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...memorandum of understanding” with the Department of Commerce. ICANN’s activities, according to human rights icons like China and Iran, are an unconscionable infringement of other nations’ rights by the American corporate-governmental cabal. Of course China and Iran (and for that matter Tunisia, the aptly chosen sight of the conference) would, if they controlled domain-name assignments, never, ever misuse this power to crush dissidents. His Excellency Mohammad Solaymani, Iran’s minister of communication and technology, for one, said that “Internet governance should be transparent and democratic?...
More than 11,000 heads of state, business leaders, technology experts, development gurus and do-gooders have gathered this week in Tunisia for a UN-sponsored meeting dubbed the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). The second phase of a two-part meeting that began in Geneva just under two years ago, the Tunisia conference has some heady aims. The most controversial issue going into the summit was who should control the Internet, which is currently managed by the California-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a non-profit company set up by the U.S. Department...
...afternoon, the 13th, in Jerusalem. When TIME's pilot, captain Tony Armstrong, asked where he was flying next, he was advised to watch CNN; if the meeting in Cairo and the peace agreement were definitely on, the team might stay put for the joint interview. Otherwise, it looked like Tunisia. After a night of no clear news, there was no point in waiting, and the captain filed...
Naguib seems to have inherited his father's golden touch. Over the past six years, Cairo-based Orascom Telecom Holding has grown into an increasingly profitable company, with more than $4 billion in revenue and 17.1 million subscribers in Muslim countries, including Algeria, Egypt and Tunisia...
Normandy. Tunisia. Stalingrad. Palls of oily black smoke towering over ruined cities. Automatic weapons chattering and soldiers shouting in shattering 5.1-channel audio. Battlefields it would take years to find Private Ryan in. When it arrives this fall, Call of Duty 2 (for PC and Xbox 360) will be the new state of the art in simulated WW II combat. Whatever campaign you choose--American, British, Russian or all of the above--it will be so intense, you'll almost wish you'd drawn a desk job Stateside. Almost...