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Suddenly, the outfit behind the .co domain is everywhere, even if many people barely notice. It's all part of Juan Diego Calle's shrewd strategy.

Juan Diego Calle of .CO Internet at SXSW

AUSTIN,Texas--If you haven't heard of Juan Diego Calle's company quite yet, consider yourself not among the in-the-know here over the last few days.

Yes, the buzz at this year's South by Southwest Interactive has been around social apps like Highlight and Glancee hoping for a Twitter-like breakout. But there's another hot startup here that gets little press and yet is everywhere.

I'm referring to .CO Internet, the Miami company that fought hard to land a contract with the government of Colombia so it could commercialize the country's top-level-domain, or TLD.

At last year's SXSW, founder and CEO Calle could barely get a party invite. This year, he was hobnobbing and sharing stages with the likes of Reid Hoffman, Steve Case, and big-time angel investor Dave McClure of 500Startups.

More importantly to Calle is that evidence of his efforts are everywhere: Case has rebranded his Startup America Partnership to S.co, and a slew of startups here--Bumpercrop.co, Tailored.co, Gourmair.co, Cardflick.co--are proudly displaying their .co brand.

"Someone came up to me and said, 'You guys are like Brooklyn,'" Calle told me during a packed SXSW party that he was sponsoring with Tech Cocktail to showcase startups. "'You're like where the cool guys in N.Y. want to be.'"

Taking advantage of the domain shortage There's one obvious reason that so many startups are building their Web sites on .co domains: the good .com names are long gone. Coming up with a company name is hard enough. Finding an available domain nearly impossible. They're either in use or, more likely, have been snapped up by domain investors (let's save the term cybersquatter for those going after trademark names) betting that a deep-pocketed buyer would come along.

Juan Diego Calle (right), with Zappos Founder Tony Hsieh and LeanStartup guru Eric Ries at SXSW

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08:37 GMT, March 12, 2012 WASHINGTON | The $9.6 billion for space programs within President Barack Obamas fiscal year 2013 budget request will boost resilience for U.S. space capabilities but cut some modernization and other programs, Air Force Gen. William L. Shelton, commander of the Air Force Space Command, told a House panel Mar. 8.

Shelton testified on national security space activities before the House Armed Services Committees strategic forces subcommittee, along with Ambassador Gregory L. Schulte, deputy assistant secretary of defense for space policy, Gil I. Klinger, deputy assistant secretary of defense for space and intelligence, and other experts.

The presidents budget request, Shelton said, invests in programs that enhance the resiliency and effectiveness of our space capabilities, namely missile warning, positioning, navigation and timing, satellite communications, space situational awareness and space launch.

A 22 percent drop in the 2013 request from 2012 represents mainly fact-of-life programmatic changes, the general said, along with some very difficult budget decisions leading to cuts to some modernization programs, and restructuring our approach to the Operationally Responsive Space Office, or ORS, and the Space Test Program.

Congress established the ORS in 2007 to shorten the space acquisition cycle while responding to urgent warfighter needs. The Space Test Program has been providing access to space for the DOD space research and development community since 1965.

The command, Shelton said, also seeks to speed the acquisition process for the Advanced Extremely High-Frequency Program, a joint service satellite communications system for high-priority military ground, sea and air assets, and the Space-Based Infrared System, a key part of North America's missile early warning and defense system.

The general said the Air Force Space Command is working closely with NASA and the National Reconnaissance Office to bring stability and predictability to our launch programs.

Schulte told the panel that three elements are critical to the U.S. strategy in space: resilience, promoting responsible behavior in space, and energizing the space industrial base.

Examples of resiliency, he said, include hosted payloads, commercial augmentation, international cooperation and backup capabilities in other domains.

In 2008, the European Union published a draft Code of Conduct for Outer Space Activities and a revised draft in 2010.

