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DVD Groups Hold Their Ground
News The two industry groups fighting to set a rewritable DVD standard are showing no interest in working together, but technology tricks and behind-the-scenes talks could inch the sides toward a compromise.
[September 18, 2002, 14:02]
Mobile Phone Alliance Marches Ahead
News A wireless alliance of companies led by Microsoft and Nokia is continuing to absorb smaller industry groups and expects to garner even more support by year's end. Unlike Nokia, which has created more than a dozen different industry alliances to...
[November 21, 2002, 10:24]
Yahoo!, ISPs Dig In Against Labels
News The 30-page amicus brief, signed by 12 groups including the US Internet Industry Association, the Computer and Communications Industry Association, and Yahoo! In court papers filed late Monday, the groups said that the Recording Industry...
[September 11, 2002, 8:30]
Copyright Truce Excludes Key Voices
News The peace accord was designed to show a unified front linking the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and a pair of computer industry groups, thus persuading Congress that new regulations are unnecessary.
[January 15, 2003, 15:45]
Antipiracy Foes Reach Agreement
News The three groups are the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the Business Software Alliance, and the Computer Systems Policy Project (CSPP). Ideologically, the recording industry groups and the information technology groups have never...
[January 15, 2003, 11:21]
Bluetooth And Wireless Groups Get In Sync
News This is an encouraging sign, but in reality combining the efforts of different industry groups can be a tough exercise as folks try to promote their own agendas," said Richard Shim, senior research analyst at IDC.
[December 13, 2005, 10:05]
Media Companies Demand ID Numbers For CDs And DVDs
News If adopted, it would enable the sources of pirated discs made in the EU to be tracked down, say the industry groups, which include the Business Software Alliance and the Motion Picture Association. The real problems occur when the industry group...
[May 24, 2002, 17:44]
Ultrawideband Partners Merge
News The two industry bodies have been closely aligned for some time: WiMedia previously endorsed MBOA’s proposed UWB standard in April 2004, and the groups shared the majority of their directors. Industry will benefit from a single strategic focus for...
[March 3, 2005, 16:00]
Malaysian Minister Warns That High CD Prices Fuel Piracy
News Anti-piracy groups in Malaysia are upset at comments made by a politician blaming piracy on the recording industry itself, through its policy of charging high prices for CDs and DVDs. Intellectual property rights advocates, such as the Recording...
[June 3, 2003, 9:23]
Group Warns Of Europe's 'DMCA On Steroids'
News A coalition of 38 civil liberties organisations is the latest to attack proposed EU legislation on intellectual property enforcement, which has also come under fire from the recording industry and a British Internet policy think tank.
[August 11, 2003, 16:45]
Steve Malone: "IT's Like This..."
News Many other groups such as charities, trade unions and industry pressure groups also lobby away, often to great effect. I'm talking about those people who aren't part of some industry or governmental special interest, who don't have money to shmooze...
[August 11, 1998, 15:04]
Microsoft Backs Mobile Phone Standards
News Before Wednesday's announcement, Microsoft had joined only one of the dozens of wireless industry groups. We believe that Microsoft's absence from some of the fora has helped drive the perception that there is a wedge between the PC and Internet...
[June 13, 2002, 9:19]
Navy Raids Student Pirates
News The seizure comes just a few weeks after movie and music industry trade groups sent a letter to more than 2,000 university and college presidents across the country, including officials at the Naval Academy, requesting help in cracking down on...
[November 26, 2002, 9:51]
XML Begins To Catch On
News More recently, Microsoft moved its vertical--industry efforts toward getting groups to adopt its Distributed interNetwork Architecture platform--which includes its forthcoming BizTalk products and existing BizTalk framework--as the preferred way...
[December 9, 1999, 10:02]
Will Restricting File-sharing Slow Innovation?
News Backed by powerful technology groups and a handful of artists, file-swapping software companies on Tuesday asked the US Supreme Court to reject proposals from the entertainment industry that could put them out of business.
[March 2, 2005, 10:55]
Publishers Want Online Ad Guidelines
News The IAB and other industry groups need to be advocates for Web sites' rights," Kilgore said. Kilgore has called for the industry to band together to draw up guidelines to be enforced by the Internet Advertising Bureau -- the governing body of the...
[February 5, 1999, 15:03]
Two Titans Lock Horns Over XML
News Rodgers pointed to OASIS' forthcoming registry and repository, which OASIS made available this week as a draft specification, as the best place for industry groups and other interested parties to submit their XML schemas.
[December 9, 1999, 10:19]
Europe Defends Tech Taskforce
News The SME groups had pointed out that most of the 17 industry members of the ICT Task-Force represent big business. The EC said that it would not take in any more members of the Task-Force as it had "established a reasonable balance between industry...
[July 6, 2006, 12:40]
Wireless Networking Wars Hit Speed Bump
News Now, in a similar vein, two industry standards groups have created next-generation, faster-speed wireless standards. With the release of the high-speed wireless technology still about 10 months away, tech companies and industry standards groups are...
[February 27, 2001, 9:22]
Harmonising Global Cybersecurity
News Unlike industry efforts that have criticised the government for doing too little, or policy groups that have called for action and failed to consider the implications of technology-oriented legislation, Kurtz is looking for middle ground.
[April 15, 2005, 13:30]
