The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued its preliminary results of the following antidumping (AD) duty administrative reviews:

Square Enix’s Kingdom Hearts II for PS2, in its 6th week, was again the #1-rented videogame in the U.S., according to preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended May 7. The PS2 version of The Godfather was again #2, in its 7th week. The Xbox version was #9, down 3. EA had 3 other SKUs in the top 10: Black for PS2 at #3 (up one in its 10th week), EA Sports Fight Night Round 3 for PS2 at #6 (up 3, 11th week) and Need for Speed: Most Wanted for PS2 at #7 (up 4, 25th week). Eidos had 2 SKUs in the top 10: The PS2 and Xbox versions of Tomb Raider: Legend at #5 (down 2) and #10 (down 3) in its 4th week. Rounding out the top 10 were Midway’s NBA Ballers: Phenom for PS2 at #4 (up one, 5th week) and Sony Computer Entertainment’s MLB ‘06: The Show for PS2 at #6 (up 6, 10th week).

Canada’s biggest cable company, Rogers Communications, wants to add satellite radio service to its cable TV service in Ontario, New Brunswick, Labrador and Newfoundland, according to an application to the Canadian Radio-TV & Telecom Commission. The firm told the commission it has been in preliminary negotiations about pricing and packaging with XM Canada and Sirius Canada. Adding satellite radio to its digital TV could get customers to change “from an analog to a digital distribution environment,” Rogers said in its application. XM has a distribution arrangement with DirecTV in the U.S., and Sirius with EchoStar. The U.S. DBS operators offer a selection of XM and Sirius channels in various audio programming packages.

Digital Lifestyles’ merger with Protron Digital seems to pen another chapter in the saga of a firm that’s been written off before. Combining with Protron, tangled in a trademark infringement battle with Proton, Digital Lifestyles morphs from a supplier of Northgate and later hip-e brand PCs to one focused on selling CE gear.

The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued its final results of the antidumping (AD) duty changed circumstances review of stainless steel wire rod from Italy.

The International Trade Administration (ITA) has initiated new shipper reviews for the antidumping (AD) duty order on freshwater crawfish tail meat from China with respect to the following producer/exporter combinations, and review period:

A retired AT&T worker at the center of a lawsuit against the telco filed an amicus brief late Thurs. urging the U.S. Dist. Court, San Francisco to unseal statements he made about the nature of the alleged electronic eavesdropping undertaken by his former employer in connection with the National Security Agency’s (NSA) domestic spying program. The case involving Klein, who believes AT&T aided the NSA in a widespread intercept of Internet data traffic, is being handled by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) (CD April 7 p16). Klein worked for AT&T 22 years as a telecom technician. In the brief, his attorneys argue that its “not an overstatement” to say that he’s a “central witness” in the case and his testimony and documents are “key evidence” supporting EFF’s pending motion for a preliminary injunction. AT&T has asked the court to seal certain papers and to force him to return materials, his brief said. The govt. is expected to assert state secrets privilege over some information in the case, the document said. The brief argued that the splitting and rerouting to NSA of fiber optic cables he witnessed on the job is public information. Klein hasn’t sought, and doesn’t intend to seek, money for alleged harm caused by AT&T conduct, the brief said: “His sole interest in this proceeding is seeing to it that the plaintiffs’ grievances are heard by a court of law, and that the unlawful inception of Internet-based communications is halted.”

The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued the final results of its antidumping (AD) duty administrative review of honey from Argentina for the period of December 1, 2003 through November 30, 2004.

The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued the final results of its antidumping (AD) duty administrative and new shipper reviews of fresh garlic from China for the period of November 1, 2003 through October 31, 2004.

A retired AT&T worker at the center of a lawsuit against the telco filed an amicus brief late Thurs. urging the U.S. Dist. Court, San Francisco to unseal statements he made about the nature of the alleged electronic eavesdropping undertaken by his former employer in connection with the National Security Agency’s (NSA) domestic spying program. The case involving Klein, who believes AT&T aided the NSA in a widespread intercept of Internet data traffic, is being handled by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) (WID April 7 p10). Klein worked for AT&T 22 years as a telecom technician. In the brief, his attorneys argue that its “not an overstatement” to say that he’s a “central witness” in the case and his testimony and documents are “key evidence” supporting EFF’s pending motion for a preliminary injunction. AT&T has asked the court to seal certain papers and to force him to return materials, his brief said. The govt. is expected to assert state secrets privilege over some information in the case, the document said. The brief argued that the splitting and rerouting to NSA of fiber optic cables he witnessed on the job is public information. Klein hasn’t sought, and doesn’t intend to seek, money for alleged harm caused by AT&T conduct, the brief said: “His sole interest in this proceeding is seeing to it that the plaintiffs’ grievances are heard by a court of law, and that the unlawful inception of Internet-based communications is halted.”