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RSS purchasedRingtone piracy booming in Asia
News Rights are generally purchased through the individual publishers, but many rely on groups like the Harry Fox Agency to do their work. The boom in the mobile phone download industry in Asia has produced extensive music piracy, and copyright owners... [28 Aug 2003]
IT managers happy to pay for Sun's StarOffice
News Sun purchased the creator of StarOffice, StarDivision, for $73.5m in August 1999, to compete with Microsoft's Office suite. Sun's decision to start charging for StarOffice has been welcomed by members of the IT community, in both the corporate and... [27 Feb 2002]
Sun says 'damaged' Java should be included in XP
News That meant Windows users had to download Java independently, if it hadn't already been separately installed by the PC maker or dealer from whom they purchased their machine. Sun Microsystems yesterday told a US judge that its Java programming... [04 Dec 2002]
Customer sues over website pricing blunder
News There is no way a purchaser could reasonably have supposed that 2000 CD's could be purchased for the sum of £27.75 plus VAT. A PC World Business customer is taking the company to court later this month for failing to honour the purchase of 2,000... [01 Aug 2003]
Intel admits Centrino VPN flaw
News As a result, Francisco referred notebook users who believe they might be experiencing a problem to tech support at the notebook manufacturer from which they purchased their machine. Chipmaker Intel has acknowledged that a software incompatibility... [02 Jun 2003]
eBay CEO defends IPO share 'scandal'
News Whitman noted in her email that she has not purchased any IPO shares from Goldman Sachs since joining the company's board earlier this year. eBay CEO Meg Whitman has sent an internal email to staff defending herself and other eBay executives... [24 Oct 2002]
Ballmer's iPod slur memory lapse
News While I'm sure there are music thieves using every brand of portable music player, as an iPod owner and one who only has legally purchased the music on it, I take offence at Ballmer's comments and find them childish," wrote another, adding that it... [05 Oct 2004]
Microsoft gives a heads-up on Office 2007
News The "Professional Plus" and "Enterprise" editions can only be purchased by businesses through Microsoft's volume-licensing program, and Microsoft did not detail the cost for those options. Microsoft on Wednesday offered further details of the next... [16 Feb 2006]
Upwardly Mobile: Why I won't buy an iPhone
Comment I've spent hours of my life convincing iTunes I should be allowed to play songs I either ripped from lawfully bought CDs or purchased from Apple itself on my laptop or my iPod. Apple may think all iPod users are dying to buy an iPhone - but not Jo... [10 Nov 2006]
iTunes gears up to take over your mobile
News Nevertheless, the company has steadfastly declined to give rival digital music companies licenses to the FairPlay copy-protection software that protects songs purchased from the popular iTunes song store. [27 Jul 2004]
Microsoft enters music download fray in the UK
News Pressplay, recently purchased by Roxio and renamed Napster, already plans a pay-by-the-song music store, slated to be launched this winter. A new pay-by-the-song music service that puts an iTunes-like digital download store inside Microsoft's... [14 Aug 2003]
RealNetworks mulls porn pay-per-view
News In January 2000, search engine Ask Jeeves confirmed it purchased web addresses for "asksex.com" and "askadult.com" in preparation for launching a search engine for web pornography. By Jim Hu RealNetworks is considering adding adult programming to... [16 Aug 2002]
Gates targeting "the next five billion" PC users
News We expect there will be some number of many tens if not single hundreds of thousands of PCs purchased under programmes like this over the next 12 months. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is using a speech in Beijing to unveil a new low-cost bundle of... [19 Apr 2007]
Trend Micro targets spam with Kelkea buy
News In May, however, the organisation purchased anti-spyware company InterMute, followed by Kelkea a month later, which "comes as a big change". Antivirus vendor Trend Micro is trying to maintain a competitive position by broadening its offerings with... [15 Jun 2005]
Microsoft settles Iowa antitrust class action
News Businesses and individuals residing in Iowa which have proof that they purchased certain Microsoft operating systems, or Microsoft applications such as Word, Excel or Office, between 18 May, 1994, and 30 June, 2006, qualify as class members... [15 Feb 2007]
