Due to its strong patent position, it also collects fees from 195 licensees, spanning most of the cell-phone industry for code-division, multiple-access technology, which is the standard communications technology in cellular networks.
How committed are companies to the rules they claim to live by, whether their own or an industry-wide code?
The league tables would be compiled by independent monitors, who would grade each bank on its compliance with the industry's code.
The Brazilian advertisers' self-regulatory body, Conar, told the BBC its members were currently deliberating whether the campaign was in breach of the industry's code of practice.
Overall, accounts receivable days for the residential building construction industry (NAICS code 2361) were an average of 21.6 days in 2011, compared with 15.8 days in 2010, Sageworks found.
The Apparel Industry Partnership, a group put together by the White House that includes activists and apparel firms, agreed in November to create an industry-wide code, although some campaigners have pulled out.
It wants lenders to face new restrictions on how they advertise, and it is to consult with the industry on a new code of practice.
The Consumer Finance Association (CFA), which represents the main loan companies, says the industry's new code of practice has brought in more robust affordability tests and increased transparency about charges.
Alcopop companies have long been charged with deliberately targeting under-age drinkers, and in 1996 the industry established its own code of practice in an effort to combat alcohol misuse and satisfy critics.
Gender-neutral, business-first culture: dress to the professional code of that industry and that company.
Current account holders and people with mortgages should be sent copies of the industry codes - the Banking Code and Mortgage Code every two years.
Under a change made in March 2005 to the Banking Code, an industry-wide voluntary agreement, lenders were barred from sending unsolicited credit card cheques to customers with a pre-completed loan amount.
However Thailand is also one of the countries in which the travel industry has responded well to The Code.
"We are going to make sure that we have a tax code that makes our industry competitive with other countries, " the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee said.
The truth is that the oil and gas industry receives the same kinds of tax treatments that every other manufacturing or extractive industry receives in the federal tax code.
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And one result of that analysis is that government software developers are allowing significantly more hackable security flaws to find their way into their code than their private industry counterparts.
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Of course, this is just one of the many ways the travel industry has begun to employ the QR code to make travel sites and services more tech-friendly.
Item 28: Newspapers must not allow paid advertisements to violate the established code of ethics of their industry and take into consideration the customs and values of the Kingdom.
The Department for Transport has previously suggested that industry should come up with a voluntary code of conduct to ensure wholesale price falls were passed on within a fortnight to the motorist.
Henry Ashworth, chief executive of Portman Group, which operates a code of practice for the drinks industry, said it was questionable whether removing the drinks from shelves was the best way to help people who misused alcohol.
In the high-tech industry, when a giant company like Google makes its Android operating system for free, including the source code and with little or no contract obligations attached to it, it kills any innovation in this industry (country).
The Department of Trade and Industry is also reiterating the six-part firework safety code.
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they are satisfied with the response of companies in implementing the recommendations of the Combined Code issued by the Department of Trade and Industry in July 1999 requiring shareholder involvement in the determination of executive directors' remuneration - The Lord Smith of Clifton.
MIAMI, Florida and BARCELONA, Spain - Feb. 27, 2012 - At the IAB Annual Leadership Summit and Mobile World Congress, Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) today unveiled the industry's first fully integrated video technology platform, code named Project Primetime, to enable smooth, TV-like experiences for ad-supported videos across Web-connected devices.
It is a trend which has alarmed critics of the industry and forced companies to agree from April to a strict code of practice limiting the number of terminals in each betting shop - and more importantly the size of payouts.
An organization called CODE 2040 has developed an approach to improving minority representation in the industry.
Now in her 70s, she is an industry matriarch who has a strong eye, but more significantly, a strong code of ethics.
The fact that Google, the industry's new giant, sits on a foundation of open-source code buried the idea that it was not powerful or reliable enough for heavy-duty use.
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