Chinese domain

Web addresses to get non-Latin characters
Introduction of Mandarin, Hindu, Cyrillic and Arabic in domains

Keywords—memorable words that a user can type into a mobile phone instead of a number—are very popular in China. And specific to the Chinese market, dotMobi will offer Web addresses in Chinese characters. These addresses in non-standard language characters are known as Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs).

The use of Chinese-character IDNs will allow Chinese-language mobile Web sites to be found more easily by search engines. According to Analysys International, more than 270 million Web searches were performed on mobile phones in China in the second quarter of 2009—double the figure from a year earlier, which highlights the importance of search for Chinese mobile websites.

Chinese-language .mobi domains will be available in a special sunrise period beginning at 4 a.m. UTC on October 29, 2009

Icann, the organisation that oversees internet domain names, has approved the use of non-Latin characters such as Mandarin, Hindi, Cyrillic and Arabic in web addresses.

That means that the huge number of people who presently use the internet but are not native English speakers will be able to type web addresses in their own language and navigate to the pages – rather than, as at present, having to add ".com" or ".org" to the end of website names written in their own language – or even write an entire site address in unfamiliar letters.

10ptext.co.uk sends cheap international text messages to Croatia

10ptext.co.uk is the company that allows users to send cheap international text messages across the globe.

Now I am finding out that it not only sends to the large mobile providers in Croatia, but according to a Croation friend 10ptext.co.uk sends sms to the company Tele2, which is apparently unreachable by other providers.

Credit Crunch Gems

Pedigree chum are latest firm 2 hit financial troubles, they had to call in the retrievers,

...and I hear that Procter and Gamble have gone into fairy liquidation.

Just heard that Gossard have gone bust,

...not only that, Superglue's been declared insolvent.

BA's early year profits have taken a sharp nosedive.

Big Yellow Self Storage is packing up.

BBC is going down the tube,

which is nothing new for Virgin who's been round the block.

BVT Surface Fleet ship builders have gone under.

Rentokil has died a sudden death.

Dulux Paint ltd has gone to the wall, and there's a house of cards on the brink of collapse on my desk, which I've been building all f*****g morning.

On the upside Domino Pizza is getting the dough in

Asda pats themselves on the back - this time
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Credit crunch tips

Stay, solvent, flush and in the black with services such as
- http://www.10ptext.co.uk (cheap international texting, SMS over IP with a data package),

- http://www.fairbroadband.co.uk (my very affordable and reliable broadband provider)

Coming soon, Vivablock a service that blocks spam instead of filtering it like Symantec does. Filtering encourages spam because spammers never get the message that their spam has not arrived,

More on VivaBlock as soon as it is going life and I have discussed my affiliate cut :)

Handyticket

In Germany they call mobile phones 'Handy'. You need to know that because I travelled in Germany just recently and found a website called www.handyticket.de. The company has relationships with several regional train providers, and these in turn are promoting their project as a pilot which is called 'HandyTicket'.

One would think we had entered the 22nd century by now, but no - lo and behold the payment system of 'Handyticket' is based on pre-payment and ordinary SMS. Bless - good ole SMS is clearly still the easiest mode of delivery.