Edward Joseph Snowden emerged at the appointed hour, alone, blending into a light crowd of locals and tourists. He cocked his arm for a handshake, then turned his shoulder to indicate a path. Before long he had guided his visitor to a secure space out of public view. During more than 14 hours of interviews, …
Two Senators released a bill last week that could have major implications for the U.S. approach to economic diplomacy in the 21st century. Between budget fights, NSA hearings and the ongoing health care website saga, it is not surprising you might have missed it. Senator Wyden (D-OR) and Senator Thune (R-SD) came together to sponsor …
By NCC Staff Eight really big technology companies have asked the Obama administration to protect individual rights, under the Constitution. But how much sway do the Googles and Facebooks of the world have over decisions involving the legality of the NSA’s surveillance programs? The open letter from the two tech titans, which was signed along …
Eight prominent technology companies, bruised by revelations of government spying on their customers’ data and scrambling to repair the damage to their reputations, are mounting a public campaign to urge President Obama and Congress to set new limits on government surveillance. On Monday the companies, led by Google and Microsoft, presented a plan to regulate …
LONDON – Fans of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy will fondly remember Oliver’s complaint to Stanley: “Well, here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten me into!” In a future remake, Hardy will be played by Barack Obama, suitably enhanced with a toothbrush moustache, while Keith Alexander, currently head of the U.S. National Security Agency, will star …
ICANN has published the Alternate Path to Delegation Reports and lists of Second-Level Domains (SLDs) to block for all eligible proposed new gTLDs. Nearly all of the applied for new gTLD strings have been found eligible to proceed with the Alternate Path to Delegation prior to receiving their Name Collision Occurrence Assessments. The Alternate Path …
It’s hard to see commitment to projects especially in emerging markets like Africa. Africa has been long identified as a new frontier location for investors looking to put great projects that mostly focus on ICT. More recently there has been an increase of the number of mega-proposals and plans to build smart cities. More than …
Broadband internet access can help Africa leapfrog its development challenges and catch up with the rest of the world, seven presidents from the continent said Tuesday at the Transform Africa Summit in Kigali, Rwanda. President Paul Kagame hosted colleagues from Uganda, Kenya, South Sudan, Gabon, Burkina Faso and Mali to review progress made in increasing …
The first-ever non-Latin language website address domains are on their way, the Internet’s overlords said Wednesday. Online domains in which website addresses would end with words in Chinese, Russian, or Cyrillic have been approved according to the US-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). “It’s happening – the biggest change to the Internet …
Following a letter sent by the GAC to the ICANN Board (the NGPC in fact) on 9 September 2013 where no consensus was found on additional specific safeguards (protection of wine GIs), the ICANN Board had to “decide” about what to do regarding .WINE and .VIN new gTLD application: would they allow to proceed or …