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Lobbying Organization Reduces Hardware, Speeds Deployment With Virtualization
White Papers The Confederation of Danish Industry (DI) is a private lobbying organization that provides counsel on international and local business issues for 12,000 member companies. Technology is essential to enabling its 670 employees to exchange information...
[August 28, 2009, 1:22]
'Deceptive' patent lobbying sparks calls for transparency
News The Green Party has called for greater transparency in political lobbying following the tactics of some campaign groups during the debating of the software patent directive. Before today MEPs were bombarded by a fierce and, in cases, deceptive...
[July 11, 2005, 14:15]
Where the lobbying power lies
News Not only do the corporations receive tax breaks for these donations, but the recipients also routinely use the money to pay lawyers to testify before Congress, draft legislation and meet privately with government officials — activities that might...
[March 29, 2006, 18:05]
Microsoft's lobbying budget 'outstripped Enron's'
News Microsoft's budget for political lobbying exceeded that of Enron, the judge residing over the antitrust case has heard. What makes Microsoft's lobbying throughout the trial so unique is not necessarily the size of political contributions but the...
[February 12, 2002, 12:06]
Microsoft takes lobbying campaign to Comdex
News The staffers handed out to passersby brochures on Microsoft's lobbying effort and encouraged them to mail in or sign up online to receive regular newsletter updates from Microsoft on a variety of fronts--but especially on the company's ongoing...
[November 22, 1999, 10:29]
who is lobbying????
Talkback IBM has been lobbying fiercely against OOXML even before Microsoft came up with their standard. They have been lobbying everywhere. Microsoft should never had to resort on lobbying, if IBM did lobby against it.
[September 4, 2007, 8:07]
AOL forms lobbying group for high-speed cable access
News A week after the Federal Communications Commission decided not to force cable companies to share high-speed data lines with their competitors, America Online and several other high-tech companies said they are forming a lobbying group aimed at...
[February 5, 1999, 7:07]
Media lobbying 'watered down' data-misuse laws
News Speaking at the Infosecurity Europe conference in London on Tuesday, information commissioner Richard Thomas used his platform to berate "certain sections of the media" for lobbying that has resulted in what he referred to as "watered-down...
[April 23, 2008, 10:30]
'Deceptive' patent lobbying sparks calls for transparency
Talkback Hear hear. Indeed transparancy is needed so EU politics can regain public trust again. The public needs to become more aware who's funding what kind of information our EU politicians get and what kind of impact that has on them and their decision...
[July 12, 2005, 1:43]
'Deceptive' patent lobbying sparks calls for transparency
Talkback Correction.not 1666.
[July 13, 2005, 8:27]
'Deceptive' patent lobbying sparks calls for transparency
Talkback Nobody is suggesting abolishing intellectual property rights. We already have those rights - it's called copyright.
[July 11, 2005, 17:18]
'Deceptive' patent lobbying sparks calls for transparency
Talkback Transparency in Europe is but one os many things that need to be changed in Europe. I just posted a lengthly comment on what I believe should make up e-government as we are doing such a poor job already.
[July 11, 2005, 19:59]
'Deceptive' patent lobbying sparks calls for transparency
Talkback Transparency is part of the constitution in Finland and Sweden since 1666. Julkisuusperiaate" in Finnish and "Offentlighetsprincipen" are designed to ensure transparency in government. If you look into the history around the necessity for such an...
[July 12, 2005, 13:15]
It appears that the ISPA has a much smaller budget for lobbying than . .
Talkback the "media mafia". They continue to talk about Intellectual Property as if that was a truth. It is NOT. Rights ( actually previliegies granted by the public, and as such can be reduced or otherwise amended by the same public ) are not properties.
[November 23, 2009, 23:06]
Disney seeks to block AOL Time Warner merger
News Walt Disney, fearing that its programming won't get fair access to America Online's (AOL) Web sites, is quietly lobbying Congress to warn against the online company's planned merger with Time Warner. Mike McCurry, co-chairman of iAdvance, a...
[March 23, 2000, 14:22]
Unions: Publish snooping code of practice
News Union chiefs in the UK are today urging the new information commissioner to resist employer lobbying and publish the delayed code of practice on the monitoring of staff email and Internet use. He added: "He should resist the last gasp employer...
[January 9, 2003, 10:05]
Eye2Eye: Larry Augustin Pt II
News What's VA Linux doing in terms of lobbying government to get people involved with open source? Mostly you hear things like we need to be off doing more government lobbying against UCITA. I think we have 120 software firms in our ISV program, and we...
[June 8, 2000, 7:03]
More MEPs demand transparency after patent debacle
News Europe's Independence/Democracy Group called for greater transparency among campaign groups on Tuesday following disingenuous lobbying over the software patent directive. Last week, the Green Party said the interests and funding of lobby groups...
[July 19, 2005, 17:05]
Software patents face-off delayed until spring
News Voting on a controversial European Union software patents proposal has been delayed until April, amid intensified lobbying against the proposal by multinational tech companies and European mobile phone makers.
[December 1, 2003, 13:20]
Should PC makers recycle wares?
News Automakers have been lobbying against a similar proposal for their industry, and in the electronics case the European Commission is asking producers worldwide to fill out an online form on how they would be impacted.
[June 24, 1999, 6:28]
