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ITU Telecom World 2015 Opens in Budapest
Dec 29, 2015The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecom World 2015 opened in Budapest on Monday with keynote addresses by ITU Secretary-General Zhao Houlin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Zhao underlined that small and ...
Tags: ITU, Telecom World
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China's Race to Get Developing World Online
Dec 28, 2015Chinese tech companies are making good on President Xi Jinping's promise that China will provide investment and technical support to expand Internet access in developing countries. They are busy advertising international projects and ...
Tags: China's Race
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Xi Slams "Double Standards," Advocates Shared Future in Cyberspace
Dec 17, 2015Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a keynote speech at the 2nd World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, east China's Zhejiang Province on Wednesday, December 16 2015. [Photo: Xinhua] Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday lashed out at ...
Tags: Cyberspace, WIC, Double Standards
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President Xi Calls for Community of Shared Destiny in Cyberspace
Dec 17, 2015Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a keynote speech at the 2nd World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, east China's Zhejiang Province on Wednesday, December 16 2015. [Photo: Xinhua] Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged all countries to ...
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Finisar Demonstrated Several New Products and Technologies
Mar 13, 2014In booth #3645 at the Optical Fiber Communication (OFC 2014) conference & exposition in San Francisco (11-13 March), fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has demonstrated several new ...
Tags: Finisar, Electrical, Electronics, optical module ecosystem, Optical Fiber
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LTE Is The Globally Embraced Standard Behind Today's Top-of-The-Line 4G Smartphones
Jan 6, 2014Have you ever called your cellphone carrier to report poor signal strength? Sure you have. And did that carrier do anything significant to fix the problem? Of course it didn't—unless you live in South Korea. "I guarantee ...
Tags: mobile traffic, 4G, LTE-Advanced technology, wireless networks
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The Number of Mobile Subscriptions Is Expected to Surpass The World's Population in 2014
Nov 2, 2013More than 3.4 billion people, nearly half the world's population, own at least one mobile phone in 2013. As of 2010, more than 90 percent of people worldwide were covered by a mobile phone signal, according to a new Vital Signs Online trend ...
Tags: Mobile Phone, Consumer Electronics
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Brazilian Government Wants to Clarify The Reports of Nsa Spying in Brazil
Jul 10, 2013The Brazilian government has formally asked the U.S. government for clarification regarding the alleged large-scale interception of electronic communications of Brazilian citizens by the U.S. National Security Agency. The NSA intercepts ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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The House Has Voted to Approve a Bill to Promote Internet "Free From Government Control"
Apr 15, 2013A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee has voted to approve a bill that would make it official U.S. policy to promote an Internet "free from government control," with promises that the Republican majority would work with critics of ...
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Mobile Telephones Worldwide to Catch up to The Globe's Population
Mar 1, 2013The number of mobile telephones worldwide is set to catch up to the globe's population next year, the United Nations' telecommunications agency says. The UN's International Telecommunication Union (ITU) said mobile subscriber numbers ...
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Broadband Connectivity Has The Potential to Transform Education
Feb 26, 2013Broadband connectivity has the potential to transform education by giving teachers and students access to learning resources and technologies that will allow them to improve their skills in the context of a globalized economy, according to ...
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Countries Will Not Quit After a Partial Victory at an Itu Meeting in December
Feb 17, 2013Countries 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. ...
Tags: U.N.International Telecommunication Union, ITU meeting, Internet
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Public Policy Formulation in All Domains Is The Sovereign Right of Member States
Feb 4, 2013Public 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 ...
Tags: Internet Policy, ITU Secretary General Hamadoun Toure, internet
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An ITU Group Has Approved a Successor to The H.264 Video
Jan 30, 2013An 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 ...
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Display at International CES Ultimately Are Bound for Someone's Home
Jan 9, 2013Most 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 ...
Tags: tablets, TVs, ultrabooks, smartphones, WiFi, WiGig, WirelessHD, MOCA 2.0, G.hn