The Internet is a good thing. It helps us in our lives from the way we make our living to the things that entertain us. More and more 
every day the Internet becomes a permanent fixture in people’s lives but just like human nature, there is a bad side to how people use this innovation.
That’s why it’s a good thing there are people like Robert Kleisinger. The British Columbia native listened to his ‘gut feeling’ when his teenage stepdaughter began an online relationship with an older man. He spent hours researching and then installed the right software to monitor the situation. Finally, the hero from Abbotsford contacted police when he had the evidence to nab the suspect.
To catch the pervert, Kleisinger set up a fake Facebook account to lure the suspect. His work resulted in a conviction.
Staying with Canada for a moment, the regulatory body there plans on keeping a tighter reign on the ISP providers in the frozen North. When the CRTC allowed the providers that work in that country to use traffic management practices to slow down some features so there was ample bandwidth available to all consumers, they opened a can of worms only possible with this kind of bloated governmental interference. Peer to peer traffic was one of the techniques slated. The latest guidelines will essentially keep an eye on the practices that these companies can employ and how much they need to tell the public about which ones they are going to use. A free market here would end these silly little shell games. Maybe it will happen under the current pro business government.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) announced they plan on dramatically increasing the number of domain endings that will be available in the summer. According to reports, there will be hundreds of new domain names available soon including .Google or even .Coke. Currently 250 country domain suffixes and companies looking for industry or firm specific endings will need to show some manner of legal ownership. The process will start according to the BBC in January.
Finally there are new rumblings that Yahoo could be sold. After firing CEO Carol Bartz over the phone, more fuel has been added to the fire with an email sent to employees from the top brass and founders saying that all possibilities were being looked at.
Still, the same memo states Yahoo is looking for a replacement for Carol Bartz and that in itself isn’t the kind of thing as firm would do if they were looking to sell.
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