Google ATT Verizon and FCC can not find a compromise for the 700MHz spectrum that could be used to create a new open-access wireless broadband ‘pipe’ into people
’s homes and devices . Read the latest on this fiasco

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Google Maps just released a new feature that lets you actually look around the street. Seems to only be working in major cities for now.

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ICANN today issued a formal notice of termination of RegisterFly.com’s Registration Accreditation Agreement (RAA).

ICANN has issued a letter to RegisterFly [PDF, 902K] indicating that it will cease operating as an ICANN-Accredited Registrar on March 31, 2007. Under the terms of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA), ICANN must provide 15 days written notice to RegisterFly of its intention to terminate.

Effective immediately ICANN has terminated RegisterFly’s right to use the ICANN Accredited Registrar logo on its website.

Between now and 31 March RegisterFly is required to unlock and provide all necessary Authinfo codes to allow domain name transfers to occur. Any and all registrants wishing to transfer away from RegisterFly during this period should be allowed to do so efficiently and expeditiously.

“Terminating accreditation is the strongest measure ICANN is able to take against RegisterFly under its powers,” Dr. Paul Twomey, President and CEO of ICANN said today.

“ICANN has been frustrated and distressed by recent management confusion inside RegisterFly,” Dr. Twomey, President said. “I completely understand the greater frustration and enormous difficulty that this has created for registrants.”

When the Agreement is terminated, ICANN can approve a bulk transfer of all current RegisterFly domain names to another ICANN accredited Registrar.

“Of course, RegisterFly does not have to wait till then. They can request ICANN to approve a bulk transfer immediately. I call on RegisterFly to act in the interests of registrants and seek such a transfer from us straight away,” Dr. Twomey said.

ICANN intends to hold a forum to discuss the reform of the Accreditation policy and process at its Lisbon meeting in a week’s time*.

A set of questions and points to inform the discussion will be made public prior to the Lisbon meeting.

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The well known domain registrar RegisterFly will lose its accreditation if it can not fix their serious operational problems in the next 10 days. ICANN informed RegisterFly that they are in serious trouble and if they are not fixing the problems, they will loose its operating agreement. Customers are complaining for months now and the registrar’s operations have descended into chaos this week.

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PHOENIX, AZ - February 20, 2007 - Solid state flash disk manufacturer Adtron Corporation, announces today the immediate availability of its most advanced generation of the Adtron Flashpak® Family of products including the IDE and Serial ATA (SATA) flash disk models, the I25FB and A25FB, respectively. The products in this announcement include the industry’s highest capacity 2.5″ SLC NAND flash disk drives at 160 GBytes, only available from Adtron.
The I25FB Flashpak® flash solid state disk (SSD) is powered by the patent-pending Adtron ArrayPro™ performance engine to deliver industry leading performances previously unachieved in a solid state flash disk. The I25FB leverages this unique ArrayPro technology to provide true sustained write and read rates up to 60 and 70MBytes per second, respectively.

Adtron’s Flashpak I25FB combines IDE flash solid state disk performance leadership with the highest capacities in a 2.5-inch form factor, with up to 160GBytes. In an industry standard, base height enclosure of 9.5mm, the I25FB offers 32GB of mass storage to suit the needs of laptops and mobile computing subsystems.

I25FB Flashpak solid state flash disks contain no moving parts. The IDE interface conforms to ATA industry standards. These 2.5-inch flash disks can easily replace standard 2.5-inch hard disk drives (HDDs), providing full HDD functionality with superior reliability and performance. The I25FB Flashpak flash disk is far superior to HDDs in terms of ruggedness, shock resistance, environmental resilience and performance.

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