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Apple unveils new iPad, adds Retina Display Linked by Thom Holwerda on 03/07/12 22:59 UTC And it was that time of the year again - Apple held one of its product announcements. This one focussed on the iPad mostly, and while some will call it a disappointment merely because virtually everything had already been leaked, I'm still in awe over the fact the newly announced iPad has a 2048x1536 display. My mind is blown. 1Read More 157 Comment(s) Windows 8's desktop mode: Microsoft's 'Classic' Linked by Thom Holwerda on 03/06/12 23:27 UTC As you may have seen, David's been taking care of OSNews for a few days because I'm quite busy with work. Still, there's one thing I'd like to talk about: the desktop mode in Windows 8. 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I wish I could've added this to the first impressions article, but I only arrived at this conclusion yesterday: desktop mode in Windows 8 is Microsoft's equivalent of Mac OS X's Classic mode. 0Read More 103 Comment(s) US government claims right to seize any .com domain Linked by David Adams on 03/06/12 16:23 UTC If you run a web site or service that runs afoul of US law, and that site is hosted overseas, then the US legal system doesn't have much recourse, right? Wrong. Because the .com, .net, and .org top level domains are managed by a US company, the government can come to Verisign with a court order and seize your domain, effectively shutting you down. And because of a quirk of internet history that made the US-controlled domains the de-facto standard for web sites, this is a situation that's quite possibly permanent. 5Read More 31 Comment(s) "Deep" layoffs at Yahoo Linked by David Adams on 03/05/12 21:26 UTC I ran across a business news story about Yahoo's impending layoffs today, and if you're a deep-into-the-internet person like me, it certainly comes as no surprise to read yet again that Yahoo is on the skids. In fact, you're more likely to be surprised to learn that Yahoo has more than 14,000 employees and made something like $6 billion in revenue last year. Yahoo ceased to be relevant a long time ago, and even the Yahoo services that still get some love, like Flickr, seem to be tainted by association. But the question I asked myself when I read the article was, "why didn't Yahoo become a technology leader?" 1Read More 24 Comment(s) First impressions: Windows 8 consumer preview Linked by Thom Holwerda on 03/02/12 16:16 UTC Wednesday was the big day for Microsoft - the largest overhaul of its operating system since Windows 95 (heck, I'd argue the overhaul is far larger than Windows 95) went into consumer preview. I've been running it on my Asus ZenBook since its release, and in all honesty, it's not as arduous as I expected. I'm not planning on doing a full review, but I do want to mention a number of things - both positive and negative - that stood out to me. 5Read More 111 Comment(s) Microsoft up to its old tricks with Windows 8 versions Linked by David Adams on 03/02/12 15:55 UTC, submitted by sawboss By all early reports, Windows 8 is going to be a good operating system. Microsoft's hegemony may be crumbling in a mobile computing onslaught, but its core empire remains undimmed. However, whereas Windows 7 had three versions, Windows 8 will apparently be ballooning to 9 versions. 0Read More 79 Comment(s) Raspberry Pi launch turns into frenzy Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/29/12 9:47 UTC This morning, I experienced the nerd equivalent of a Black Friday $50 iPad sale. At 07:00 CET, the first batch of the much-anticipated Raspberry Pi went on sale, and while Raspberry Pi itself was very properly prepared, the two large international retailers actually selling the device weren't - despite warnings from Raspberry Pi about the enormous amount of traffic that would come their way, the two sites crumbled to dust within seconds. There's good news too - the cheaper model A has seen its RAM doubled at no additional cost. 9Read More 104 Comment(s) How to Integrate SATA and IDE Drives Linked by Howard Fosdick on 02/29/12 0:56 UTC Current computers use SATA disk drives. Pentium IV's and earlier computers used the IDE drive standards. How can you intermix SATA and IDE disk drives? This article discusses the options. It is the next in my series of articles on computer refurbishing. 0Read More 15 Comment(s) Genode 12.02 released, now with open development process Linked by nfeske on 02/28/12 11:51 UTC The just released version 12.02 of the Genode OS Framework takes the first steps to carry out the plan to turn the framework into a general-purpose OS for the daily use by its developers until the end of the year. It features a new ACPI driver, the first bits of a device-driver manager, support for using the fork syscall in GNU programs, and a PDF rendering engine. The most significant point of this release, however, is the way it was conducted. It represents the first version carried out using a completely open development process. 4Read More 8 Comment(s) Mozilla, Telefonica announce Boot to Gecko partnership Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/27/12 12:22 UTC And even more news from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Mozilla has announced a partnership with Telefonica and Qualcomm, which will bring Mozilla's Boot to Gecko HTML5-based mobile interface to devices later his year. This is a huge boon for the fully open source environment. 3Read More 30 Comment(s)

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