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Twomey said the settlement will also allow more ICANN staff and resources to be directed toward the operation of the agency The agreement also calls for the two sides to agree to enter into international arbitration should future legal disputes arise as well....

Twomey said the settlement will also allow more ICANN staff and resources to be directed toward the operation of the agency The agreement also calls for the two sides to agree to enter into international arbitration should future legal disputes arise as well....

No type of management position has undergone more profound changes over the last ten years than that of client relations managers. Changes are being driven by economic globalization, competitive pressures and the information technology (IT) revolution. Changes in the roles of client relations managers parallel changes in the importance of these positions, particularly in business-to-business environments...

"The FBI is asking the FCC to require every voice-carrying technology, which will eventually be all technology, to be reviewed and approved by the FBI before a single user tries the technology," Center for Democracy and Technology staff counsel John Moore told TechNewsWorld. "Our broad concern is the harm to innovation."

An announcement by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) that their staff cracked the code Xerox uses to secretly tag documents printed by color laser printers recently put the issue in the spotlight "At the request of the United States Secret Service, manufacturers develop...

We spend a considerable amount of time flying around the country for various service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based projects, and we've had the opportunity to learn about not only the recurring client pain points and value propositions around SOA, but also a tiny bit about flying. Pilots are given landing patterns when they approach an airport; air-traffic control gives them these directions, approaches, and coordinates in order to accommodate the complexity of moment-to-moment changes in events that are occurring around the airport: other planes, wind direction, air pressure, and a host of other factors...

"The whole industry has agreed to do this tracking without regard to how expensive the printers are," EFF staff technologist Seth David Schoen told TechNewsWorld The EFF has broken codes on pages printed on Xerox DocuColor printers, which cost tens of thousands of dollars, Sch...

"The whole industry has agreed to do this tracking without regard to how expensive the printers are," EFF staff technologist Seth David Schoen told TechNewsWorld The EFF has broken codes on pages printed on Xerox DocuColor printers, which cost tens of thousands of dollars, Sch...

Some leading companies have taken this approach several steps further, setting up comprehensive measurement, tracking, and reporting programs for their most important Web initiatives, and letting their measurements of the competition drive their own service level objectives. One company even recalibrated the annual performance objectives and bonuses of IT and development staff, based on their ability to match competitors' performance. And it works! The company improved from last to first place in its industry by following this SLM strategy consistently over a 3-year period...

"Bloggers have a strong First Amendment right to speak anonymously," said Kurt Opsahl, staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). "It is critical that plaintiffs' claims face a stringent test before a court unmasks online critics, lest we reduce the vibrant public debates on the Internet to the cautious views of a select few voices."

Gavin Newsom, San Francisco's controversial mayor, was in the spotlight again this week as he and his staff contemplated which lucky company will get the rights to provide WiFi access around the city. The real question is, why is government making this choice rather than market forces? To many in the communications industry, particularly cable, this is a familiar situation...

Google and Sun are hardly strangers. In addition to Google having a number of former Sun engineers on its staff, the two also shared early stage investors. And Google's CEO, Schmidt, was a longtime Sun employee The timing may be good for Sun, which is riding some momentum as f...

Google and Sun are hardly strangers. In addition to Google having a number of former Sun engineers on its staff, the two also shared early stage investors. And Google's CEO, Schmidt, was a longtime Sun employee The timing may be good for Sun, which is riding some momentum as f...

By contrast, Symantec said BindView's agent-less architecture, which is lessIT-staff intensive, is ideal for organizations faced with managing a largenumber of systems that are not centrally located A Dual Approach...

When McDonalds implemented the kiosks, customers started to buy more food per average order, thereby increasing the need for more kitchen staff. "There's no human censorship at kiosks," said Forbes, making it more comfortable for people to order those four milkshakes without feeling social pressure. The kiosks are also faster, thereby boosting productivity...

"Software, such as Sun's StarOffice 8, could neatly fit into both of these requirements," Kusnetzky said. "It could be used to reduce the software costs for each of their many desktop or mobile computers while also keeping the staff-related costs in check." Dissecting Sun's St...

But Microsoft has attempted to quiet that outcry by saying that additional hiring in India will not reduce its need to add software engineering and other staff in the U.S There has been a reduction in U.S.-based call center staff, however, with Microsoft most recently laying o...

However, in a statement released today to InternationalStaff.net by V.A. Abdi, Secretary of the Pakistan Internet Service Provider Association (ISPAK), Abdi questioned the government's ability to provide redundant connectivity as planned: The Lahore, Pakistan-based Wateen grou...

Not only has China made it mandatory for all bloggers to register with the government, they have also pressured American technology companies to help them with their dirty work. Perhaps the most egregious example occurred recently when Yahoo voluntarily gave information about one of their broadband users to the police, leading to the arrest of journalist Shi Tao for e-mailing comments made in a newspaper staff meeting to a democracy group in New York. To the horror of human rights groups, Shi Tao was sentenced to 10 years in prison...

At InternationalStaff.net, before Americans are sent abroad to a new country, they are referred to the book Kiss, Bow and Shake Hands. Each country-specific chapter contains surprising information on doing business in other countries. However, the most surprising information for Americans could be the book's statement about how Americans organize and process information:...