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Talkback For £7 NEC will provide a couple of CDs which will enable yo to install XP utilising your existing Vista licence. I think you misunderstand.
[February 6, 2008, 23:30]
Sun revokes FreeBSD's Java licence
News The open source FreeBSD project has had its licence to view the Java source code revoked by Sun, according to the FreeBSD Foundation's latest newsletter. The newsletter, published two weeks ago, said Sun had terminated the FreeBSD's Sun Community...
[January 7, 2005, 15:40]
Colt lacks plan for its £1.5m mobile licence
News Colt has admitted it has no idea how it will use a telecoms licence it bought last year at a cost of over £1.5m. The UK-based telco splashed out £1,513,218 in May 2006 for the licence, which would allow it to provide mobile services to businesses.
[February 20, 2007, 9:04]
Mozilla: Firefox licence in Ubuntu was a 'giant error'
News Mozilla, the organisation behind the Firefox web browser, has admitted it made a mistake by including an end-user licence agreement in a Firefox beta used in the Intrepid Ibex version of Ubuntu. Mozilla Corporation chairperson Mitchell Baker wrote...
[September 17, 2008, 14:38]
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]
MPEG-4 adoption gets closer as licence released
News A consortium of companies holding patents attached to the MPEG-4 multimedia standard released its licence for the technology, raising hopes for widespread adoption. That proposed licence set a cap of $1m per licensee, as well as a threshold that...
[November 26, 2002, 9:24]
Torvalds: GPLv3 is 'just another licence'
News DRM is a technology used to control the copying and distribution of content such as music and films, while GPLv3 (General Public License version 3) is a software licence drafted by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and intended to govern how free...
[January 17, 2007, 8:17]
Sony, Philips, Panasonic plan single Blu-ray licence
News A new licence will be established by mid-2009 as a "one-stop shop" for device makers. The licence will include all necessary Blu-ray, DVD and CD patents for selling Blu-ray players. Instead of having to approach Blu-ray, DVD and CD holders...
[February 26, 2009, 8:34]
Intel cans its open source licence
News Intel confirmed on Thursday that it has asked the Open Source Initiative (OSI) to remove its open source licence from future use as an approved OSI licence. He said that Intel would like to "remove from future use" the Intel Open Source License, to...
[March 31, 2005, 15:25]
Computer Associates buys SCO's Linux licence
News The rationale was that Linux is such a minor part of our operations and that our usage is so small and isolated, it made business sense to pay the licence fee they were asking rather than risk potential litigation," Jones said.
[March 5, 2004, 7:45]
GPS.Friend additional licence
Downloads This is only additional licence, for the second and every next phone device. It is valid only with your base licence of this program.This is user-friendly program,allows you, with just two touches of your phone:- get and review your current...
[July 29, 2008, 8:00]
VAT/Tax Inspections should include Software Licence Audit
Talkback Business should be made to have an annual Software Licence 'MOT' Declaration, which is then verified by VAT/Tax Inspectors, afterall its a VAT underpaymnet in effect. Regulating the Web is a very dangerous game and maybe the ISP should distinguish...
[February 24, 2008, 9:38]
German 3G licence auction: how the bidding works
News For German speaking readers, full coverage of the German 3G licence auction can be found on ZDNet Germany. The first bids were announced at 9am GMT yesterday. Each party is allowed to come back ten times a day to increase its bid for up to three...
[August 1, 2000, 17:07]
O2 halves the value of its UK 3G licence
News It now believes its UK 3G licence is worth just £2bn -- having paid just over £4bn for it in the 2000 auction. Analysts believe that there is only room for three successful 3G operators in the UK -- where five companies currently hold a 3G licence.
[May 21, 2003, 10:35]
BT applies for broadcasting licence
News The telco has applied to the Independent Television Commission (ITC) for a licence permitting it to provide video and other programming directly to its customers. Fresh from announcing the departure of chief executive Sir Peter Bonfield, BT is...
[November 2, 2001, 11:02]
SCO to attack validity of Linux licence
News If SCO is successful, its lawsuit would undermine the legal basis for Linux and much other open-source software, although the open-source community has prepared an alternative licence that could be used by Linux if the GPL is invalidated.
[August 15, 2003, 14:50]
BBC tech chief calls for iPlayer licence fee
News A loophole which allows those who only watch BBC programming through iPlayer to avoid paying the licence fee means that some users are getting a "free ride", the BBC's director of Future Media and Technology Erik Huggers told a Broadcasting Press...
[May 21, 2009, 10:00]
Scottish council pays up for Microsoft licence breach
News Clackmannanshire Council was found to be in breach of its Select contract with Microsoft, which allowed it purchase software licences at reduced prices, when it was exposed for buying 470 illegal licence agreements at a further discounted price.
[January 11, 2002, 17:01]
Creative Commons licence upheld by court
News A court in the Netherlands has ruled that a Creative Commons (CC) licence is binding in a case brought against a Dutch gossip magazine by an ex-MTV star. This is one of the first times that the licence — which offers more flexibility than...
[March 21, 2006, 10:50]
Microsoft sells first licence in EC programme
News Microsoft's licence to Quest comes at a key time for the software giant. Quest, via its Microsoft WSPP licence, will receive access to communications protocols that are implemented in Windows server operating systems.
[March 9, 2007, 9:42]
