SAN JOSE, Calif.--Software makers are getting smarter, but no less insistent, about product activation in the face of noisy customer protests, according to software executives gathered here ...

Microsoft's software activation service is coming in for a new round of fire in the wake of a system outage that prevented the company issuing activation codes to its Australian customers over the ...

Symantec adds product activation The software maker adds controversial antipiracy technology to the new edition of its Norton Antivirus software.

Ceragon's Smart Activation Key has already seen meaningful adoption, with tens of thousands of licenses ordered, and deployment underway, to several customers within the first half of the fiscal year.

Uniloc USA is also suing Activision, Quark, others as follow-up to a similar suit filed against Microsoft over software activation tech.

While software activation won't go away, it is being scrutinized for better implementation into the consumer market. That was a hot topic at the SoftSummit conference held this week where software ...