In about five months’ time, the current agreement between ICANN and the U.S. government will expire. At that point, Viviane Reding, the European Union’s Commissioner for Information Society and Media, is hoping ICANN will become a fully independent organization with a more international support network.
Wikipedia Art Pushes The Elastic Boundaries Of Fair Use
UDPATE, 5/1/09: Wales got back with us with his comments about the matter. They are as follows:
Firefox Pushes Google Away In Russia
Google may be used to seeing its market share climb, but it looks like the search giant is getting kicked down a rung or two in one country. Mozilla has decided to make Yandex, and not Google, the default search provider in future Russian versions of Firefox.
U.S. Pushes WTO For Panel On High-Tech Tariffs
The United States has asked the World Trade Organization to create a panel to settle a dispute with the European Union over tariffs on high-tech items.The request is an escalation in an increasingly bitter dispute over the WTO’s Information Technology Agreement (ITA), which abolished duties on a number of high-tech goods from July 1997 to encourage trade.
FCC’s Free Broadband Pushes Constitutionality
The FCC’s (read Chairman Kevin Martin’s) plan to set aside spectrum for a free, nationwide broadband network is also on yet another path for failure when eventually it is scrutinized by the courts.
Amid Economic Woes, Microsoft Pushes Into Your Home
More money spent on gas and groceries means less for luxuries. In the past that meant more people going to the movies and picking up used musical instruments. Now, Microsoft wants to be an entertainment outlet, serving games, videos, and oh yes, advertising.
Healthy-Looking Baidu Pushes Wikipedia Alternative
Yahoo this, Microsoft that – it’s enough to make you move to China. Or at least look at China-centric news, in which Baidu is generating headlines for both succeeding financially and pushing its own version of Wikipedia.
Google Pushes Its Security And Compliance Products
IT people, please don’t blame us. We neither conducted nor responded to this security and compliance survey. But the survey’s results indicate that some people (and perhaps a certain search giant) feel you’re not overly effective or efficient.
Facebook Bubble Cult Pushes Value To $100 Billion
Put your coffee down, you’ll spit it. Facebook cheerleaders, from within what must be a social networking tunnel (or cave?), have transformed themselves into prostrate worshipers, transubstantiating reason to whatever the digital equivalent is of 72 virgins.
British Man Pushes Google On Defamation
Brian Retkin of domain registrar Dotworlds had been criticized for offering .USA domains for sale and spamming people with sales pitches after September 11, 2001. He has claimed Google’s links to this criticism amounts to defamation.