Heidi Richards paid more than $5M for certificate of authenticity labels in five years A Florida woman will spend nearly two years behind bars after being found guilty of fraudulently acquiring ...

Heidi Richards purchased Microsoft certificate of authenticity (COA) labels at a discount and resold them in bulk, in violation of a law prohibiting the trafficking of standalone COA labels.

Software distribution features can be found in enterprise management frameworks, such as IBM’s Tivoli Configuration Manager and Computer Associates International Inc.’s Unicenter, as well as in ...

It wasn’t long ago that the phrase “software distribution” meant lacing up your shoelaces, schlepping a disk to each end user’s machine, and doing the installation on the spot. Despite all of the ...

Bottom line: Microsoft is making a significant effort to turn its official app store into a profitable or even enticing service for programmers and software entrepreneurs. Bringing apps to the store ...

In brief: If you've ever stumbled across "legit" Windows and Office keys being sold in bulk for suspiciously low prices, federal prosecutors just provided a pretty good look at how that gray-market ...