ITU and WCIT trying to take over the internet

At the upcoming WCIT conference (Dec 3-14), the ITU is going to attempt to take control of the internet and allow countries like Russia and China to destroy internet freedom. Read more below--and to take action go to Take Action – Google: "A free and open world depends on a free and open web."

In advance of the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT), the European Parliament has issued a resolution stating that the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) should not have control over the web. The ITU is a United Nations agency responsible for telecommunications. It works to establish worldwide standards, coordinate shared global use of the radio spectrum and improve telecommunications infrastructure. December's WCIT has been organised to bring together governments from all over the world to renegotiate the International Telecommunication Regulations (ITRs), first signed in 1988. Since 1988, communications have changed enormously, and the ITU wants to make sure that its regulations cover the internet effectively. As outlined in our guide, more than 100 organisations including Google, have raised concerns about the event, believing that the ITU should stick to covering telecommunications and not encroach on the web. However the ITU argues that telecommunications is defined as "any transmission, emission or reception of signs, signals, writing, images and sounds or intelligence of any nature by wired, radio, optical or other electromagnetic systems", which implies that the internet might also be covered.Source: The European Parliament opposes ITU control of web (Wired UK)

Euro MPs: Do not let the ITU take control of the internet | ZDNet: "The ITU is hosting the World Conference on International Communications (WCIT) in Dubai between 3 and 14 December. -
The European Parliament warned the revisions would be a mistake and urged EU member states to reject changes to international telecommunications regulations (ITR) in place since 1988. "Some ITR reform proposals being presented by the ITU member states would negatively impact the internet, its architecture, operations, content and security, business relations, internet governance and the free flow of information online," Dutch MEP Marietje Schaake and other lawmakers said in the motion for resolution. In addition, "the ITU, or any other single, centralised international institution, is not the appropriate body to assert regulatory authority over either internet governance or internet traffic flows," lawmakers said. At the moment, large, primarily US-based organisations such as ICANN and IANA have oversight of parts of the internet.
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Internet Cafe Webmaster Steals Internet From Internet Cafe
By Eric Jou
Internet Cafe Webmaster Steals Internet From Internet Cafe An internet cafe webmaster in the Nansha district of Guangzhou, Guangdong, was recently arrested for stealing user information, passwords, and money from the very same internet ...
Kotaku

Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 LTE gets Jelly Bean update plus VoLTE ...
By Dave LeClair
VoLTE address a common concern for LTE devices. Now, if you need to make voice call from your tablet, you will be able to do so without losing your data. With a smartphone, not being able to call and use the Internet is acceptable, since ...
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Ron Paul: The Internet is the savior of liberty

Ron Paul's Farewell Address: The Internet Can Stop Big - TechCrunch
By Gregory Ferenstein
Ron Paul, is bidding farewell to Congress and has a call-to-arms for his legions of tech-savvy followers: The Internet is the savior of liberty. “The internet will provide the alternative to the government/media complex that controls the news and ...
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Windows 8 in Health Care: 10 Apps for Doctors, Patients and Researchers: "With the introduction of Windows 8 on Oct. 26, health IT has a new environment in which to develop resources and clinical applications. Among the more than 10,000 apps in the Windows Store are several that are geared toward health. Windows 8 apps are designed to run across multiple devices, including laptops, desktops, tablets and Windows Phone 8 handsets. Windows 8 devices allow users to interact with the OS through touch, a keyboard and a mouse, Dennis Schmuland, chief health strategy officer for U.S. Health and Life Sciences at Microsoft, told eWEEK. "

Internet is parents' worst nightmare
Sydney Morning Herald
For children, the internet is the big enlarger. Whether it is information or entertainment, today's young people literally have their world at their fingertips. But there's a dark side, too, and it is alarming many parents - often not nearly as tech ...

Sydney Morning Herald

Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 10 browser for Windows 7
Chicago Daily Herald
The redesigned browser, Internet Explorer 10, made its debut last month when Microsoft released Windows 8, which makes dramatic changes to an operating system that has been powering PCs for decades. Advertisement. Internet Explorer 10 initially is ...

iPad Mini with 4G comes to AT&T, Sprint and Verizon but ...
NBCNews.com (blog)
When the iPad Mini first appeared in stores along with the full-size fourth-generation iPad, they came in the Wi-Fi-only configuration. Those who wanted an iPad Mini that ran on a super-fast 4G LTEcellular network had to wait, like, 1000 million hours ...

