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 U.S.House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution urging the U.S.government not to give the United Nations'International Telecommunication Union(ITU)control over the Internet. The resolution was adopted by the House on ...
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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 ...
A District Judge in Seattle denied Motorola Mobility an injunction on Microsoft's products that allegedly infringe its H.264 and 802.11 standards-essential patents. The order of Judge James L. Robart on Friday applies not only to patents ...
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The UK's Draft Data Communications Bill–aimed at making it easier for authorities to spy on electronic communications–will be useless and quite dangerous if enacted,says Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. "It will force many ...
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IDG News Service-The U.S.Ambassador to the European Union on Tuesday told European telecommunications operators why the U.S.will not support their proposals to change a treaty on the handling of international voice,data and video traffic. ...
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The International Telecommunication Union(ITU)has denied claims it is trying to control the internet through its upcoming revision of telecoms rules. The UN agency is updating its International Telecommunication Regulations(ITRs)at the ...
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Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab have uncovered information suggesting a possible link between the mysterious malware that attacked Iranian oil ministry computers in April and the Stuxnet and Duqu cyberespionage threats. Following ...
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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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For Europe to take full advantage of the spectrum on its shores,broadcasters must share their allocations with mobile broadband providers. This was the conclusion of Neelie Kroes,a vice-president of the European Commission and the lead ...
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The controllers of Flame,the most powerful cyber weapon discovered to date,have recently sent a kill command that removes the malware from some infected computers. However,the attackers are still in control of some ...
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Microsoft has released a security update for its Windows operating system to block three fraudulent certificates used by Flame,the most powerful cyber weapon discovered to date. Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab,who discovered Flame ...