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Microsoft in dispute with children's charity for dodging Windows fees
News Over the past few days it has been holding meetings with the charity to decide on a one-off settlement amount to be paid for the outanding Windows licence fees. In the midst of an impending antitrust trial, Microsoft is anxiously trying to solve a...
[July 16, 2001, 11:56]
Advantages and drawbacks to hourly fees and flat rates
News Flat fees are also a draw to companies because they encourage the consultant to work efficiently, Petrie says. Triandafellos' company has bid flat fees since the firm started in 1984. Depending on the type of project she's bidding for, she uses...
[October 16, 2002, 16:28]
Oracle cuts fees in multicore shift
News Software companies accustomed to basing licence fees based on processor tallies preferred to count processor cores, but hardware companies such as Sun, Intel and AMD urged a definition of a processor as that which plugs into a socket, regardless...
[March 2, 2007, 14:22]
US Report: Experts - MS paying fortune in legal fees
News Microsoft can afford to hire top legal talent and Silicon Valley lawyers say the software company never balks at legal fees -- whatever the amount. The software giant is simultaneously in litigation with government trustbusters, Caldera Corp.
[September 29, 1998, 15:25]
EBay to raise fees
News Two days after posting record earnings and revenue, eBay said Thursday that it is raising fees and will charge for a popular free feature. We recognise that price increases directly impact our users, so we do not raise fees lightly or without...
[January 18, 2002, 10:24]
Microsoft slashes Exchange fees
News Those fees remain consistent with the current edition of the software, Exchange 2000. Companies will not have to pay as much to keep their email-addicted employees happy under new licensing terms established by Microsoft for the next version of...
[June 30, 2003, 9:37]
Mobile operators 'at odds' over roaming fees
Talkback If they charge each other high interconnect fees, the they all benefit as the customer ends up paying for it. However, I doubt that high interconnect fees apply in every case. Roaming charges are set between the operators.
[March 26, 2006, 10:31]
Microsoft to disclose .Net fees
News Muglia said fees for companies participating in the service will be "nominal". Microsoft has long said it would charge subscription fees for access to .Net MyServices, but executives in August were still fleshing out the rest of the business...
[October 23, 2001, 10:13]
Royalty fees threaten Net radio
News Federal copyright regulators on Thursday set new royalty rates for online radio companies, halving previously proposed fees that had drawn bitter criticism from Net companies. A RealNetworks representative was also disappointed by the new fees.
[June 21, 2002, 12:46]
Linspire scraps fees on download service
Talkback "Linspire scraps fees on download service" Mmm. Yeah. We believe you.
[September 1, 2006, 16:04]
Yahoo! drops fees on payment service
News The fees are comparable to those charged by other online payment services including PayPal, which recently agreed to be acquired by eBay. has restored a free version of its person-to-person payment system, in a sign that fees may not always fly...
[August 20, 2002, 8:50]
Microsoft cuts fees for schools
News A "memorandum of understanding" has been signed between the software giant and the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta) to cut the licensing fees, which the two are predicting will save English schools around £46m over...
[December 5, 2003, 10:50]
ICO raises fees for larger organisations
News The Information Commissioner's Office has increased its fees for large public-sector organisations to register as data controllers. The idea of introducing tiered ICO fees for data controllers was suggested by former information commissioner...
[October 2, 2009, 8:26]
Mobile operators 'at odds' over roaming fees
Talkback Including subscription fees and everything else. Why can't the cell phone itself display in the lower right corner how much will be billed in total in x days? That would also make it very easy to randomly inspect the correctness of the figures...
[March 20, 2006, 21:21]
Apple preparing new upgrade fees
News Both fees initially were met with protests, but many customers acquiesced. NPD Techworld analyst Stephen Baker described the upgrade fees as "an interesting strategy. Deal was critical of the new fees, however, noting that Apple's campaign to lure...
[January 6, 2003, 7:34]
BT cuts rural broadband fees
News Charges for additional blocks of 30 users have been reduced from a flat £30,000 payment to £10,000 plus connection and line rental fees. The new fees come into effect this week. BT has cut its rates for providing wholesale broadband access to rural...
[January 2, 2004, 16:10]
Linux users to pay fees, says SCO
News SCO Group, the struggling company that holds the copyright to the Unix operating system, plans to boost its revenue by charging fees to some customers that have moved from its products to Linux. But such fees could help ease the SCO's financial woes.
[January 14, 2003, 14:48]
Mobile operators 'at odds' over roaming fees
News According to the Financial Times, the meeting had to be scrapped because mobile operators in southern Europe are unwilling to compromise on roaming fees as tourism makes them net beneficiaries of roaming charges.
[March 20, 2006, 16:55]
SCO's legal fees eat up profits
News Controversial Unix software company the SCO Group reported a loss for its fourth quarter on Monday, based largely on the hefty legal fees the company has accrued in waging its intellectual-property war against Linux.
[December 23, 2003, 11:50]
Net radio fees push some broadcasters underground
News Some efforts to combat the new fees are already under way. Nearly five years in coming, the fees fell substantially below what the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) had sought. He released it early, before finishing its development...
[July 3, 2002, 14:36]