Russia demands broad UN role in Net governance, leak reveals
CNET (blog)
commentary The Russian Federation is calling on the United Nations to take over key aspects of Internet governance, including addressing and naming, according to documents leaked on Friday from an upcoming treaty conference. The Russians made their ...

More NFL stadiums getting free Wi-Fi – what about CenturyLink?
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
The sheer number of people fighting for cell phone service and Internet can make for excruciating waits when it comes to your smartphone. Some fans have already expressed displeasure over the lack of Wi-Fi. The influence of Wi-Fi in the NFL is growing ...

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AT&T Eyes Data Growth With $14 Billion Network Overhaul
Forbes
The largest telecom provider in the U.S. recently announced a 3-year $14 billion network investment plan that will not only help expand its 4G LTE network to new markets but also improve network quality and increase spectrum efficiency. While a ...

Internet abuse rife among cops
The Australian
More than 20 officers routinely breached internet policy by spending hours on gambling websites and even looking at "mail-order brides", according to a source. The operations nerve centre at the Midland Communications complex handles all emergency 000 ...

Songwriters oppose Pandora-backed Internet royalty bill
The Hill (blog)
The heads of the National Music Publishers' Association, Nashville Songwriters Association International and the Church Music Publishers Association on Friday came out against a bill backed by Pandora that would place Internet radio services on the ...

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Android Innovation Faster Than Apple

Android Innovation Is Faster Than Apple - Business Insider: "Smartphones and tablets powered by Google's Android software are devouring the mobile gadget market, eating into Apple's turf by feeding appetites for innovation and low prices, analysts say. The Android operating system powered nearly three out of four smartphones shipped worldwide in the recently ended quarter as the mobile platform dominated the market, according to industry trackers at IDC."

Samsung Gets Review of Loss to Apple in US Patent Case
Businessweek
Apple's lawyers have argued that their company revolutionized the smartphone industry when it introduced the iPhone in 2007, only to see copycats from Samsung and other companies making handsets that run on Google Inc.'s Android operating system ...

HTC's Droid DNA going international
CNET
As if it were any surprise, HTC looks to be readying an international version of the recently announced Droid DNA. A tweet from often-accurate @evleaks tells us the 5-inch smartphone will be released as a global edition and will be called the HTC Deluxe.

The Tablet Test: iPad mini vs Android Nexus 7, featuring Need for Speed: Most ...
Pocket Gamer
Surprisingly, the Android version comes across as more sluggish than the iPad edition - despite theNexus 7's power advantage. The game runs as smooth as butter on the iPad mini, while theAndroid tablet seems to run the game at a lower framerate.

Report: Over 1 Million Apps Have Been Submitted to iOS App Store
Wired
The number of apps Apple has in its ecosystem has long been a bonus over competitors like Android and Windows Phone, but Android's Google Play Store is catching up in terms of numbers. Officially, it houses over 600,000 apps and games, with 20 billion ...

Wired

Samsung launches Galaxy Note 10.1 LTE model
CNET (blog)
Sold through three different Korean wireless carriers, the new tablet also offers VoLTE (Voice over LTE), which allows standard voice calls to be transmitted over the LTE data network. Hit by lackluster sales for its Tab tablet lineup, Samsung has been ...

Microsoft wants to denigrate your iPhone and Android again
CNET
Microsoft, over recent times, has been keen to humiliate these people in public. First, there was the "Smoked By Windows Phone" challenge, in which Redmond's indefatigable Ben Rudolph proved that Microsoft's phones were so much faster than iPhones or ...

iPad Tablets Drive iOS Growth in Businesses
eWeek
At 57 percent of deployed iOS devices in Zencloud, the iPad is driving the growth ofiOS overall. Apple's iPhone represented 42 percent of deployed iOS devices. The iOSplatform represented 56 percent of global device enrollment, followed by Android ...

eWeek

Android 4.2 Jelly Bean Bugs Plaguing Nexus Users
Gotta Be Mobile
It seems Google's latest Android update, the new Android 4.2 Jelly Bean update that was released earlier this month, is tormenting some Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 10, Nexus 7 and Nexus 4 owners with an assortment of bugs. Users of Google's latest operating ...

