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One Year Ago: UK Formula One goes Digital
News The Rothmans Williams Renault Formula One team are now officially Digital-ly powered. Computers are involved in all stages of the Williams story, from the CAD/CAM stage, through simulations which examine aspects such as stress and wind resistance...
[July 13, 1998, 6:30]
Paint retailer brushes up on Linux
News Sherwin-Williams Paint Stores has signed a multimillion-dollar deal to use 9,700 IBM Linux PCs to run operations in its paint retail stores, the companies announced on Thursday. Sherwin-Williams will use the PCs in more than 2,500 stores for...
[May 23, 2002, 9:06]
Is Real losing the video war?
News Speaking at the Streaming Media '98 conference, Forrester analyst Seema Williams said that while RealNetworks' RealMedia servers are losing market share to Microsoft's rival NetShow technology, expertise will pay off in the end.
[November 10, 1998, 9:23]
Google gets glitzy to close CES
News Google co-founder Larry Page shared his keynote stage at the Consumer Electronics Show on Friday with comedian Robin Williams, US basketball star Kenny Smith and a robotic car. However, the highlight of the event was Williams' improvisation and jokes.
[January 9, 2006, 8:15]
O2 seeks 2G solution to rural 3G
News O2 is seeking permission to run 3G services in spectrum dedicated to 2G, Dave Williams, the operator's chief technical officer, revealed on Monday. Speaking at the 3GSM World Congress, Williams claimed that the only way to deliver cost-effective...
[February 13, 2006, 11:35]
Internet defamation leads to £10,000 libel damages
News Smith brought the case against Tracy Williams after she posted a series of derogatory remarks about him on an online discussion board run by Yahoo. Williams has been ordered to pay £17,000 after being found guilty of libel.
[March 23, 2006, 10:25]
High court cracks down on WEEE waste dodge
News In a decision reached on Friday, Mr Justice Wyn Williams found that plans by compliance schemes to collect more waste than they were responsible for and then sell the surplus to schemes that were under-quota broke UK regulations.
[August 5, 2009, 16:33]
Child agencies lambast Yahoo! over chatroom apathy
News Williams explained that Chatdanger.com was designed to "raise awareness among children and parents about the potential dangers of unmoderated Internet chatrooms, and to seek to put pressure on those companies providing chat to do more to protect...
[November 9, 2000, 15:41]
More analyst downgrades on Yahoo!
News Andrea Williams, an analyst at Deutsche Banc Alex Brown, on Monday predicted Yahoo! At the same time, analysts including Williams and Singer have expressed concerns that Yahoo! Thus, it may behoove the embattled Web portal to entertain ideas of...
[December 11, 2000, 16:14]
Australia set to enact anti-spam law
News The Minister for Information Technology and Communications, Daryl Williams, said in a statement that the legislated grace period would give businesses "time to adjust their practices where necessary".
[December 19, 2003, 9:45]
PCs turn to PC blades to improve reliability
News IT services manager Aled Williams explained: "The new strategy and new building was the opportunity to look at what we could do with the technology and that's when we came across the PC blades. Williams said there were a number of issues with the...
[May 18, 2006, 13:30]
T-Mobile vows to stop 'screwing' data-roaming customers
News The remark was made by the operator’s enterprise strategy head, Ed Williams, at the Mobility Summit in London, during a panel discussion on the subject of mobile data tariffs. Discussion moderator Chris Lewis, a senior analyst with Ovum, asked...
[July 4, 2006, 15:05]
Sun pours out latest flavour of Java
News Aaron Williams, the manager of the Java Community Process (JCP), which carries out changes and upgrades to the Java platform, said that the main two changes in J2SE 5.0, previously known as J2SE 1.5, are application performance improvements and...
[September 30, 2004, 13:55]
Budget gives bonus to FT.com
News We were bombarded," said Sarah Chester-Williams, FT.com marketing executive. Chester-Williams added that even though the requirement for password registration had been withdrawn, registrations were up 30 per cent on the norm.
[July 3, 1997, 14:10]
The Day Ahead: Broadwing flies under the radar
News While the big players in the telecommunications arena struggle, companies like Broadwing, Williams and Qwest will become the new leaders. Broadwing, which was spawned from the merger of Cincinnati Bell and IXC Communications, brings about 18,000...
[November 8, 2000, 13:00]
Rural broadband satellite gets funding boost
News The proposed satellite could deliver between 2Mb and 50Mb broadband access to 2.5 million UK rural households that are currently without access to broadband internet services, David Williams, chief executive of Avanti, said in the company's...
[May 26, 2009, 12:27]
A Year Ago: Is Real losing the video war?
News Speaking at the Streaming Media '98 conference, Forrester analyst Seema Williams said that while RealNetworks' RealMedia servers are losing market share to Microsoft's rival NetShow technology, expertise will pay off in the end.
[November 10, 1999, 6:07]
Opteron strikes up a Quartet
News The chipmaker -- in conjunction with server start-up Newisys -- has created a four-processor server, code-named Quartet, that will hit the market later this quarter, said Ben Williams, director of the server and workstation business segment at AMD.
[April 22, 2003, 13:07]
First European Super 3G network launched
News Dave Williams, O2's chief technology officer, "It's the 3G everybody wanted. We're of the inclination to let the best man win", said Williams. Manx Telecom, a wholly-owned subsidiary of O2, has formally launched what it claims is the first...
[November 8, 2005, 16:10]
Pfeiffer replacement an outsider?
News Philip Williams, senior analyst with Dataquest says the company has suffered trying too hard to be all things to all people. With targets missed for seven successive quarters and no evidence Compaq is overcoming IBM and Dell to become the number...
[April 20, 1999, 9:36]
