World Ipv6 Day

Google is paving the way to the future of Internet connectivity by enabling the IPv6 protocol in their services for 24hours in an effort to root out problems that might occur. The IPv6 Day date is 8 June 2011 and along with major web companies such as Facebook and Yahoo!, they will enable IPv6 for a 24hour test run on their main websites.

What is all the fuss about? Well a little story about the old brother of IPv6, the IPv4 internet protocol. Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) is the fourth revision in the development of the Internet Protocol (IP) and it is the first version of the protocol to be widely deployed. IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses, which limits the address space to 4,294,967,296 (2³²) possible unique addresses. However, some are reserved for special purposes such as private networks (~18 million addresses) or multicast addresses (~270 million addresses). This reduces the number of addresses that can potentially be allocated for routing on the public Internet. As addresses are being incrementally delegated to end users, an IPv4 address shortage has been developing. This limitation has stimulated the development of IPv6, which is currently in the early stages of deployment, and is the only long-term solution.

IPv6 uses a 128-bit address. The new address space supports 2¹²⁸ (about 3.4×1038
) addresses. That's about 3.400.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000 addresses. This expansion provides considerable flexibility in allocating addresses and routing traffic.

Google Blog

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward

Finally, the day has come for the release of the latest work of Peter Joseph, Zeitgeist: Moving Forward. The movie will be released simultaneously in 60+ countries and 20+ languages starting January 15th 2011. Don't miss it!

Official Website

Meyer resigns as AMD's CEO

Advanced Micro Devices on Monday said that Dirk Meyer has resigned from the post of CEO, and that the company is beginning to search for a new chief executive.

Meyer resigned in a mutual agreement with the board of directors, and the company has appointed Thomas Seifert, the company's chief financial officer, as the interim CEO.

The company is now initiating the search for a new CEO.

Myspace: 500 Employees fired

CNN reported about Myspace laying off 47% of its staff

"Today's tough but necessary changes were taken in order to provide the company with a clear path for sustained growth and profitability," CEO Mike Jones said in a written statement. "These changes were purely driven by issues related to our legacy business, and in no way reflect the performance of the new product."

Mac App Store Downloads Top One Million in First Day

Apple® announced that over one million apps have been downloaded from the Mac® App Store℠ in the first day. With more than 1,000 free and paid apps, the Mac App Store brings the revolutionary App Store experience to the Mac, so you can find great new apps, buy them using your iTunes® account, download and install them in just one step.

“We’re amazed at the incredible response the Mac App Store is getting,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Developers have done a great job bringing apps to the store and users are loving how easy and fun the Mac App Store is.”

The Mac App Store offers apps in Education, Games, Graphics & Design, Lifestyle, Productivity, Utilities and other categories. Users can browse new and noteworthy apps, find out what’s hot, see staff favorites, search categories and look up top charts for paid and free apps, as well as user ratings and reviews. The Mac App Store is available for Snow Leopard® users through Software Update as part of Mac OS® X v10.6.6.

Mac developers set the price for their apps, keep 70 percent of the sales revenue, are not charged for free apps and do not have to pay hosting, marketing or credit card fees. To find out more about developing for the Mac App Store visit developer.apple.com/programs/mac.

Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork, and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple is reinventing the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.