2005-2014

Talks on regulating the digital traffic of the 21st century ended without agreement on Friday, but the United States won some backing for its refusal to cede its sole control to an international body from groups representing ordinary Internet users. Many Web surfers may not like the effective control the United States has over the Internet through its supervision of the Internet addressing system...

The US has rejected calls by European Union (EU) officials to give control of the net over to a more representative United Nations (UN) body. Wrangling over who should essentially be the net police, managing domain names and net traffic routing fairly, has been going on for some time. The matter is supposed to be discussed at November's World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia. But at a...

The United Nations' International Telecommunications Union is ready to take over the governance of the Internet from the United States, ITU head Yoshio Utsumi said on Friday. The United States has clashed with the European Union and much of the rest of the world over the future of the Internet. It currently manages the global information system through a partnership with California-based Internet...

Washington remained unmoved on Friday in the face of international pressure for it to relinquish its exclusive control of the internet addressing system that enables the world's computers to communicate with each other. That pressure increased this week when the European Union publicly threw its weight behind developing country demands for more international oversight of the domain name system...

An oversight body of international governments will decide the top-level of the internet from now on, pulling it away from the US government and enshrining the revolutionary medium in international law. That is the position taken by the EU, which is currently cutting a deal with other nations including Brazil, Canada and China, to end two weeks of argument at the PrepCom3 conference in Geneva. The...

An unexpected about-face by the European Union during preparatory talks for the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) will likely postpone any agreements on the contentious issue of Internet governance to another round of discussions before the planned Tunis, Tunisia, gathering in November. Government officials have been meeting in Geneva since Sept. 19 but have so far...

BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Union insisted Friday that governments and the private sector must share the responsibility of overseeing the Internet, setting the stage for a showdown with the United States on the future of Internet governance. A senior U.S. official reiterated Thursday that the country wants to remain the Internet's ultimate authority, rejecting calls in a United Nations...

The United States and Europe clashed here Thursday in one of their sharpest public disagreements in months, after European Union negotiators proposed stripping the Americans of their effective control of the Internet. The European decision to back the rest of the world in demanding the creation of a new international body to govern the Internet clearly caught the Americans off balance and left...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. TV viewership climbed again last season to a record household average of eight hours, 11 minutes a day, Nielsen Media Research reported on Thursday, challenging perceptions that Americans are watching less than they once did. The all-time high viewing level posted for the 2004-05 television season, which ended earlier this month, was up nearly 3 percent from the...

Jacob Mathew, Executive Editor of the Malayala Manorama Group, was on Thursday elected President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS). Mathew, who was elected for a one-year term at the 66th Annual General Meeting of the INS in Bangalore, succeeds Pradeep Guha of Filmfare. A trustee of the Press Institute of India and Research Institute for Newspaper Development, Mathew has represented the INS on...