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- NVIDIA countersues Intel over licensing agreement
- NVIDIA countersues Intel over licensing agreementnvidias crappy drivers make sympathy impossiblethat it takes them years to get them right for their own hw says everything we need to know about their quality commitment.ati/amd isnt much better. I for one welcomes intels gpu competition and would love to see them integrate...
- Tags: Service management, NVidia Corp., crappy driver, licensing agreement, Intel Corp., GPU
- Discussion threads 2009-03-27
- NVIDIA countersues Intel over licensing agreement
- NVIDIA, which was sued by Intel last month over a four-year-old chipset licensing agreement, filed a countersuit today, accusing the chip giant of trying to eliminate a competitor as it tries to play catch-up in graphics technology. The issue revolves around whether the agreement extends into new...
- Tags: Licensing Agreement, NVidia Corp., Graphics, Intel Corp., Service Management, Productivity, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-03-26
- Is TomTom testing Microsoft's patent cross licensing agreements?
- Is TomTom testing Microsoft's patent cross licensing agreements?Whoever invented digital---Went all the way to selling everything to the Governments.This rats nest in the future was seen and would be avoided.The dream is everybody writing software as easy.So... why does a car navigation vendor need FAT support?I could see things like...
- Tags: Service management, OPEN SOURCE, VFAT, patent, TomTom, Microsoft Corp., licensing agreement
- Discussion threads 2009-03-06
- Is TomTom testing Microsoft's patent cross licensing agreements?
- Is Microsoft's lawsuit against TomTom a sign that its attempt at locking down Linux through the use of patent cross licensing agreements is starting to fail? And thanks to TomTom, we know know that Microsoft has been using cross licensing agreements to undermine GPL. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: GPL, Licensing Agreement, Patent, TomTom, Agreement, Microsoft Corp., Service Management, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2009-03-06
- Company Benefits From Licensing Agreement as It Rebrands and Expands Operations
- NuStar Energy began operations in 2007 in San Antonio, Texas, after separating from parent company Valero Energy. Management was under pressure to rebrand operations while ensuring that customers experience continuous service. NuStar had to choose technology that would provide immediate operational efficiency and support long-term corporate goals. NuStar Energy also...
- Tags: Licensing Agreement, Microsoft Corp., NuStar Energy, Benefits, Service Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Management
- Case studies 2008-09-16
- Advisory Firm Grows Business With Flexible Licensing Agreement, Integrated Technology
- When McGrathNicol began in Australia in 2004, one of many challenges the company's management faced was to choose technology that would provide immediate returns and long-term value. The company evaluated various licensing strategies that would deliver initial cost savings and long-term benefits and found both in an integrated Microsoft solution...
- Tags: Licensing Agreement, Cost Savings, Microsoft Corp., Service Management, Benefits, Human Resources
- Case studies 2008-07-01
- Engineering Company Saves 20 Days of Compliance Administration With New Licensing Agreement
- Firth Rixson is one of the United Kingdom's original alloy and steel forging specialists. It provides high quality manufacturing material for aerospace, power generation, oil, and related industries. United Kingdom based forging expert Firth Rixson negotiated a tailored financing solution for its Microsoft Volume Licensing Enterprise Agreement in 2006. The...
- Tags: Licensing Agreement, Administration, Compliance, Financing, U.K., Microsoft Corp., Firth Rixson, Service Management, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- Sprint and Vonage in licensing agreement: I predicted this six months ago
- Back on April 18, nearly six months ago, I ran a post quoting the independent Vonage Forum owner Dan Connor's thread in which he forecast that Vonage would settle its patent disputes with Sprint by means of a licensing agreement. I agreed with...
- Tags: Licensing Agreement, Vonage Holdings Corp., Settlement, Sprint Communications, Service Management, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-08
- Man arrested for extorting Google
- Man arrested for extorting GoogleNT Say, when did the parasites at SCO start free-lancing??.does this guy work for eolas? nt.I heard about a company that ...Told it's customers they had to upgrade to a new licensing agreement or face significant cost increases. Funny thing is, for most companies...
- Tags: Service management, OPEN SOURCE, hater, humor, SCO Group Inc., new Licensing Agreement, licensing agreement, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2004-03-22
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- New Marvell e-book reader platform promises faster product, lower price tag
- Everyone wants in on the e-book reader market now. Chip manufacturer Marvell announced plans this morning to team up with E Ink, a major supplier of electronic paper display EPD technologies. With the new Marvell ARMADA 166E chip, the companies are aiming to release a model...
