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EC pushes on with patent directive
News The European Commission is pushing the EU Council to ratify the controversial software patent directive, sweeping aside the concerns raised last week by a European Parliament committee. The EC spokeswoman said it is frustrated that the EU Council...
[February 11, 2005, 15:25]
Brazil appeals ISO ratification of OOXML
News Brazil is to appeal the International Organization for Standardization decision to ratify Microsoft Office Open XML, now known as ISO/IEC DIS 29500. In a letter to ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 on Thursday, Associação Brasileira de Normas...
[May 30, 2008, 15:03]
Not so!
Talkback America has NOT adopted any legislation to ratify the relevant treaty with UK. The American Constitution prevents this. Consequently, America has to go through rigorous due process as opposed to the untested assertions made against Gary McKinnon...
[July 24, 2009, 9:29]
Lord Stern: Downturn won't affect climate change efforts
Blog Comment The US (and Australia’s John Howard, prior to the last election) is constantly demonised because they won’t ratify Kyoto. However, I agree with the US stance - there’s no point to a climate change agreement that doesn’t include all the major...
[May 6, 2008, 14:09]
EU-wide patents 'move closer'
Talkback Software patent campaigners have previously warned that this law would ratify the European Patent Office's practice of granting software patents" - actually this wouldn't change the granting of European Patents (which have been around since 1977...
[May 8, 2006, 9:50]
EC reluctant to recommend OpenDocument
Talkback No they best wait and see if Microsoft catch up and then ratify their format (I can't imagine that they are an organisation that knows what both their hands are doing! What do you expect. The EC can't be decisive, people might just get the idea...
[May 9, 2006, 12:13]
EC may extend MS antitrust probe
Blog The EC is to extend its antitrust investigation into Microsoft's behaviour during "a struggle last year to ratify its Office software file format as an international standard," the Wall Street Journal reports.
[February 8, 2008, 15:59]
Linux champion Munich welcomes patent delay
News The mayor of German city Munich has welcomed the EU Council's failure to ratify a directive that could allow the widespread patenting of software in Europe, as the city had been concerned that software patents could scupper its plans to migrate to...
[December 22, 2004, 16:10]
Bush backs international cybercrime plan
News President Bush has asked the US Senate to ratify the first international cybercrime treaty. In a letter to the Senate on Monday, Bush called the Council of Europe's controversial treaty "an effective tool in the global effort to combat computer...
[November 19, 2003, 9:00]
The new standard for software assets
News Microsoft's purchase on Wednesday of software asset tracking system supplier AssetMetrix indicates that interest in this sector is growing, and comes as the International Standards Organisation (ISO) gears up to ratify the first internationally...
[April 27, 2006, 12:40]
Desktop Linux group readies public agenda
News The organisation plans to ratify its final policy in September and will kick off a programme of trade shows, conferences and other public events in the autumn, with the first conference to be announced in August.
[July 24, 2003, 13:19]
Microsoft publishes Office specs in OOXML push
News The binaries were published in response to concerns among national bodies voting whether or not to ratify OOXML as an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard, according to Microsoft Office program manager Brian Jones.
[February 18, 2008, 14:04]
Lobbyists prepare for next software patent battle
News Although this consultation does not mention software patents directly, there are fears that the Community Patent legislation could ratify the European Patent Office's current practice of granting software patents.
[January 23, 2006, 16:20]
Microsoft gets backing for .Net tools
News ECMA's decision to ratify C# and the CLI technology confirms Web services are and are going continue to play an important role in the development of future innovations," Microsoft spokesman Dan Leach said.
[December 14, 2001, 6:31]
EU-wide patents 'move closer'
News Software patent campaigners have previously warned that this law would ratify the European Patent Office's practice of granting software patents, and could therefore legalise software patents, despite the European Parliament's defeat of the...
[May 5, 2006, 12:10]
Last-gasp attempt to block patent directive
News It is without precedent that anybody can specify that the EU council at the stage is unable to ratify a decision. Opponents of the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive are set to launch a last-minute intervention to try and prevent it being...
[March 4, 2005, 17:35]
.XXX porn domain may rise again
News Mike Hurst, an aide to Chip Pickering, a Mississippi Republican who's one of the most conservative in Congress, pressured the Commerce Department not to ratify ICANN's decision -- and then reported his results back to conservative Christian lobby...
[May 22, 2006, 10:50]
Open access: Appeal showdown set
News AT&T, which markets high-speed cable access exclusively through its partly owned partner Excite@tHome, refused, making Portland the only community of nearly 1,000 nationwide that refused to ratify its $48 billion acquisition of Tele-Communications...
[November 1, 1999, 12:19]
Council of Europe ratifies cybercrime treaty
News That's why I am calling on all the member states of the Council of Europe who have yet to sign or ratify the treaty to do it as a matter of utmost priority," he said in a statement. An 'anti-cybercrime treaty' designed to impose penalties on those...
[March 22, 2004, 15:00]
A Year Ago: DVD group pushes for common format
News The initiative would attempt to ratify an extension of the group's current MultiRead spec, which insures compatibility between CD-Audio, CD-ROM, CD-Recordable, CD-Rewriteable, DVD-ROM, and DVD-Recordable formats.
[January 12, 2000, 6:02]
