The British Computer Association of the Blind said it was worried such an important feature might be threatened.
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According to the letter from UCITA's Ring, the following software industry organizations are supporting the draft -- industry antipiracy body the Business Software Alliance (14 members, among those Microsoft Corp, Lotus Development Corp. and Adobe Systems Inc.), the Software Information Industry Association, Silicon Valley Software Industry Coalition and the Computer Software Industry Association.
The vanguard of this group was a motley set of people who styled themselves as the Homebrew Computer Club, which would probably qualify as the first industry association for the computer and electronics business.
She's running into opposition from a powerful group, the Computer and Communications Industry Association, whose members include TurboTax publisher Intuit and E-File Tax Returns.
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In a new study funded by the Computer and Communications Industry Association (which frequently locks horns with content companies over copyright issues), Mike nicely illustrates that if you look beyond the largest firms, the entertainment industry is in great shape by almost any measure.
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Gallagher, president and CEO of the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), which is the trade association for U.S. computer and video game publishers.
In the past few years, 18, 000 computer users have been sued by the Recording Industry Association.
The Ohio Bar Association built the first large-scale computer legal research system in the late 1960s, using technology developed for the U.S. Air Force.
"Now we have a good a idea of what it would be like to have the government run the computer industry, " said Jonathan Zuck of the Association for Competitive Technology, which represents software and hardware companies.
Women accounted for 12 percent of U.S. college graduates in computer science last year, according to the Computing Research Association.
"Our take is that the marketplace ought to be setting the standard, " says Bob Cohen, a spokesman for the Information Technology Association of America, a trade group for computer, telecommunications and high-tech companies.
More than 40% of Americans spend three or more hours a day staring at a computer or hand-held, according to the American Optometric Association.
Wilkes is one of many recent financial advisers who's been able to tap into the pro-athlete market through not only an honest reputation--all advisers must be approved by the NFL Players Association--but by giving today's computer-savvy customers what they want: a platform to check their investments and other financial documents whenever they feel like it.
He is a consulting professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Association of Computing Machinery.
The association plans to send out hundreds of these pre-litigation letters each month to university computer users.
"As you add scale, your incremental cost goes to zero, " says Robert Greifeld, 51, a former computer salesman who took over at Nasdaq in 2003 as it was being spun out of the old National Association of Securities Dealers, now the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
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