Upcoming Event: Inauguration Day 2009
Reception & Parade Watch Party 1 – 5 pm Please contact Danielle Yates for more information at 202-783-0070. Thank you to our sponsors: HOST COMMITTEE CCIA and Intuit Sponsors Fujitsu, Google, Panasonic, T-Mobile
T3 Technologies Files Antitrust Suit Against Big Blue in Europe
On the last day of the Bush administration, a U.S. company ironically feels compelled to go to Europe to seek the antitrust redress unavailable for last eight years in the United States. In reaction to news of the antitrust lawsuit filed against IBM in Brussels today, a tech association that has historically advocated for competition…
Stimulus Proposal Should Fund New Deployment
The Computer & Communications Industry Association issuing the following statement in response to the House Appropriations Committee announcement that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Bill will contain $6 billion to expand broadband access to rural and underserved areas. The statement can be attributed to Ed Black, President & CEO of CCIA: “CCIA supports this effort…
CCIA Praises Choice of Genachowski as New FCC Chairman
The following statement is in response to news reports that President-elect Obama is naming Julius Genachowski to the post of FCC chairman. It can be attributed to Ed Black, the President and CEO of the Computer & Communications Industry Association: “CCIA applauds the naming of Julius Genachowski as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Mr.…
CCIA’s NIST and PTO Recommendations
CCIA released more detailed separate recommendations for the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. In both reports CCIA points out that the America COMPETES Act remain unfunded and the trade association asks for funding for those measures. NIST and USPTO are the two agencies most responsible for operationalizing…
CCIA's NIST and PTO Recommendations
CCIA released more detailed separate recommendations for the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. In both reports CCIA points out that the America COMPETES Act remain unfunded and the trade association asks for funding for those measures. NIST and USPTO are the two agencies most responsible for operationalizing…
CCIA's Recommendations to Obama's Transition Team
As President-elect Obama takes his oath of office to defend the Constitution, he will have the opportunity to protect the Constitution’s most important 1st Amendment, which guards free speech, in new and unique ways. Never before has there been a national leader who better understood both the importance of free speech and the power of the…
CCIA’s Recommendations to Obama’s Transition Team
As President-elect Obama takes his oath of office to defend the Constitution, he will have the opportunity to protect the Constitution’s most important 1st Amendment, which guards free speech, in new and unique ways. Never before has there been a national leader who better understood both the importance of free speech and the power of the…
Reps. Markey, Boucher Trading Gavels
Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., have announced they are switching gavels on the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Rep. Markey will leave as chairman of the Telecommunications and the Internet subcommittee to head the Energy and Environment Subcommittee with its former chair, Boucher, taking over the telecommunications subcommittee. The following statement…