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Sun has betrayed us all
Leader If you use software, get ready to pay much more for much less - thanks to Sun. Then you either pay up your licence fees or you don't write software. Be sure that the big boys will set up a helpful organisation to issue cross-patent licences, so you...
[October 8, 2004, 11:30]
UK music-swapping service bites at Napster's heels
News We're all ready to go, and you can expect to see an announcement from us in the next few weeks," Myers said. Users will pay a fee, and Wippit will pay royalties to the record labels -- thus avoiding the legal problems that have affected services...
[August 10, 2001, 16:13]
Congestion charge for spam?
News Technologists have long toyed with the idea of pay-per-message plans as a way to control spam, but most say the idea is too unwieldy to implement. Two IBM researchers are proposing a new method of fighting spam that would force unfamiliar senders...
[March 27, 2003, 9:31]
PC vendors snub antitrust altered Windows
Talkback Every other succesfull product in the world gives you better value for money and improved ease of use, reliability, quality, customer rights and so on as the years go by. Where if you change the tires you need a new engine as well and only because...
[June 18, 2005, 0:10]
RealNetworks: Keep e-music simple, stupid!
News The test is, is it easier to go to a licenced bar or liquor store and pick up a six-pack of beer with a liquor board seal on it .or is it easier to get a bootlegger to give you something in a dark bottle?
[May 25, 2000, 8:42]
Sony's rootkit woes aren't over
News Sony BMG, which Sony operates jointly with Bertelsmann Music Group, agreed earlier this week to pay $1.5m in fines and pay customers in California and Texas whose computers suffered damage as a result of Sony's surreptitiously installed digital...
[December 21, 2006, 8:20]
Mobile data services to replace voice by 2005
News Data will replace voice services as the killer app for wireless in as little as four years say analysts on Monday. Consumers will pay for data services if the perceived value of the application is higher than the perceived price of the service...
[May 15, 2001, 14:04]
News Schmooze: Tech economy suffers as Bill Gates heads for fantasyland
News In case you were under any illusions that the global economy was going to make a Rocky-like comeback in the second half, bloodied but triumphant, tech companies reminded us this week that, no, in fact, they still aren't making money.
[July 27, 2001, 17:40]
Startup Spotlight: Wippit tries to beat the MP3 competition
News To pay those royalties, Wippit will charge an annual fee of around £35 -- for which users of the Wippit client software will be able to download unlimited amounts of music. However, before it can be confident of not landing in the same legal mess...
[February 22, 2001, 13:46]
Utility computing still a hard sell
News Pay-as-you-go software might sound like a fine idea in principle, but it's difficult to put into practice. When you go in and lease a car, the contract says so many cents per mile, and people have a pretty good idea of how much they're going to...
[October 20, 2004, 8:50]
BTopenworld resets the meter on unmetered Web access
News Surftime users, who currently pay £6.99 per month for evening and weekend access, will be limited to 120 hours per month during those periods, with a similar pay-as-you-go element for anyone exceeding that cap.
[September 30, 2002, 16:34]
PeopleSoft 'like a sinking barge' - Salesforce.com chief
News Pay-as-you-go CRM is a relatively small, but fast-growing, segment of the overall market. Siebel recently returned to the pay-as-you-go market after a two-year hiatus, and sparked a heated response from Salesforce.com and Salesnet when the CRM...
[November 12, 2003, 12:04]
Nearly half of UK homes now online
News The main type of Internet package used at home in Britain is the non-subscription pay-as-you-go deal, adopted by 40 percent of online homes. Dial-up Internet access also acts as a stepping stone to faster broadband services as people use the...
[January 29, 2002, 17:06]
There needs to be a culture shift - open source yes - free -no
Talkback When you buy Microsoft software you are helping to pay the the salaries of the developers who will keep the software up to date and develop new tools to meet changing demands. For smaller organisations an option could be to go open source and pay...
[February 25, 2008, 9:47]
IT contractors face tough times Down Under
News When it comes down to it, when the times get tough you're only worth as much as someone's prepared to pay for what you can do. The changing economic climate is taking its toll on Australian IT contractors, as they struggle to pull in the same...
[February 1, 2002, 16:13]
Real launching subscription game service
News The simple puzzle games you can develop for as little as $60,000," Wright said. You go to Best Buy, and it's all about action games, blood and guts. It's a tricky balance -- you have to make the download games compelling enough to convince people...
[July 1, 2002, 8:45]
AOL UK unmetered package 'imminent'
News About a year ago America Online would pay you good dosh for moderating a forum, or providing some kind of reader 'focal point'. But Guy Kewney reckons you wouldn't try this today; AOL would tell you how much YOU would have to pay THEM.
[June 27, 2000, 12:51]
Hotmail users face summer of random email deletion
News Microsoft Hotmail users have been warned that their emails could be randomly deleted this summer, unless they pay £19.99 for extra storage space. Don't let your account go over the 2MB storage limit. If you don't, the Hotmail Janitor will randomly...
[July 5, 2002, 11:23]
Analysis: Music will survive
News The Internet removes two thirds of the cost -- music is going to go cheap, so cheap you won't believe it," he says. Peter Beverly, managing director of digital rights management company Magex, speaks for many when he explains why consumers would be...
[April 6, 2000, 10:46]
Is IT a good career choice?
News Depending on the type of company you work for, you may also get the type of hands-on experience that may lead to better jobs as a network engineer, security specialist, or application support leader. While it might not be the ideal job situation...
[August 3, 2005, 11:30]
