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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...

(RSF/IFEX) - RSF has condemned a series of recent measures by King Gyanendra's government that discriminate against the independent press, especially new directives determining how state advertising will be allocated to the media. "Nepal's independent media have in turn been the victims of threats, discrimination and repression, but they have continued to resist all of the government's arbitrary...

Sharing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's concerns about the professional responsibilities of journalists, the Editors Guild of India has constituted a committee to address the issue. The committee, headed by veteran journalist Ajit Bhattacharjea, will submit its report in eight weeks, an Editor Guild's statement said yesterday. The committee is mandated to propose specific measures to enhance the...

On the afternoon of April 20, 2004 Shi Tao, head of the Editorial Department of Contemporary Business News, located in Hunan Province, PRC, took notes at a department meeting. Those notes contained references to information in a CPC official document entitled: "A Notice Regarding Current Stabilizing Work" -- a euphemism for the central government's efforts to keep dissent to a minimum on the eve...