Neowin News Feed for: United nations

US and other countries pull out of UN Internet talks

John Callaham — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:00:00 +0000

The United States as well as a number of other countries, have said they will not sign a treaty that they feel will give too much control over the oversight of the Internet to the United Nations. Read more...

Reuters website hacked, spreading lies about Syrian situation

Paul Ferson — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 20:42:32 +0100

Reuters was hacked on Friday, with an account being hacked and used to spread misinformation about the situation in Syria, and specifically about the Free Syrian Army's movements. Read more...

United Nations agency gives boost to WiMax

Amin N.Karimi — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:28:02 +0100

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The United Nations telecommunications agency in Geneva gave the upstart technology called WiMax a vote of approval, providing a sizable victory for Intel and something of a defeat for competing technologies from Qualcomm and Ericsson.... Read more...

United Nations Body Backs $100 Laptop

stncttr908 — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:54:28 +0000

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The United Nations Development Programme will back MIT's NicholasNegroponte and his One Laptop per Child program, according to reports. The partnership is critical to helping the initiative which hopes to get $100 hand-cranked laptop... Read more...