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 the dangers of censorship online – in any form. During his visit to China last Monday Obama told Chinese students in Shanghai that…
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 bandwidth demand and severe market concentration in the broadband last mile. The largest network operators, which have been the only consistent…
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 should have to copyrighted information—but we can’t support their misstatement of key facts. They suggest that search engine…
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 measures to ensure companies would not use AMD’s microchips. The Computer & Communications Industry Association has been a long-standing advocate for…
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 urged the Court to correct a patent system that has run amok. CCIA argued in a friend-of-the-court brief before the Supreme Court and the court below, the…
The Obama administration recently considered open source solutions as it reexamined the future computing needs of the federal government. Today the Computer & Communications Industry Association sent a letter to Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra praising the move that could help reduce costs for taxpayers and give the government more flexibility with IT solutions down the road.…
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 commends the Commission for hosting a series of roundtable discussions to explore important consumer online privacy issues surrounding information collection, and urges it and Congress not to lose sight of…
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 debate is becoming more critical as the FCC deals with increasing industry consolidation in telecommunications. The following comments can be attributed to Computer…
Today the Social Security Administration’s tech advisory board begins a two day meeting to develop a roadmap for systems technology and electronic services to better carry out the agency’s mission over the next five to ten years. More babyboomers are heading into a system, which is relying on technology that was cutting edge — back…
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