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Microsoft to push up UK volume pricing by up to a third

...Software Vendor agreements will all increase by 33.5 percent, and Open Licence Agreements will see an increase of 7.5 percent. Select and Select... Read more

2 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner

6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT

...of how Whitehall buys IT — and just how many of its software licences are lying idle across central government. According to the department, there are... Read more

24 May, 2012 by Jo Best

Government seeks savings through licence shuffle

...says it wants to encourage the re-use and reallocation of software licences, while repeated culls of civil-servant positions mean a number of licences... Read more

1 March, 2012 by Tom Espiner

BBC revamps homepage as cost cuts loom

...to drive costs down, as the BBC deals with a government-enforced licence-fee freeze Read more

21 September, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Report: China renews Google's web licence

...China has renewed Google's Internet Content Provider (ICP) licence, allowing the search giant to operate for another year, reports said on... Read more

9 September, 2011 by Tyler Thia

HP readies WebOS licences

...HP has indicated that it is ready to start selling licences for its WebOS mobile operating system. Chief executive Leo Apotheker told Bloomberg... Read more

30 June, 2011 by Erica Ogg

Windows 7 tops 350 million licence sales

...Microsoft has sold more than 350 million licences for its Windows 7, a year-and-a-half after Microsoft launched... Read more

28 April, 2011 by Shelley Portet

China continues Google content licence review

...that they are still reviewing Google's application to renew its content licence, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The company's application for... Read more

8 July, 2010 by Sam Diaz

Oracle deal promises £75m in savings for government

...a single customer, with all departments buying software at the same rate. Licence sharing: Software licences can be reused across departments rather than each department... Read more

28 March, 2012 by Sade Laja

VMware climbs down on vSphere 5 pricing

...VMware has changed its licence pricing for vSphere 5 in response to concerns from customers, who felt... Read more

4 August, 2011 by Jack Clark

Oracle's earnings see strength in software

...below expectations, but Oracle's core software sales performed well. New software licence revenue in the fourth quarter was up 19 percent from a year... Read more

24 June, 2011 by Larry Dignan

Microsoft files concerns over Nortel patents sale

...giant might change the terms of Microsoft's worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free licence to those patents. Microsoft raised the issue in a filing with a... Read more

14 June, 2011 by Jay Greene

Lodsys reaffirms patent case against iOS developers

...tax developer revenue. A week after being told by Apple that its licence of four patents covered iOS developers who use in-app purchasing, patent... Read more

1 June, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn

AWS releases Oracle Relational Database Service

...that accommodates both licensing within the offering and a bring-your-own-licence arrangement. Amazon's Relational Database Service (RDS) manages database admin tasks such... Read more

25 May, 2011 by Larry Dignan

US Homeland Security postpones Real ID deadline

...Americans will be able to use their driver's licences after 11 May to travel by air. The Real ID Act is... Read more

7 March, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

1 hour ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

1 hour ago by Smilig Eddie on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

2 hours ago by SRist on Photoshop users attack Adobe upgrade policy change
Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

4 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

5 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

6 hours ago by debsmk on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
Atangana

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BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

7 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

9 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

9 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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minzhu

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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SoapyTablet

If ZTE have been selling below cost with the ZTE Blade / Orange San Francisco then given the current high street price of the Nokia Lumia 710, you...

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Burn-IT

Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

1 day ago by Burn-IT on 6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT
pjc158

So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

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