Volume VIII

Issue : 3: February 4, 2010

• Canadas Privacy Commissioner to investigate Facebook
• Cyrillic and Arabic Domain Names Get Clearance
• Samsung and Rambus Partner to Settle Litigation
• Microsoft Sues TiVo for Patent Infringement Relating to DVR Products
• Motorola Asks ITC to Ban RIMs U.S. Imports Amid Licensing Impasse
• Verizon Adopts Graduated Response Against Illegal Downloaders
• Apple in Trademark Dispute Over iPad

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Cyrillic and Arabic Domain Names Get Clearance

After years of debate, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has granted preliminary approval for Internet addresses to be written entirely in Cyrillic or Arabic. Russia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates received this approval, which could lead to Cyrillic or Arabic domain names by the middle of this year. Technical tricks have allowed portions of the Internet address to use non-Latin scripts, but until now, the domain name suffix had to use the Latin script. This change responds to increasing Internet usage among people of different tongues. Since November, ICANN has received applications from 16 other countries involving eight languages.

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