Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1999 > Politics New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   How to Fight a Cyberwar - A think tank has some bizarre ideas for foiling tech-savvy terrorists -- ideas like itsy-bitsy aerial spies programmed to read "computer emanations." [Wired News]   How to Reconcile Bank Privacy - Congress prepares to debate fundamentally different philosophies about sharing customer data with the government. What are the privacy implications? Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]   IBM Admits Shoddy Bookkeeping - Big Blue underpaid Microsoft for software prior to the release of Windows 95, an IBM exec admits. Microsoft says that's why they withheld a license to its new OS. The Justice Department is skeptical. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]   ICANN Defends Funding Plea - The instrumental Internet naming organization is under fire for asking a White House staffer for help, but claims it did nothing illegal or improper. By James Glave. [Wired News]   ICANN Extends Testbed Deadline - The Net's new regulator loosens its deadline for testbed applicants for the new domain name registration business. [Wired News]   ICANN Fracas Moves to Singapore - A domain name activist wants to pull the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers out of the shadows. ICANN says she is barking up the wrong tree. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   ICANN Points Finger at NSI - The Internet monitoring agency responds to criticism from a House committee by placing blame on Network Solutions. By Declan McCullagh. [Wired News]   ICANN Probe Aims at White House - The head of the House Commerce Committee turns his ICANN probe toward the White House. Did the Clinton administration illegally help raise money for the domain name organization? By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   ICANN Rules on Dot Com Disputes - The Net domain name arbiter is finally setting rules for disputes, adopting guidelines similar to the US trademark office. [Wired News]   ICANN Signs Up a Spin Doctor - Sensitive to charges that it is secretive and noncommunicative, the organization charged with governing the Internet turns to a bigshot PR agency for help. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]   ICANN Simmers in Singapore - At a pivotal meeting this week in Asia, the Internet's future domain authority will work to hammer out its identity and formal structure. Analysis by Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   ICANN Too Tax You - The fledgling organization that oversees domain name registration takes heat from government watchdog groups for its lack of taxpayer accountability. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]   ICANN to Unveil New Rules - The group charged with governing the Internet plans to test the waters of competition among domain-name registrars in coming months. First step: a trial run. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]   ICANN's Success in Singapore - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers concludes its first major gathering with a plan for overseeing the Net's domain name system. Critics? Sure -- but consensus too. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   INET 99: Let Industry Lead - Panelists and pundits say the Net may be booming, but it's still too young and vulnerable to endure government regulation. Heidi Kriz reports from San Jose, California. [Wired News]   ISP Reveals Scientology Critic - AT T WorldNet releases the identity of the Scientology critic to attorneys for the church. The critic says he fears for his safety. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]   ISPs Accuse China of Infowar - Two Canadian ISPs fend off sustained network attacks that they say originated with a government institution in China. They call the attacks an act of political infowar. By Oscar S. Cisneros. [Wired News]   ISPs Clean Their Own Stables - An independent report praises the British Internet industry for stamping out kiddie porn without the government's help. The Home Office thinks that's smashing. Alan Docherty reports from London. [Wired News]   ISPs May Bear Content Liability - In the latest suit brought by a one-man Net libel crusader, a British judge is set to make a ruling that could significantly change Net law in the United Kingdom. Alan Docherty reports from London. [Wired News]   India Loosens Telecom Policy - Indian broadcasting could get a boost from private and foreign investment as the government hold is broken on telephone and satellite competition. New legislation goes into effect 1 January 2000. [Wired News]     [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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