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News The World Intellectual Property Organization (Wipo), a UN agency based in Geneva, received 2,156 complaints alleging "abusive registration of trademarks on the internet" last year, up 18 per cent from 2006 and 48 per cent more than the filings...
[28 Mar 2008]
News The UN's comms agency, the International Telecommunications Union, is touting the importance of satellite technology in bridging the world's communications divide - as it can offer high-capacity transmission capabilities over wide areas, and...
[06 Mar 2008]
News The UN agency for information and communications issues is looking to the heavens to bridge the digital divide. When it comes to the global digital divide, the ITU hopes satellite comms will play a vital role in "connecting the unconnected" - and...
[28 Feb 2008]
News When UN workers descend on distressed locales, they often encounter logjams at airport tarmacs and confusion over what exactly is in this or that box, said David Nabarro, who's chiefly in charge of co-ordinating responses to bird and human...
[11 Oct 2007]
News Manufacturers including Cisco, Dell, Ericsson, HP and Microsoft are working with the UN and recycling companies on the Solving the E-Waste Problem (StEP) initiative. A United Nations-led initiative aims to shrink the world's massive 'e-scrap...
[07 Mar 2007]
News Dell added: "We plan on increasing the degree of customer control moving forward, allowing customers to more quickly select software they want to remove and facilitate simple un-installation. Dell has acknowledged that 83,000 users have urged it to...
[26 Feb 2007]
News Only three per cent of the world's leading websites meet the needs of disabled web users, according to the UN. Out of 100 sites tested in a UN commissioned study, only three met the minimum accessibility level: the UK Prime Minister's site and...
[06 Dec 2006]
News According to UN figures, the UK has the eighth-worst record in the world for carbon emissions, with the US coming in first, the EU second and China third. The government is set to introduce legislation to reduce the impact of climate change, the...
[15 Nov 2006]
News A top UN official has called for changes to the way the internet is operated, taking aim at the US stranglehold on domain names and internet addresses. Speaking at the opening of a four-day UN summit in Athens Yoshio Utsumi criticised the current...
[30 Oct 2006]
News Steve Clarke, head of internal computing at AOL UK, said: "We currently use it for reducing risk associated with un-trusted or insecure applications, but with a remit to drive down capex costs, it won't be long before they're on the desktop.
[20 Oct 2006]
News According to standards body the ITU, an arm of the UN, 4G must have data rates of 100Mbps when mobile and 1Gbps when devices are still. Some of the biggest names in mobile have clubbed together to think up just what they're planning as the...
[15 Sep 2006]
News The World Intellectual Property Organization, or Wipo, a specialised arm of the UN, gave the go-ahead in 2003 to begin drafting the treaty but a final version is still pending. An online culture built around user-generated content on websites such...
[06 Sep 2006]
News Bradshaw said there was still "considerable un-met demand in the CRM market", and contrasted Salesforce's good figures with the competition from Oracle, Microsoft and SAP, which "does not seem to be casting any shadows on Salesforce.com's field...
[21 Aug 2006]
News By the end of 2006, the un-mobilised will be the minority - with just five per cent of European businesses seeing the new year in without any mobility plans in place. Enterprise mobility is all grown up - not only are almost all of Europe's larger...
[02 Aug 2006]
News Roberts said: "At the UN World Summit [where the OLPC prototype was first displayed last year] there were so many exciting projects that didn't get any attention because all eyes were on the OLPC. The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) scheme is based on...
[21 Jun 2006]
News A Google tribute to the Spanish artist Joan Miró backfired on the search engine when the painter's family objected to the accolade. In typical Google style, the search engine decided to revamp its logo for one day last week to mark the birthday of...
[24 Apr 2006]
News Twentieth century organisations like the UN and WTO are out of touch - we need new organisations. Suw Charman, executive director of the Open Rights Group (ORG), said on Wednesday that the British Library would be "an excellent facilitator" of DRM...
[16 Mar 2006]
News Among those he met with was Mary Robinson, the former Irish president and former head of the UN Human Rights Commission. Under fire after censoring a Chinese blogger, Microsoft on Tuesday announced a new policy for dealing with government requests...
[01 Feb 2006]
News Last year at a UN conference with secretary general Kofi Annan, Negroponte unveiled the "Green Machine" prototype, backed by the likes of AMD, Google, and Red Hat. You might be forgiven for thinking that a laptop powered by hand cranking was an...
[26 Jan 2006]
News MIT Media Lab chairman Nicholas Negroponte said at a UN internet summit in Tunis, Tunisia, that his not-for-profit organisation was negotiating with manufacturers and would have an initial order placed by February or March.
[17 Nov 2005]
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