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AMD Expects a Major Consumer Product Company to Use Its Chips

When explaining what direction Advanced Micro Devices was going to follow, the company's chief executive officer (CEO) implied that it might have already grabbed the interest of a major product maker. Advanced Micro Devices revealed many things during its Financial Analyst Day, some good (like plans for a &ldq...

6 February 2012
02:43 GMT

ExoPC User Interface Licensed by Skytex

Coming to add their names to the history of IT licensing deals, ExpoPC and Skytex have reached an agreement through which the former's UI will be usable by the latter. Windows-loaded tablets haven't exactly been very successful, despite quite a few attempts at making a versatile enough model. The ope...

26 September 2011
07:59 GMT

NEC and Kodak Sign License Agreement

It would seem that new antitrust lawsuits are not the only developments sprouting up during the holidays, as certain companies, like NEC and Kodak, also took the opportunity to establish other types of relationships.It would seem that, once again, two companies in the IT industry decided it was time to set up a mutu...

28 December 2010
07:17 GMT

How Not to Change a Licensing Model

The recession hit everybody and software developers don’t make an exception. Therefore, in order to best deal with this situation, some companies have decided to take immediate action and make some important changes to their licensing model. Now, most companies did this with a sense of ethics... but not all of ...

7 December 2010
16:29 GMT

Microsoft Transforms Pirated Software into Genuine Products for NGOs in 12 Countries

A new license from Microsoft transforms pirated software into genuine products for NGOs and small independent media in no less than 12 countries. The Redmond company announced the availability of the Unilateral Software License on December 6th, 2010, allowing non-governmental organizations and independent media orga...

7 December 2010
07:33 GMT

WordPress Law - Adopt GPL or Face Legal Action

WordPress, the most used blogging platform used in the world, represented by the voice of its creator Matt Mullenweg, has made it clear once again that any work derived or using its platform must be licensed using a GPL (known also as GNU General Public License) license. This fact was brought to the media attention a...

23 July 2010
06:15 GMT

Cisco Licenses iOS Trademark to Apple

Kristin Carvell, of the Cisco Corporate Communications team, has revealed in a blog post that the American corporation handling networking and communications technology and services has agreed to license the iOS trademark to Apple. The move comes amid rumors of Apple implementing the iPhone OS into new platforms, suc...

9 June 2010
10:19 GMT

AMD Extends Patent Agreement with Rambus

Rambus seems to be one of those firms that go through all life experiences at once. On the one hand, it unveiled a new patent for mobile XDR memory and even got $900 million for signing a license agreement with Samsung back in January. On the other hand, the licensing company is locked in a legal battle with NVIDIA, ...

1 April 2010
05:12 GMT

Updated iPhone Developer Agreement Mentions New iPhone OS

According to those enrolled with Apple for the iPhone Developer Program, an unintended update to the License Agreement was released following Tuesday’s outage with a placeholder referencing a Jan. 27 launch. The altered agreement suggests an updated iPhone OS will be presented around Apple's tablet unveili...

27 January 2010
08:23 GMT

Intel's x86 License Not Jeopardized by FTC Lawsuit, Analyst Says

When the FTC filed its antitrust charges against Intel Corp. about two weeks ago, some parties believed that Intel's x86 license might be in danger. NVIDIA was quite pleased with the events and rumors that ARM chips might finally see a wider adoption started to sprout, even though the FTC quickly responded by sa...

29 December 2009
06:43 GMT

European Commission Approves Rambus' Final Settlement Commitments

Rambus has finally seen the end of the three long years of being under the sharp eye of the European Commission. The technology-licensing company has been under investigation since 2007, when certain DRAM makers filed complaints it, concerning, among other things, Rambus' participation in the Joint Electron Devi...

9 December 2009
08:19 GMT

Apple Loses Rights for ‘Mighty’ Mouse Dubbing

This week, the US Patent and Trademark Offices awarded Man & Machine with the rights to the name “Mighty Mouse” as a “computer mouse” or “cursor control device,” an Engadget report reveals. Apple, as some of you might know, was not the first to call its point-and-click device Might...

