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I finished reading iWoz - the long awaited memoirs of Apple founder Steve Wozniak - on a plane on the way over to San Francisco. Somewhat fitting since the whole story takes place in the 100 square miles where I am sitting at the moment.
In fact, if I was here on Monday, I’d have […]

I manage to squeeze in a quick trip to California to finish up my Sex.com book and everything goes crazy.
I arrived in San Francisco an hour ago to no less than four voicemails and 50 non-spam emails - in the spate of 10 hours. I knew ICANN was going to announce its MoU late […]

Well, Nominet’s annual general meeting finished an hour or so ago in London and thanks to Rob, we have a clear rundown of what happened.
In a nutshell: a change of accountants because Nominet is getting bigger; another bit of vote chaos that may blow up tomorrow when the result from the Board election is […]

Here we go again. Security experts warn that there is a hole in one of Apple’s products; Apple says there isn’t a problem; and a month later it releases a fix for it. I write a story pointing this out and am faced with mindless abuse from the Apple faithful.
Exactly the same thing has […]

The latest new top-level domain - .mobi - is opened up to everyone in just under an hour, 3pm GMT, 10am in New York.
It is an attempt to build a mobile Internet and a number of big boys are behind it including Ericsson, Google, Microsoft, Nokia, Samsung, T-Mobile and Vodafone. It’s pretty uninspiring at […]

This is an interesting one, and I still haven’t quite got my head around the implications.
Google was sued in Belgium by a number of media organisations for hosting their stories on its Google.be news section. Their argument was that Google was making money from their stories so they wanted some of the revenue. Google […]

My copy of iWoz arrived from Amazon this morning and I am mildly excited about reading it - much more than I thought I would be.
The book is selling itself as the first account of Apple founder Steve Wozniak’s view of this peculiar computer company. The blurb in the book is: “Having avoided the […]

There are two Board positions going at UK registry Nominet that will be decided on Wednesday (27 September) at the company’s annual general meeting in London.
Last week, Nominet announced that there were six candidates and released a statement from each. Despite the extremely tight time period (for example postal votes have to be with […]

My last five posts have all been about ICANN and frankly that’s not enough for any man. So I thought I’d interject with some humourous light relief. Well, sort of.

First up is what can only be described as one of life’s individuals, a man called Christian Kim, who is American-Korean, lives in Cambridge and […]

I’ve just got off the phone with Paul Twomey after the two days of ICANN Senate hearings and just a week before the MoU that he has been working on for three years comes up.
He seems, well, satisfied.

“I think it went reasonably well,” he summarised. But then I remember he also said it has […]