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20 articles tagged as licence

How Crusader Kings III Improves upon its predecessor.

Dynasty warriors.

September 25, 2020 | 13:00

Factorio Review

Is Wube Software's factory-management game utterly brilliant, or merely fantastic?

September 25, 2020 | 10:00

Mod of the Month August 2020 in Association with Corsair

We've picked some of the best projects recently completed in our project log forum.

September 18, 2020 | 18:30

CERN announces move away from Microsoft

Blames a tenfold increase in licence fees.

June 13, 2019 | 11:19

Qualcomm found guilty in FTC monopoly trial

Will appeal.

May 23, 2019 | 11:38

Arm responds to RISC-V threat with 'free' Cortex cores

As in beer, not speech.

October 2, 2018 | 11:06

Intel backtracks on benchmark-banning microcode licence

Offers no explanation nor apology.

August 24, 2018 | 11:39

China's Hygon chips outed as Epyc in disguise

AMD pushing the envelope of its x86 licence.

July 9, 2018 | 10:05

Nvidia clamps down on GeForce use in data centres

It's Tesla or nothing, customers told.

January 3, 2018 | 10:09

Intel doubles down on Thunderbolt 3, cans licensing fees

Promises integrated controllers, too.

May 25, 2017 | 11:32

Apple sues Qualcomm for £800 million in 'withheld payments'

'Baseless,' claims Qualcomm.

January 23, 2017 | 10:45

Microsoft hikes enterprise software, cloud prices

13-22 percent thanks to weak Pound.

October 24, 2016 | 11:00

Microsoft adds anti-piracy terms to EULA

Can block 'unauthorised' software and hardware.

August 14, 2015 | 12:10

Microsoft to honour $2 Windows 10 Pro key loophole sales

Bargain licences for lucky punters.

August 3, 2015 | 11:47

Microsoft announces TechNet Subscription closure

Piracy not being blamed, surprisingly.

July 2, 2013 | 08:19

Does Nvidia have a future?

In the first of a regular series of articles looking at the giants of the tech industry, we focus on Nvidia - it's had a torrid time over the past 18 months, but in the past, it's always come back stronger when under pressure, so what does the future hold this time for Nvidia?

August 20, 2009 | 12:41

Nvidia may not be licensed for future AMD chipsets

AMD says future AMD platforms will only use AMD chipsets, but hasn't confirmed if this applies to both the server and desktop markets.

April 24, 2009 | 14:30

Intel won't rule out re-negotiation with Nvidia

Intel said this afternoon that if it was to win the suit it filed against Nvidia, it would consider re-negotiating the agreements it has with its rival.

February 18, 2009 | 17:51

Intel files suit against Nvidia

We have just learned that Intel has filed suit against Nvidia, asking the court to make a declaratory judgement relating to two four-year old license agreements.

February 18, 2009 | 14:07

Nokia cries discrimination over patents

Nokia has filed a complaint with the European Commission over licence fees being extracted by GSM patent holder IPCom, which it claims are unfair.

January 8, 2009 | 09:13

Lancashire Police accused of piracy

The Chief Constable of Lancashire has found himself the target of a writ in the High Court accusing his force of playing music without the relevant licence.

June 17, 2008 | 08:06

VIA to stop making Intel chipsets?

Due to VIA suffering a license dispute and falling market share the Intel chipset market, it has quit while it's ahead. Instead the company will focus solely on making chipsets for its own C7 CPUs.

July 6, 2007 | 18:48

Macrovision's New Licences Transferable

Macrovision, the company behind the FlexNet software suite, have released the latest incarnation of FlexNet Publisher. It's different from previous instalments, as it features a transferable licence. Could this be a big shift in the software industry, including ISVs using digital distribution methods?

October 11, 2005 | 11:32