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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]
Internet firms attack US broadband bill
News Instead of bowing to requests from Internet businesses, Barton sided with one of Washington's most potent lobbying forces: telecommunications companies, including DSL and cable providers, that spread around far more money in political circles.
[March 29, 2006, 16:00]
Hollywood's new enemy - Linux fans
News Jeff Gerhardt, host of "The Linux Show", and Doc Searls, senior editor of the Linux Journal, are forming a lobbying group called GeekPAC that would try to convince lawmakers to consider developers when they draft laws concerning technology.
[April 15, 2002, 9:30]
Tech firms go on a legislative offensive
News In the last few years, technology firms have not just opened lobbying shops, but they've also begun to use their growing political muscle for offence. Under the 1995 Lobbying Disclosure Act, it's legal for companies to lobby through membership in...
[March 28, 2006, 16:20]
Antitrust: Is Google the next Microsoft?
News That's counting lobbying and political contributions until 2005, as calculated in ZDNet.co.uk's sister site CNET News.com's special report last year. As a general rule, we don't comment on specific lobbying efforts," he said on Friday.
[July 23, 2007, 17:36]
Political paradox: Technology is everywhere, except in voters' hearts
News It's only recently that technology companies have even established significant Washington lobbying efforts, she said, so for tech issues to get on voters' political radar screens will take time. I don't think so," said Jonah Seiger, co-founder of...
[October 20, 1998, 6:03]
Sun gets closer to Web services elite
News Sun, which is not part of the organisation, declined an earlier invitation to join the WS-I as a contributing member, lobbying instead for more influential "founding board member" status, so it can help set the group's agenda.
[June 20, 2002, 12:29]
Microsoft's EU proposal is monstrous, says Samba
Talkback In the interview Jeremy Allison said to me that political lobbying may not help as it is a legal rather than political issue. Thanks for your comments Thomas. But, if you do want to try something it may be worth contacting either your local MEP or...
[February 5, 2005, 11:58]
Open source awareness growing in Scotland
Talkback Letting politicians make IT choices based on their political leanings or lobbying by 3rd parties is folly. Oh dear oh dear! Has no-one learnt any lessons from recent government decisions regarding IT systems.
[August 29, 2005, 14:38]
Cybercrime 'must be taken seriously'
News Criminals are using computers more than crowbars according to one parliamentary lobbying group which is demanding political parties in the UK amend the laws to reflect the changing face of crime in the 21st century.
[March 23, 2005, 8:50]
Keep Internet out of UN control, says US
Talkback As well as to protect itself against undesired events (which seem to include certain nations, organizations, entities, commercial lobbying, national political lobbying or whatever nowedays). No single nation, organization, entitiy or whatever...
[October 19, 2005, 21:37]
This is a spoiler
Talkback OSS vendors don't do slush funds for political lobbying quite like the incumbent proprietary vendors. For example, MS's US lobbying budget was something like $80m last year. Your cynicism is well founded in my view.
[February 26, 2009, 9:49]
Microsoft and Google clash over DoubleClick
News It also represents the result of months of private lobbying and public agitation against the merger by Google's most dangerous business rivals. It is the first time that the US Congress has seriously scrutinised the fast-growing company's business...
[September 27, 2007, 9:53]
Web services group leaves Sun in the cold
News But the company has ignored that invitation and is instead lobbying for more influential "founder" status, so it can sit on the group's board and help set the agenda. Sun Microsystems is crying foul over a key new Web services standards group...
[April 3, 2002, 10:28]
Anti-patent campaigner calls for EU recount
News Mueller is now lobbying representatives from various countries to request that the EU Council proposal is withdrawn as there needs to be further discussion or vote. This political agreement is not legally binding until the proposal is formally...
[November 2, 2004, 15:49]
Eye2Eye: Larry Augustin Pt II
News What's VA Linux doing in terms of lobbying government to get people involved with open source? I think we have 120 software firms in our ISV program, and we're lobbying all of those people to move to open source.
[June 8, 2000, 7:03]
Kazaa's man in Washington speaks out
News Now he's a partner at the Butera & Andrews lobbying firm. Q: What's it like lobbying against the RIAA and the movie studios? But they play real hardball when they lobby, and we play just as hard when we're lobbying back.
[December 6, 2004, 10:25]
NTP woos US government in patent case
Talkback Then there is the issue of how RIM has very sophisticated PR and lobbying machines while all their victims do not. RIM has apparently committed many other sins upon the court, not the least of which is apparently applying political pressure to sway...
[January 23, 2006, 2:34]
Bush's EU man attacked for Microsoft links
News One participant on the call said: "By creating a PR war, by trying to do lobbying in Congress, by trying to get products prevented from being shipped, these are all efforts to prevent Microsoft from entering the marketplace.
[August 8, 2005, 15:30]
Net neutrality fight returns to Senate
News Free Press is one of a wide array of consumer groups that have joined Internet companies like Google, Microsoft and Amazon.com in lobbying Congress to write net neutrality requirements into law - though with little success so far.
[June 14, 2006, 10:40]
