1.   He said that Microsoft wanted to work for an open standard through an industry consortium rather than to negotiate a bilateral deal with America Online.

2.   Industry consortiums are in the process of design standards for the wireless networking of embedded devices.

3.   It participates in occasional auctions on Converge, an industry consortium it started with Compaq and other high-tech firms.

4.   Most industry consortia set their sights too broadly.

5.   Network Associates belongs to an industry consortium called the Key Recovery Alliance, which supports the inclusion of voluntary key recovery features in data-scrambling software.

6.   The company plans to use TDMA in the forthcoming global satellite telephone system that it is developing as the leader of an industry consortium known as Iridium Inc.

7.   The new beasts are industry consortia, partnerships created by the companies doing the buying and selling.

8.   There are efforts by an industry consortium to develop a standard so that Instant messages, like e-mail, can be exchanged universally.