RIM CEO: App Store Size Doesn't Matter
InformationWeek
Heins is working to convince not only wireless network operators, but also businesses, developers and consumers that BlackBerry 10 -- the company's forthcoming, next-generation smartphoneplatform -- is worth a look. One of the competitive obstacles ...

AT&T Samsung Galaxy Camera Review
Android Community
Beyond that, it's a lovely camera made to take all the greatness that's been coming up in the Android smartphone world and apply it to a device that's – again – primarily a photography machine. This device works with a fabulous Super Clear LCD display ...

Android Community

The Best Apps for Your Nexus 7, 10 or Other Android Tablet ...
By Rita El Khoury
Android Apps Reviews, Roundups and How-tos. Android · Mac · Web ... Google has been pushing its official Android tablets quite a lot recently, with the Nexus 7 and 10 offering a nice feature set at a competitive price. Still, one big Achille's ...
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LG Nexus 4 qualifies for 50GB free Box.net cloud storage | Android ...
By Alex Dobie
The promotion runs until Dec. 31, so you've got plenty of time to bag some extra bits, and free up some of the Nexus 4's precious (and limited) internal storage space. Check the Google Play link above to grab the official Box.net app for Android ...
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Windows Phone 8 Challenges Android and iOS, Goes After 2-year ...
By Kellex
Windows Phone 8 is official, as are the devices it runs on, so it only makes sense that the marketing campaign for this new mobile OS would kick into high gear. ... Take the two videos we've included for example, where the competition is a 2-year old HTC Inspire 4G and a MyTouch of some sort. ...Think back to 2009 when Android had only a couple of the top apps on iOS. .... Try it against theHTC One X+, Samsung Galaxy s3, Nexus 4 and iPhone 5 and then we'll see which is better.
Droid Life

Samsung sues LG Display over OLED patents
By Kevin Krause
The Korean company that produces the Galaxy line of Android phones has filed a patent suit against a branch of the Korean company that produces the Optimus line of phones. Specifically, Samsung is going after LG Display on the basis that ...
Android Phone Fans

Samsung and LG going back to court over OLED displays | Android ...
By Eric Abent
You'd think that with all of the lawsuits Samsung has been a part of lately, the company would want to take a little breather. You'd ... They're obviously both big players in the smartphone space, so expect to hear more about this lawsuit shortly.
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Kim Dotcom plan to give New Zealanders free internet

Kim Dotcom’s plan to give New Zealanders free internet could just work - The Next Web: " If Dotcom manages to wrestle his way out of his potential extradition and successfully sues the government and works towards regaining Pacific Fibre’s original customers that had committed 10 year contracts, it could just work. He just couldn’t do it alone. Dotcom is only estimated to be worth $200 million USD (including assets), which is only just over half of what’s actually required to build the cable let alone run a sustainable company. Lucky for him, many have shown interest in the project, with over 1,000 people responding to the initial tweet that day and already receiving offers of interest."

Nexus 7 + Android 4.2 Jelly Bean
Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows
Sometimes, they get neglected: After getting increasingly frustrated that my GoogleNexus 7 tablet wouldn't turn on—was something wrong with it??—I realized that the battery had simply died. Oops. But when it came back up, an update awaited: Android...

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IOS Vs. Android Vs. Windows: A RIMM Opportunity
Seeking Alpha
Google has chosen the same route, not only introducing its own Nexus tablet in competition with itsAndroid licensees, but also competing in the smart phone market through its acquisition of Motorola Mobile. Compared to the competition within these ...

Review: Nexus tablet showcases Google media play
The Oshkosh Northwestern
The Nexus has a screen resolution of 300 pixels per inches, slightly better than the 264 ppi for the latest full-size iPad (which itself is far better than the 132 ppi on the older iPad 2 model still available). True, there ... Nexus 10 is also made by ...

Samsung reveals Black Friday camera deals
CNET (blog)
... for viewing or uploading to sharing sites, but it will also allow you to control the camera remotely. (Samsung only guarantees these features to work on Samsung Galaxy devices, but I was able to use them on other Android devices as well as an Apple ...