8 October 2009
05:35 GMT

Psystar Announces OEM Licensing Program

In a surprising turn of events, Psystar Corp. has announced its own OEM Licensing Program under which Psystar will begin certifying manufacturer's hardware to allow the licensing of its new virtualization technology. Those choosing to participate in the Licensing Program will render their systems Mac OS X-compat...

6 October 2009
06:57 GMT

Psystar Claims It Bought OS X from Apple

In its ongoing battle with Apple, Florida-based Mac cloner Psystar has added new claims presented to a federal judge last week. Psystar is invoking the concept of first sale, recognized more than 100 years ago. Psystar is arguing that, because it legally purchased its Mac OS X copies from Apple and authorized reselle...

15 January 2009
03:11 GMT

Apple Offers Free Mini DisplayPort Licensing

Although still fond of tying everything down to its hardware, Apple has decided to offer free licensing for devices using the Mini DisplayPort standard. Developers and hardware makers eager to build peripherals that work with Apple's new standard must apply first for an evaluation license, and a separate implem...

2 December 2008
09:04 GMT

Microsoft: Office 2007 Home and Student Not for Businesses

Just in time for Black Friday and ensuing shopping frenzy weekend kick starting the 2008 holiday season, Microsoft offered Office 2007 the Home and Student edition at a discounted price of over 50%. The offer is still valid until the end of December 1, with the price of Office 2007 Home and Student edition down to ju...

1 December 2008
12:03 GMT

Intellectual Property Is Now Safe while Using Google Chrome

Google has amended Chrome's Terms of Service (ToS), after facing numerous objections from users. Seemingly, a clause in the ToS contract that shipped with Chrome specified in legal terms that whoever was using it was also giving Google the right to use all intellectual property that they passed through the brows...

4 September 2008
09:19 GMT

Microsoft: The Windows OEM License Dies with Its Computer

Licenses for Windows come in various flavors from Retail to Volume, but perhaps the most common of all is provided by original equipment manufacturers together with operating systems preloaded on new computers. Since over 80% of the revenues of the Windows Client Division come from sales of Windows on new machines, t...

17 June 2008
11:17 GMT

Pokemon MMO Popped

We don't really know whether you have ever heard about independent game developers Nnooo - they are the folks currently working on a WiiWare title called Pop where you have to... pop bubble balloons in order to score points. Yes, not exactly the funniest thing to do on your spare time, but nobody is perfect. Any...

19 May 2008
15:06 GMT

EULA: You're Not Allowed to Use a Virus Without Paying for it!

Most software packages out there have licensing terms which protect them from copyright infringement such as re-distribution which would obviously cause financial losses to the development company. However, it seems like all the software developers, including the ones working in the underground market, want to protec...

29 April 2008
02:48 GMT

THQ Has Its Day in Court

THQ has won a legal case brought against it by Jakks Pacific, regarding the use of the WWE license in games. The case dates back to 2006 and has involved a lot of delays, which THQ mainly attributes to Jakks Pacific.Initially, the two companies had formed a joint venture operation regarding the publishing of video ga...

5 March 2008
02:38 GMT

How To Lose All Your Money Due To Pirated Software

Everybody knows that it's illegal to install pirated or unlicensed content on your system especially if you're a company based on computer activities. That's why it's always recommended to buy licenses and pay for the software you install or else you may get caught and forced to pay a huge fine. B...

26 November 2007
06:20 GMT

AMD Licenses Some 3D Technologies to QUALCOMM

Advanced Micro Devices just announced that it will start licensing a number of its 3D technologies to the mobile phone making company QUALCOMM as the hardware producers recently signed an agreement in order to make available cutting-edge graphics core technology for the incoming generation of mobile phones and other ...

2 October 2007
05:07 GMT

Vista Lamentable, Only 5 Million Sold Copies in July, Compared to 20 Million in February

Windows Vista sales are lamentable, and lamentable is an understatement. But the use of any euphemisms will not be able to hide the fact that the Wow momentum has worn out almost completely, and that Vista is delivering a poor performance in terms of sales. Microsoft has applauded selling in excess of 60 million Vist...

28 September 2007
13:22 GMT

AMD Licenses Graphics Technology to Freescale

Advanced Micro Devices announced that it will begin to license some of its graphics technologies to Freescale Semiconductor, a company active in the mobile and multimedia platform solutions. The scope of this license agreement between the two hardware companies is that Freescale needs a number of 2D and 3D graphics t...

