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Britain's 3G Bill Could Top £50bn
News A year after spending between £4bn and £6bn each acquiring a 3G licence, the five network operators who hope to bring third-generation Internet services to the UK have been warned that the total bill could top £50bn.
[May 1, 2001, 17:06]
Microsoft Accused Of Staking Claim To The Internet
News In the email he states that Microsoft's Royalty Free Protocol License Agreement is offering for licence 130 Internet protocols, many of which are RFC documents -- notes that are submitted to the IETF by various individuals, and may become Internet...
[November 10, 2004, 11:43]
Russia Faces Increased Internet Restrictions
News At a conference organised by Privacy International, Boris Pustinsev, president of St Petersburg-based Citizens Watch, explained it would be necessary soon to obtain a state licence in order to publish even the most simple Internet site.
[September 26, 2000, 10:10]
Microsoft And AOL Time Warner Settle Antitrust Suit
News AOL will receive a seven-year, royalty-free licence to continue using Internet Explorer on its flagship online service. AOL also agreed to a seven-year royalty-free licence of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser.
[May 30, 2003, 7:34]
Broadband For A Tenner - But Only Up North
News Tele2 was granted a spectrum licence in June and has primarily targeted small to medium-sized businesses. It has decided not to go down the radio licence route and will not be bidding for spectrum in the upcoming wireless broadband auction.
[November 1, 2000, 12:45]
Microsoft: Streaming Office 'infringes Licence'
News Microsoft has said that the internet service provider Fasthosts, which has started offering a subscription-based version of Microsoft Office 2007, is infringing on the software giant's licence regulations — but Fasthosts has denied this claim.
[February 8, 2008, 14:59]
SCO Names Linux Licensee
News The SCO Group, which claims ownership to the Unix operating system, identified on Monday a company that has agreed to sign a licence to use Linux. SCO has been demanding that Linux users purchase a SCO intellectual property licence to use Linux.
[March 1, 2004, 16:20]
MS Seizes E-commerce Initiative
News Merchant Server 1.0 requires a server licence (£12,500 per server) and an administration licence (£3,000). Microsoft started shipping its Merchant Server 1.0 Internet commerce package today and brought together leading vendors who are using the...
[November 14, 1996, 14:23]
Hackers Hijack Microsoft DRM
News Normally, when a user tries to play a licence-protected file but doesn't own the necessary licence, Media Player goes onto the Internet to find a site where they can buy one. According to a warning posted on security company Panda Software's Web...
[January 12, 2005, 15:10]
Microsoft Has No Licence For Bad Behaviour
Leader Uniquely among Internet standards, Microsoft's restrictive licence is plainly incompatible with open source, in theory and in practice. You don't need a licence for HTML, DNS, or for TCP/IP -- open standards that have benefited Microsoft...
[September 3, 2004, 12:10]
Software Licence Tied To Human Rights
News Software distributed under an "enhanced source" licence released this week will be legally prohibited from censoring or spying on users. Crafted by Hacktivismo, a hacking group organised by the Cult of the Dead Cow, the Hacktivismo enhanced-source...
[November 28, 2002, 8:22]
BT Suffers Blow In Hyperlink Patent Case
News British Telecom's suit against Prodigy is a test case, and if BT wins it is likely to pursue other Internet Service Providers (ISPs) for licence fees. Before the case went to court, BT had contacted Prodigy and 16 other ISPs, including America...
[March 14, 2002, 16:57]
Sender ID Loses Supporters
News We believe that the current licence is generally incompatible with open source, contrary to the practice of open Internet standards, and specifically incompatible with Apache License 2.0," the group wrote on Thursday in its letter to the technical...
[September 3, 2004, 9:25]
PCs, Mobiles And PDAs Need 'online' TV Licence
News Other readers claimed that a pure internet feed not involving a tuner and received by a computer is not covered by TV licensing legislation and therefore does not require a TV licence to watch it. TVL said this means the TV licensing regulations...
[June 13, 2006, 16:20]
E-Minister Takes First Steps Towards Free Wireless Internet
News The DTI says that the consultation will discuss whether current regulations should remain unchanged, whether specific and limited use of unlicensed spectrum should be allowed or whether public telecommunications should be allowed with no licence...
[October 22, 2001, 17:09]
Transmeta Set To Release Linux For Net Appliances
News The chipmaker is preparing to post Mobile Linux, its take on the Linux OS, under the General Public Licence (GNU) process in the near future, company representatives said this week. In fact, it's required under the GNU licence to release...
[February 16, 2001, 11:13]
Greeting Card Virus Brings Bad Tidings
News The power of a button-click to transform a virus into a legal -- albeit questionable -- program has some attorneys worried that future Internet attackers could get protection using one of the software industry's best weapons: the click-wrap licence.
[November 13, 2002, 11:28]
Code Leak Spurs Windows Server 2003 Piracy
News During this process, hardware configuration and licence information were collected and associated together in an anonymous database. Two volume-licence code keys also leaked out ahead of the release of Windows XP, but the company was essentially...
[April 8, 2003, 7:28]
Watchdog Issues Rogue-dialler Help
News Only last week we barred 11 companies because they were operating without a licence. ICSTIS is insisting that premium-rate companies trade with a licence, which can only be obtained by producing a confirmation letter from 090 service providers.
[October 21, 2004, 17:50]
Government Clears Way For Public Wi-Fi Hot Spots
News In the UK, it is possible to transmit within the ISM band without a licence as long as this is not done for commercial purposes -- so firms are currently prevented from using the 802.11b wireless networking technology as a way of selling Internet...
[June 11, 2002, 14:36]