RIM CEO on App Ecosystems: Size Isn't Everything
All Things Digital
It's clear there's a lot of chaff in the mobile app ecosystem wheat, and RIM feels BB10 can go head-to-head with Android and iOS as long as it has quality apps that satisfy key consumer needs. “The tactic we are deploying is by country and by region ...

Windows Phone users can now stay better connected to UMSL
UMSL Daily (blog)
The new Windows Phone UMSL app includes the same great features as the iPhone and Android editions. The smartphone application has more than a dozen features, such as campus maps, a campus directory with one-touch dialing and access to the ...

UMSL Daily (blog)

The new Samsung Galaxy Note II during a launch event. Photo: AP
South China Morning Post
"Android has been one of the primary growth engines of the smartphone market since it was launched in 2008," said IDC's mobile-phones research manager Ramon Llamas. "In every year since then, Android has effectively outpaced the market and taken ...

Nexus 4 teardown reveals mysterious LTE chip
Afterdawn.com
Nexus 4 teardown reveals mysterious LTE chip Earlier this week, Google began selling its new LG Nexus 4, the latest in the vanilla Android Nexus line.

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16GB Samsung Nexus 10 showing in stock in U.S. ... - Android Central
By Richard Devine
The U.S. Google Play Store is showing that the 16GB Samsung Nexus 10 is back in stock, but for how long? ... If you missed out on a Samsung Nexus 10 earlier this week during the Nexus day pandemonium, there may be another chance.
Android Central - Android Forums,...

Android Overload: Nexus 4 has LTE, Play Store updates, free NFC ...
By Edgar Cervantes
Samsung Galaxy Camera preview, photos, and video · Leave a comment to win an AT&T HTC One X+ with Teg... HTC One X+ now available from AT&T · Samsung Galaxy Camera now available from AT&T · Sprint Black Friday sale offers ...
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Internet sales tax will hurt small businesses
Baltimore Sun
... November 18, 2012. As the owner of a flower shop in Aberdeen, I am very concerned with new legislation currently being considered in Congress: the "Marketplace Fairness Act" and the "Marketplace Equity Act," which will add sales tax to Internet sales.

Authorities target SD Internet lender
USA TODAY
Webb owns at least nine Internet lending businesses, according to court records. Regulators accuse Webb and his businesses of illegal lending and collection practices, operating without a license in states and dodging state limits on interest rates.

Hottest Christmas Holiday Tech Geek Gift Ideas: HTC One X 4G Review
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To put that into perspective, most home WiFi setups offer in the region of 5 to 7 Mbps, which means 4G LTE will outstrip your home WiFi speed by around 2 to 1 at the very least. You can stream movies and live sports events without breaking a sweat or ...

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Google Judge Accepts $22.5 Million FTC Privacy Settlement
Businessweek
Google Inc.'s $22.5 million agreement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to settle claims the company improperly planted cookies on Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s Safari Internet browser was approved by a federal judge. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in ...

Many Rural AT&T Customers Still Lack High-Speed Internet Despite Merger ...
Huffington Post
That promise carried the day. The Federal Communications Commission allowed the two companies to merge on the condition that AT&T offer broadband Internet to every customer in its territory by the end of 2007. But five years after that deadline ...

Regulatory stagnation delays broadband for all
MyBroadband
The logical way to deal with this is to allocate spectrum to well established companies that already have an operational broadband network which can be expanded. At the beginning of 2012 MTN started a long term evolution (LTE) pilot and introduced its ...

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'Tubes': exploring the physical infrastructure of the Internet
The Seattle Times
'Tubes': exploring the physical infrastructure of the Internet. Andrew Blum's new book, "Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet," explores the infrastructure of the Internet — the buildings, wires, cables and vaults that move information ...

You Can't Say That on the Internet | LISNews:
By Anonymous Patron
A BASTION of openness and counterculture, Silicon Valley imagines itself as the un-Chick-fil-A. But its hyper-tolerant facade often masks deeply conservative, outdated norms that digital culture discreetly imposes on billions of technology ...
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lk737: How The ITU Could Put The Internet Behind Closed Doors
By lk737
We love the internet. And we're guessing you do too. Think about all the awesome things it gives us: A vast communication network; innovative businesses; a platform to freely speak or challenge powerful governments; and hundreds and ...
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