All British doctors should be licensed by taking a national examination according to research outlined in the online open access journal BMC Medicine.

Dell announced today that it has completed the acquisition of ASAP Software, a leading software solutions and licensing services provider and a former subsidiary of Corporate Express.

NEC Corporation has licensed its Canadian and U.S. digital microwave radio ("DMR") patents and counterpart patents in other countries to the Canadian provider of high-capacity wireless Ethernet equipment used in emerging IP networks, DragonWave Inc. Through the patent license agreement, NEC and DragonWave have also agreed not to assert their respective DMR patents against each other in the future.

Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies and data solutions, and BYD Company Ltd., a leading rechargeable battery manufacturer and provider of handset components, modules manufacturing and assembly services listed in Hong Kong (HKSE:HK.1211), announced that they have entered into a subscriber unit license agreement.

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced it will license unique 2D and 3D graphics technology to Freescale Semiconductor, a global leader in mobile and multimedia platform solutions.

Canadian physicians who score poorly on the patient-physician communication portion of the national licensing examination receive more complaints to regulatory authorities on issues such as communication or quality-of-care problems, according to an article in the September 5 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on medical education.

What keeps a newly licensed nurse on the job? Answers to that question are important to hospitals across the U.S., many of which are confronting serious nursing shortages.

A study, published in the September issue of the American Journal of Nursing (AJN), provides new insight into the work experiences of newly-licensed RNs that may help reduce the turnover rate of hospital nurses.

The Washington State Department of Health has taken disciplinary actions or withdrawn charges against health care providers in our state.

Siemens announced an OEM agreement that will allow IBM to license elements of Siemens' OpenScape open unified communications capabilities to enhance the IBM Lotus "Unified Telephony" offering currently planned by IBM as part of the expanded Lotus Sametime product family.

By ruling that those copyrights had never been sold to SCO by Novell, the court triggered a process that will almost certainly tear down the rest of SCO's legal actions (and the company itself, since it now owes Novell the tens of millions of dollars it pocketed from Microsoft and Sun by licensing Unix intellectual property it turns out not to have owned).

Microsoft Corp. today announced that it is licensing the audio watermarking technology developed by its Redmond, Wash., research lab to Activated Content Corp., a leading digital technology and application services company in the audio watermarking market, based in Seattle.