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Copyright directive 'will stifle EU competition'
News When the draft was first introduced in January, it drew a "dismayed" reaction from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and other copyright-holder lobbyists, which called for the proposed measures to be beefed up.
[August 5, 2003, 16:35]
System administrators face licensing turmoil
News A Bill pushed through its final stages on Wednesday has left the way open for Britain's computer security industry to become subject to strict regulation and licensing. Opposition MPs recently tried to bring about an amendment that would have made...
[May 11, 2001, 17:44]
ISIS to provide 'open source' security information
News Clarke lambasted the software industry, Internet service providers, and wireless equipment makers and users, among other groups, for leaving the United States vulnerable to Internet attack. The announcement was made in Las Vegas on Thursday at the...
[August 5, 2002, 10:35]
Security pros develop flaw database
News Clarke lambasted the software industry, Internet service providers, and wireless equipment makers and users, among other groups, for leaving the United States vulnerable to Internet attack. The announcement was made in Las Vegas on Thursday at the...
[August 6, 2002, 8:04]
A Year Ago: Net music will change
News With a single stroke, the music industry may have dealt itself back into the Internet game. On Tuesday, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), whose members sell more than 90 percent of the recorded music in the US, along with the...
[December 16, 1999, 6:01]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Invites are issued with varying degrees of precision to sub-groups of hacks, with the implication that others may or may not be welcome depending on status, closeness to that particular bit of the industry or whatever.
[December 9, 2005, 17:00]
Campaign group tries to block Vista release
Talkback Yes, it is another market campaign from MS to get some $ from UPDATE/fix of OLD OS rather then delivering new OS with new File System.if not 60 billion in cash that drives the MS sales and marketing - it became a disaster for software industry...
[August 13, 2005, 20:09]
Can Microsoft take the lead in security?
News Microsoft has to lead the industry, working with partners, standards groups, even competitors. Microsoft has the most operating system installations out there, so it's incumbent on Microsoft to do an orders of magnitude better job than anybody else...
[August 21, 2002, 6:27]
Government's e-commerce strategy under attack
News The bill has attracted as much controversy and criticism as the man originally responsible for pushing it through -- the former Trade and Industry secretary Peter Mandelson. They said they would drop it only if the industry could come up with an...
[May 18, 1999, 11:38]
European firms threaten mass P2P lawsuit
News The action mimics a large-scale assault on alleged file-swappers in the US by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which is in the process of filing lawsuits against several hundred users.
[August 1, 2003, 10:55]
Nielsen begins monitoring TiVo usage
News For now, Nielsen is excluding data from households with DVRs from its industry reports, but it is trying to piece together a sample that will reveal "the impact of TiVo.upon established viewing patterns.
[August 6, 2002, 16:06]
Electronics makers to launch recycling study
News In the second, the industry provides funds to participating retail outlets based on the number of relevant products sold; retailers hold collection events and transport the materials to recyclers. In the third, industry funds pay for promotion...
[June 25, 2001, 11:48]
Microsoft takes Passport to Washington
News Some industry analysts, however, question the validity of those claims. Last week, nearly 15 privacy and consumer groups amended a 26 July complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission charging that Microsoft by offering Passport and associated...
[August 23, 2001, 8:48]
US Report: CDA II looking strong
News Though civil liberties groups had made common cause with industry to fight the original Communications Decency Act in 1996 and 1997, the story was different this time. Industry lobbyists won safe harbours protecting search engines, Internet portals...
[September 25, 1998, 10:40]
E-envoy calls for end to broadband deadlock
News In September, a broadband stakeholder group including industry representatives will report to Pinder, and two groups of consultants will present their recommendations. After that, the government plans to roll out a series of initiatives on how to...
[June 26, 2001, 15:55]
EU seeks 'legally clever' patent definition
News The ongoing argument over patents in the software industry revolves around the distinction between physical inventions that use software - such as a car braking system - and pure software. SMEs, who make up the majority of the industry, oppose the...
[May 17, 2005, 16:00]
Labels battle to hold onto DMCA win
News The recording industry on Friday fought to preserve a preliminary courtroom victory, arguing that Verizon Communications has no choice but to hand over the identity of an alleged Kazaa music pirate. In a strongly worded brief filed in federal...
[February 10, 2003, 9:05]
Yahoo-Google deal sparks fresh concerns
News Barton also described his concerns about the deal: "Specifically, I am concerned about the adverse effects such a partnership could have on competition and pricing within the online search-advertising industry.
[October 30, 2008, 7:41]
AMD speeds chips for faster chatter
News The consortium will work to establish the HyperTransport as an industry and to tackle specific issues related to the technology using working groups. AMD's plan is to spread the technology as widely as possible throughout the industry, establishing...
[February 15, 2001, 8:33]
Microsoft, Feds reach a deal
News The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) was one of the groups canvassing here on Thursday using Posner's final settlement draft to attack the negotiations. On word that a settlement might be imminent, trade groups opposing...
[November 2, 2001, 13:41]
