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Napster's subscription Holy Grail fading
News Most analysts say creating a subscription service is the most plausible scenario for Napster, although it poses significant problems, such as gaining the cooperation of hostile record labels, convincing members to shell out for the service...
[February 13, 2001, 15:02]
Indie bands sign up for legal MP3 sharing
News Wippit users must pay £50 per year to use the service -- and the company will pay a royalty to the relevant copyright owners every time a song is shared. As first predicted by ZDNet UK, Wippit-- the UK's first legal MP3-sharing service -- has made...
[September 28, 2001, 16:40]
Scour announces team to take on the RIAA
News Rodrigues previously claimed that the suit was an attempt by the entertainment industry to stop technological progress, rather than cooperating to develop a royalty-driven structure to reward artists.
[August 9, 2000, 17:03]
Britney tops the Google charts
News The royalty demanding software outfit outpaced some giants of industry to lead Google's top five, ahead of Johnson & Johnson, ING, GE Aircraft Engines and Fleet. If the term "zeitgeist" is applied as it is defined -- an era's intellectual, moral...
[December 24, 2004, 9:25]
Patents directive wins European Parliament OK
News Another allows a patented technique to be used without authorisation or royalty payments if it is needed solely to ensure interoperability. The European Parliament has voted to approve a highly controversial directive governing the patentability of...
[September 24, 2003, 18:05]
Open-source audio wins MP3 player support
News Vorbis, an audio codec comparable to MP3 or Windows Media Audio, was created by open-source programmers to give developers a high-quality technology that could be used without licence or royalty fees.
[February 25, 2003, 9:59]
First half review: Rambus rules, Egghead scrambled
News Those settlements dramatically open up near-term royalty opportunities for Rambus," said Greg Mischou, an analyst at UBS Warburg. The first half of 2000 was exceptionally strong for most chip stocks and the odd specialty software developer, but...
[July 10, 2000, 14:52]
PrintCE SDK for WinCE/Windows Mobile Devices
Downloads Royalty free distribution. If you develop a program on eMbedded Visual C++ , Visual Basic , Visual Studio 2003/2005 .Net Compact Framework it is possible for you to include into your program a printing opportunity using PrintCE SDK.
[November 19, 2003, 7:00]
HyperTransport tipped to spread
News The protocol is royalty free, but companies are allowed to retain their own intellectual property, depending on the scope of their membership agreements. IBM, Texas Instruments, EMC and four other companies are joining the HyperTransport consortium...
[August 11, 2003, 9:29]
Symbian smartphone shipments surge
News The company saw a decline in its average royalty per handset, from $6.3 (£4) in the second quarter of 2003 to $5.7 in the third quarter, partly because licensees' royalties drop substantially after they ship two million units.
[November 20, 2003, 13:20]
Music industry casts new net for streaming royalties
News Radio stations have long been exempt from labels' royalty fees for playing music on the airwaves. The Recording Industry Association of America launched a mechanism Tuesday for collecting royalties on music streamed over the Internet, marking the...
[November 29, 2000, 10:32]
News Schmooze: Gizmos galore at CeBIT
News The royalty who stayed at home, however, were likely queueing up with the rest of the world at Virgin Megastore for Microsoft's new video game console, which people must have realised by now is actually a fairly large desktop PC in a black plastic...
[March 15, 2002, 16:41]
Microsoft wins final FAT battle
News Under the terms of the GPL, Linux cannot be distributed if it contains patented technology that requires royalty payments. Two patents covering one of Microsoft's main Windows file-storage systems are valid after all, US federal patent examiners...
[January 11, 2006, 14:35]
Motherboard makers look to phase out Rambus
News Brookdale will later work with DDR SDRAM (Double Data Rate SDRAM), a high-speed memory that is based on open standards, and thus does not entail royalty payments. Taiwanese motherboard manufacturers are anticipating a quick production ramp of new...
[July 27, 2001, 17:44]
Microsoft throws governments a standardisation bone
News Microsoft has already made the specifications for the XML document formats in Office 2003 available on a royalty-free basis. Microsoft intends to submit file formats for its new Office 12 applications to the European standards body ECMA International.
[November 22, 2005, 8:30]
Putting a price on Net music
News In the meantime, many radio stations have shut off their online components, also citing a royalty dispute relating to payments for actors in commercials. Record companies and Internet radio broadcasters will start a long-awaited round of hearings...
[July 30, 2001, 10:56]
MS plugs home network developer kits
News Microsoft will license SCP to others royalty-free, Buerk said. Microsoft is nearing its goal to have all manner of home equipment join a network, with a hardware and software developer kit due by the end of the year to let companies link everything...
[April 17, 2002, 15:59]
Music labels are not taking Napster's bait
News Paul Myers, chief executive of Wippit, a company that is developing a Napster-like service that will let users swap MP3 files on a royalty basis, dismissed the offer as no more than a PR tactic. Napster's offer to the music industry of a $1bn...
[February 21, 2001, 15:34]
OpenDocument wins more fans
News It can be used royalty-free by anyone. OpenDocument Format (ODF), the open file format for office documents, is continuing to gather support from local and national governments. On Thursday the ODF Alliance announced that more than 280...
[July 28, 2006, 13:55]
ARM hands new chip design to Intel, TI
News The ARM core is at the heart of most of today's cell phones, although Saxby noted that most of the company's royalty revenue comes from its older ARM7 core, not the latest ARM9 core. Chip designer ARM Holdings announced Monday that it has licensed...
[July 31, 2001, 9:18]
