Topic: International Telecommunication Union
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The Monitor's View: For journalists and Internet, 2013 must not repeat 2012
Record assaults on journalists in 2012 and official moves to censor the Internet show how much authoritarian regimes fear the truth. Perhaps in 2013, truth-tellers will start to win.
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US may snub UN Internet regulation treaty
A Western bloc led by the US has strongly resisted any UN-imposed rules on the Internet, fearing it could be used to justify further limits on cyberspace.
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The Monitor's View: Cyber Monday's sales success fits one Internet trend
The more Internet phenomena like Cyber Monday shake up old ways, the more governments try to control the Internet. A meeting of global communications regulators in December will test such a government role.
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Progress Watch
Got broadband? Access now extends to 94 percent of Americans.Every year, Internet access via broadband becomes available to millions more Americans, up from 92 percent last year to 94 percent, a recent report shows. Rural and tribal areas are the outliers.
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Leap second: Earth's slowing rotation makes Saturday one second longer (+video)
Leap second: International timekeepers are adding an extra second to the official time to ensure that our clocks will keep pace with the Earth's rotation.
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Beyond Stuxnet: massively complex Flame malware ups ante for cyberwar
Flame is something new in cyberwar, experts say. It can take screenshots and record audio on infected computers. The malware was almost certainly made by a nation-state.
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Will Earth no longer define time? Leap second could be abolished.
The rotation of the Earth has defined time for as long as time has been kept, but keeping up with all of Earth's little quirks by adding and subtracting an occasional leap second is getting tiring. Timekeepers could vote Thursday to rely solely on atomic clocks.
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Cell phones ubiquitous globally, but 1 in 8 now have mobile Internet
Cell phones in hands of more than 5 billion people, United Nations says. But mobile Internet growing much faster than cell phones: 160 percent last year alone.
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Africa Monitor
West Africa Rising: World Bank offers Internet 'revolution' to Sierra Leone, LiberiaThe World Bank’s board of directors last week approved an underwater fiber-optic cable project that promises to bring 'a major infrastructural revolution' to Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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Do we need a code of conduct for space?
Some experts are calling for an international code of conduct for spacefaring nations. But defining misconduct isn't easy.
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Smartphones coming for AT&T's high-speed network
Smartphones from Motorola, HTC, and Samsung will run on AT&T's 4G network, which is due out later this year.
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Horizons
Apple iPhone, BlackBerry sales pump up mobile phone marketThe cellphone market had a strong fourth quarter in 2009, industry analysts say. And smart phones such as the Apple iPhone, the BlackBerry, and Google Android devices deserve much of the credit.
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