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Q&A on plans to expand the Internet address system

Rod Beckstrom, CEO of ICANN, speaks during an interview, Monday, Jan. 9, 2012 in New York. The oversight agency for Internet addresses, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, spent years crafting guidelines meant to curtail nefarious activities. Still, critics say ICANN is rushing to expand the system without putting enough safeguards in place. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)Here are some questions and answers regarding plans to expand the Internet address system:

New Internet suffix bids include ‘.lol,’ ‘bank.’

In this photo taken Friday, June 8, 2012, a domain name poster is displayed at the offices of Artemis Internet, an NCC Group Company in San Francisco. Some 2,000 proposals have been submitted as part of the largest expansion of the Internet address system since its creation in the 1980s. These suffixes would rival “.com” and about 250 others now in use. The organization behind it, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, will announce a full list and other details in London on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)If Google has its way, you won't need to type “Google.com” any more to do your searches. You can simply access the search engine at “.Google.”

Apple kicks Google Maps off iPhone, adds Facebook

Steve Jobs' vendetta against Google remains alive, nine months after the Apple co-founder died feeling betrayed by a company he once embraced as an ally.

No elegant technical fixes for distracted driving

Dylan Young, 18, poses for The Associated Press as a vehicle cruises by, Wednesday, June 6, 2012, in North Arlington, N.J. Young, a senior at North Arlington High, was in a fender-bender accident caused by being distracted while texting and driving. More than half of high school seniors say they text or email while driving, according to a jarring new study that offers the first federal statistics on how common the dangerous habit is in teens. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the numbers Thursday, June 7, 2012. They come from a 2011 survey of about 15,000 high school students across the country. The study found 58 percent of high school seniors said that, in the previous month, they had texted or emailed while driving. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)When does a smartphone make you dumb?

Facebook rolling out central location for apps

This undated handout product image provided by Facebook shows the company's App Center. On Thursday, June 7, 2012, Facebook is beginning to roll out its App Center to its nearly 1 billion users, so they can find games and other applications with a social component more easily. The App Center will initially feature about 500 Facebook apps, mostly games, that the company has reviewed to meet its quality standards. (AP Photo/Facebook)There's more to Facebook apps than “Angry Birds” and Pinterest, but many users wouldn't know that because there hasn't been a good, central way to find them.

Samsung fights Apple move to block Galaxy sales

Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it will fight Apple’s move to stop U.S. sales of its new Galaxy phone in the latest flare-up of an intellectual property battle between the world’s top smartphone makers.

Nasdaq tries to make amends for Facebook problems

FILE- This Wednesday, May 23, 2012, file photo, shows the pre-market price for Facebook at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York. The Nasdaq stock exchange said Wednesday that it plans to hand out $40 million in cash and credit to reimburse investment firms that got ensnared by technical problems with trading Facebook stock. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)The Nasdaq stock exchange tried to make amends with investors ensnared by technical problems on the day Facebook went public.

Nasdaq tries to make amends for Facebook problems

FILE- This Wednesday, May 23, 2012, file photo, shows the pre-market price for Facebook at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York. The Nasdaq stock exchange said Wednesday that it plans to hand out $40 million in cash and credit to reimburse investment firms that got ensnared by technical problems with trading Facebook stock. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)The Nasdaq stock exchange tried to make amends with investors ensnared by technical problems on the day Facebook went public.

AP: 1940 NY census records now searchable by name

This image taken from microfilm and provided by Ancestry.com shows a 1940 U.S. Census ledger page that includes an entry for Jacqueline Bouvier. Boubier, who became Jacqueline Kennedy when she married John F. Kennedy is one of the many notable New Yorkers whose name will come up electronically if searched on the Internet when the 1940 U.S. Census becomes searchable by family names at midnight, Wednesday, June 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Ancestry.com)Americans are in for a cyber-surprise on Wednesday: They'll be able to plug family names into an online 1940 U.S. census and come up with details about the lives of New Yorkers — from Joe DiMaggio and Jacqueline Kennedy to their own relatives.

Google buys Meebo to help social networking push

Google is buying Silicon Valley startup Meebo to help expand its social networking service.