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Despite its uncertain future, VoIP company Skype has guaranteed itself at least a small core of customers by partnering with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) to provide a custom, low-bandwidth video chat service to aid workers around the world. Aid workers supporting refugees are often shipped out with little notice, and can spend months at a time separated from friends and ...

According to the United Nations, the number of Internet users will exceed two billion people this year, approaching one-third of the global population. The International Telecommunication Union, an agency within the U.N., is reporting that Internet access was extended to 226 million new users in 2010, with 162 million of them coming from developing nations. In the last five years, the number of ...

We may normally think of Tasers as being non-lethal, but a rash of recent "taser"-ings in the United States and Canada have ended with a bit of death for the victim of the low voltage electric weapon. It's led to a slew of bad press, but now a committee at the UN is getting in on the Taser-bashing party by declaring the ubiquitous stun-gun a form potentially lethal form of torture. Three young ...

"Hacked By kerem125 M0sted and Gsy That is CyberProtest Hey Ysrail and Usa dont kill children and other people Peace for ever No war." Sure, it's barely English, but nevertheless it's the nearly-incomprehensible message of a hacker who infiltrated the official web site of U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday. Several pages within the Secretary General's site were replaced with this ...