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US tech firms lock horns over patent law
News The differences in opinion played out during a Thursday hearing in the US House of Representatives Small Business Committee, which doesn't have the power to write patent laws but aimed to explore the small-business implications of Congress's...
[March 30, 2007, 8:58]
Venture-capital firms oppose US patent changes
News The differences in opinion played out during a hearing in Washington, DC last week in the US House of Representatives Small Business Committee, which doesn't have the power to write patent laws but aimed to explore the small-business implications...
[April 2, 2007, 11:36]
SMEs 'blind' to illegal software risks
News UK member committee chair of the BSA, Ram Dhaliwal said: "It's clear from the research that directors of many British businesses just don't realise the risks of using illegal software. The vice chair of the BSA's members committee, Julie Strawson...
[April 20, 2007, 12:24]
Lenovo faces security accusations
News First, this transaction may transfer advanced US technology and corporate assets to the Chinese government," according to the letter, signed by Republican Representatives Henry Hyde, of Illonois, chair of the International Relations Committee...
[January 27, 2005, 8:40]
Domain name price hikes attacked
News Those guaranteed price hikes struck some members of the House of Representatives' Small Business Committee as unreasonable. We should insist on an environment that provides ample resources and long-term legal certainty for this vital part of our...
[June 8, 2006, 8:40]
High-street ID card plan won't work, MPs say
News The Home Office had hoped biometric enrolment for cards would take place in post offices, but this could be thrown into doubt by a report on Tuesday by the Business and Enterprise Committee that found "many or even most identity services may well...
[July 10, 2009, 11:31]
Q&A: Microsoft gears up for SME market
News Now they're becoming mainstream.The fact that I am taking on this organisation, being part of the executive committee of this company -- we're sending a pretty strong signal to the marketplace that we're going to go very, very serious about that.
[June 2, 2003, 15:38]
Scientists protest EU software patents
News The petition arrives ahead of a Monday vote by the European Parliamentary Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (JURI), the latest committee to examine the commission's patent proposal. Previous parliamentary committee votes on the...
[April 28, 2003, 12:10]
LookBack '98: A year in the life of the Bug
News Most alarming was when John Evans, chairman of the millennium committee for the Association of Chief Police Officers revealed in November that the army could be called upon to provide air support to the police and move them from "hot spot to hot...
[December 24, 1998, 6:11]
Analysis: Unbundling gets unbundled
News In fact, the government select committee was damning in its criticism of Oftel, and both the ECTA (European Competitive Telecommunications Association) and alternative operators have accused the watchdog of failing to act quickly enough over the...
[January 31, 2001, 9:45]
US government, Net firms fail to agree on data retention
News James Sensenbrenner, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and a close ally of President Bush. Sensenbrenner said through a spokesman last month, though, that his proposal is on hold because "our committee's agenda is tremendously...
[June 5, 2006, 10:25]
Brown pumps funds into espionage tech
News To harness a much wider range of expertise and experience from outside government and help us plan for the future, we are inviting business, academics, community organisations, and military and security experts from outside government to join a...
[March 19, 2008, 17:37]
Small firms and consumers 'complacent about security'
News I would like to think most small businesses and consumers are aware of safety issues - the trick is to move from awareness to action," Nick Staib, a member of the Get Safe Online steering committee, told ZDNet UK on Tuesday.
[June 21, 2006, 12:25]
SMEs get London 2012 'dating agency'
News The ODA and the London Organising Committee are expecting allocations of more than £6bn of work as part of an estimated 75,000 future business opportunities. The London 2012 Business Network was launched at Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium...
[January 21, 2008, 8:50]
Making an open-source living, part 1
News He's also a member of the Apache Software Foundation and the Apache Cocoon Project Management Committee -- as well as using open-source software, he contributes his time as a coder and helps to run the organisation.
[December 1, 2004, 11:45]
Internet music - in the line of fire
News The current culture of the Internet could be described as a culture of infringement," said Tom Silverman, CEO of Tommy Boy Records, in remarks submitted to the US House of Representative's Small Business Committee on Wednesday.
[May 26, 2000, 8:49]
IR35 battle to hit the High Court
News The government's implementation of IR35 has already been attacked by the all-party Treasury Select Committee, which accused it of rushing the new measures through. Take me to ZDNet's Small Business Special.
[March 9, 2001, 12:08]
Protesters target anti-piracy directive
News Intellectual property: enforcing the rights, measures and procedures", known as the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive, passed through the European Parliament's judicial affairs committee (JURI) last month and is scheduled for a...
[March 8, 2004, 10:40]
Barclays Capital readies systems for MiFID
News The groups report to a project management office which meets weekly and, in turn, reports to a steering committee which meets monthly. One of the main focuses for Ludden and his team now is defining the business requirements for the IT department...
[March 13, 2007, 9:49]
Net falls short of Olympic gold
News The committee said Logictier's decision to pull out of the deal stemmed from a change in its business focus; the company will continue to work on the site until a new partner is found. The time is ripe, possibly even late, for Internet credentials...
[May 29, 2001, 9:34]
