THE INTERNET COUNCIL OF REGISTRARS (CORE) has announced plans for the final testing of its Shared Registry System, followed by the introduction of its service to register new domain names on the Inter net in March.

"This launches a new era of deregulation and competition," said Alan Hanson, chairman of CORE. "Users will soon have the freedom to choose their domain names and registrar."

If approved by the U.S. government, CORE will administer a set of seven new generic top-level domains: .firm, .shop, .web, .arts, .rec, .info and .nom.

The servers in the CORE shared registry system will be ready next month, and CORE will conduct an audit for security, backup and disaster recovery. The system was designed to meet the specifications of the Internet Engineering Task Force.

JAN. 26-29: The seventh Usenix Security Symposium in San Antonio, Texas, looks to be a major event, and the accompanying site offers the full program, archives and scads of security resources on the Web.

"IN 1994, I suggested that the Net would have a billion users by 2000. Vint Cerf laughed in my face.

"No one could have expected it to take off the way it has. They knew how hard it would be to create the infrastructure, the business models, and to proliferate the computers.

"People still shake their heads at the number 1 billion. They see no way the growth can be sustained for the next two years-let alone five. They are forgetting the ROW-the rest of the world."

- Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab

AUDIBLE INC. (Wayne, N.J.), which produces a system that enables the downloading of on-demand spoken-word programs over the Internet, has launched the Audible.com Web-based store, which offers thousands of hours of business conferences and educational coursework.

GO DSP (Toronto), which offers development tools for DSP software designers, has a site. Get info on the company's fully integrated development environment for DSP, and its technology for visualization of memory and CPU configuration.

STANDARD MICROSYSTEMS CORP. (Hauppauge, N.Y.), a supplier of MOS/VLSI ICs for the PC industry, has a site. Find info on the company's 26-year history, and technical documents on its work in VLSI circuit development.

SEMICONDUCTOR ONLINE has a chat area.
Topics include environmental control, semiconductor-
business trends and process design. Click on
discussion forums off the main page.

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS has upgraded its Web site for design engineers, offering an on-the-fly customized page and a newsletter, "Sine-On," with info on mixed-signal and analog products and services.

SMALL- TO MIDSIZED-BUSINESS OWNERS have long turned to the excellent magazine Inc. for its insightful news and trends coverage. But the accompanying Web site offers a plethora of additional original, archived and live material.

Inc. Online offers "Inc. Extra," with company profiles, hands-on management tips, case studies, interviews on political and business topics, and follow- up reports to stories that have appeared in the print magazine.

The daily updated site reports on domestic and international business news and useful management strategies. There are also comprehensive online guides to technology, finance and the Internet. All three are powerful resources pointing the way to the Web's most useful business software, benchmark tools, tutorials, glossaries, newsgroups, listserv and FAQs.

Don't miss the "Peer to Peer" chat sessions-recent live events include "Six Steps To Changing Your Management Style," "Secrets of Start-Up Success" and "How to Attract Investors."

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