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Internet Forum all about domain control

Internet Forum all about domain controlWhat happened in Tunis?For an item to be mentioned twice in this article, especially as something that apparently set such precedent, why is there no explanation of why Tunis is important?Not all of the readers will be knowledgeable of Internet Management bureaucracy, much less events...

Tags: domain control, Tunis, Internet Forum, Internet

Discussion threads 2007-11-08

Open source goes to Tunis

Open source goes to TunisAnd NO ONE cared at all.Not even a tiny bit...

Tags: Open Source Goes, Tunis, open source

Discussion threads 2005-11-16

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Internet Forum all about domain control

Two years ago a crisis of sorts was avoided in Tunis when world leaders agreed to let the U.S. remain in charge of the Internet. Part of the deal was annual conference to discuss such issues as how domain names are assigned, a task currently under the control of ICANN....

Tags: Domain, Forum, Internet, Domain Names, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-11-08

The Future of Islam 1.0 (Mobile)

A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of ZealeThe Future of Islamby Wilfred Scawen BluntExcerpt:These essays, written for the Fortnightly Review in the summer and autumn of 1881, were intended as first sketches only of a maturer work which the author hoped, before giving finally to the...

Tags: Islam, History, Mobile, Blackberrybooks, Handhelds, Hardware

Software downloads 2007-11-06

Vint Cerf sets the record straight on who controls the net

Was the debate at Tunis as simple-minded as Vint Cerf categorizes it in this Newsweek interview? That developing countries are simply confused about the distinction between ICANN's administrative role in the domain sysem and "American control of the Internet"? Consider:Critics say the U.S. government basically controls the Internet. That's bulls—t....

Tags: Vint Cerf, Internet, ICANN

Blog posts 2005-11-22

The future of the Internet - What role for developing countries?

The big showdown between the US and the UN never materialized and the US' ICANN retains control over core Internet systems, but the demands of the developing world - and the concerns about putting internet control in the hands of governments with strong censorship leanings - is ...

Tags: Internet

Blog posts 2005-11-18

Internet showdown in Tunis

Internet showdown in TunisSpin turn spin turn pivot turn spin"The stakes are really very high. "Not really, everyone just hyping it."cyberbureaucracy"No spin in that word, no sir-ee."The Bush administration said in no uncertain terms in June that it intended to relinquish the United States' unique influence over dom..."Missed a 'refused...

Tags: Internet, government, CERN

Discussion threads 2005-11-14

Open source goes to Tunis

While other Americans are condemning the Tunis WSIS Summit, warning of a coming "UN Takeover" of the Internet, a small group of open source pioneers are there on the ground, doing what they do best, advocating.Bruce Perens, Richard Stallman and Mark Shuttleworth are speaking as invited guests. Perens is going...

Tags: advocating.Bruce Perens

Blog posts 2005-11-11

Crowd gathers for Homebrew Computer Club's 30th

Crowd gathers for Homebrew Computer Club's 30thAh, the good old daysYes, before M$hills you had people that wanted computers. It really didn't matter what kind of computer you had - it was just such a novelty that you had one. People freely talked about Atari and Commodore and PC in...

Tags: computer, PC

Discussion threads 2005-11-07

Move over Microsoft, Dell. The $100 PC cometh. From MIT.

As a part of what he says is his life's most important work, MIT Media Labs director Nicholas Negroponte is on course to deliver a $100 laptop to the people who need it most: the world's children. The first prototype, (pictured left, see more photos of it in ZDNet's...

Tags: Nicholas Negroponte

Blog posts 2005-09-28