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WTO Boss Rails Against 'dot-com Types'
News The head of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has blamed "dot-com types" for recent anti-capitalist violence at WTO gatherings. Speaking at the WTO symposium in Geneva on Friday, the director general Mike Moore lashed out at the "mindless...
[July 9, 2001, 16:32]
China In WTO Will Shake Up Tech Sector
News The WTO on Monday announced that it has concluded negotiations over China's terms of membership, a decision that will pave the way for a formal invitation to join at the organisation's November meeting in Qatar.
[September 19, 2001, 8:30]
After The WTO Wash Out British Cyber-activists Switch Tactics
News Having failed to bring the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) servers down, British cyber-activists 'the Electrohippies' have decided to resort to a good old-fashioned spam attack in their quest to harass the colossus of global capitalism.
[December 3, 1999, 17:10]
Malaysian Price Controls May Flout WTO
News Could Malaysia be in breach of a World Trade Organisation (WTO) rule by going ahead with price controls on software and recordings? The WTO pact makes it clear that no signatory should do anything that would 'unreasonably prejudice the legitimate...
[July 15, 2003, 10:27]
Electrohippy Promises WTO Denial Of Service
News At 11.30pm Monday night Mobb's site displayed a page carrying a piece of JavaScript that enables visitors to repeatedly load various WTO Web sites with the aim of bringing down servers. We are aiming at the main WTO site but particularly the...
[November 30, 1999, 10:44]
Singapore's Future Lies In Services, Says WTO
Talkback cann summarise properly, or not? needto do assignment but dun understand, how to do, rite? aiyo
[August 25, 2003, 2:14]
Singapore's Future Lies In Services, Says WTO
News The advice came from Supachai Panitchpakdi, director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), in a high-level industry forum hosted in Singapore on Tuesday by computer systems maker IBM. The shift from an asset-based economy to knowledge...
[July 10, 2002, 8:32]
How To Generate WTO Messages From RMF Performance Exceptions
White Papers IBM Resource Measurement Facility (RMF) provides the online RMF Monitor III session. Using ISPF, a user can invoke an interactive Monitor III session to access reports, one of these is the Workflow/Exceptions Report.
[April 15, 2004, 1:04]
China's WTO Entry Boosts Linux
News The Linux operating system is gaining ground in China at the expense of Microsoft's Windows, according to a new report from Gartner Dataquest. A recent contract awarded by the Chinese government, which favoured Chinese software vendors over...
[January 7, 2002, 17:15]
A Year Ago: British Cyber-activists Switch Tactics
News Having failed to bring the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) servers down, British cyber-activists 'the Electrohippies' have decided to resort to a good old-fashioned spam attack in their quest to harass the colossus of global capitalism.
[December 4, 2000, 6:04]
US Report: America Pushes No-Net-tax Plan
News Trade diplomats said the U.S.stance was set out by Washington's ambassador to the WTO, Rita Hayes, at an informal session of the body's ruling General Council after Canada had proposed an interim agreement on the issue.
[April 27, 1998, 9:54]
EU Seeks Overhaul Of Global IT Trade Pact
News The ITA came into being in 1996 at a World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting in Singapore. In August this year, the US, Japan and Taiwan complained to the WTO that Europe was placing tariffs on three particular types of IT products they said were...
[September 16, 2008, 17:27]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Every country can do what they like, so far as its within the rules laid down by international trade agreements they have already signed (like WTO rules). And WTO rules call for free, fair and open tender for goverment contracts.
[January 31, 2004, 15:48]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback This is not against WTO conventions, in as much as the US military demanding that each of their procured goods are made trackable through the use of RFID is not against WTO conventions. Glad to see that we are aproaching something close to common...
[February 2, 2004, 12:24]
Tapes Containing Banking Details Go Missing
Talkback The existence of the Data Protection laws in India- http://perry4law.blogspot.com/2005/05/mandates-of-wto.html See http://perry4law.blogspot.com/2005/05/mandates-of-wto.html for more details). ANOTHER CHANCE TO RAISE HUE AND CRY
[July 8, 2005, 18:37]
Europe Takes A Front Seat In Net Rulemaking
News The WTO appeals panel ruling means the EU could impose $4bn in punitive tariffs each year on American imports. While US businesses ranging from Microsoft to Silicon Valley tech start-ups bristle at the WTO ruling, new taxes and the increasing...
[January 16, 2002, 14:49]
US Aims To Bring Down China's Regulatory Wall
News China must live up to its WTO obligations. Taiwan and China joined the WTO in 2001. WTO bylaws, for instance, do not allow countries to establish discriminatory import tariffs that allow local products to be sold for less.
[March 19, 2004, 14:45]
OOXML Clears ISO Voting
Blog Comment ISO has violated WTO rules accepting ms-ooxml as possible standard. Tineke Egyedi, president of the European Academy for Standardisation, is critical of OOXML being made a standard when ODF exists already, and she believes duplicative standards...
[March 30, 2008, 16:39]
OOXML Clears ISO Voting
Blog Comment ISO has violated WTO rules accepting ms-ooxml as possible standard. Tineke Egyedi, president of the European Academy for Standardisation, is critical of OOXML being made a standard when ODF exists already, and she believes duplicative standards...
[March 30, 2008, 16:52]
Dell Shifts Desktop Production To China
News PC maker Dell Computer is relocating its desktop production activities for the Japanese market from Malaysia to China, a move many manufacturers are expected to make as China prepares to enter the World Trade Organization (WTO) in November.
[September 21, 2001, 10:15]
