He emphasized to them that UnitedHealth had bought Ingenix from an industry consortium in 1998.
The controversy escalated when Advanced Micro Devices accused an industry consortium of altering a standard performance test to favor Intel.
The Internet search giant joined an industry consortium that plans to build a next-generation wireless data network.
An international industry consortium, the DNS Changer Working Group, has strived to inform as many users as possible.These efforts were stepped up on May 2nd.
Zakka, who holds resident status in the US, leads the Arab ICT Organisation, or IJMA3, an industry consortium from 13 countries that promotes information technology in the region.
John K. Chan, the project manager for overhead transmission cable at the Electric Power Research Institute, an industry consortium in Palo Alto, Calif., said there were several reasons.
Along with Compaq and Sun Microsystems, IBM has joined an industry consortium that is seeking to speed the development of CellML.Another firm with an interest in computer modelling is LifeFX of Newton, Massachusetts.
Earlier this year at a White House event, the Digital Advertising Alliance, or D.A.A., an industry consortium, pledged to honor don't-track-me signals so long as the systems required consumers to make an affirmative choice.
"If I were a publisher, I would definitely take my time," said John Squires, a consultant and former executive at Time Inc. and Next Issue Media, the industry consortium that was set up to create a digital newsstand.
Stuart Ingis, a lawyer for the Digital Advertising Alliance, an industry consortium, said the program, which involves consumers installing individual cookies on their browsers, demonstrates that users already have choices about data collection.
In a survey published earlier this year by CommerceNet, an industry consortium, and Nielsen, a media-research firm, 73% of Internet users had used the Web for shopping in one way or another in the past month.
