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The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations specialised agency for telecommunications, and infoDev, a multi-donor programme focusing on information and communication technologies (ICT) for development, have launched the second module of their collaborative online ICT Regulation Toolkit, the Legal and Institutional Framework. The ICT legal and institutional framework...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Eric Schmidt has a message: Don't let the lava lamps fool you. Google Inc. is serious. As Google's chief executive, Schmidt presides over a headquarters filled with trinkets, pets, free food and bouncy-ball chairs. But the whimsical workplace belies the company's focus on cold, hard numbers. Schmidt, 51, oversees operations — a crucial role as the company hires voraciously...

A venture-backed Waltham company that's quietly amassed more than 650,000 Internet domain names is stepping out of stealth mode today and unveiling its plans to build a substantial Boston-area Web 2.0 business around the emerging field of ``direct navigation." The company, called NameMedia, is being led by Kelly P. Conlin , 46, a veteran media executive who previously had been chief executive of...

MOSCOW: India's Dainik Jagran newspaper has built its reputation on its relationship with its readers - all 19.1 million of them. This was revealed at the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) annual congress and World Editors Forum meeting, held in Moscow, Russia, last week. Sanja Gupta, editor & CEO, Dainik Jagran, India, said that as the newspaper with the world's largest readership, the Hindi...

LONDON (AFP) - BBC director-general Mark Thompson wants to take advantage of the latest technology to turn one of the world's foremost broadcasters into a truly global media brand. He insists that the Internet is the future for the 84-year-old British Broadcasting Corporation but warns that it has to be globally relevant to ensure it does not get left behind. The BBC, funded mainly by a television...

Srinagar, June 10: Traffic policemen allegedly assaulted a senior journalist and his wife at Regal Chowk on Saturday. Local news agency CNS said the traffic cops stopped the vehicle of videographer of Associated Press (AP) Mehrajuddin and asked him to show its documents. Quoting Mehrajuddin, the CNS said the traffic policeman asked him unrelated questions and slapped him without any provocation...

With the recent deaths of two CBS employees, the Iraq war officially became the deadliest ever for journalists, with 71 killed. This is more journalists than died in World War II, Korea or Vietnam. CBS correspondent Kimberly Dozier was also badly injured in the May 29 attack that killed a cameraman and a soundman. Dozier graduated from St. Timothy's School in Baltimore County in 1984. The Sun and...

ALL sorts of mythical qualities have been attributed to the World Cup, which has introduced a curious form of seasonality to some parts of business life. At the beginning of the year it was anticipated that the World Cup would herald a strong year for advertising, and hence consumer media companies. At one point Zenith was predicting healthy improvement in the ad market, but disturbingly, the...

NEW DELHI, JUNE 9: For the first time since Supreme Court banned outdoor advertising in Delhi, the growth in the national capital's Out of Home (OOH) advertising market is outstripping that of Mumbai, thanks to thanks to a significant impetus from Delhi Metro. Delhi's Rs 260-crore OOH market is growing at 18-22% per annum as against Mumbai's Rs 450-500 crore OOH market, which is growing at 10-12%...

As billions of fans tune to television coverage of the World Cup this week, Yahoo Inc. is looking to the month-long tournament as a chance to showcase its new approach to covering big news on the Web. Yahoo, which manages the international soccer federation's Web site, is decking the site with interactive features -- blogs, chats and contests alongside three- to five-minute video highlights...