Through a royalties deal with Samsung, HTC, LG and more, Microsoft are making an estimated $8 from every Android device sold, putting revenue in 2013 at $3.4b. This could increase to $9b in 2017. More...
According to the latest financial report filed by Nokia the company will end up owing Microsoft $650 million. This money represents royalties that Nokia pays to use Windows Phone on their smartphones. More...
Samsung has finally caught a break in the US courts, regarding the patent war with Apple. A US judge has ordered Apple to reveal the full details of its licensing deal with HTC to Samsung's attorneys. More...
HTC might just survive the assault that Apple and Samsung have launched in the mobile space, with shares up following the announcement of a 10 year license agreement with Apple. More...
We are only a few days away from Microsoft's public timeline that Windows 8 will hit RTM in the first week of August, on that note, Windows 8 licensing has shown up in the Volume License Center. More...
A new report suggests that Microsoft is charging manufacturers $85 for each Windows RT license, which will place a major hurdle in front of vendors who want cheap tablets to compete with the iPad. More...
Google's self-driving car has been driving the streets of California for a while with a spotless record. Now the car is legally allowed to operate in Nevada - with some restrictions. More...
Microsoft has been careful to avoid publicising the cost to manufacturers of licensing the Windows Phone OS for each handset - but an executive from ZTE has now revealed the charge for each licence. More...
Tom Petersen over at the official company blog has announced that nVidia, the graphics technology company, has decided to license its technology to a selection of motherboard companies for the upcoming 900 range of chipsets.... More...
In a twitter reply by Microsoft Australia (MSAU) today, we were reminded of a Microsoft Office license term that many people aren't aware of. The reply to a tweeted question stated that whilst the Home... More...
Microsoft said on Wednesday that it had sold 150 Million licenses of Windows 7, seven copies every second. The extraordinary fact was announced on the Windows Team Blog by Microsoft blogger Brandon LeBlanc. "We are excited... More...
Parallels, a nifty piece of software that puts simple OS virtualization into the hands of the average desktop user, released a product dedicated to helping people upgrade from Windows XP or Vista to Windows 7.... More...
Over the weekend, many Windows 7 lovers have been busy looking into the wild and Ed Bott, ZDNet blogger, was not an exception. Bott has found some interesting information in the Windows 7 license agreement(EULA).... More...
SanDisk Corporation and PNY Technologies today announced that PNY has signed a patent cross-license agreement with SanDisk to settle patent cases filed by SanDisk last year in Federal District Court and the International Trade Commission... More...
Microsoft has made the third beta release of FastCGI for Internet Information Services available under its free Go Live license, which means that customers can now deploy the production-quality release on Windows Server 2003. FastCGI... More...
Wireless technology firm InterDigital Inc. said it signed a seven-year licensing agreement to provide technology for Apple Inc.'s first cell phone, the iPhone. The Pennsylvania-based company did not say how much it expects from the... More...
Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) on March 28 announced that it has signed a long-term licensing contract with Intel for the manufacture and sale of chipsets for the Intel Core 2 Quad processor with 1333MHz front... More...
Microsoft said today it will limit the number of machines to which users can transfer the Windows Vista OS licenses, to just one system beyond the original PC. When Windows Vista is available, consumers will... More...
"Corporate Edition" versions of Windows have been the blessing of both IT workers and casual pirates since the days of Windows 95, when the operating system first started asking for a license key on installation.... More...
Number-two publisher takes over spy-film-inspired game license after archrival Electronic Arts ends agreement; now holds PC, handheld, and console rights until 2014. Since 2002, Electronic Arts has held the license to publish games based... More...
Vietnam has approved the issue of a license to Intel Corp, the world's largest microchip maker, to build a $605 million plant to produce chips and computer parts in a deal that officials hope could... More...
Bethesda Softworks, the developers of the upcoming mega-hit in the making Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, announced today that they had obtained the license to the Star Trek universe for all consoles, handhelds and the... More...
The European Union called on Europe's music industry Wednesday to create EU-wide copyright licenses for online music, saying this would boost demand for legal downloads. "These licenses will make it easier for... More...
Any third party manufacturers seeking to make and release peripherals for Microsoft's next-gen console, Xbox360, will have to pay royalties for every unit sold. The console with be equipped with a new security system to... More...
Mad Catz, makers of controllers, racing wheels, and a slew of other peripherals for game consoles old and new has acquired a license to make peripherals for the upcoming Xbox 360. The signed agreement... More...
