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Cabinet Office: no lobby influence on open standards

...the definition of 'open standards' for government IT, while denying claims that lobbying from proprietary software vendors led to the withdrawal of an earlier official... Read more

9 February, 2012 by Tom Espiner

BSA: Open standards will 'increase e-government costs'

...choice, hinder innovation and increase the costs of e-government," said the lobbying group, which represents many proprietary software companies. European Interoperability Framework The BSA... Read more

1 March, 2011 by David Meyer

European ISPs fight network child-porn blocking

...Internet service providers are lobbying the European Parliament over child pornography website-blocking requirements that are due... Read more

13 January, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Book review: The Copyright Enforcement Enigma

...enforcers to bypass the courts back to the 16th century. Litigation and lobbying are the methods that have dominated this field for centuries. Europe, in... Read more

10 May, 2012

Microsoft link delays UK open standards consultation

...on defining open standards for government IT was launched in February. "No lobbying has taken place (from any organisation) that has affected our approach in... Read more

27 April, 2012

Internet needs no 'digital handcuffs', says Kroes

...In February the UK government denied that the influence of proprietary software lobbying had caused the government to rethink its definition of open standards. Kroes... Read more

19 April, 2012

EU shrugs off e-petition hijack fears

...not going to accept an invitation for a proposal from a private lobbying firm — or from the TUC, or from Greenpeace." The ECI programme opened... Read more

10 April, 2012

ISPs kept in dark about UK's plans to intercept Twitter

...of June 2015, according to Home Office documents published in January. After lobbying by the security services, ministers have decided to set aside legislative time... Read more

20 February, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Pirate Bay founders denied Supreme Court appeal

...at least I'm a pawn on the morally right side." Copyright lobbying group the Swedish Anti-Piracy Office (Svenska Antipiratbyrån) said it would... Read more

2 February, 2012

SOPA: Cheat Sheet

...free, sells adv[er]ts around them. No wonder pouring millions into lobbying," Murdoch added in a second, rather ironic tweet - ironic since the existence... Read more

20 January, 2012 by Natasha Lomas

Wikipedia to turn off for 24 hours in SOPA protest

...DNS system if copyright holders claim infringement. The bills, created through heavy lobbying from Hollywood and other content providers, were seen as having unassailable support... Read more

16 January, 2012

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs dies at 56

...cost $20, compared to Intel's $400 8080, and after some intensive lobbying by Jobs and the successful, if small, production run of the Apple... Read more

6 October, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins

John Suffolk joins Huawei as cyber security head

...any work relating to the UK Gov for two years — and no lobbying — He cannot imply UK government endorsement of any of Huawei's products... Read more

1 August, 2011

Vaizey reveals true colours in Newzbin aftermath

...returned to the High Court, this time with the explicit support of lobbying groups IFPI, the BPI, the Association for UK Interactive Entertainment and the... Read more

28 July, 2011

Roaming voice calls become cheaper within the EU

...deals that are on offer. The mobile industry body, which has been lobbying against any regulatory intervention in data-roaming pricing, said the "European average... Read more

30 June, 2011

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