Today, the United States Department of Commerce took another concrete step toward making ICANN fully independent as the technical manager of the Internet. Washington – Today the United States Department of Commerce announced its support for the .com domain name registry agreement between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and [...]
Washington – Today the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) commended Microsoft and Novell for announcing an important partnership agreement that puts customers and innovation before licensing ideology. The wide-ranging agreement will undoubtedly move the industry further toward a new level of cooperation between open source and proprietary businesses. ACT president [...]
Microsoft to Ship Windows Vista On-time in Europe. SMEs can breathe a sigh of relief. Brussels – The thousands of small and mid-size information technology firms throughout Europe and the United States welcome today's confirmation that Microsoft will deliver Windows Vista on time worldwide, according to the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT), which [...]
"Today the European Parliament took an important step toward making the patent system more accessible and predictable for the thousands of ICT SMEs that rely on it. ACT commends the Parliament's commitment to the EPLA process that will inevitably lead to lower litigations costs and decreased complexity." "Perhaps most important, [...]
Adobe’s Response on PDF Battle Does Little to Answer Industry Concerns Washington, DC – After waiting more than a week to respond, Adobe's statement on its dispute with Microsoft only reaffirms that it is turning the PDF format from an open standard into a double standard. "Adobe's statement does little [...]