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CCIA Offers Data Privacy Comments
January 28, 2011
CCIA submitted comments to the Department of Commerce January 28th in response to the green paper they released in December entitled "Commercial Data Privacy and Innovation in the Internet Economy."...
CCIA Praises U.S. Admonishment Of Social Media Shut Down in Egypt
January 27, 2011
The Computer & Communications Industry Association applauds Secretary Clinton's public request to a U.S. ally to stop blocking social networking sites being used by political protesters and not to...
President Outlines Innovation Agenda in SOTU
January 26, 2011
In last night’s State of the Union address, President Obama urged Congress to put America’s future first by making the investments in innovation, education, and infrastructure that will allow Ame...
Preserving Competition and Consumer Choice among Mobile Broadband Providers
January 25, 2011
No wireless carrier has a 100% network footprint across the entire United States. So in order for all competitors to offer seamless mobile service, all carriers must interconnect and provide “out ...
EPC Debates Non-EU Skilled Worker Transfers
January 19, 2011
In July 2010 the European Commission proposed a new Directive for the “Intra-Corporate Temporary Transfer of Non-EU Skilled Workers”. The proposal’s aim is to facilitate for multinational comp...
How open is open?
January 13, 2011
In December, the long awaited version 2.0 of the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) was released by the European Commission. Version 1.0 had defined “open standard” as royalty-free, a defin...
Skilled Immigration Reform in the New Congress
January 11, 2011
With Republican control of the House and a larger Republican minority in the Senate, the conventional wisdom seems to be that any legislative action on immigration reform will be difficult. Certainly ...
Concerns Over Comcast Merger
January 7, 2011
Late last month FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski began circulating an order approving the proposed merger of Comcast with NBC Universal. Throughout the regulatory approval process lawmakers, industry g...
Patent Reform On New Subcomittee’s Agenda
January 4, 2011
As Congress returns this week, intellectual property reform will likely be high on the agenda of the Judiciary committee’s new Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet.�...
Patent Reform On New Subcomittee's Agenda
January 4, 2011
As Congress returns this week, intellectual property reform will likely be high on the agenda of the Judiciary committee’s new Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet.�...
FCC Approves Open Internet Rules
December 21, 2010
The FCC approved rules today designed to defend consumers’ access to an open Internet. The rules offer some protections to ensure the Internet remains open after a recent court decision invalidated ...