- Tags: E-reader, Marvell, E-book Reader, Chip, Rachel King
- Blog posts 2009-11-03
- Apple releases iTunes 9.0.2, kills Palm Pre sync ... again
- Round up the executive and throw them in jailApple's behavior is simply unacceptable.Palm... Shakes HeadNote to Palm: Make a Front end that uses the iTunes DB or quit trying to keep hacking. It is REALLY stupid. A) You will never keep ahead of this.B) Even if you keep fixing it,...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Smart phones, Apple Inc., Palm Inc., Apple iTunes, Palm Pre
- Discussion threads 2009-10-29
- Nokia frustrated by iPhone US success? Sues Apple over wireless patents
- Yes, Nokia has to be frustrated, but, they should put their efforts into anAndroid phone and forget the patent lawsuits. Patents...If Apple didn't get an agreement to use Nokia's IP, then Apple should face a court of law and be held to account.Considering all the other phone makers realize this...
- Tags: Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, wireless, Nokia Corp., Apple Inc., patent, GSM
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- Art of the software deal can get messy
- Software buyers and vendors are increasingly butting heads amid a budget squeeze and increasingly aggressive sales tactics, according to Gartner. In a series of presentations at the Gartner IT Symposium in Orlando, analysts walked buyers through a few negotiating tactics with the likes of SAP, Microsoft, Oracle,...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Gartner Inc., Customer, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Negotiation, Software Audit, Software-as-a-service Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Linux, Free Trade, Sales Strategy, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Finance, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- It's time to bring the EULA madness to an end!
- Why is it that every time I install a bit of software that I end up having to trawl through, or ignore, pages upon pages of seemingly meaningless legal gobbledygook collectively knows as the End User Licensing Agreement, or EULA? by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: EULA, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2009-10-08
- The Apple-Palm cat-and-mouse game: How long can it last? [poll]
- Reflects badly on both companiesI think this whole ordeal reflects badly on both Apple on Palm.It makes Apple out to be hypocrites. I mean, wasn't the whole reason for the lack of interoperability with other players a DRM issue? Didn't Steve Jobs say this himself the last time Apple was...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, game, itune, Apple Inc., Palm Inc., Apple iTunes
- Discussion threads 2009-10-05
- The Android-Cyanogen kerfluffle
- The Day that Android Died.The applications that he was distributing sort of were applications that were already on the users phone.But in order to install the new rom you need to erase all and start from fresh, there is no easy way to leave them untouched on the phone, so...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Google Inc., operating system
- Discussion threads 2009-09-29
- Windows 7 OEM pricing emerges ... some serious discounts available
- You forgot to mention ...... That OEM means it must be pre-installed on the machine that was purchased by the end user ... meaning it cannot LEGALLY be purchased for installation by your average Joe ... I own a small IT company in Canada, and I have a...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, pricing strategy, Microsoft Windows, OEM, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2009-09-28
- Corporate open source is more vulnerable
- RE: Corporate open source is more vulnerableI feel so much better now that the government is moving toward open source.'Nuff said.RE: Corporate open source is more vulnerableI feel the title of this article is misleading. Vulnerable how? When discussing computing vulnerability usually refers to the security of the...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Corporate open source, Linux, open source
- Discussion threads 2009-09-22
- OTOY's Jules Urbach: Cloud computing 'threatens' game consoles, Blu-ray, PCs [interview]
- Great in theory, not so great in the real worldThe problem allways comes down to the simple fact that even though something can be done with hardware and software, the user is the component not fully addressed.an XBox or Playstation hooked to a 32 inch television in the den or...
- Tags: Games, Virtualization, Game players, cloud computing, console, game, OTOY, Blu-ray disc, game console
- Discussion threads 2009-09-11
- Microsoft founds, funds a new open-source foundation
- Thank You M.J.I just read this with extreme interest. Thank you for the post and sharing this information."My first thought..If you cannot beat them, join them"The power of Open SourceYears ago Bill Gates himself criticized Open Source and the GPL Gnu Public License. Yet, Microsoft has finally realized the...
- Tags: software foundation, GPL, Microsoft Corp., open source, Free Software Foundation
- Discussion threads 2009-09-10
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