licence
RSS licenceWindows 7 to come in Family Pack option?
News This week enthusiasts started buzzing over wording in the licence agreement in the test build that suggests Microsoft will have an option to buy a licence for Windows 7 that covers up to three PCs in the... [03 Jul 2009]
Visa to Monitise mobile with £13m deal
News Under the deal, Visa will pay Monitise $13m to help it develop technology to provide SMS alerts and secure payment mechanisms for holders of Visa's roughly two billion cards worldwide - plus licence, service and... [01 Jul 2009]
Dell puts email, encryption up in the cloud
News Dell has rolled out a SaaS package to enable European businesses to outsource functions such as email, software-licence management, disaster recovery and laptop encryption. The Dell Modular Services package marks the... [30 Jun 2009]
Cheat sheet: Project Canvas
Cheat Sheet Well the success of the BBC's online on-demand TV service, iPlayer shows that there is a real appetite for on-demand content provided as part of the TV licence fee. The BBC's independent regulator, the BBC Trust, is... [23 Jun 2009]
£6 broadband tax to fund fibre for all
News To enable the UK's mobile networks to play a bigger part in building universal broadband, Carter flagged up the report's plans for "a programme of spectrum liberalisation, auction packaging, auction release timetable,... [16 Jun 2009]
Public sector CIOs: It's your time to shine
Comment Their message didn't always get through and while the OEP is undoubtedly going to equal some tough times ahead, it is also gives the CIOs licence to instigate radical change and play a huge part in transforming how the... [08 Jun 2009]
iPhone apps, Antique PCs, Microsoft R&D and supercomputers
Photo Photo credit: edhiker, via Flickr under the following Creative Commons licence High tech watches kicked off May's crop of photo stories, from the watch pictured above which tells the time in binary, to wrist-candy... [02 Jun 2009]
Shocking iPods, netbooks and an offshoring backlash
News Also popular on the site this month: news that Google is to get on its bike to extend the reach of its 360-degree Street View service, and more rumblings about Auntie's iPlayer and the licence fee. Broadband Britain was... [01 Jun 2009]
'iPlayer users should pay their way': BBC tech boss
News A loophole which allows those who only watch BBC programming through iPlayer to avoid paying the licence fee means that some users are getting a "free ride", the BBC's director of Future Media and Technology, Erik... [20 May 2009]
Photos: The top five UK supercomputing projects
Photo Photo credit: azrainman, via Flickr under the following Creative Commons licence Photo credit: edhiker, via Flickr under the following Creative Commons licence Photo credit: ynse, via Flickr under the... [18 May 2009]
£1.49bn: The price of pirate desktop software in the UK
News Software companies lost £1.49bn to piracy in the UK last year - and that's before the impact of the economic downturn. More than a quarter of the desktop software installed in the UK last year - 27 per cent - was pirated according to the... [13 May 2009]
ID cards, Oracle, iPlayer and how to save your job...
News Elsewhere on the site, BBC iPlayer was getting readers excited as news emerged that Auntie's independent regulator was suggesting tweaks may be needed to TV licence fee legislation - and iPlayer is to blame. [08 May 2009]
HD iPlayer lands on Virgin Media
News Such has been the impact of iPlayer since its release that the BBC's independent regulator, the BBC Trust, recently admitted it may need to rethink how the TV licence is paid. The high-definition (HD) version of the... [05 May 2009]
ID cards: "massive drop" in public confidence, says Blunkett
News A single document combining a compulsory biometric passport with a driving licence would be more popular, according to Blunkett. MP David Blunkett, architect of the National Identity Scheme, has said there has been a... [05 May 2009]
Customers show SAP who's boss over support price hike
News SAP originally proposed to move all customers to its Enterprise Support package on 1 January 2009 with a price increase from 17 per cent of total licence cost to 22 per cent. The company subsequently agreed to only raise... [30 Apr 2009]
