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Philips Lighting Boosting Smart Connected LED Lighting
Sep 18, 2017Philips Lighting aims to see its smart connected LED lighting products cover three billion people around the world by 2025, according to Bill Bien, head of Strategy and Marketing for the vendor. Compared with conventional lighting, LED ...
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The Second Annual "Imports Work Week" Will Take Place During The Week of May 6-10, 2013
Apr 18, 2013A leading group of trade associations and organizations announced today that the second annual "Imports Work Week" will take place during the week of May 6-10, 2013. Imports Work Week is an effort to draw attention to the essential role ...
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The Second Annual "Imports Work Week" Will Take Place During The Week of May 6-10, 2013
Apr 18, 2013A leading group of trade associations and organizations announced today that the second annual "Imports Work Week" will take place during the week of May 6-10, 2013. Imports Work Week is an effort to draw attention to the essential role ...
Tags: Textile, Textile Industry
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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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ICANN's New CEO Is Working to Bring Home The Addition of New Generic Top-Level Domains
Mar 20, 2013ICANN's new CEO Fadi Chehade, who took over in October, is on a mission to help politicians around the world understand the importance of keeping the Internet intact and open, and is also working to bring home the addition of new generic ...
Tags: Computer Products, Internet
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New Legislation in Congress Would Establish a Government Task Force
Mar 7, 2013New legislation in Congress would establish a government task force to monitor domestic and overseas policy proposals that could threaten Internet freedom. The Global Free Internet Act, introduced Tuesday by Rep. Zoe Lofgren and three ...
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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. ...
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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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ITU Played a Standards-Setting Role for Global Telecommunication Networks Over The Decades
Dec 31, 2012The 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 ...
Tags: ITU, global telecommunication, networks, Website Cyberattack
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The U.N. Should Embrace Free and Open Broadband Markets and Allow Individual Countries
Dec 26, 2012The 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 ...
Tags: U.N., ITU, telecommunications regulations, U.S.delegation
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Google Joined US Government Concerns That ITU Could Get Control of The Internet
Dec 26, 2012Google 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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US Confirmed It Resists Efforts by China to Put Internet Under Control of United Nations
Dec 21, 2012The 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 ...
Tags: internet, telecommunications, network, IT industry
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The UN Agency Is Updating Its ITRs at The World Conference on International
Dec 21, 2012European MPs are the latest grouping to voice 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 ...
Tags: International Telecommunication Union, internet, telecoms rules, Google
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UK Should Take More Control of Internet to Counter Us Stranglehold, Says It Entrepreneur
Dec 21, 2012The UK should take more control of the internet to counter the US stranglehold, says an IT entrepreneur. “A British scientist invented the world wide web, so why are we now made to feel lucky to be involved?” said Scott ...
Tags: UK, IT industry, US stranglehold, IT service
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Russia, China and Some Other Countries Withdraws a Draft Proposal at The World Conference
Dec 19, 2012Russia, China and some other countries have withdrawn a draft proposal at the World Conference on International Telecommunications, that according to some accounts aimed to bring the Internet under the control of the International ...
Tags: Dubai, ITU, Russia, wcit, World Conference