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whitepaper Zapp, a Romanian mobile phone operator, needed to build a more efficient IT infrastructure and consolidate its network. After entering into a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement, it was able to deploy a new, simplified infrastructure that improved...
[20 May 2008]
News Skype has abandoned its efforts to avoid complying with an open-source licence that requires it to provide source code with Linux-based VoIP phones. The licence requires vendors to ship source code with any open-source product but Skype's WSKP100...
[12 May 2008]
Comment Before the installation got far, the licence code was demanded. In fact, even Fast's claim that every breach of a software licence constitutes theft is contentious. Why is it so difficult, for example, to negotiate a site licence based on...
[07 May 2008]
News O2 has finally met the 3G coverage obligation that was part of the licence it acquired in 2000 for providing mobile broadband. Broadband from A-Z Click here for all there is on broadband, from fibre to zombies.
[06 May 2008]
News In separate news, Ofcom has announced O2 has now met the obligations of its 3G licence to achieve 80 per cent overage of the UK population. Back in February, the regulator threatened to shave months off O2's licence if it didn't achieve 80 per cent...
[02 May 2008]
Round-Up The way it works is thus: by taking advantage of the "downgrade rights" offered as part of the Windows Vista licence agreement, PC companies plan to offer machines loaded with XP beyond the cut off date.
[02 May 2008]
News Taking advantage of the "downgrade rights" offered as part of the Windows Vista licence agreement, HP and Dell both plan to offer machines loaded with XP well beyond June. Facing a 30 June deadline to stop selling PCs with Windows XP, the world's...
[28 Apr 2008]
News Because these could not be offered under the GNU General Public Licence, this stopped OpenJDK - used in the Fedora and Ubuntu Linux distributions - being fully compatible with Java. Sun is to open source the last closed-source parts of Java, a move...
[28 Apr 2008]
News The alleged schedule for the release of XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) - obtained by the Neowin website - shows manufacturers and volume licence customers will get their hands on the upgrade on 21 April. The third and final service pack for Windows XP...
[16 Apr 2008]
News Part of the agreement on LTE means the companies will agree to licence their patents "on fair and reasonable terms", which means keeping royalties for handset patents below 10 per cent of the handset sale price.
[15 Apr 2008]
News By 2012, at least one-third of spending on business software will go toward subscription-based services instead of a product licence. Within two years, the brand and model of the enterprise laptop could be decided by the user, not the IT department.
[14 Apr 2008]
News The service is only available to UK licence fee payers. The BBC has announced its iPlayer online TV catch-up service is being made available for the Nintendo Wii. Wii owners will be able to stream the last seven days of BBC shows on their TVs...
[10 Apr 2008]
News Harmonised technical requirements mean European airlines will only need a national licence from their own country in order to operate pan-European in-flight mobile services. In-flight mobile calls have been given the green light by the European...
[08 Apr 2008]
News Gartner misses the point that a free licence does more than cut the cost of ownership, said Taylor, pointing out that it provides other benefits. If you remove the licence cost, you may only remove three per cent of the total cost of the existing...
[07 Apr 2008]
Comment Such a trend poses interesting questions for the future, especially when in some countries public broadcasting is funded by a levy or licence on the basis of TV ownership. In the UK, for example, the BBC is funded by licence fees paid by some 24...
[26 Mar 2008]
Case Study Using the Nuxeo technology also provides costs savings as PA doesn't pay a licence fee but uses its budget to develop the platform to suit its needs. Press Association (PA) is moving to an open source platform for its editorial content management...
[20 Mar 2008]
News The first phase of Voyager is due for completion by the fourth quarter of 2009 and will see Nationwide pay SAP around £15m in software licence costs and up to £35m for implementation. Nationwide Building Society will use the latest version of SAP's...
[18 Mar 2008]
News The [Open Specification Promise] FAQ just states what everyone knows and acknowledges, the GPL is a copyright licence that is drafted in a way that leaves many issues (not just those related to patent rights) open to many interpretations.
[18 Mar 2008]
Comment Instead they can opt to just use their existing forms of ID - passport and driving licence. Of course the government is bravely attempting to position this revised timetable for the controversial £5.6bn (that's the government's own cost estimate...
[07 Mar 2008]
News All major handset manufacturers worldwide licence Flash today delivering a broad range of mobile devices ranging from feature phones to smart phones and consumer electronic devices. At Apple's shareholder meeting this week, CEO Steve Jobs took a...
[06 Mar 2008]
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