear. In its most recent quarter, which ended Sept. 30, Google added 800 employees, bringing its global work force to 4,989. That's more than triple the total from just two years ago.

  • Why Google hired Vint Cerf

    The Internet pioneer has big ideas for Google Earth and mobile phones. He's also got his eyes on outer space.

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