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Trade Group: P2P Not Illegal Or Immoral
News After months of making low-key complaints, a consumer electronics maker trade group on Tuesday launched a bitter attack on record labels' and movie studios' anti-piracy campaigns. The group's words place it squarely in the midst of a cross-industry...
[September 18, 2002, 8:02]
Gallaher Group Plc Improves Sales And Trade Customer Relationships
White Papers To help achieve this goal, Gallaher needed to consolidate its information and build an integrated picture of its trade customers. Following the introduction of the United Kingdom tobacco advertising ban in February 2003, Gallaher Group Plc, a...
[January 23, 2007, 0:00]
Trade Group: P2P Not Illegal Or Immoral
Talkback P2P is the only way I can distribute my original music to the world. As a singular artist and composer I rely on P2P to share my works. To outlaw it places a muzzle on my freedom to reach the world with my expressions and artistic feelings.
[November 13, 2003, 4:09]
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News After more than two years of trading barbs, Microsoft has officially withdrawn its membership from the Software Information Industry Association (SIIA), one of the most prominent software industry trade groups.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]
Largest Software Group Sides With DoJ
News The computer industry's largest trade group will side with the Justice Department in its antitrust case against Microsoft over the software maker's strong objections, members said. Microsoft invited a brief in its defence from a trade group with...
[February 1, 2000, 14:45]
BSA Explains Its Ethos
News A nonprofit trade group formed by more than a dozen major software makers -- including Microsoft, Adobe Systems and Autodesk -- the BSA is charged with enforcing licensing and copyright protections. The latest survey, which pegged international...
[August 3, 2004, 14:45]
Fur Protesters Launch Web Attacks
News The group, calling itself "The Electronic Civil Disobedience (ECD) against the Fur and the Vivisection Industry", is attempting to crash the servers of companies associated with fur trade by flooding them with email over several days.
[February 14, 2005, 16:10]
Critics Snapping At Gator's Heels
News An influential advertising trade group is publicly criticising software company Gator for tampering with the already troubled online ad market. The IAB, which represents the $8bn online ad business, is also considering pressing the issue with the...
[August 28, 2001, 14:15]
Removable Drives To Get Standard
News A group of Japanese electronics manufacturers will form a trade group this week to set standards for removable 2.5-inch hard drives. While this trade group will rally some manufacturers around a standard, other electronics manufactures tout a range...
[March 5, 2002, 9:35]
Game Companies Blast Pirates In New Case
News In a major assault on game-software piracy, six video-game companies and an industry trade group have filed a federal racketeering lawsuit here against several alleged rings of software pirates. Such anti-piracy efforts are becoming increasingly...
[August 16, 1999, 16:25]
GSM Makes Huge Strides In US
News A cellphone technology that dominates Europe is now the fastest-growing standard in North America, according to a trade group. Representatives from the CDMA Development Group, a CDMA trade organisation, did not immediately comment.
[October 10, 2003, 15:30]
Hacktivists Launch Virtual Demo While Streets Blocked
News A group of demonstrators in the UK are organising a "virtual sit-in" against the trade group Free Trade Area of Americas (FTAA) in protest of its promotion of economic globalisation and defiance of its attempts to hamper street protests.
[April 20, 2001, 16:38]
File Swappers Rush To Form Lobby Groups
News Peer-to-peer companies are jumping on the trade-group bandwagon this summer, hoping to counteract entertainment industry efforts to stifle them. Grokster president Wayne Rosso said Monday that he's planning to help launch a trade group in September...
[July 8, 2003, 8:24]
Microsoft Update 'violates' Settlement
News A computer-industry trade group took a shot at Microsoft's credibility Wednesday, alleging that the recently released Windows XP Service Pack 1 violates the software giant's pending antitrust settlement.
[September 20, 2002, 7:30]
Court Rules Against TorrentSpy In Hacking Case
News A lawsuit filed last year by TorrentSpy — a BitTorrent search engine — that accused the movie studios' trade group of intercepting the company's private emails, was tossed out of court last week. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper also agreed...
[August 29, 2007, 11:05]
Online Ad Group Names Permanent Chief
News Greg Stuart, hired as interim chief of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, will stay on permanently, with plans to turn the organisation into a full-fledged -- and profitable -- trade group. He intends to introduce IAB-hosted industry conferences...
[April 23, 2002, 11:18]
BSA 'piracy' Report Dismissed As Scaremongering
News The trade group, which counts Microsoft, Apple and Adobe among its members, commissioned analyst firm IDC to carry out a study of software use within businesses. The directive] is an assault on free trade.
[May 19, 2005, 12:45]
Chip Equipment Orders Rise Again
News Preliminary figures released late Thursday by the trade group Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) showed April orders of $982m, up 17 percent from the revised March total of $836m.
[May 19, 2002, 7:31]
Chip Sales Show Positive Trend
News That matches recent predictions from the Semiconductor Industry Association, another trade group. After a huge drop last year, the global chip market should regain positive ground in 2002, according to the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics.
[October 29, 2002, 14:43]
IBM Denies Unix Theft Charges
News IBM has denied SCO Group's allegations that it misappropriated Unix trade secrets, but Big Blue isn't giving hints about what its eventual strategy will be for battling the lawsuit. SCO sued IBM in March, alleging that Big Blue had misappropriated...
[May 2, 2003, 7:36]
