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Right now, most of the members of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) use the H.246 video codec to transmit high-definition video.
Everything from Blu-ray players to web video uses H.264 nowadays.
The successor to that standard has been released though. Dubbed ITU-T H.265, it keeps the same image quali... |
26 January 2013
05:13 GMT |
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Anonymous hacktivists have released a new video threatening to “systematically dismantle” the United Nations’ International Telecommunication Union.
On December 19, 2012, the representatives of the Internet Society (ISOC-DC) presented a World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) Po... |
7 January 2013
08:56 GMT |
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ITU's World Conference on International Telecommunications is over and, perhaps unsurprisingly for bureaucrats or the UN, no one is actually sure what happened and who won, not even the ITU itself.
In the end, several countries refused to sign the final version of the document being debated, an update of the t... |
15 December 2012
08:41 GMT |
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The World Conference on International Telecommunications is over and the results are, well, inconclusive. Several countries did attempt to broaden the reach of the treaty to cover internet issues, but some of the more dangerous proposals have been rejected.
One last attempt at adding words that would cover the int... |
14 December 2012
06:10 GMT |
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The World Conference on International Telecommunications is still underway and, despite being held behind closed doors, some interesting things are coming out. Reuters reports that Russia has backed down from the proposal to hand over control of IPs and domain names to individual countries, from organizations such ... |
11 December 2012
04:54 GMT |
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The World Conference on International Telecommunications organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is still underway in Dubai. It's scheduled to end on December 14th and the parties involved are still discussing the proposals and even making new ones.
It's hard to know how the process is... |
10 December 2012
11:05 GMT |
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Hackers have launched a cyberattack against a website of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), disrupting a conference that’s said to decide the future and the freedom of the Internet.
Between December 3 and December 15, representatives of around 200 countries are meeting in Dubai where the United ... |
7 December 2012
05:36 GMT |
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The fight for the internet, as it's being framed, is on as representatives from 200 countries and various groups meet in Dubai to discuss the future of the global network. The debate has been heated leading up to the event and it's going to get even hotter.
On the one hand, pretty much the entire western w... |
3 December 2012
10:01 GMT |
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Mozilla doesn't necessarily make it a habit of supporting Google or Google's views, but the two companies are very closely linked on several planes. And their opinions on all matters related to the web mostly coincide. Case in point is the ITU's attempt at seizing control over the internet.
Granted, ... |
30 November 2012
06:03 GMT |
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The internet as we know it is under threat, not from hackers or wrongdoers, but from bureaucrats backed by governments and companies with strict agendas, agendas that don't coincide with how the internet works now.
The UN's International Telecommunications Union, a group representing telecommunication com... |
23 November 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Internet access may be on its way to becoming a fundamental right in some countries, but it's a luxury in many places. Still, more and more people are able to get online thanks in part to the expansion of cell phones and smartphones in particular.
The International Telecommunications Union, a UN body, the same ... |
12 October 2012
15:11 GMT |
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The International Telecommunication Union, or ITU for short, is the agency of the United Nations tasked with developing newer and better telecommunications and information networks.
Its most recent gathering came about as a consequence of the evolution of display technologies.
We have seen various quad-HD, 4K and 8... |
24 May 2012
10:45 GMT |
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Whether or not it bears implementing now that our eyes can't really tell the difference, ultra-high definition television appears to be the next goal of display experts.
Some might be wondering what the point of higher resolutions is in everyday television, since the difference isn't really all that not... |
20 October 2011
03:46 GMT |
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ITU (International Telecommunication Union), an UN agency expects 2 billion or more people to be online by late 2010.This means that no more than a third of the World's population will have direct Internet access by the end of this year.The agency, a neutral organization for information and telecommunication tec... |
20 October 2010
03:16 GMT |
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The number of mobile subscriptions the world is expected to see by the end of the ongoing year is reportedly heading for 4.6 billion, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) said recently. Moreover, it seems that mobile broadband subscriptions are also expected to rise, reaching 600 million in number, showing... |
8 October 2009
09:41 GMT |
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With all this iPhone 3G talk, everyone is hearing all kinds of new stuff, such as iPhone 2.0, Microsoft Exchange support, the App Store, GPS, etc. But no one seems to focus on the actual 3G part. Surely all the cool details surrounding the new iPhone have left a good impression on those who haven't even been int... |
18 June 2008
16:06 GMT |
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The continual growth of the information and communication technologies infrastructure will be tracked via a new online platform based on Microsoft Virtual Earth. ITU Global View was unveiled on the debut of the Connect Africa Summit, as an initiative set up to help monitor and evolve the stages of the World Summit on... |
29 October 2007
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