ICANN approves .asia as domain

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) signed off on the .Asia Registry Agreement on Wednesday at its annual meeting in Sao Paulo, Brazil, writes News.Com.

This effectively means businesses in the Asia-Pacific region will soon have the option of registering an ".asia" domain, overseen by the DotAsia Organisation.

"The '.asia' domain will be used as a supplement to country domains like '.jp' for Japan and '.cn' for China," adds the article.

Microsoft expects to sell more than one million Zune music players - which has received mixed reviews from consumers and critics - by the end of June 2007.

This is according to BBC News, which adds: "The player has had a soft debut in the music player market in the US. A report from market research firm NPD Group showed that Zune's share of the US digital music player market fell to 2% and fifth place recently."

Rival Apple has sold more than 70 million iPods in the last five years. The 30GB Zune costs $249 and comes with wireless technology that allows users to beam photos and songs to one another.

Cisco Systems and Citrix Systems have teamed up to deliver much simpler and more broadly applicable click-to-call capability for users working with the Citrix Voice Office Application Suite and Cisco's Unified Call Manager and Unified IP phones.

E-Week reports that, together, the vendors allow users to click to call telephone numbers embedded in any application running on the Presentation Server or on a user's PC without having to exit the application.

"The integration is another key element of the growing unified communications movement to bring greater business value to voice over IP," comments Elizabeth Herrell, VP at market researcher Forrester Research. "Although the market for such integrated functions is still new, it will take off as enterprises become more aware of the benefits it provides."

The con man who stole the world's most valuable domain, sex.com, has been released from jail, in order to locate the millions of dollars he owes the original owner.

A US court ordered Stephen Michael Cohen to hand Gary Kremen $65 million. On Tuesday morning, after 14 months in jail for civil contempt, Cohen was released because Kremen's lawyers had been unable to chase down his offshore bank accounts, reports The Register.

"Cohen claims he is only able to get the details of his various accounts - held in Lithuania, Liechtenstein and the Isle of Man - in person and outside jail, and is due back in court in San Jose on 26 February to tell the judge how that search has gone," adds the article.