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ICANN approves .tel domain | CNET News.com
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Lawyer buys hundreds of ‘Aussie’ domain names : – Flash Player Installation
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Domain name system – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
domain names
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Interesting article in today’s NY Times Chinese companies building global brands by acquiring well-known, existing brands. Because they’ve been in the news, the article mentions the Lenovo acquisition of IBM’s laptop business, Haier’s bid for Maytag and the CNOOC bid for Unocal.

The reason for the global business shopping spree?

“Chinese companies are now facing serious [...]

“I don’t think the name matters,” said David Melancon, CEO of FutureBrand USA, a New York branding consultancy.
“Consumers have shown us that you can slap a made up name like JetBlue and people love it because of the experience. We have lots of airline companies on our roster and one thing we learned is [...]

It’s taken us a few days to digest the news that Apple is going to start using Intel chips. Being long-time Mac users, it seems anathema to us. Upon reading the announcement over the weekend, we trolled the usual sites – Macrumors, Slashdot, etc. – but we still can’t make heads or tails of this [...]

Here’s a summary of the brand names mentioned on Medgadget this week:
SIMpill – an SMS controlled pill dispenser
HyperQ – a stress test
Armstrong Medical’s EndoAssist and Pathfinder surgical robots
Royal Phillips IntelliVue Telemetry Systems patient surveillance systems
Biomedics’ NZ’s UltraSuction dentures. (We don’t make these up.)
Emfit’s electric film sensors
Andromed’s Androsonix biological sound sensor, a kind of stethoscope on [...]