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SCO ready to hit Australian Linux users
News The SCO Group's Australian and New Zealand boss, Kieran O'Shaughnessy, told ZDNet Australia late on Friday afternoon that he was preparing to fly to London to finalise the vendor's strategies for securing licence agreements with large commercial...
[January 9, 2004, 9:35]
Date set for new wireless broadband auction
News Each licence will cover one region of the UK, and successful bidders will not be forced to roll out services within a certain timeframe. Interested parties can apply for a licence from March. Companies will soon be able to bid for licences allowing...
[January 10, 2003, 13:09]
Microsoft: We'll protect you from lawsuits
News In older contracts, Microsoft agreed to pay all legal fees for volume licence customers who got sued because of Microsoft, but only up to the value of the software they bought. The indemnity provision, which was included in a document called the...
[July 22, 2003, 12:07]
Schwartz swipes at the GPL
News Naturally, Schwartz presented an alternative, Sun's CDDL, an open source licence that's a variant of the earlier MPL. If you look at the difference between the licence we elected to use and GPL, there are no obligations to economies or universities...
[April 6, 2005, 13:50]
AMD lowers Q4 revenue expectations
News The chipmaker said on Thursday it expects to post revenue of $1.19bn in the quarter ending 27 December, excluding process technology licence revenue. When the company reported its third-quarter revenue of $1.59bn (excluding the process tech licence...
[December 5, 2008, 8:55]
ActiveStealth Safety Camera Alert software
Downloads ActiveStealth is driver safety software for your Windows Mobile device that's designed to protect you, your livelihood and your licence.ADVANCE WARNING OF DANGEROUS INTERSECTIONS AND ACCIDENT ZONESAdvance warning of accident blackspots and...
[May 20, 2007, 8:00]
Analyst research 'distorted' against open source
News Martin Fink, the vice-president of HP's Linux division, said in a keynote speech at the JBoss World conference in Atlanta on Tuesday that analyst firms are currently under-representing the impact of open source, as their statistics rely on how...
[March 2, 2005, 15:15]
Microsoft and AOL Time Warner settle antitrust suit
News AOL receives a long-term, nonexclusive licence to use Microsoft's Windows Media 9 software, which offers playback, delivery and rights management for digital media. AOL will receive a seven-year, royalty-free licence to continue using Internet...
[May 30, 2003, 7:34]
Open source business email moves closer
News Web-based messaging product available for free with an open source licence. It intends to make money by charging corporate customers a licence fee for a more functional Network version and a yearly support fee based on the number of mailboxes used.
[November 15, 2005, 9:05]
Court sets back Sun's Java push
News Sun argued that the settlement's licence agreement terms, which covered use of Sun's copyrighted software, permitted Microsoft to distribute Java only with the operating system, not as an update downloaded over the Web.
[June 27, 2003, 8:41]
NYC launches municipal data mash-up contest
Blog There's no mention in the press release of what format the data will be made available in, nor which licence it will be under. Given a decent API and a licence that allows free redistribution, people will come up with applications that make...
[July 1, 2009, 17:13]
Open-source Alfresco adopts the GPL
News The company's supported and certified Enterprise edition remains available under a commercial licence. Alfresco's use of the GPL for its Community Edition allows for potentially greater community contributions due to licence familiarity and...
[February 23, 2007, 9:22]
Apache to brew its own pot of Java
News The submitters plan to create a Java virtual machine, related libraries and testing software — all of which would be available under the Apache licence. The company has not made its own J2SE software available with an open source licence because of...
[May 10, 2005, 8:30]
BBC iPlayer launch on, despite crack
News It has already attracted controversy and criticism over the decision to use proprietary technology for a platform supposedly catering to all licence-fee-payers — at its launch it will work only on computers running Windows XP — but the recent...
[July 17, 2007, 13:48]
Missing GPL detail may make it harder to enforce
News Strictly speaking the defendant must prove point (iii) - i.e.that he has a defence under the licence," Barry explained. Lucie Guibault, an assistant professor of intellectual-property law at the Institute for Information Law in Amsterdam, said at...
[June 1, 2005, 15:35]
China removes barrier to 3G phones
News China Unicom would be awarded a WCDMA licence and China Telecom a CDMA 2000 licence, according to the report. China's state council said it has approved licences for higher-speed 3G mobile networks, a move expected to help bring higher-end services...
[January 2, 2009, 9:18]
Intel threatens new round of chipset lawsuits
News Chen Chun-shen, Intel's Asia-Pacific regional president, told the Taiwan Economic News on Thursday that the company would not hesitate to file lawsuits against companies, such as Via, which make chipsets for Pentium 4 without a licence from Intel.
[August 10, 2001, 16:55]
Sun to base pricing on UN economic data
News The exact licence fee to be offered to any one country will be set, albeit indirectly, by the United Nations; fixed according to the international governing body's economic development and census data for developing countries.
[June 2, 2004, 15:15]
Europe to remove encryption restrictions, US to follow
News A spokesman for the Department of Trade and Industry says that the EU is likely to introduce a general licence for member states and trusted non-members, enabling them to export encryption freely. The UK government welcomes the move to simplify the...
[May 26, 2000, 8:04]
3G industry hits back against death notice
News To call on mobile operators to abandon their licence obligations and get out of 3G altogether is an overreaction. Krylander was responding to a research note published earlier this month by Datamonitor, in which analyst Nick Greenway said that it...
[August 30, 2002, 11:41]
