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Iraqi mobile licences go for a song
Blog Iraq's Asiacell and Korek plus Kuwait's MTC managed to buy their licences for just $1.25bn each, or not much over £600m. Remember the good ol' days of 2000 when there was more life in the telecoms industry than the engine of Michael Schumacher's F1...
[August 20, 2007, 17:14]
60 million Windows Vista licences
Talkback Or does it include volume licences also? Does this number represent consumer purchases for updates? Or does it include manufacturers units still sitting on retail shelves? Numbers can be played with to reflect good or bad.
[August 6, 2007, 6:42]
UK firm sells second-hand Microsoft licences
Talkback What is the difference between paid for software licences and personal computers? In financial terms, they are both capital expenditure that can be re couped when a company goes into liquidation. Microsoft would be wrong to block it, just as it...
[November 13, 2005, 9:36]
Microsoft gives discounts on software licences
News Companies can sign up for discounts on SQL Server, SharePoint and other Microsoft software, or two bundles of client-access licences, according to notices posted on the Microsoft Incentives website. Microsoft has cut the price of leasing software...
[March 12, 2009, 14:48]
Outsourcing brings legal woes over software licences
News Companies that provide outsourcing services could face prosecution if they do not ensure that their customers' software licences are outsourcing-friendly and up to date. Simon Briskman, a partner at media law firm Olswang, and a member of Fast's...
[July 8, 2003, 8:43]
UK keeps firm line on 3G licences
News The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) still believes there is no need to change the terms of the five UK 3G licences that were auctioned off in April 2000. Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile, mmO2 and Hutchison 3G all own UK 3G licences that last...
[August 20, 2002, 15:01]
Ofcom sells more spectrum licences
News Ofcom has announced the results of its fourth radio spectrum auction, awarding licences to 10 organisations. The spectrum licences, which are technology and service neutral, are in the higher frequency bands at 10GHz to 40GHz, which is suitable for...
[February 25, 2008, 7:41]
HP and Intel round on Oracle over dual-core licences
News But hardware vendors are worried that traditional models for software licences will restrict the take-up of their multicore offerings. The problem, they say, is that as more logic cores are squeezed into each chip the software licences will...
[February 11, 2005, 12:30]
Three firms win Iraqi mobile licences
News Iraq has announced who it has chosen to rebuild part of its communications infrastructure, with mobile phone licences being awarded to three groups. The licences will run for two years initially, and it's hoped that the Iraqi mobile network will be...
[October 7, 2003, 15:35]
Government saves £1m on Microsoft licences
News As specified in the terms of the MoU, the Government has received a discount because the total number of Microsoft licences issued across the public sector now exceeds 1.5 million, the OGC said. The discounts apply to desktop software under...
[September 14, 2006, 17:15]
Wireless broadband licences to start at £100,000
News It will make 15 regional licences available, with one licence per region. Prices for three metropolitan licences -- covering London, the North and the Midlands -- will begin at £300,000, with the remaining 12 licences starting at £100,000.
[January 28, 2003, 14:07]
Identity minister moots ID cards on driving licences
News A Home Office minister has mooted turning UK driving licences into ID cards, sparking accusations the national biometric database will be forced in by the back door. Speaking today at the Biometrics Conference 2008, identity minister Meg Hillier...
[October 21, 2008, 17:18]
UK firm sells second-hand Microsoft licences
News Microsoft has stunned its reseller community by allowing a discount dealer to sell second-hand volume licences, opening the floodgates for a second hand market. Shocked vendors have reacted angrily to the news that Disclic, through discount...
[November 10, 2005, 15:00]
Second-hand Microsoft licences take off
News A company that began trading in second-hand licences for Microsoft software last autumn has been attracting business from within the UK and internationally. Disclic has been able to sell over 2,500 second-hand software licences from insolvent or...
[April 7, 2006, 16:00]
MPs reveal how to save £100m on Microsoft licences
News In its report, titled Purchasing and Managing Software Licences, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said that although government departments had expected to save £36m on licences for the three years ending March 2005, they had shattered this...
[February 27, 2004, 11:05]
UK firm sells second-hand Microsoft licences
Talkback Obviously larger companies who's bread butter comes from selling Microsoft licences would be worried, but what's really wrong here? If no one is using the license and you no longer want it then it should be no issue to resell it on to a third party.
[November 12, 2005, 18:05]
Microsoft licences too expensive, say schools
Talkback MS file formats are the landmine buried for the kids here. MS has had worked hard to maintain an egregious track record in interoperability, especially when it comes to providing documentation for it's APIs and formats to its competitors, even when...
[January 15, 2006, 17:31]
Microsoft licences too expensive, say schools
Talkback To install software in schools that isnt used in industry for poltiical reasons would be criminal. Schools should do just want the NHS did mention open source to Microsoft and then get Microsoft to drop costs.
[January 15, 2006, 12:02]
UK firm sells second-hand Microsoft licences
Talkback Why are resellers shocked? This isn't unusual Microsoft business behaviour at all. Meaning: trying to crush competitors at whatever (whomever) cost.
[November 10, 2005, 21:25]
Microsoft licences too expensive, say schools
Talkback The way ahead is simple. Just adopt OpenOffice on windows, keeping this OS temporarily. Then you have freedom in terms of money and freedom (in terms of speech, since every pupil can have their own copy.
[January 15, 2006, 9:09]
