The US House of Representatives has voted unanimously to approve a resolution aimed at preventing any efforts to hand the United Nations more power to oversee the Internet. The resolution by the lower house of the US Congress had ...
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The planned introduction of more than 1,900 new generic top-level domain (gTLD) names by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) could have security implications, researchers have warned. The plan to allow web ...
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The final treaty of the World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai includes a new provision that the treaty does not address content-related aspects of telecommunications, but retains a controversial proposal on fostering ...
IDG News Service-Russia,China and other countries withdrew a proposal at the World Conference on International Telecommunications that according to some accounts aimed to bring the Internet under the control of the International ...
The future of internet governance is to be decided this week as rival groups hammer out a new international telecoms treaty. Regulators from 193 countries are negotiating new International Telecommunications Regulations(ITRs)at the World ...
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A suspected hacking attack has hit a UN agency meeting in Dubai at which delegates are discussing new telecommunications controls that could alter the way the internet is governed. Among other groups,European MPs have voiced concerns that ...
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The International Telecommunication Union(ITU)is hosting the World Conference on International Telecommunications(WCIT)in Dubai this week. Two thousand government regulators from 193 countries are meeting to update the International ...
Computer Weekly has announced the third UKtech50, our annual definitive list of the real movers and shakers in UK IT - the CIOs, industry executives, public servants and business leaders driving the role of technology in the UK economy. ...
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Icann, the organisation that manages internet protocol numbers and the domain name system root, is hosting its first internet root server system in Scotland in a 100-rack datacentre in Dundee from IT provider brightsolid online technology. ...
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has rolled out a new service designed to help users find the information they're looking for on ICANN's sprawling website. ICANN announced a beta version of myICANN Monday. MyICANN ...
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IDG News Service-The U.S.House of Representatives voted late Thursday to send a message to the United Nations'International Telecommunication Union that the Internet doesn't need new international regulations.The vote was unanimous:414-0. ...
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The U.S. government will try to persuade other nations to abandon proposals to regulate the Internet at an upcoming United Nations treaty-writing conference by showing them the success of open markets, the U.S. ambassador to the conference ...
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National Security Agency Director General Keith B. Alexander addressed the attendees of the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas on Friday and asked for their help to secure cyberspace. "This is the world's best cybersecurity community," ...
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Network World - LAS VEGAS -- To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Black Hat Conference here, a panel of experts got together to expound on what they see as the privacy and security mess of our times, and they had plenty to say about the ...
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IDG News Service-The National Telecommunications and Information Administration awarded ICANN the mandate to manage the assignment of IP addresses and the management of top-level domains until September 2015,the government agency announced ...
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