Microsoft's Herbold Lands SIIA Board Position
News Herbold has been elected to the board of the Software & Information Industry Association, or SIIA. The group was formed out of a merger between the Information Industry Association and the Software Publishers Association, or SPA.
[April 28, 1999, 9:47]
Microsoft Quits Software Trade Group
News After more than two years of trading barbs, Microsoft has officially withdrawn its membership from the Software Information Industry Association (SIIA), one of the most prominent software industry trade groups.
[March 10, 2000, 9:48]
EBay Software Fraudsters Pay $100,000
News The lawsuit was brought against the pair by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), a digital industry trade association that pursues alleged intellectual property infringements. Liu and Tian were among the first people sued by SIIA...
[November 24, 2006, 14:55]
Trade Groups Steal Antitrust Show
News Jackson spent much of Wednesday's afternoon session asking specific questions about portions of the CCIA-SIIA brief. The SIIA is the largest software industry trade association. Both associations have been highly critical of Microsoft's actions...
[May 25, 2000, 8:36]
Tech Companies Silent On Microsoft Ruling
News SIIA members include Oracle, Sun and AOL Time Warner. Microsoft withdrew from SIIA, then called the Software Publisher's Association, when the organisation filed a brief on behalf of the Department of Justice.
[June 29, 2001, 9:43]
Six Judges Return To Microsoft Suit
News Robert Bork, a former judge who is being paid by CCIA and SIIA to challenge the settlement, argued in court on Tuesday that the deal was vague and ambiguous. CCIA and SIIA had unsuccessfully tried to persuade the courts to carve Microsoft up into...
[November 5, 2003, 9:40]
Microsoft's Biggest Office XP Fear: Pirates
News If you take the market in China, yes, Microsoft probably is disproportionately taking the brunt of the piracy problem because it is the dominant player there," said Peter Beruk, the SIIA's vice president of antipiracy.
[March 9, 2001, 8:38]
Software As A Service
White Papers A White Paper of the SIIA eBusiness Division Software as a Service Initiative. A profound shift in the development and distribution of software has transformed the industry. With the widespread adoption of networking as a tool for conducting...
[December 27, 2003, 5:19]
Microsoft Foes Can Testify At Hearing
News SBC Communications and trade groups the American Antitrust Institute (AAI), the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA), the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), ProComp and the Software and Information Industry...
[March 1, 2002, 8:53]
CCIA's Solution: Break Up Microsoft
News Others, including the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA), have recommended the Justice Department, 19 states and the District of Columbia restructure the company in order to avoid what it says is clear recidivism at Microsoft.
[March 23, 1999, 9:04]
Microsoft Fine Splits Industry
News On the other side, the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) and the European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS), praised the regulatory body for pursuing the issue, stressing the benefit to third-party software makers.
[July 13, 2006, 10:05]
Brace Yourselves: MS Remedy Day Nears
News On Monday, the court agreed to allow the Computer and Communications Industry Association and the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) to file friend-of-the-court briefs in the case. The SIIA already filed a friend-of-the-court...
[May 24, 2000, 13:31]
Antivirus Vendors Crack Down On EBay Licence Cheats
News The SIIA is planning to ensnare criminals by buying software from eBay and suing those whose products turn out to be improperly licensed. Two of the world's largest antivirus software vendors are launching legal action against software thieves...
[May 18, 2006, 8:55]
Software-as-a-Service; A Comprehensive Look At The Total Cost Of Ownership Of Software Applications
White Papers Download this Zip file, with a 34-page Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) white paper (in PDF format) that explores this concept of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for on-premise software versus Software-as-a-Service, and discover...
[March 6, 2007, 7:24]
EBay Restricts Email Access
News The SIIA filed suit against two individuals last week that it accused of using those methods. EBay plans to block members from being able to look up each others' email addresses on the site, making it harder to spam members -- and also harder for...
[February 1, 2001, 13:27]
Identity Fraud:The Scourge Of Cyber Business
News Beth Givens, a privacy advocate and the director of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, thought the SIIA report needed to go further and lay the blame at the feet of another industry group: credit information collectors.
[June 16, 2000, 9:05]
Windows For Sale?
News The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) in a recent white paper suggested as a possible remedy that Microsoft be required to recast itself as an open source vendor. What would it mean to the industry if Microsoft Corp.is required to...
[March 30, 1999, 6:58]
No, It WASN'T A Good Day For MS
News It's not clear if the judge will back the government's proposed two-way split of Microsoft into a Windows and an applications company, or if he will favor the last-minute suggestion to cut Microsoft three ways -- operating systems, applications...
[May 25, 2000, 10:07]