17 September 2007
09:18 GMT

Corsair Licenses Intel's DDR3 Extreme Memory Profile

Overclocking just got better, as Intel agreed to license the random access memory manufacturing company Corsair to use the Extreme Memory Profile (EXP for short) enabling the memory producer to manufacture and sell DDR3 memory modules programmed with the new and improved Intel XMP specifications.Intel's Extreme ...

15 September 2007
05:31 GMT

GPLv3 Has Been Officially Approved

Open Source Initiative's licensing board officially approved the third version of the General Public License (GPL) and Lesser General Public License (LGPL), as Open Source Initiative's chairman, Michael Tiemann, said.Although the GPL is used for almost three-quarters of free and open source licenses, the fa...

11 September 2007
05:19 GMT

Transmeta's Problems Are Not Over

Transmeta announced its financial results for the second quarter of the fiscal year 2007 and the news isn't good. During the second quarter, the company registered revenues of $171.000, including "146,000 of service revenue and $25,000 of end-of-life product revenue", much lower than the revenues registered duri...

7 August 2007
02:53 GMT

Symantec's Compensation Satisfies Users

The security company Symantec that caused a lot of problems for numerous Chinese users said that its compensation for the trouble was accepted by the users in the period granted for the registration process. If you didn't know, the security firm wrongly flagged some of vital files for the Windows operating syste...

16 July 2007
08:49 GMT

Symantec Offers Free Licenses

After numerous angry users informed Symantec that one of its security solutions mistakenly flagged two Windows XP critical files as malware and quarantined them, the parent company decided to take attitude and offer compensation to the affected users. Back in May, a lot of Chinese users said that Symantec's Nort...

26 June 2007
10:20 GMT

Forget about 40 Millions! Microsoft Didn't Sell a Single Windows Vista!

Microsoft has applauded strong market performances for Windows Vista since the operating system hit the shelves. The initial predictions for Windows Vista sales involved an adoption rate double than that of Windows XP. And although Vista had gotten up to what it seemed a shaky start, Microsoft touted the first 20 mil...

21 May 2007
11:38 GMT

Google News Smashed by Its Own Weapons

Google News might be defeated by other services using its own weapons, as it seems that the search giant prepares several deals with the publications indexed on the service. This means that the Mountain View company might be forced to pay for the content published on the page although it managed to bring a lot of tra...

21 May 2007
08:45 GMT

The Fastest Way to Kill Windows Vista with an Upgrade

Do you want to know the fastest way to kill Windows Vista with an upgrade? And I mean completely kill the operating system, to the point where not even the operating system's license will be valid? Well, it's actually simpler than you might think. All you have to do is buy an OEM machine with Windows Vista ...

16 May 2007
07:02 GMT

"Entropia Universe" Opens Pawnshops Exchanging Virtual Items for Real Dollars

Entropia Universe is an online MMORPG virtual world where the Real Cash Economy (RCE) allows the players to exchange the virtual money, known as PED - Project Entropia Dollars, into real cash, with an exchange rate of 10 PED = $1 USD. This means that virtual rare items obtained while playing the game can be exchange...

10 May 2007
10:53 GMT

Chips on DVDs Make Them Unreadable Until Activated at the Cash Register

The electronics industry is confronted with an increasing number of thefts and is continuously developing new technologies to prevent this. Theft accounts for as much as $400 million in annual losses for the manufacturers.A new technology is hoped to do just that with the help of a small chip installed on each DVD....

10 May 2007
08:41 GMT

Run Windows Vista on a Computer with No Hard Drive

Microsoft continues to fine tune the license agreement of Windows Vista. The latest modifications introduced by the Redmond Company involve enabling customers to run Windows Vista on diskless PCs and in virtual machines centralized on server hardware. Unfortunately, the changes do not impact the whole Windows custome...

2 April 2007
11:16 GMT

Install and Activate the Same Copy of Windows Vista on Multiple PCs

Microsoft will permit users that have acquired a full or upgrade edition of Windows Vista to install the same copy of the operating system on multiple machines, provided that they own all the additional computers. Sounds just too good to be true. Doesn't it? Well, no. This is the real deal. According to the curr...

21 March 2007
07:37 GMT


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