In a bid to cut down on fraud and inappropriate content, the organization responsible for administering Russia's .ru top-level domain names is tightening its procedures.

Marten Mickos, the longtime CEO of MySQL who eventually sold the open-source database company to Sun Microsystems for US$1 billion, has taken a new job as CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, the company said Friday.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission's national broadband plan captured our attention this week and will undoubtedly continue to do that in the weeks (and months and years) ahead. In other news, Palm CEO Jon Rubenstein says that his company could have given the Droid a run for it's money, only if. And the week ends with reports that Google will announce its intentions regarding business in China on Monday.

Mozilla confirmed a critical vulnerability in the newest version of Firefox, and said it would plug the hole by the end of the month.

Parents representing about a quarter of the high school students in the suburban Philadelphia school district accused of spying on teenagers using their laptops' cameras said they're "outraged" by a lawsuit seeking monetary damages.

The European Organization for Nuclear Research's Large Hadron Collider set a new speed record today when two protons sped around its 17-mile loop at speeds reaching 3.5 teraelectronvolts.

After yesterday's post about tweaking Firefox 3.6 so that it opens new tabs to the far right, just like all previous versions of Firefox, I realized there's one other tip that goes hand-in-hand with that: tweaking Firefox to immediately switch to the newly opened tab.

For years, one of my favorite Gems has been MondoMouse, a utility that lets you move, resize, or identify windows without having to first switch to them, and without having to position your cursor over a thin title bar or a tiny resize corner. Unfortunately, a number of readers have had problems using MondoMouse in Snow Leopard, and I've recently experience a few such problem myself. (A Snow Leopard-compatible beta version of MondoMouse was released back in September, but it hasn't been updated since.)

EMC chief Joe Tucci's total compensation declined 23% compared to his $11.7 million package in 2008.

Apple's patent filing for a technology called iGroups suggests the iPhone maker wants to get into the business of mobile social networking because it will sell music and will become a standard on all contacts applications.

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