Countries pushing for international regulation of the Internet through the U.N. International Telecommunication Union will not quit after a partial victory at an ITU meeting in December, some Internet government experts told U.S. lawmakers. ...
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Public policy formulation in all domains, including the Internet, is the sovereign right of member states, said ITU Secretary General Hamadoun Toure on Wednesday, suggesting that a debate over control of the Internet is far from over at the ...
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An ITU group has approved a successor to the H.264 video encoding standard, opening the door to future video transmission using only half the bandwidth that's now required. The International Telecommunication Union's H.265 standard is ...
Most of the tablets, TVs, ultrabooks and smartphones on display at International CES this week ultimately are bound for someone's home, where they'll have to talk to each other. Six major home networking technologies to make that happen ...
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IDG News Service - A deeper look into the Flame malware, linked to the infamous Stuxnet, has revealed that it may be just one of four pieces of malware created by the same unknown development team. Flame became public in May after Iran ...
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IDG News Service - A new television format that has 16 times the resolution of current High Definition TV has been approved by an international standards body, Japanese sources said Thursday. UHDTV, or Ultra High Definition Television, ...
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IDG News Service-Concern is building up over the use of litigation over standards-essential patents to block sales of products,with the International Telecommunication Union(ITU)planning to hold a conference that will address what the ...
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The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN body that has played a standards-setting role for global telecommunication networks over the decades, Wednesday night suffered a website attack that severely disrupted a conference to ...
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A new Flame and Stuxnet-related cyber-threat,dubbed Gauss,is targeting users in the Middle East,security researchers have revealed. Gauss is a complex,state-sponsored cyber-espionage toolkit with online banking Trojan functionality not ...
The UK, the US, Australia and a number of other countries have refused to sign a new international telecommunications treaty after the final text was pushed through in a "forced" vote. Further reading US prepared to walk out of ITU ...
The U.N.'s International Telecommunications Union should embrace free and open broadband markets and allow individual countries to reform their telecommunications regulations instead of attempting to centrally regulate the industry, the ...
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Google has joined US government concerns that the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) could get control of the internet through its coming revision of telecoms rules. The UN agency is updating its International Telecommunication ...
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Despite precautions by system providers, an extra second added to the official timekeeping record Saturday triggered several popular Internet services to crash over the weekend, including LinkedIn, Reddit and Quantas airline's reservation ...
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Controversial rules that could have seen the United Nations put in charge of the internet have been rejected by the UK and other member states at a conference in Dubai this week. The International Telecoms Union (ITU) – the ...
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The US has confirmed it will resist efforts by China, Russia and their allies to put the internet under the control of the United Nations. The confirmation came in a statement issued by the US Department of State on US proposals to be ...
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