New York City has made no progress putting together funding for a 700 MHz public safety network since its last quarterly report, the city said in a filing posted Friday by the FCC. The project did not receive an award from the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program, “which was considered the primary funding source,” the city said. Other government bodies that didn’t get BTOP grants offered similar complaints in quarterly filings required by the commission.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its spreadsheet of ACE ESAR A2.2 (Initial Entry Types) programming issues.
The International Trade Administration frequently issues notices on antidumping and countervailing duty orders, investigations, etc. which Broker Power considers to be "minor” in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued, neither announce nor cause any changes to an order’s duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period, etc.
The International Trade Administration has issued the preliminary results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on hand trucks from China (A-570-891) covering the period December 1, 2008 through November 30, 2009. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results.
The International Trade Administration is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain hot-rolled carbon steel flat products from India (A-533-820) covering the period December 1, 2008 through November 30, 2009. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results.
U.K.-based Game Group saw “encouraging signs” during the holiday season at the end of “a difficult year” for PCs and videogames, Chairman Peter Lewis said Thursday. Those signs suggested that consumers “are still looking for exciting products at reasonable prices,” he said. Customers also “continued to shop” at Game stores despite bad weather, he said. Same-store sales fell 2.1 percent across the retailer’s business the five weeks through Jan. 8 and 0.5 percent in the U.K. and Ireland, it said. Game predicted that its profit before tax and exceptional items will come in at 37 million-39 million pounds sterling for the year ending Jan. 31. The “trading environment” will “remain challenging in 2011,” despite “innovative launches” of products including the Nintendo 3DS and additional Kinect for Xbox 360 and PlayStation Move games, Lewis said. There will be “further innovation in existing formats as well as social and mobile gaming, and a growth in digital and online distribution,” he said. Because of that, he said, “we recognize that we need to evolve our business and deploy our strengths in new areas if we are to enhance our position as the market leader.” The retailer plans to report April 27 preliminary results for the fiscal year.
The International Trade Administration has issued the preliminary results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on honey from Argentina (A-357-812) covering the period December 1, 2008 through November 30, 2009. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results.
The International Trade Administration has issued the preliminary results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain cased pencils from China (A-570-827) covering the period December 1, 2008 through November 30, 2009. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results.
Sony Computer Entertainment America sued more than 100 alleged hackers in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. The company accused George Hotz of Cambridge, Mass., widely known as “geohot,” and other defendants with violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other laws in circumventing the PS3’s security system and distributing circumvention devices. Sony’s complaint seeks preliminary and permanent injunctions to bar further violations and to require the defendants to deliver to the company all materials that enabled circumvention of the PS3’s security system. The company also wants the defendants to be required to pay it any profits from their violations, plus unspecified damages and Sony’s legal fees. Also named as defendants were Hector Cantero of Spain and Sven Peter of Hungary. Sony also identified defendant “Doe 1” as a San Francisco resident known online as “Bushing” and defendant “Doe 2” as a Netherlands resident known online as “Segher.” The company said a few of the defendants were members of failOverflow, a group that had figured out how to bypass the PS3’s security system. The group had claimed its goal was to enable PS3s to run Linux again, after it was removed from consoles with a recent Sony software update. The same hack, however, apparently also allows PS3s to play pirated games.
Worldwide Q4 PC shipments totaled 93.5 million units in Q4, 3.1 percent more than a year earlier, according to preliminary figures from Gartner Group, but below its forecast of 4.8 percent growth. Gartner analyst Mikako Kitagawa cited competition from tablets, including the iPad, along with game consoles and other CE devices.