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License this software
Insight perspective Mismanaging software licensing can lead to extra costs and damaged reputations. Here's how to ensure it doesn't happen to you.
Tags: Software licensing, Piracy, Business applications, Personal applications, Organization, Tool, software license, Quocirca, software company, compliance
Shorter working hours in software
Management Famously long workweeks are shrinking as management improves and employees focus on life outside the cubicle.
Tags: Workplace
Stay legit with software asset management
Insight Having the right tools will help keep businesses from running afoul of the law, say experts.
Tags: Software licensing, Regulations
Software makers threaten to sue eBay over counterfeits
News Software body says it is eyeing a lawsuit over counterfeit programs offered for sale. If that does not work, it may ask U.S. Congress to rewrite copyright law.
Tags: Software, Piracy, E-commerce, Software Information Industry Association, eBay Inc., intellectual property, online auction company, strategy, Washington D.C., Software
Share news stories without permission and get fined?
News An antipiracy group settles for US$300,000 with a marketing company over distribution of "press packets" containing stories it had not gotten permission to reprint.
Tags: Asset/resource/knowledge management, Corporate communications
Five rules for posting your resume online
Insight Sometimes when you apply for a job online you can feel like you're sending your resume into a black hole. Our career specialist offers tips for finding the right sites and getting results.
Grading Enterprise Configuration Manager
Insight An overview of Configuresoft's well-rated Enterprise Configuration Manager (ECM), a systems management solution designed to configure networks of large organizations.
Tiffany appeals ruling in eBay counterfeits case
News Jeweler Tiffany & Co. announces that it is appealing a federal court ruling that eBay is not required under trademark law to police counterfeit listings on its site.
Tags: Legal, Corporate law, Lawsuits, E-commerce, Tiffany & Co. Inc., eBay Inc., Search Engine, intellectual property, general counsel, software
Microsoft not out of legal woods yet
News Settlement with RealNetworks deprives EU's antitrust prosecution of major corporate ally. But Real's evidence was already in.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Media players, Legal, Antitrust, International governments
Symantec, McAfee join effort to trap pirates on eBay
News Antivirus giants launch initiative with legal action against group selling illegal versions of their security software.
Microsoft foes urge antitrust punishment
News Two more groups join an effort to overturn the landmark antitrust settlement that a federal judge approved in November.
Electronic Arts, Nintendo drop Yahoo suit
News The companies drop a trademark and copyright infringement lawsuit against Yahoo, and instead work with the company to combat piracy.
Electronic Arts, Nintendo drop Yahoo suit
News Electronic Arts and Nintendo of America said Monday they would drop a trademark and copyright infringement lawsuit against Yahoo, and instead work with the company to combat piracy.
Trade groups pick sides in EU-Microsoft battle
News Software organizations take opposing views on how the multimillion-dollar antitrust fine will affect the industry.
Tags: Antitrust
Open-source companies see profit aplenty
News Software executives at a panel discussion say there's plenty of money to be made from "free" software.
Tags: Business applications
