The International Trade Administration (ITA) has initiated a new shipper review for the antidumping (AD) duty order on hand trucks and certain parts thereof from China with respect to the following company, as both the exporter and producer, and review period:
Anonymous webmasters on the .us Top Level Domain (TLD) are safe from shutdown a few weeks. Attorneys for Robert Peterson, who runs Point-CounterPoint City (www.pcpcity.us), told us Thurs. a hearing on a preliminary injunction against NTIA, the Commerce Dept. and .us registry operator NeuStar (WID Feb 1 p1) has been pushed off from today (Fri.) to Feb. 17. The govt. has agreed not to act meantime against registrars who haven’t taken down proxy websites in the .us TLD, lawyer James Houpt said. The case challenges the constitutionality of the NTIA’s rule that all .us site owners and registrants publicly disclose their names, home addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses. Peterson, whose site posts opposing views on controversial social and political topics, filed the suit in U.S. Dist. Court, Alexandria, Va. He alleges NTIA didn’t allow the public to weigh in on the rule, and he fears harm if the public Whois directory reveals his identity in connection with the site. Thousands of .us users have registered their sites by proxy and face disclosure or seeing their sites taken offline.
The House passed late Wed. 216-214 a deficit reduction bill that includes DTV provisions setting Feb. 17, 2009, for the hard transition date. The vote caps a hard-fought political battle in which the conference report passed the Senate by a 51-50 margin (CD Dec 22 p1). Senate Democrats amended the report with technical provisions at the end of the session that required the House'’s vote, thus delaying action until yesterday (Wed.). Democrats all along have opposed the bill’s budget cuts, complaining that it didn’t reduce the deficit as proclaimed.
In its 11th week available, the PS2 version of Need for Speed Most Wanted from Electronic Arts (EA) was again the top-rented videogame in the U.S., according to Rentrak’s preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended Jan. 29. The Xbox version of the game moved up 5 to #4. EA had another top 10 game: The PS2 version of Madden NFL 06 at #3, down one in its 25th week. Meanwhile, 25 to Life from Eidos saw an unusually large boost in interest during its 2nd week. Rentrak said the PS2 version jumped 99 notches to become the week’s #2-rented title while the Xbox version moved up 230 to #5. LucasArts Entertainment also had 2 SKUs in the top 10: The PS2 and Xbox versions of Star Wars Battlefront II, which respectively fell 3 to #6 and increased 6 to #10 in the 13th week available. Rounding out the top 10 were 3 PS2 games: THQ’s WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw at #7 (down 3, 11th week), Activision’s Gun at #8 (up 2, 12th week) and 50 Cent: Bulletproof at #9 (down 2, 10th week).
The House Wed. passed by a 216-214 vote a deficit reduction bill that includes DTV provisions setting Feb. 17, 2009, as the hard transition date. The vote caps a hard- fought political battle in which the conference report passed the Senate by a 51-50 margin (CED Dec 22 p1).
Take-Two Interactive “reached an agreement in principle” to retain, for 3 years, key employees at its Rockstar game studio responsible for the hit Grand Theft Auto series, the company disclosed in its 10-K filing at the SEC. But Take- Two said the “compensation arrangements could result in increased expenses and have a negative impact on our operating results.” Undisclosed in the 10-K were the agreement terms, the identity of employees affected or when the costs might impact Take-Two’s financial results.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has made a preliminary affirmative antidumping (AD) duty determination that metal calendar slides from Japan are being, or are likely to be, sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. The period of investigation for subject merchandise from Japan is April 1, 2004 through March 31, 2005.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has initiated new shipper reviews for the antidumping (AD) duty order on honey from China with respect to the following companies, as both the exporter and producer, and review period:
Verizon Wireless won a preliminary injunction against the owners of LocateCell.com this week that prevents them from getting information about Verizon customers or operating any site that uses Verizon information. Calling the order “quite far reaching in the prohibitions that it imposes,” Verizon Vp-Legal & External Affairs Steve Zipperstein called the action much stronger than other injunctions in similar wireless industry cases. Subscriber information security has been a major issue with all wireless carriers (CD Jan 30 p5).
W3C members reached preliminary agreement on best practices for mobile Web content, the group announced Tues. The group -- consisting of mobile players like AOL, AT&T, Ericsson, France Telecom, Google, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, OpenWave Systems, Vodafone -- drafted Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0, an industry guideline for Web-enabled mobile devices. The group invited comments on the draft before Feb. 17 and plans to make the agreement a focus of the W3C World Congress in Barcelona Feb. 14-16.