Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1999 > Politics New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   China Regulates Internet Calls - Telecommunications firms will have to endure a six-month trial period before receiving a permit from the Chinese ministry for Internet phone calls. [Wired News]   China's PM: Trade Gap Is Good - Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji told an MIT audience that the trade deficit between his country and the United States can only spell good news for China's tech development. Jill Priluck reports from Cambridge, Massachusetts. [Wired News]   Chinese Emailer Sentenced - A Shanghai software engineer gets a two-year jail term for sending 30,000 email addresses to a US-based dissident publication. This is one government that doesn't want information to be free. [Wired News]   Chinese Engineer Appeals - A software engineer is fighting the two-year sentence that a Shanghai court gave him for providing email addresses to US-based publications. [Wired News]   Citizens Report from the Front - An Orthodox monk writing from the 'pulpit of his keyboard' sends news of the Kosovo crisis from a 663-year-old monastery, filling the void left by professional journalists. By Leander Kahney and James Glave. [Wired News]   Click Here for Safe Surfing - The White House and prominent Web sites react to fears that the Internet played a role in the Columbine High School massacre. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]   Clinton Combats Cyberterrorism - The president drafts a budget plan to defend against 21st century terrorism, including biological and chemical warfare and hacker attacks. [Wired News]   Clinton Extends Ocean Monitoring - President Clinton signs a proclamation extending jurisdiction beyond US shores by 24 miles. Officials hope to catch more polluters and smugglers in the process. [Wired News]   Clinton Frees Up Search Site - The White House puts the brakes on a Commerce Department search engine after discovering the results come at a price. For the time being, gov.search is up and running -- and free. By Lindsey Arent. [Wired News]   Clinton Makes Play for Privacy - The White House proposes measures to protect consumers online. Privacy advocates say a surveillance clause goes too far. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]   Clinton Relaxes Crypto Exports - It's a major victory for the US tech industry, which says it can now compete internationally. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]   Clinton Tabs Privacy Point Man - An Ohio State law professor will represent the administration's views concerning online privacy, an issue which gains a little more momentum every day. By Declan McCullagh and James Glave. [Wired News]   Closing the Window on the War - After Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic pulled the plug on satellite transmissions from his country, TV networks have nothing to show but talking heads. [Wired News]   Clueless in the Capitol - The Senate releases its much-touted report on the millennium bug. The scariest part? That the nation's political leaders are so ill-informed. A perspective by Declan McCullagh. [Wired News]   Cluing Congress into Net ABCs - When it comes to Congress and the Web, Washington players say there's a big problem: Lawmakers don't know what they're doing. Chris Oakes reports from Aspen. [Wired News]   Commerce Tech Boss Checks In - Trust is the key to the digital future, says the man with his hands on the reins of the federal government's e-commerce strategy. Christopher Jones reports from San Francisco. [Wired News]   Commerce to NSI: Give It Up - The Commerce Department says Network Solutions has no right to restrict access to its "whois" database of Net addresses and owners. [Wired News]   Companies Decry NetSol Policy - Free access to a special domain database only helps speculators abuse the system, says the domain-name purveyor. So it plans to limit who gets in. Independent registrars are up in arms. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Compaq Questioned MS Monopoly - A memo from Compaq, supposedly a pro-Microsoft witness, admits that even the world's largest computer company was once scared of the software giant. [Wired News]   Compaq: It Was All a Big Mix-Up - Microsoft admits to another videotape snafu in its antitrust trial. And testimony from a Compaq executive disputes government claims that Microsoft threatened to yank the computer maker's Windows license. By Declan McCullagh. [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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