IBM to buy Chinese email company assets
News The acquisition of these Outblaze assets further demonstrates Lotus's commitment to delivering secure, scalable online solutions and will help accelerate delivery of collaborative services, with little to no IT involvement," said Bob Picciano, the...
[January 19, 2009, 14:38]
NetScreen and Trend Micro launch first joint product
News Rather, it's about creating a product that's easy to use for small offices, said Bob Hansmann, the director of enterprise product marketing at the company. Network security device maker NetScreen and antivirus company Trend Micro announced on...
[November 11, 2003, 11:25]
Microsoft CFO Greg Maffei quits
News Greg's contributions have been outstanding across the spectrum of numerous deal negotiations, in achieving excellence in the treasury management area, and in guiding an outstanding internal and external management reporting team," said COO Bob...
[December 23, 1999, 10:15]
Cryptography takes a quantum leap
News We're getting very strong interest from service providers, the companies who own the fibre in the ground," Magiq CEO Bob Gelfond said in an interview on Thursday. A four-year-old start-up has begun shipments of what it says are the world's first...
[November 7, 2003, 9:00]
3G operators bullish on coverage plans
Talkback On one occasion when I spoke to the call centre, it took them a horrendous amount of time to get me the name of the UK Customer Service Director, of which they told me it was Bob Fuller! I absolutely agree with David's comments.
[December 15, 2004, 9:16]
Brief: HP vote 'neither free nor fair'
News HP filed a brief of its own on Friday, arguing that Hewlett failed to prove his claims and asking the court for "public vindication" of chief executive Carly Fiorina and chief financial officer Bob Wayman.
[April 30, 2002, 11:51]
Oslo transforms into the underlying application model of the cloud
Blog The very first thing Bob Muglia said in his keynote was that "the industry understanding of the cloud has really evolved… the cloud is about more than just infrastructure, it's also about an application model'
[November 18, 2009, 7:40]
Major Caldera shareholders may sell
News What this will allow is for them in an orderly way to sell their shares if they want and when they want in the future," Caldera chief financial officer Bob Bench said in an interview. Two major investors in Caldera International, which sells the...
[July 24, 2001, 11:47]
Inventor of the integrated circuit dies at 81
News Intel co-founder Bob Noyce came up with a similar integrated circuit a few months later. Jack Kilby, whose work on integrated circuits in the 1950s ushered in the digital era, died Monday after a battle with cancer.
[June 22, 2005, 9:15]
3G masts 'safer than 2G'
News The ACA and ARPANSA [Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency] want to allay any community concern arising from the introduction into Australia of 3G mobile phone networks, which support video and data calls in addition to the...
[December 23, 2003, 9:20]
Red Hot Ant halts unmetered signup
News Company director Bob Garrioch says that BT has been unclear about when Friaco would become available and has set the cost of the service at a point that makes it difficult for smaller ISPs to compete.
[January 8, 2001, 15:51]
3G operators bullish on coverage plans
News As we build our network further, more of Britain will be able to experience what is fast-becoming a revolution in telephony," said Bob Fuller, chief executive of 3 UK, in a statement. The UK's leading third-generation mobile operators are rolling...
[December 10, 2004, 16:15]
Banks held back by legacy systems
News As a stop-gap, core systems have been shored up by what TowerGroup senior analyst Bob McDowall refers to as palliative solutions, with the encouragement of technology vendors. Banks all over Europe are becoming increasingly hamstrung by their own...
[June 7, 2007, 9:36]
JBoss offers customers legal protection
News Typically, commercial software companies provide legal protection to their customers, said Bob Bickel, JBoss Group's vice president of strategy and corporate development. In an effort to offer the same guarantees as commercial software companies...
[November 17, 2003, 8:37]
Open-source guru claims proof of MS-SCO link
News SCO's chief financial officer Bob Bench is listed as a "cc" recipient. An open-source group has published a memo leaked from within SCO Group that appears to point to a much more extensive financial relationship between Microsoft and SCO than has...
[March 4, 2004, 16:30]
Chip design: Humans not allowed
News Though HP has yet to push it from prototype to product, the company is working with unnamed business partners on designing specialised chips, said Bob Rau, manager of HP Labs' compiler and architecture research group.
[June 13, 2001, 14:56]
New WebSphere nearing launch
News This capability will simplify the creation of Web services applications using Java as a programming language, said Bob Sutor, director of WebSphere infrastructure at IBM. IBM on Thursday released a developer edition of its WebSphere Java server...
[January 9, 2004, 9:10]
IBM cruises in record Q4
News It's business as usual," said Bob Gutenstein, an analyst at Kalb, Voorhis. IBM Corp.exceeded analysts' estimates in its fourth quarter Thursday, returning a profit of $2.3bn (£1.40bn), or $2.47 a share, on record sales of $25.1bn.
[January 22, 1999, 9:34]
NetApp pushes Fibre Channel over Ethernet
News The technology is likely to play an increasingly important role in enterprises, due to the consolidation that it enables in a difficult economy, according to Bob Laliberte, senior analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group.
[August 12, 2009, 16:01]
SGI hopes NASA's Linux spend will boost results
News NasaAmes (Research Centre) has stepped up to the plate by installing a 256-processor single-system image Altix machine," SGI chief executive Bob Bishop said on Monday in a conference call with financial analysts.
[October 21, 2003, 12:05]



