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It's not only Julius Caesar who should take note of the Ides of March. So should every business with a dot-com address, since that was the date of the first dot-com address -- 25 years ago Monday.

On that date in 1985, a Cambridge, Mass., company named Symbolics became the first to register a dot-com domain. But the Internet at that time was still primarily a network devoted to research and academic use, and Symbolics' move didn't exactly start a land rush. By the end of the year, only five other companies had dot-com addresses, and it was nearly two years before there were a hundred.

A former executive with IBM and other tech companies has been named the new CEO of an organization in charge of coordinating the technical specifications behind the World Wide Web.

The Web's inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, is remaining the director of the World Wide Web Consortium, and Jeffrey Jaffe, 55, will work under him as its CEO. Jaffe replaces Steve Bratt, 53, who left the position in mid-2009 to run a Web foundation also started by Berners-Lee.

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From The Guardian:

EMC Corp. said Tuesday that its net income jumped 58 percent in the latest quarter, the first time since the spring of 2008 that profit has risen at the information-management company.

Revenue also ticked higher, and its 2010 forecast was above Wall Street's projections. EMC shares rose 3 percent in pre-market trading.

A research organization that tries to warn computer users about programs that do sneaky things on their computers has spun off from Harvard University.

StopBadware says it will operate as a standalone nonprofit with funding from Google Inc., eBay Inc.'s PayPal and Mozilla, which makes the Firefox Web browser. It was initially set up as part of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

Un republicano ha ganado en Massachusetts y, de repente, no está claro si el Senado confirmará a Ben Bernanke como presidente de la Reserva Federal para un segundo mandato. Eso no es tan extraño como parece: Washington se ha dado cuenta de pronto de la indignación de los ciudadanos ante las políticas que han rescatado a los grandes bancos, pero no han conseguido crear empleo. Y Bernanke se ha convertido en símbolo de esas políticas.

Por lo menos en Massachusetts, Barack Obama no ha podido. Y, según su portavoz, Robert Gibbs, el presidente se siente "frustrado". No es para menos. En uno de los resultados más sorprendentes en el escenario político estadounidense, un desconocido senador estatal, Scott P.

Barack Obama desafía a Wall Street: "Si quieren pelea, la tendrán". Haciéndose eco de la frustración popular creciente contra la banca, el presidente de EE UU presentó otra iniciativa con la que busca quitar el apetito que el sector financiero tiene por el riesgo, dando poderes a los reguladores para que restrinjan las operaciones especulativas y en paralelo limitar a las entidades en tamaño. El momento del anuncio no es casual.

Barack Obama desafía a Wall Street: "Si quieren pelea, la tendrán". Haciéndose eco de la frustración popular creciente contra la banca, el presidente de EE UU ha presentado otra iniciativa con la que busca quitar el apetito que el sector financiero tiene por el riesgo, dando poderes a los reguladores para que restrinjan las operaciones especulativas y en paralelo limitar a las entidades en tamaño. El momento del anuncio no es casual.