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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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