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CCIA To Monitor Results, Actions From Expanded Intel Antitrust Investigation
July 17, 2008
European regulators have filed new antitrust charges against Intel today. The European Commission's Directorate-General for Competition confirmed today that it had sent Intel a supplementary Statement...
IBM Tightens Stranglehold Over Mainframe Market; Gets Hit with Antitrust Complaint in Europe
July 2, 2008
IBM has just announced it is buying up Platform Solutions, Inc. (PSI), its small but most significant competitor. PSI is/was a small mainframe manufacturer that had sued IBM over the same anticompetit...
CCIA Asks Court For New Trial In Copyright Distribution Case
June 20, 2008
The Computer & Communications Industry Association joined with several organizations today in urging a federal court to grant a new trial to Jammie Thomas, who was fined $222,000 in October 2007 f...
CCIA Applauds FCC Steps to Improve Broadband Data Collection
June 13, 2008
CCIA commends the FCC for releasing the final report on its March decision on Broadband Data collection that makes significant changes that will allow the agency to collect more accurate data on bro...
Tech Association Welcomes FTC Decision To Investigate Intel On Antitrust Matters
June 6, 2008
The Computer & Communications Industry Association commends the Federal Trade Commission for opening up a formal antitrust investigation into Intel's alleged anticompetitive practices.
This new...
South Korea Says “A-ni-yo” To Intel Practices
June 5, 2008
The South Korean antitrust ruling against Intel is seen as a portent of other pending lawsuits against the world's largest chipmaker. Intel is facing antitrust challenges in jurisdictions around the w...
South Korea Says "A-ni-yo" To Intel Practices
June 5, 2008
The South Korean antitrust ruling against Intel is seen as a portent of other pending lawsuits against the world's largest chipmaker. Intel is facing antitrust challenges in jurisdictions around the w...
CCIA Pleased At News EC Expects Intel Ruling By September
May 30, 2008
The European Commission said it will rule by August or September in its antitrust investigation into Intel, the world's largest semiconductor maker, according to news reports this week.
The timelin...
U.S. Challenges EU Tariffs On Tech Products
May 28, 2008
The Computer & Communications Industry Association welcomed the United States Trade Representative's announcement Tuesday that it had requested WTO dispute settlement action on duties imposed by t...
CCIA Asks State Department To Investigate Internet Censorship After Iran Incident
May 23, 2008
Just a day after Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., held a hearing this week to examine global Internet freedom, the Washington Post reported on the Iranian government's crackdown on Internet sites related ...
CCIA’s Statement on Global Internet Freedom
May 20, 2008
The Computer & Communications Industry Association is a longtime advocate of policies that provide open markets, open systems and open networks and is concerned when governments limit access to me...