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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.

Andy Weir · Jan 19, 2012 · Hot! with 50 comments

ARM announced today that they have signed a new licensing agreement with Microsoft. The deal extends an existing relationship between the two companies. Since 1997, Microsoft and ARM have worked together on software and devices across...

Michael Gillett · Jul 23, 2010 · Hot! with 18 comments

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...

Tom Warren · Jun 23, 2010 · Hot! with 55 comments

Microsoft is planning to licence its keyboard and mouse technologies for the first time in history. Microsoft will allow third party companies to use Microsoft's U2, tilt wheel and...

Tom Warren · Mar 30, 2006 · Hot! with -1 comments

Electronic Arts has signed an agreement to develop and publish an official game of the UEFA Champions League 2004-2005 competition, and plans to release the results in February next year on PS2, Xbox, GameCube and...

· Nov 19, 2004 with -1 comments

While ATI Technologies does not currently officially support any technologies that could enable multi-GPU graphics sub-systems on desktops or workstations, a recently released plan from Alienware is likely to provide users of ATI's RADEON products...

· Oct 27, 2004 with -1 comments

Apple could be ready to launch its iTunes Music Store (ITMS) in Europe by the middle of June, sources said to be familiar with the company's plans have claimed. They reckon that the Mac maker...

· May 30, 2004 with -1 comments

European firms are being urged to buy a licence for Linux to avoid legal action by SCO which claims the operating system unlawfully includes some of its computer code. Before now SCO...

· Jan 16, 2004 with -1 comments

CHIPSET FIRM Silicon Integrated Systems (SIS) said it has introduced a range of notebook chipset that include wireless LAN capabilities and support Intel's Pentium M microprocessor. The firm's integrated chipset, the SIS 648MX, supports a...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Sep 8, 2003 with -1 comments

Dead for almost a decade, the Commodore brand name is about to be re-animated and with it one if the erstwhile home computer giant's best-known machines, the Am... sorry, the Commodore 64. ...

· Jul 14, 2003 with -1 comments

IBM has told vnunet.com that SCO cannot carry out its threat to revoke its Unix licence on 13 June. Last week SCO vice president Chris Sontag said that SCO would enforce its threat to...

· May 22, 2003 with -1 comments

Microsoft plans to introduce a single licence for its Jupiter suite of integrated e-business components that will eventually replace the existing Content Management Server 2002, Commerce Server 2002, and BizTalk Server 2002 products. The company's...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Nov 22, 2002 with -1 comments

If intel says it is "negotiating" with another chip company, you've got to fear the worst, and that a law suit is on the cards. And that appears to be the case in...

· Apr 11, 2002 with -1 comments

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