B211 Self-Test Week 12

Current Affairs Self-Test - Week 12

The following are excerpts from newpaper articles. Read the excerpts and answer the question below each excerpt.

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ROBERT Elz's stewardship of the Australian domain space formally ended today, with Australia becoming the first country in the world to sign a domain names agreement with the global internet technical body.
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The agreement is the first formal arrangement with the operator of a country code top-level domain (ccTLD).
ICANN went to great pains to pay tribute to Mr Elz, the original .au administrator, despite the fact that it had forcibly removed the .au delegation from him earlier this year.

Which organization has ICANN given responsibility to for administering the .au domain?

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GARTNER Dataquest has tipped a lukewarm response from business users to the launch of Microsoft's much-hyped operating system.
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And despite Microsoft and its partners spending $US500 million ($994 million) on advertising, Gartner says the operating system is unlikely to boost PC sales significantly.

Give one reason for Gartner's conclusion?

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