Electronic Arts Inc. on Wednesday said it renewed a licensing agreement with TV football analyst John Madden to continue using his name, voice and likeness for its top-selling video football game. "Madden NFL 2006" is... More...
Vivendi Universal Games announced on Wednesday that they had gained licensing for the next Unreal engine accross all next generation consoles and of course, the PC. The deal, made between VU and... More...
Taiwan-based chipset makers including VIA Technologies and ULi expect to obtain patent rights for dual-graphics platforms from ATI Technologies and Nvidia, according to sources at the makers. ATI and Nvidia stated that they are still... More...
In another major move by Electronic Arts, they have now bought the exclusive license to the CLC (College Licensing Company) for a term of six years. Under the new agreement, EA will have exclusive rights... More...
In a message posted to the OSI license-discuss email list on March 29, Intel attorney McCoy Smith wrote, "Intel has been studying internally the issue of license proliferation. One step Intel would like to take... More...
VIA Technologies, a successful chipset designer, and 3Com Corporation, a leading networking and communication maker, announced that the two companies have entered into a patent license agreement that grants VIA rights under certain 3Com patents.... More...
This patent license is intended to expand upon the rights that Microsoft grants to those interested in developing and implementing the "Royalty-Free Sender ID for E-Mail Specification License Agreement" in a software product. Anyone interested... More...
Users of one of the best SPAM filters SpamAssassin may want to take a look at the license this time around in the new version 3.0. Because SpamAssassin has now adopted Apache's License. ... More...
The relationship between publisher Midway and media empire Viacom is the subject of speculation again today, after Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone stated that Midway was seen as an acquisition candidate or potential licensee. "The management... More...
The movie-game rage continues with the adaptation of the classic killer-shark thriller, due in 2005. Less than a week after VU Games announced it was turning Scarface into a game, Majesco has... More...
PalmSource Inc said on Wednesday it is talking with Chinese mobile phone maker Ningbo Bird and an arm of TCL about licensing its Palm operating software for handheld devices. PalmSource President and Chief Executive David... More...
THQ Inc. today announced that its wireless games division, THQ Wireless, has reached an agreement with the National Football League (NFL) and PLAYERS INC to develop a new selection of officially licensed mobile content based... More...
Microsoft has created a special software license for Windows 98 and Windows 2000 that allows charities and schools to use second-hand PCs without breaking the company's end-user license rules. As pressure increases on businesses to... More...
MySQL, an open-source database company, has taken a step to mend a rift in the open-source world by updating a controversial licensing provision that had broken a close tie between the MySQL database and another... More...
Microsoft's decision to remove language from a licensing agreement that has long rankled computer makers reflects a growing willingness by the software giant to tweak the way it does business, according to analysts. ... More...
Thanks DeX for showing us this article. Controversial software seller the SCO Group has launched an online-ordering site for companies that want to use the open-source Linux operating system with SCO's blessing. The... More...
Xerox is expected to announce new document processing software next week that could improve the efficiency of content management systems. According to a statement from the company, scientists from Xerox Research Center Europe... More...
Electronic Arts announces that it has been awarded the worldwide rights to develop and publish games based on the upcoming Catwoman movie. Electronic Arts today announced that it has been awarded the... More...
SCO Tries Its Extortion Tactics on Google SCO Group Inc., the software company that is suing IBM and extracting royalties from other Linux users, said on Friday that it had held "low-level... More...
A day after Apple Computer Inc.'s introduction of new iPods and updates to the company's leading digital music service here at the Macworld Expo show, RealNetworks Inc. on Wednesday announced a major update to its... More...
Microsoft plans on Wednesday to announce a new program for licensing some of its intellectual property to others in the technology industry. The move, to be announced by general counsel Brad Smith in a teleconference,... More...
The Virtual Server Customer Preview (VSCP) license extension is now available for download from Betaplace. Any customer that downloaded the VSCP image anonymously must register on the Betaplace site before they can access these downloads.... More...
The SCO Group, Inc., the owner and licensor of the core UNIX® operating system source code, today announced the availability of the SCO Intellectual Property License for Linux®. The run-time license permits the use of... More...
Microsoft has doled out another change to its Software Assurance maintenance policy designed to ease the financial burden on those who wish to move from standard editions of Windows and application servers to enterprise servers.... More...
Amazon is talking to Apple about licensing the Mac maker's online Music Store, the New York Post reports. The paper claims the negotiations are at an "advanced" stage, but its sources say... More...