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ICANN(Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has reveled the list of new generic top level domains(gTLDs) that various companies applied for last month. Google, Amanzon and Microsoft are among  few top companies that placed bids for several relevant TLDs.

Google has bid for 101 gTLDs which includes .google, . .app, .blog and even .lol.

Prominent Bidders	No of TLDS Applied for	Prominent TLD Names
Google	101	.Google, .App, .Docs, .Android, .Chrome, .Hangout, .Cloud, .Blog and more
Amazon	76	.Amazon, .App, .Author, .Book, .BUY and more
Microsoft	11	Azure, .Bing, .Docs, .Live, .Hotmail and more
Yahoo	2	.Yahoo and .Flickr

Several Indian companies have also placed bids for TLDs like .Infy, .Tata, .Airtel etc. Reliance Industries Ltd. has bid for .Indians.

View the complete list.

This week, different sources indicated that Apple is about to launch it's own map service which would be much better than Google maps. It is also expected to sport exciting and unique features, maybe 3D maps too. Apple plans to kick Google maps out by launching a new official iOS app for the service probably with iPhone 6. We have yet to see Apple rolling out their own map service but in the meanwhile, people have found something interesting.
Try pointing your browser to maps.apple.com and see where it takes you to. Currently it redirects to maps.google.com which is what Apple's service will be competing with.
Apple may impose the map service on their user base but they will have a hard time trying to reach  non iOS users because Google maps is a well established and popular service and Google maps is available for almost all devices.

IPV6, the new version of Internet Protocol, provides much better future business continuity, growth, and global expansion compared to the currently widespread IPV4 which only offers 4 billion unique IP addresses. People will eventually run out of unique IPV4 addresses and hence IPV6 is the future of Internet Protocol. With IPV6, there's are 340 trillion trillion trillion unique Internet addresses possible.

Watch Mark Townsley from Cisco speak on the Launch of IPV6.

 Microsoft has just officially unveiled the new Xbox Music Service at their pre E-3 press conference. Microsoft showed off the service on stage along with a brief video clip. Xbox Music will be the music streaming service for various Microsoft devices.
They've offered only a few details for now. Microsoft's Yusuf Mehdi noted that the service will have a library of over 30 million tracks.
 The player itself looked clean and metro-ish in the demonstration video.

Apart for the console, the service will be made available on Windows 8 PCs, tablets and Windows phones. It is also expected to have social sharing features. Sharing tracks with friends and viewing their currently playing song is also a possibility.

Microsoft has recently announced that Internet explorer 10 will be the first ever browser to have "Do not track" (DNT) enabled by default.
DNT, a very useful feature, prevents tracking of your online behavior and activities. Websites and services often track online behavior to target most suitable ads. By sending a DNT header, browser tells third party services to not track user's activities providing users more control over their information.
Currently DNT is available as a built-in option in all major browsers: IE 9, Firefox 5+, Safari 5.1+ and Opera 12. Chrome plans to implement DNT as a built-in feature by the end of this year, meanwhile you can use different Chrome extensions that have sort-of DNT like features. Mozilla Firefox, although sports DNT, has no intension of enabling it by default.
Read more on DNT: dnt.mozilla.org