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- A haus with no name
- One of an exporter's best friends is international borders, at least as far as lawsuits are concerned. It is extremely difficult for a foreigner to enforce their home country's judgments in Canada. In most cases, it means that the plaintiff has to come to Canada to fight in court, which...
- Research articles 2007-03-01
- U.N. Internet Confab Takes On ICANN, Or Does It Really?
- The United Nations this past week held a conference in Athens, Greece, with a lofty mission of addressing global Internet governance. But the fundamental backslide of the international body is whether it can take away any power or functions from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and...
- Research articles 2006-11-06
- The Internet Splits Up; The Web changed the world. Politics is now changing it back.
- Byline: Rana Foroohar With Florence Villeminot in Paris and Sarah Schafer in Beijing Sometimes it's tough to remember what life was like before the Internet. In those long-ago-seeming days, phone calls were expensive, document-shipping frequent, and we actually had to troll for random ...
- Research articles 2006-05-15
- The Internet Splits Up
- Sometimes it's tough to remember what life was like before the Internet. In those long-ago-seeming days, phone calls were expensive, document-shipping frequent, and we actually had to troll for random information in (gasp!) books. The Web made everything better. Suddenly, we could connect as often as we liked, for as...
- Research articles 2006-05-15
- E-Commerce News
- Management of the Internet A United Nations technology summit reached an agreement to leave the United States with ultimate oversight of the main computers that direct the Internet's flow of information. This agreement has overshadowed the summit's original intent of addressing ways to expand communications technologies to poorer parts of...
- Research articles 2006-01-01
- Who Should Control the World Wide Web?
- The United States has retained its crown as king of the World Wide Web, but only after a long and, at times, contentious struggle with the rest of the world. During the World Summit on the Information Society held in Tunisia in November, negotiators from more than 100 countries agreed...
- Research articles 2006-01-01
- The UN's desire to control the Internet: UN pirates sailed into Tunis this November 16-18, looking to take the helm of Internet supervision from U.S. hands
- Do you treasure the freedom to wade out into the vast sea of information that is the Internet and surf the World Wide Web? Then look out for what is coming over the horizon: a fleet of ships is bearing down on you and your little surfkeyboard, and they are...
- Research articles 2005-12-12
- Who controls the Internet?(BRIEFING)
- It's still our Internet--at least for now. Just before the United Nations convened its World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis, Tunisia last month, there was some question about the near-term future of Internet governance. Representatives of European Union and developing...
- Research articles 2005-12-01
- Spinning the Web Forward
- Vinton Cerf has been dubbed the father of the Internet, a label the 62-year-old Connecticut native rejects. "There are lots of fathers of the Internet," says the legendary computer scientist who worked on the original Department of Defense project in 1973. He now holds the title of Google's chief Internet...
- Research articles 2005-11-28
- World vs. U.S. for Web Control
- Debate during a United Nations conference this month will highlight a growing rift between the United States and the rest of the world over Internet governance that could result in changes to how the World Wide Web can be used. The purpose of the World Summit on the Information...
- Research articles 2005-11-15
- Institute for Policy Innovation: Spare US the UNternet; US Does Not Dominate Internet; Neither Should UN
- WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Tomorrow is the official kick-off of the World Summit on the Information Society WSIS where the International Telecommunication Union ITU, a United Nations UN agency, is poised to wrestle control of the Internet away from the United States. According to the Institute for...
- Research articles 2005-11-15
- Govern 'Net globally
- The Internet is a worldwide resource, and governance needs to be international. Today, the United States oversees the Internet because of historic reasons. Internet governance is one of the key issues to be discussed at the U.N. World Summit on the Information Society, which starts Wednesday in Tunisia, and debate...
- Research articles 2005-11-15
- Government showdown could break up Internet, experts warn
- TUNIS AFP — A tense dispute over US control of the Internet in the run-up to the World Summit on the Information Society WSIS could eventually lead to the break-up of the global network and hamper seamless browsing, officials warned. The warning came as the United States told EU...
- Research articles 2005-11-14
- World wants more say in control of World Wide Web
- SAN FRANCISCO -- The Bush administration and the U.S. tech industry are teaming to take on the rest of the world in a fight about who controls the technical underpinnings of the Internet. Right now, a U.S.-based group does. But countries from Chile to China think they should have...
- Research articles 2005-11-14
- WSIS: UNITED STATES ISOLATED OVER INTERNET REGULATION.(World Summit on the Information Society)
- "The United States insists that the present status quo should be maintained. Other countries share the view that it should evolve" said Yoshio Utsumi, Secretary General of the ITU. Regulation of the internet is currently in the hands of several private companies in the United States....
- Research articles 2005-10-13
- Give up web domination, US told
- GENEVA AFP — The United States was isolated as it sought to defend its monopoly over regulation of the Internet against the European Union and other countries that are demanding a share of the action, officials said. "On the issue of Internet governance, very big differences of opinion exist,"...
- Research articles 2005-09-30
- Whose Internet is it?
- First, Al Gore claimed the Internet was his creation. Now, President George W. Bush is claiming ownership. While the former was simply fodder for political pundits and the comedy club circuit, the latter is disturbing to those who view the Internet as belonging to the entire world, not just the...
- Research articles 2005-08-01
- Commerce, not sex, on surfer's mind
- Like any new marriage, there was more, um, intimacy at the beginning of the public's relationship with the World Wide Web. Although 20 percent of all searching was sex-related in 1997, it's now about 5 percent, according to the new book "Web Search: Public Searching of the Web," co-authored by...
- Research articles 2004-11-01
- The global governance of the Internet: bringing the state back in.
- The accelerating pace of economic globalization has generated a lot of bad international relations theory. The loudest theoretical response to this phenomenon predicts a race to the bottom in wages, regulatory standards, and social protections. (1) Although popular with antiglobalization protestors, the race to the bottom theory has the tragic...
- Research articles 2004-09-22
- Newport Beach, Calif., Business Sells Unusable Domains.
- By Chris Farnsworth, The Orange County Register, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 29--A business with a Newport Beach address is charging customers for Internet names that end in ".usa" and ".sex." The only problem: those domain names don't exist....
- Research articles 2001-11-29
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