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Microsoft Gets up to £20 ($30/€24) from ZTE for Each Windows Phone

Windows Phone might not enjoy great market share in the smartphone segment, but the platform is still profitable, at least to Microsoft. The same as with many other products, Microsoft chose to adopt a licensing model with Windows Phone, and this has paid off, it appears. Chinese handset vendor ZTE, one of the co...

19 January 2012
10:29 GMT

Samsung to Be Interested in Buying Parts of RIM, Licensing BlackBerry

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung is reportedly interested in purchasing parts of Canadian smartphone designer Research In Motion. The maker of BlackBerry has been long rumored to plan selling its assets due to falling stocks and slimmer market share. Nothing has been officially confirmed for the time bein...

18 January 2012
02:40 GMT

Microsoft Inks Android Patent Agreement with LG

Microsoft managed to sign a new Android patent license agreement with a leading mobile phone maker, this time with LG. The company signed a similar agreement with Samsung in September last year, and has agreements with other popular Android phone makers as well, including HTC and Acer. Over 70 percent of all...

12 January 2012
09:48 GMT

Nokia Licenses CSR aptX Audio Codec

Nokia may be best known for its mobile devices, but it has a full line of consumer electronics as well, one that may become greater and better now that a new licensing deal has been signed.Those that like to spend time browning before buying a new consumer electronic will probably know of the multimedia products Nok...

2 August 2011
08:21 GMT

Nokia and Apple Settle Patent Dispute

Espoo, Finland-based mobile phone maker Nokia has announced the signing of a patent license agreement with Apple, which will put an end to the patent litigations between the two companies. The handset vendor unveiled that, following the agreement, all complaints that Nokia and Apple filed to the US International ...

14 June 2011
12:41 GMT

Rambus Loses Money During First Quarter

It looks like a certain technology licensing company, known for the many lawsuits it had or has with various IT player, cannot exactly claim to have gone through the most stellar of financial quarters.While Intel and Advanced Micro Devices are known for its central processing units (and graphics adapters in the case...

22 April 2011
04:59 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 Licensing Explained

It’s not always easy to get insight into Microsoft licensing options, but for customers looking to buy Visual Studio 2010, the company offers a special resource. The Visual Studio 2010 and MSDN Licensing White Paper can be grabbed from the Microsoft Download Center free of charge, unlike VS 2010. The whitepap...

17 March 2011
07:45 GMT

Elpida Signs Patenting Agreement with Rambus

Although it initially started as a very respectable memory manufacturer, Rambus seems to have slightly changed its focus over the past few years, the company filing more patent lawsuits than launching really innovative products lately, and for this reason, some companies, such as Elpida, prefer to go ahead and pay th...

6 December 2010
13:31 GMT

HTC and Microsoft Strengthen Their Collaboration

Today, Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation and Redmond-based software giant Microsoft announced the signing of an agreement that enables HTC to license Microsoft’s patented technology. The newly unveiled deal further strengthens the collaboration between the two companies, as the handset vendor is all...

28 April 2010
03:39 GMT

Palm Says It Can Survive on Its Own

Struggled mobile phone maker Palm says it is capable of staying alive on its own, even if its flagship webOS-based devices are registering slow sales on the market. Jon Rubinstein, chief executive officer, said that the company was considering the possibility of licensing its new mobile platform to other companies t...

23 April 2010
05:04 GMT

Windows Server 2008 R2 Pricing and Licensing

The general availability of Windows Server 2008 R2 has brought to the table a variety of complex offerings in terms of pricing and licensing which customers might find difficult to navigate. In this regard, Microsoft has taken the necessary steps in order to ensure that companies looking to leverage the latest iterat...

5 February 2010
05:44 GMT

Windows Mobile to Be Distributed by Bsquare

BSQUARE Corporation has announced today it has become the first company in the world that will distribute Microsoft's Windows Mobile software and mobility applications all around the world. As the recent agreement the two signed reveals, the software giant will provide to the market Windows Mobile licensing...

6 November 2009
02:52 GMT

ActiveSync License Announced for YuLong Telecommunication

Redmond-based software company Microsoft and Chinese Windows CE phone original equipment manufacturer YuLong Computer Telecommunication Scientific Co. Ltd. announced yesterday an agreement through which the latter will be able to integrate the former's Exchange ActiveSync protocol into its upcoming mobile phones...

9 October 2009
05:28 GMT

Ericsson Licenses Its First LTE Technology

Ericsson announced on Wednesday the signing of its first Long Term Evolution (LTE) agreement. The new deal shows that the licensing of the company's technology will play an important role in its strategy for moving forward at a time when the adoption of LTE is increasing all around the world. A wide range of com...

25 June 2009
04:43 GMT

Nokia Announces LGPL Licensing for Its Qt-Platform

Nokia has announced today that its Qt cross-platform application framework and User Interface (UI) designed for desktop and embedded platforms will be made available under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.1 license with the release of Qt 4.5 slated for March 2009. Until now, Qt was available for the...

14 January 2009
06:47 GMT

Microsoft Breaks Limitations for Server Farm Application Virtualization

Microsoft is continuing to ensure the evolution of its vision of pervasive and mainstream virtualization, and in this regard, announced new, more relaxed licensing rules for its products. The move is nothing short of an invitation to "Get Virtual Now" from the Redmond company. The fact of the matter is that customers...

19 August 2008
10:32 GMT

Free Software Licenses Finally Benefit from Protection

Yesterday marked a big step in copyright protection of open source licensed software, as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that an open source software developer can claim copyright infringement, even if the work is released under a free software license.The appellate court reversed a district c...

15 August 2008
06:11 GMT

Dell to Buy ASAP Software

Dell just announced that it plans to acquire the company ASAP Software in order to extend its reach into the market of licensing services. Until now, the ASAP Software company was a subsidiary of Corporate Express. According to a Dell press release this acquisition will strengthen Dell's position and offering on...

2 August 2007
03:15 GMT


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