PC News : America's control of the internet loses...

Who is controlling the internet? It's controlled by America. America's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) which is directly connected with the ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) controls the most important things of the Internet.

Since it started to exchange information with two computers on 1969 October 29th, before 40 years, the internet was controlled by America. But America loosed it's authority of the internet on last October 1st. It was because the contract between ICANN and the American Government was ended on that day.

This was not happened suddenly. It was because many countries asked this a long time ago. Internet ; originated because of American Government but the last 40 years it was developed to the present situation not only by the Americans. It was because of the hard work of creative and effective people around the world. Due to this the European Council was asking to release the American hand over the Internet from a long time.

The European Union played an important role in this. They suggested and confirmed to loosen the control of America of the Internet in the WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society) in 2003. From that day until now, different countries have supported this. Because of these, America has now loosened the rules and regulations for Top Level Domains (TLD) and to not to come to an agreement with the ICANN.

The ending word of any web address is called Top Level Domain. For different countries (.lk .cn .sg), organizations (.com, .org), subjects (.biz, .edu) different domain names are chosen. These domain names are chosen by the ICANN.

Netcraft, an organization which does researches of the internet, showed that there were 233 million (233636281) websites on the internet as at November 2009. ICANN cannot control all these websites individually. So it has loosened it's control.

Because of this anyone can choose any word as a Top Level Domain, and also it can be in any language too.

PC News : Microsoft DreamSpark

Microsoft Corporation has started to give their software packages free of charge. This project is called Microsoft DreamSpark. The talk about DreamSpark has begun to rise because more new software has been added to it.

On 19th February 2008, Bill Gates, the chairman of the Microsoft Corporation, gave a lecture in Stanford University in America. There he said that Microsoft has launched a new project for the next generation of our world. At that time it was limited for only a small number of countries, but now there are many people who take software packages from DreamSpark.

Microsoft DreamSpark provides the latest software developing and designing tools. They can be downloaded by high school students and university students. For that they must visit DreamSpark website and provide their details.

Like this, those students who come to DreamSpark can download Microsoft Expression Studio, GamesStudio, RoboticsStudio for free. And also Visual Studio, SQL Server and Virtual PC can be downloaded.

Microsoft has described their objectives of giving these selected software free of charge. They said that its main objective is to adjust the next generation according to the developing world. There are billions of students all over the world who download software from Microsoft DreamSpark. But there are some people who says that DreamSpark is not for the benefit of students, it is to compete with Linux model operating systems and other open source software.

PC News : Chrome OS

Google has started to develop a new operating system which has more advanced features than existing operating systems. This is an open source operating system given to the public freely, and this is named as 'Chrome OS'.

Now Google has provided a new web browser named Google Chrome, which has many different features than Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Chrome OS is a combination of Google Chrome and Linux Operating System Kernel.

At present, most of the people in the world uses Windows Operating System. Due to that all most all the software are designed based on Windows Operating Systems. And also many of the harmful software and viruses are designed targeting Windows OSs.

The official blog of Google says that "People like to open their e-mails quickly. When the computer gets more time to boot, when the browser gets more time to load, people gets bored. People like to speed up the computer. They don't like their files getting infected with viruses." This means that Chrome OS is more faster than Windows OSs. It has a whole new security architecture which protects the computer from harmful programs.

Chrome OS is a Linux based OS, so an open source software named 'WINE' is provided with it, which allows the user to run any software designed for Windows OSs without even a license. Google is still proceeding with designing hardware for the new OS. Google hopes to launch this new OS to the public in the middle of the next year

PC News : Microsoft Security Essentials

Microsoft has now launched a new anti-virus program called Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE). It is still available only for countries like America, China, Brazil and Israel, but it will soon be available for other countries too. It's codename is Morro. It can be downloaded from it's official website www.microsoft.com/security_essentials

Basically this software guards the PC from trojans, viruses, spywares & rootkits. Once installed this software automatically updates for latest virus definitions. Microsoft has launched 'Morro' because, the previous security program (Windows Live One Care) was not very much successful. When the 'Morro' project is finished, Microsoft will close down Windows Live One Care.

There are many anti-virus programs available for free download like McAfee, AVG, Kaspersky, etc. So Microsoft Security Essentials must be an more improved and advanced program than the other security programs.