The legislation calls as well for transferring licensing for telecommunication services from the federal government to a newly-created Federal Institute of Telecommunications.
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That's not surprising as it's been among the few where the software giant has controlled "the whole widget" -- choosing the processor, designing the hardware, and developing not only the operating system and user interface, but a host of licensing standards, services and infrastructure supporting Xbox Live.
The company says it can handle the security and licensing issues in cloud services, too.
Earlier this year Tata Consultancy Services began licensing software that speeds up the process of identifying molecules that might make for promising drugs.
Restaurants would pay a flat licensing fee for the services.
To get there, it called for changes in how Medicare and Medicaid pay for mental health services, stricter licensing requirements for health workers, and for the government to fund appropriate training programs.
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The other 1.5 million households belong to a consortium called the National Rural Telecommunication Cooperative, which pays DirecTV a licensing fee to resell its services in certain areas and makes no marketing effort to draw more subscribers in those regions.
The state Department of Social Services had found multiple licensing violations, including inappropriate swaddling techniques.
Services offered by Visa consists primarily of optional services such as extended cardholder protection and concierge services, cardholder services and fees for licensing and certification.
NBC's improved success from TV shows also figures to bring in higher licensing fees from the Internet video services run by Netflix Inc. and Amazon.com Inc.
She called for a social strategy - to look at minimum pricing and licensing controls on home delivery alcohol services - as well as criminal justice controls, such as making breathalysers compulsory.
It's basic, but it represents pretty much what all these new operating systems are supposed to be: ways of getting functionality that is at least close to Android but without all the licensing costs associated with running Google services.
This is not exactly a call for a new type of creative commons, though CC licensing has clearly aided the growth of services like Flickr and platforms like WordPress.
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He ended up losing all the music he had in it, and some of these downloading services put a lot of licensing restrictions on the way you can use their music, how many copies you can make, that kind of thing.
The owner may derive income from licensing the IP, selling products or providing services using it.
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For the first time, royalties earned from digital-music services in the UK just surpassed licensing revenues from radio broadcasts.
Oliver Herzfeld is the Chief Legal Officer at Beanstalk, a leading global brand licensing agency and part of the Diversified Agency Services division of Omnicom Group.
Michael Stone is the CEO and founder of Beanstalk, a leading global brand licensing agency and part of the Diversified Agency Services division of Omnicom Group.
Young companies have found ways to work around record company licensing, unleashing a new wave of innovative music services.
In the last few years Oracle has developed, acquired and loudly touted its own cloud-flavored services while trying to preserve its traditional licensing business.
If it proves popular, the other paid-for online services will no doubt demand the same licensing terms from the record companies, and follow Apple's lead.
But Mr Tudor has a warning for firms that want to concentrate exclusively on the intellectual-property business: licensing usually works only alongside a basket of products or services.
Last week, Unwired Planet, a patent licensing company that once upon a time was an Internet services company called Openwave, announced a deal to acquire a portfolio of 2, 185 U.S. and international patents and patents pending from Ericsson.
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And if I want to offer hosting services to my clients I could run into some licensing issues too.
It makes money by selling detailed reports (the basic ones are free), licensing its name to hospitals that do well and offering consulting services to ones that do poorly.
Sony has developed "Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity" in partnership with Omnifone, a leading provider of cloud-based unlimited music services, with Omnifone contracted by Sony to coordinate content licensing as well as development and delivery of the service, leveraging its existing expertise in the music industry.
Ofcom invited expressions on interest to offer local TV services in 30 areas across the UK, ahead of a second phase of licensing, on Wednesday.
The companies are likely to try to distinguish themselves with advanced mobile data and video services that take advantage of the stockpiles of content they are already adept at licensing.
'Signing the deal with Samsung highlights TomTom's ability to deliver the map and enhanced content needed to enable the location based services for wireless users' said Charles Cautley, Managing Director TomTom Automotive and Licensing.
"We're delighted to add Telmap, a world leader in mobile location-based services, to our portfolio of partners, " says Charles Cautley, Managing Director Licensing at TomTom.
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