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IT Shipments Drop 10 Percent
News In a discouraging sign for the IT industry, shipments of computers and related products dropped 10.5 percent from July to August, the US Department of Commerce said on Thursday. Shipments of computers and related products rose in both July and June...
[September 26, 2003, 12:15]
Flak Flies Over ICANN Contract Renewal
News The US Department of Commerce has come under fire for awarding, without a proper tender process, a contract for running the most basic and crucial functions of the Internet to ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
[February 10, 2003, 16:54]
US Voices Openness To Private Net Control
News The United States may be willing to cede at least some of its historic control of the Internet domain name system after all, a US Commerce Department official said on Wednesday. I think the fact that we're all gathered here today and we've...
[July 27, 2006, 16:20]
Net Domain Controversy Settled
News After days of spirited debate and public comment, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved a series of agreements with Network Solutions and the US Department of Commerce that will finally pull the beleaguered...
[November 5, 1999, 15:00]
A Year Ago: US To Spur Third-world E-commerce
News An initiative to spur e-commerce in developing nations, spearheaded by the US State Department, will grow out of an existing program to help African nations get online, according to a State Department official.
[December 1, 1999, 6:06]
Outsourced Jobs 'will Return'
News Executives from Borland Software, BearingPoint and Infosys, and an official from the US Department of Commerce expressed confidence that US companies will eventually reinvest money saved from farming out IT tasks to foreign workers, and expand...
[October 22, 2003, 11:40]
US Government Renews Domain-name Contract
News The new contract between ICANN and the US Department of Commerce covers technical functions related to the Internet domain-name system (DNS) and is scheduled to go into effect on 1 October, one day after the existing contract expires.
[August 17, 2006, 10:25]
US Congress Wades Into Internet Control Row
News In a letter to Commerce and State Department officials, the lawmakers said the Bush administration should retain strong oversight over the Internet domain name system, specifically the root servers that guide traffic to huge databases containing...
[October 10, 2005, 16:40]
US Senate Restarts .XXX Debate
News Failure to comply with those requirements would result in civil penalties as determined by the Commerce Department. The 11-page measure would require the US Department of Commerce to work with ICANN the non-profit organisation that oversees domain...
[March 20, 2006, 8:35]
Industry Turnaround Fails To Spur Employment
News A new study from the Commerce Department found that IT industries are growing more quickly and that increased use of IT throughout the economy is spurring improved productivity. Since 2000, the number of workers in IT industries has declined by...
[December 18, 2003, 8:20]
US Report: EU Privacy Plan Impact On US Unclear
News Negotiations are ongoing between the US Department of Commerce and EU officials aimed at forging a compromise plan to shield businesses from litigation as long as they follow basic data privacy practices, said Cheryl Mendonsa, director of...
[October 27, 1998, 9:44]
VeriSign To Lose Control Of .org
News The proposed agreement is still subject to approval from the Icann board, the US Department of Commerce and VeriSign's board of directors, and if it not approved then the current arrangement will continue.
[March 1, 2001, 13:55]
US Reasserts Control Over The Internet
News About five years ago, the Commerce Department told the European Commission that "these remaining powers retained by the United States Department of Commerce regarding ICANN should be effectively divested," according to a British government report.
[July 1, 2005, 9:20]
US To Ease Encryption Rules
News But administration officials said the new changes will let companies sell data-scrambling products to companies and nongovernment users after a one-time technical review by the US Commerce Department.
[September 16, 1999, 16:49]
US Antispam Measure Heads For Legal Status
News On Friday evening, the Justice Department and the Commerce Department praised CAN-SPAM as "establishing a framework of technological, administrative, civil and criminal tools" that provide consumers with options to reduce the volume of unwanted...
[November 24, 2003, 9:55]
A Year Ago: Network Solutions Seizes Web Directory
News We're very concerned," said Becky Burr, administrator with the Commerce Department, on Tuesday. Hundreds emailed the Commerce Department to complain. The government-selected company that assigns most of the world's Internet addresses made a...
[March 24, 2000, 6:19]
UN Proposes Net Governance Changes
News Since 1998, domain names and internet addresses have been overseen by the California-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, under an agreement with the US Department of Commerce.
[October 31, 2006, 11:12]
US Report: Settlement Negotiations Could Change Windows 98
News Microsoft claims computer makers have always had that right but the Justice Department has claimed otherwise. By controlling the use of "bookmarks," desktop icons and channels such as those found on Microsoft's Internet software, the company could...
[May 15, 1998, 8:41]
US 'will Not Enforce' Encryption Laws
News The requirement that Professor Bernstein and others simultaneously notify both (the Commerce Department) and (the National Security Agency) at the time of electronic publication of source code, when no such notification is required for publication...
[October 16, 2003, 15:20]
US Announces Global Intellectual-property Plan
News During California visits with high-tech and movie industry representatives, Commerce Department secretary Carlos Gutierrez described two new programmes aimed at eroding intellectual property infringement, which the department claims costs US...
[September 22, 2005, 10:35]
