Microsoft makes desktop-management waves
News For Energizer's part, chief information officer Randy Benz said his company was caught in a bind before it turned to Microsoft. According to the case study, he approached Microsoft exec Rick Devenuti after the IT veteran gave a presentation on...
[August 18, 2006, 13:00]
Security experts advise caution in the cloud
News Identity-and-access control is one of the biggest factors in ensuring online services are secure, Adrian Seccombe, chief security officer with pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, told ZDNet UK on Thursday.
[December 9, 2008, 15:44]
Bush to host high-tech pow-wow
News Autodesk chief executive Carol Bartz, Barksdale group managing partner James Barksdale, Microsoft chief operating officer Robert Herbold, and EMC founder Tom Engibous are also among those expected to attend onWednesday.
[March 28, 2001, 8:58]
Network Associates reshuffles top execs
News Network Associates also said chief financial officer Steve Richards would take on the job as chief operating officer. Network Associates on Monday announced several changes to its management structure, including the appointment of its antivirus...
[December 4, 2001, 6:31]
Oracle-PeopleSoft: One year on
News And while Nicholson, chief information officer at golf ball maker During Oracle's second-quarter conference call with analysts last month, Safra Catz, Oracle's chief financial officer, said: "Customers are renewing their subscriptions and buying more.
[January 12, 2006, 13:00]
Gov't agencies fall short on data accuracy
News Garlik recommended that any government department running a large database should appoint a chief privacy officer to be held accountable for personal information. Most government departments lack basic data-protection and error-correction policies...
[January 22, 2009, 16:09]
Dell to call ceasefire in PC price war?
News Dell's Joe Marengi, for example, recently told CNET News.com, that the chief information officer of a major bank in North America approached the company about switching over from Compaq to Dell hardware.
[November 16, 2001, 8:47]
ID card bill changes praised
News A parliamentary committee has welcomed the news that the Home Office will take independent advice on biometrics from chief scientific officer It will take independent advice on biometrics from the government's chief scientific adviser, following...
[October 28, 2004, 16:44]
Sun creates new security posts
News Sun Microsystems has created two high-ranking computer security positions, naming one of its top researchers chief security officer and indicating that Sun, too, wants to elevate the importance of security.
[April 18, 2002, 12:45]
Firms keeping quiet about e-crime
News Just over three-quarters said they'd experienced a virus attack, although David Aucsmith, security architect and chief technology officer for Microsoft's security business unit, suggested this figure is too low.
[February 24, 2004, 16:15]
Sun 'Honeycomb' finally on the way?
News A successful integration of StorageTek is among three top priorities of Sun's returned chief financial officer Mike Lehman. A chief promise of Honeycomb is the inclusion of metadata, information that describes properties of data that's stored on...
[April 25, 2006, 12:10]
HP lowers revenue expectations
News Chief financial officer Bob Wayman told analysts that restoring profitability in the enterprise-systems business is taking longer than in HP's other unprofitable businesses, such as PCs. HP also announced an executive shuffle, moving supply-chain...
[December 4, 2002, 15:28]
Novell readies Linux desktop release
News AT&T's chief information officer has asked researchers to evaluate whether Linux will work as a potential replacement for some of the company's tens of thousands of PCs. In a statement, Novell chief executive Jack Messman called the company's Linux...
[November 8, 2004, 7:23]
Australian Mooter takes on Google
News We have built a powerful, smarter search engine that enables our users to do more.with considerably less hassle," the company's chief executive officer, Liesl Capper, said in a statement. The company, Mooter Search, claims it will differentiate...
[October 21, 2003, 10:25]
The Day Ahead: Yahoo! dominates
News Yahoo chief operating officer Jeff Mallett said he expects many international Yahoo users to get information via wireless devices. As the portal easily topped every metric that Wall Street set for the company, other dot-coms such as Salon.com and...
[April 6, 2000, 12:21]
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]
Micromuse acquisition provides Harmoni
News Craig Farrell, Network Harmoni's chief executive will immediately take over the chief technology officer's position at Micromuse. This information enables Micromuse to provide its service provider customers with information about which specific...
[August 21, 2003, 8:35]
Haxdoor Trojan claims thousands of UK victims
News It's a diverse range of data that's been stolen," said detective chief inspector Charlie McMurdie, the officer in charge of the investigation. We've notified the US authorities [about the transmission] and taken appropriate investigative steps...
[October 11, 2006, 16:15]
Kessler: Palm's biz push paying off
News But in the opinion of Alan Kessler, Palm's chief operating officer, the PDA leader may have already established its beachhead in this arena. We are supportive of the Palm OS and we don't see any applications on the horizon that we can't do with the...
[December 14, 2000, 9:14]
Researchers urge use of tech to protect privacy
News We're being taped right now," IBM chief privacy officer Harriet Pearson told the crowd Wednesday to drive home her point. P3P allows surfers to specify which information, such as names and shipping addresses, they are willing to automatically share...
[April 11, 2003, 8:49]



