unlicensed
RSS unlicensedBuild vs. Buy: The Hidden Costs of License Management
White Paper Whilst your developers may believe they can handle the unlicensed usage your organisation currently experiences, this whitepaper explores today's business world where change is a constant, and piracy threats are ever-evolving. [05 Jun 2007]
Windows users 'paying $20 patent tax'
News And many Windows installations are unlicensed, meaning that those users' share of the patent tax gets passed on to paying customers. Every time businesses and consumers shell out for a copy of Windows, they could be paying $20 to keep Microsoft's... [20 Apr 2007]
Software piracy risks lost on SMEs
News Nearly half - 41 per cent - of UK-based small and medium-sized enterprises believe there is no risk from using unlicensed software, according to a survey from the Business Software Alliance (BSA). The anti-piracy organisation warns that businesses... [19 Apr 2007]
Capacity of OFDM on Typical Indoor Wireless Channels at 60 GHz
White Paper The 60 GHz frequency band with 5 GHz unlicensed bandwidth has been identified as one of the most potential candidates in these future broadband communication systems. The future telecommunication systems are expected to provide the same type of... [15 Apr 2007]
The Invisible Threat: Interference and Wireless LANs
White Paper Interference is a fact of life in the unlicensed bands used by Wireless LANs (WLANs), and is an increasing challenge in all WLAN environments - the enterprise, outdoors (including metro-scale Wi-Fi meshes), and in the residence. [14 Apr 2007]
Diversity Techniques for OFDM Based WLAN Systems
White Paper This standard will operate in the unlicensed 5 GHz band and will provide data rates up to 54 Mbps in the physical layer in order to support broadband multimedia communications between portable devices and different core networks. [14 Apr 2007]
Spectrum Shaping for Interference Management in Cognitive Radio Networks
White Paper This, however, assumes unlicensed transmissions have a square power spectrum By shaping the unlicensed power spectra, it can do much more. Most dynamic spectrum access research centers on determining the set of frequencies being used by spectrum... [13 Apr 2007]
Sony BMG does mobile downloads deal in China
News China for allegedly infringing copyrights by providing links to unlicensed music. Sony BMG Music Entertainment has struck a deal with content aggregator Global Music International to distribute the company's music videos, full track songs and... [05 Apr 2007]
Do you know what's happening on your network?
Comment This is part of the reason why the use of unlicensed software remains a big problem in enterprises, according to Peter Anaman, senior internet investigator at corporate law firm Covington & Burling. Corporate networks have become vast and complex... [28 Mar 2007]
Making the Case for Mobile WiMAX
White Paper However, successful wide-scale deployment of WiMAX will depend on using licensed spectrum because unlicensed deployments of WiMAX networks will not provide the interference control that service providers need to create a strong business case. [21 Feb 2007]
FCC Regulations Update
White Paper The 5 GHz band is divided into several sections referred to as Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure (UNII) bands. A new FCC Rule addressing Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS) in the 5 GHz band will go into effect for the US and Canada in... [21 Feb 2007]
Microsoft customers get licensing help
News The programme is part of Microsoft's Software Asset Management (SAM) toolkit, which was launched last year to help businesses get to grips with complex licensing agreements and reduce their risk of unwittingly using unlicensed or counterfeit... [21 Feb 2007]
Russia hits out at Microsoft licensing
News He said: "We are constantly fighting against unlicensed use of software but we need to fight not with the consumers but those who develop the software. The problem of software piracy in Russia has been highlighted in recent weeks by the case of a... [16 Feb 2007]
Photos: Outsourcing to Russia
Photo At the same time we are constantly fighting against unlicensed use of software but we need to fight not with the consumers but those who develop the software. Red Square, the colourful St Basil's Cathedral and the Kremlin may be the traditional... [15 Feb 2007]
BT fuels Fusion offering with two dual-mode handsets
News The HP iPaq 514 Voice Messenger is a dual-mode UMA (unlicensed mobile access) Windows Mobile 6.0 handset, to be launched by BT in "mid 2007", according to an HP statement. BT has inked deals with HP and Taiwan's HTC for the supply of converged... [12 Feb 2007]
