, passed away at the age of 84 on Feb. 6. He was remembered for his scientific focus and his epic battles vs. IBM and others as DEC rose to become the No.2 computer maker in the world before eventually succumbing to competition and being acquired by Compaq.

space in early February when the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority assigned two of the remaining blocks of IPv4 addresses - each containing 16.7 million addresses - to the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre. This action sparked an immediate distribution of the remaining five blocks of IPv4 address space, with one block going to each of the five Regional Internet Registries. Now that IPv4 addresses are gone, Internet policy makers will be ratcheting up the pressure on network operators to migrate quickly to IPv6.

and cell phone networks in an effort to diffuse protests against the government not only burned free speech advocates around the world, but it cost the country's economy at least $90 million, . It also raised the specter of an being put into the U.S. President's hands.

Google announced in January that it was shaking up top management, with longtime CEO Eric Schmidt becoming executive chairman and taking hold of the CEO reins all in the name of streamlining the company's top-level decision making. It's hard to argue that , in coming to Google from Novell in 2001, didn't make one of the greatest career moves in the history of history.