News
CCIA Praises Open Government Launch, Hopes It Brings More Transparency To ACTA Negotiations
December 8, 2009
Washington – Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra and Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra announced the launch of administration’s Open Government Plan in a live webcast today.
The Interne...
CCIA Announces Panel on Competition and Innovation; Kicks off Series of Papers Examining High-tech Competition Policy
November 26, 2009
The Computer & Communications Industry Association will kick off a series of dialogues on competition, innovation and consumer choice with a panel discussion over lunch at the Newseum on Tuesday, ...
Intel Attack On EC Ahead of Findings
November 26, 2009
The Computer & Communications Industry Association is offering the following statement in response to new details released by the Financial Times and other news outlets on the latest details of th...
Internet Freedom Remarks Raise Ire Of Dominant Entities In China, Washington
November 24, 2009
President Obama and his deputy technology officer took on Internet censorship in all forms in Washington and Shanghai last week as they spoke about the importance of Internet freedom and openness and ...
FCC Votes To Begin Designing Nondiscriminatory Internet Access Rules
November 22, 2009
The FCC this morning voted to begin a proceeding designed to determine sometime late next year the basic rules necessary to preserve open access to the robust public Internet in the face of exploding ...
An Open Letter from Our CEO: Fair Use Doctrine Vital for All of Us
November 18, 2009
Fair Use Doctrine Vital for All of Us
As proponents of free speech we support the right of the authors of the op-ed "Google and the Copyright Wars" (Nov. 13) to question how much access the public ...
CCIA Applauds Intel, AMD Settlement
November 12, 2009
Intel and AMD have agreed to settle outstanding legal disputes. Intel will pay AMD $1.25 billion as part of the deal to end AMD’s civil lawsuit against Intel for allegedly offering rebates and other...
Update online privacy laws now
November 11, 2009
Read CCIA's Blog Post for The Hill's Congress Blog
CCIA's Comments to FTC on consumer online privacy issues
Congress and the Federal Trade Commission are gathering information to consider rule...
Supreme Court Hears Bilski Patent Case
November 9, 2009
As the Supreme Court heard arguments in Bilski v. Kappos (08-964) today, a case which should help answer the question, 'what is patentable?' – the Computer & Communications Industry Association ...
CCIA Praises Administration Efforts Toward Open Source Solutions
November 9, 2009
The Obama administration recently considered open source solutions as it reexamined the future computing needs of the federal government.
Today the Computer & Communications Industry Associatio...
CCIA Urges FTC, Congress to Address Government Surveillance Along With Other Online Privacy Issues
November 6, 2009
The Computer & Communications Industry Association has filed comments today in response to the FTC’s announcement of a roundtable series to explore consumer online privacy issues.
CCIA comm...
CCIA Applauds FCC Investigation That Will Pave Way For Reform Special Access Rules
November 5, 2009
Washington – The FCC put out a request for information Thursday on the rates telecommunications carriers and companies pay each other for special access lines. The issue that has been a longstanding...