The International Trade Administration has initiated antidumping and countervailing duty investigations of circular welded carbon quality steel pipe from China.
New Games: Its first week available, the Xbox 360 version of Take-Two Interactive’s The Darkness became the top-rented videogame in the U.S., according to Rentrak preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended July 1. Two other new releases made the top 10: Activision’s PS2 and Xbox 360 versions of Transformers: The Game at numbers two and five. Activision’s PS2 version of Spider-Man 3, the previous week’s top title, slid to number three… New games Majesco Entertainment plans to spotlight at next week’s E3 Media and Business Summit, Wednesday to Friday, will include Blast Works: Build, Fuse & Destroy (developed by Budcat Creations) and Furu Furu Park on Wii (developed by Taito and 505 Games), Kengo: Legend of the 9, its first title for Xbox 360, and DS games Nancy Drew and the Deadly Secret of Olde World Park, Zoo Hospital, Holly Hobbie & Friends, Turn It Around, Operation: Vietnam (developed by Coyote Console) and The Wild West.
CBP has issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of July 2, 2007. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, tuna, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa powder, tobacco, certain BFTA, CAFTA-DR, JFTA, MFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, UAFTA (AFTA) and UCFTA (Chile FTA) non-textile TRQs, etc. Each report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, BFTA, CAFTA-DR, CBTPA, MFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA (Chile FTA) TPLs and TRQs for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc. (CBP's weekly TRQ/TPL commodity report, dated 07/02/07, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
GENEVA -- Years-long research by corporate and government experts involved in ITU-R favors globally harmonizing broadcast frequencies for International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 (IMT-2000). That was the message from a June 25-26 ITU-R study group (SG-8) meeting on mobile, radiodetermination, amateur and related satellite services. The group also gave preliminary approval to an international wideband and broadband communications standard for public protection and disaster relief, officials said.
Former FCC Chairman Charles Ferris will remain neutral on whether shareholders should approve Cablevision’s $22 billion buyout (CD May 3 p10). Earlier this year, Ferris joined other Cablevision board members in approving the merger, but when they urged public shareholders to adopt the buyout proposal he held back, said a preliminary proxy filed with the FCC. The board has approved the deal and the Dolans own a majority of the company, but for the deal to close Cablevision public shareholders must sign off on it. Ferris told the board he will stay neutral because shareholders are “well positioned” to make that decision for themselves, the proxy said. Besides a glimpse into Ferris’s mind, the proxy includes a rare look at internal Cablevision revenue and profit projections for the longer term. In April, Cablevision projected that sales would rise steadily to exceed $9.7 billion in 2011, up from a projected $6.7 billion this year. Likewise Cablevision predicts its free cash flow will more than double to $2.6 billion in 2011, as capital spending fluctuates. The company regularly develops such long-term forecasts but only uses them for internal planning keeps them private because they are not reliable. It published these predictions because the board got them while considering the Dolans’ buyout offer, Cablevision said.
GENEVA -- Years-long research by corporate and government experts involved in ITU-R favors globally harmonizing broadcast frequencies for International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 (IMT-2000). That was the message from a June 25-26 ITU-R study group (SG-8) meeting on mobile, radiodetermination, amateur and related satellite services. The group also gave preliminary approval to an international wideband and broadband communications standard for public protection and disaster relief, officials said.
In its eighth week available, the PS2 version of Activision’s Spider-Man 3 was again the top-rented videogame in the U.S., according to Rentrak’s preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended June 24. Nintendo’s Mario Party 8 for Wii was again number two, in its fourth week. The only SKUs new to the top 10 were the Xbox 360 and PS2 versions of Take-Two Interactive’s Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer, at numbers nine and 10.
Members of an International Telecommunication Union radiocommunication (ITU-R) study group agreed Tuesday to expedite consideration of the 6th radio interface for IMT- 2000, but no vote was taken during the June 25-26 meeting, officials said. The ITU Radiocommunication Assembly (RA) will consider the IEEE 802.16/WiMAX variant radio interface for final approval during its October 15-19 meeting. The RA can consider the matter more expeditiously than if it were to remain in the study group, an official said. Preliminary approval was given by an ITU-R working party 8F during a May 23-31 in Kyoto, Japan. Some countries are still opposed to the radio interface, an official said. Working party 8F will meet August 29-31 in Korea to finalize preparations for the RA. Exactly where has not been decided.
Members of an International Telecommunication Union radiocommunication (ITU-R) study group agreed Tuesday to expedite consideration of the 6th radio interface for IMT- 2000, but no vote was taken during the June 25-26 meeting, officials said. The ITU Radiocommunication Assembly (RA) will consider the IEEE 802.16/WiMAX variant radio interface for final approval during its October 15-19 meeting. The RA can consider the matter more expeditiously than if it were to remain in the study group, an official said. Preliminary approval was given by an ITU-R working party 8F during a May 23-31 in Kyoto, Japan. Some countries are still opposed to the radio interface, an official said. Working party 8F will meet August 29-31 in Korea to finalize preparations for the RA. Exactly where has not been decided.
The second Young Engineers Satellite (YES2) finished testing and is set for September launch, said the European Space Agency (ESA). “The experiment has completed an intensive verification campaign, involving vibration testing, thermal-vacuum and electromagnetic testing,” said Roger Walker, YES2 project manager. YES2 will test a 30 km tether, the longest deployed in space. Students from ESA member states, the U.S., Japan, Canada and Australia worked on YES2 -- 500 on the preliminary design and 60 on development and construction, ESA said.