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The Business Software Alliance has long been on the case of U.S. companies who use, inadvertently or not, unlicensed software for their business operations. Make no mistake, the BSA has aggressively gone after and imposed heavy fines on companies who are caught in the act using pirated software....
Read More | Jan 30th, 2008
A specialist mobile software management company, Red Bend Software, has today announced what it claims to be the first Linux based mobile phone complete with fully over the air customizable software. The breakthrough has been made possible by partnerships with companies such as Digital Airways,...
Read More | Jan 29th, 2008 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: 23 Days Ago
Whenever I see a press release that includes words such as monetize, world's largest and unique position I have to admit I get a sudden urge to reach for the delete key. However, on this occasion I decided to read on simple because it came from the direction of SourceForge.net and concerned the...
Read More | Dec 8th, 2007 | Comments: 4 | Last Comment: 23 Days Ago
According to John Wolfe, Director of Internet Enforcement with the Business Software Alliance online auction sites have sold £4 million ($8 million) worth pirated software in just six months.
The BSA has managed to prevent 36,000 illegal products from getting sold in the same period, but it does...
Read More | Oct 4th, 2007
So it's been a while.
In case you weren't already aware, MMORPG software systems are complicated. Very, very complicated. I mean, you're creating a whole world as a software system! So it's taking a while.
We have made progress, however.
My brother and I recently created a networked system...
Read More | Sep 5th, 2007 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Feb 7th, 2008
When we think of "open source", many things come to mind: free, created by volunteers, open to everyone, no profits, etc. That's the steriotype that the media paints mostly, and that when open source programs are created, they are done for the passion of it, and not at all for money. That's the way...
Read More | Mar 1st, 2007 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Mar 7th, 2007
As any seasoned software engineer will tell you, one of the most important things that you can do for yourself when working on a complex software system is to adhere as closely as possible to the software development lifecycle. Too many people want to just dive right in to the coding phase, and...
Read More | Jan 26th, 2007
Microsoft's now planning to make Windows Vista and Office downloadable via their website - a good choice, likely spurred on by the vast number of other software distributable via the internet.
It's a good idea, but I think that it's quite probably piracy will become even worse if it's distributed...
Read More | Jan 22nd, 2007 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Jan 23rd, 2007
As some of you may know, I am a Contributing Editor with PC Pro Magazine in the UK, which is why I am able to reveal that according to figures ‘obtained’ by the publication Microsoft Office 2007 will officially be a rip-off. If you are buying in the UK that is.
While we, on this side of the...
Read More | Nov 29th, 2006 | Comments: 11 | Last Comment: Nov 27th, 2007
OK, I know that Sun Microsystems has already open-sourced the Java EE5 application server code under the auspices of its GlassFish project, but the breaking news is that the full Java source code is to follow next. Sun has announced that the Java code will be covered by the General Public License 2...
Read More | Nov 13th, 2006 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Nov 13th, 2006