united nations in news
All US passports to be RFID chipped
News But the Bush administration chose to go ahead with embedding 64KB chips in future passports, citing a desire to abide by "globally interoperable" standards devised by the International Civil Aviation Organization, a United Nations agency. [26 Oct 2005]
Protect the net from UN menace, says US senator
News A new resolution introduced in the US Senate offers political backing to the Bush administration by slamming a United Nations effort to exert more influence over the internet. But he ventured even further by warning that if governance functions... [19 Oct 2005]
US moves to keep control of net names
News The European Union and other nations are demanding that the US share responsibility for the domain name system, including decisions over adding and deleting new top-level domains, with the United Nations. [10 Oct 2005]
Global supply chains face efficiency crunch
News With EDI there are standards such as Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12 and the United Nations (UN) Edifact, with each moving towards using eXtensible Markup Language (XML), leading to ebXML and xCBL. [09 Sep 2005]
Bush gives .xxx porn domain a red light
News If it backs down, Icann could be perceived as bowing to political interference - but if not, it could alienate government officials just as the United Nations is becoming more interested in taking over key internet functions. [16 Aug 2005]
Intel to open PC design centres for developing world
News Unfortunately, per capita income on average is also far lower in most of these nations, so lowering costs is a key part of the strategies of all these companies. Some of this is re-exported [back into the United States] but even if you take this... [01 Aug 2005]
US can't dominate domain names, says UN
News A United Nations working group has published a long-awaited report that effectively challenges US supremacy over internet domain names. Instead of reaching a consensus, the nations participating in the discussions listed four possible options... [18 Jul 2005]
Tech industry is looking to Middle East, says guru
News Political instability and corruption, unfortunately, remain common facets of life in many Middle Eastern nations, which is where Dubai comes in. The Gulf state, which is part of the United Arab Emirates, is laying the groundwork to become a... [07 Jul 2005]
US keeps keys to internet domain names
News Thursday's announcement also represents an effective snub to a United Nations process that is set to culminate in a summit in Tunisia in November. But the more assertive tack promises to vex nations such as Brazil and Pakistan, which have been... [01 Jul 2005]
Intel set to build $400m testing plant in India
News As a result, Intel has located most of these in developing nations such as China, Costa Rica and Malaysia among others. Maran was on a five-day swing in the United States. Intel manufactures its chips in plants located in Ireland, Israel and the... [15 Jun 2005]
'Developing nations drowning in spam deluge'
News As a result, web users in those nations endure more outages and less reliable overall service than people in more developed countries, the Paris-based international economic think tank said. As ISPs in developing nations harbour more spammers... [01 Jun 2005]
MasterCard culls 1,400 phishing sites
News Most of the phishing attacks on the credit card company were hosted by sites located in the United States (47 per cent), and other nations from Europe, the Middle East and South Asia. MasterCard International has shut down about 1,400 phishing or... [19 May 2005]
Singapore pushes biometric uptake
News He also urged for nations to share implementation know-how in the use of biometrics to strengthen international counter-terrorism defences. The US has set a 26 October deadline for all 27 nations in this programme to issue passports with such... [31 Mar 2005]
'Offpeopling' sees job threat from technology
News By comparison, more attention has been paid in the past few years to offshoring - the shift of high-skilled work such as computer programming from the United States to lower-wage nations like India. "Offpeopling" may be the latest turn of phrase to... [14 Mar 2005]
India's outsourcers have China in their hands
News Sending services work to lower-wage nations is in some ways an evolution of the overseas flow of manufacturing work. China and India have been pushing to take on technology tasks from more developed countries, such as the United States. [04 Feb 2005]
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