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Solving Yahoo's identity crisis
News Such a move will punctuate more than a year of internal wrangling at Yahoo, beginning with the departure of chief operating officer Dan Rosensweig and entertainment head Lloyd Braun in December 2006, followed in June 2007 by chief executive Terry...
[January 28, 2008, 14:36]
iSoft sale terms agreed
News Delays in the delivery of Lorenzo have contributed to considerable criticism of NPfIT, while iSoft itself has been the subject of financial probes and was blamed for the departure of Accenture from NPfIT.
[May 16, 2007, 18:28]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog You can, if you wish, track down various rumours concerning his departure: there are 'friends of Ballmer getting the chop' conspiracy theories, there are others concerning secret reorganisations, and there are others that with some specificity...
[June 23, 2006, 18:45]
AMD poaches Itanium developers
News Naffziger's departure was reported by Real World Technologies. AMD has hired Samuel Naffziger, a high-ranking designer of Intel's Itanium processors, and eight of his Fort Collins, Colorado-based colleagues working on the high-end processor.
[March 30, 2006, 10:25]
Amstrad resurrects classic games for mobiles
News Disagreements over that product's future led to the departure of Amstrad's chief executive, Bob Watkins, in October: he was known to be in favour of mobile phone development but very unhappy about the company's continued emphasis on the e-m@iler.
[December 4, 2001, 14:38]
US judge views Apple and IBM as chip rivals
News There is no dispute that Papermaster signed a non-compete agreement in 2006 that would forbid him from working at any company deemed a competitor of IBM's for a year following his departure from the company.
[November 26, 2008, 11:34]
Experts say Microsoft's XML play won't backfire
News But Markham and others say the predictions of a mass departure won't likely be proven correct, at least not immediately. Conventional wisdom has long held that if Microsoft were to embrace XML as its default file format for Office and discard the...
[June 7, 2005, 10:55]
Motorola's bruising brush with short-term thinking
Leader Garriques' departure is undoubtedly bad news for Motorola, and illustrates how much harm success can bring. At the end of last week, Motorola rushed out a press release saying that the head of its mobile phone unit was leaving immediately.
[February 19, 2007, 15:51]
Microsoft founds and funds open-source forum
News Ramji's departure from Microsoft was formally announced by Bill Hilf, Microsoft general manager of platform strategy, in a blog post on Thursday. Microsoft has founded an organisation for the exchange of code between software companies and open...
[September 11, 2009, 15:20]
Nat Semi announces PC-on-a-chip
News We're taking a page from [Intel's] book with this chip," says Halla, referring to Intel's departure from the memory-chip market. But the development of the Geode SC1400, as it is called, may be a pyrrhic victory for National Semiconductor's chief...
[July 16, 1999, 9:31]
Samba leader quits Novell over Microsoft deal
News Allison on Thursday confirmed the letter's authenticity, saying he had sent it to an internal Novell mailing list, but declined to comment further on his departure from Novell. Jeremy Allison, a high-profile open-source programmer, has resigned...
[December 22, 2006, 7:40]
AMD's Ruiz steps down as CEO
News In short, he is the right leader at the right time for this company," Ruiz said, in announcing his own departure from the executive chair. AMD chief executive Hector Ruiz is stepping down from the helm of the troubled chip company, and Dirk Meyer...
[July 18, 2008, 9:06]
Sun co-founder set to depart
News Joy's departure comes after more than two decades of work at the high-tech stalwart. Sun Microsystems on Tuesday said that Bill Joy, its co-founder and chief scientist, is leaving the company. Joy helped develop many Sun technologies, including its...
[September 9, 2003, 15:25]
Intel releases new programming tools
News And Itanium, a departure from current prevailing chip designs from Intel and others, is very dependent on compilers that can keep the chip fed with data and instructions. Intel has released new programming tools designed to increase the performance...
[December 5, 2002, 11:37]
Under pressure, Packard Bell to lay off 20 percent of staff
News The move followed the surprise departure of Packard Bell founder Beny Alagem earlier that month, amid rumours he had been pushed by an unhappy board. Packard Bell will lay off 20 percent of its U.S.work force by the end of the year, the company...
[October 9, 1998, 14:31]
Hackers flexing political muscles
News Biafra's call to arms, while hardly new to supporters of the Bay Area-based activist, represents a departure for a hacking conference of H2K's magnitude. It was a sign of the times. Former Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra, the punk icon who made...
[July 17, 2000, 9:02]
Palm to replace buggy devices
News The problem is the latest challenge to the handheld maker, which last week saw the departure of chief executive Carl Yankowski after months of turmoil that included the botched launch of the m500 series, a glut of inventory and a free-falling...
[November 12, 2001, 9:33]
Phorm loses top UK executives
News Following Millar's departure, Andrew Croxson — formerly of Ingenious Consulting — is being appointed interim global chief financial officer. Phorm, which provides ad-targeting technology that tracks people's behaviour online, has lost two of its...
[December 18, 2008, 12:18]
Sun's open source licence wins final OSI approval
News That's a departure for a company that until recent years sold only servers using its own UltraSparc processors. Sun has secured a crucial approval in its plan to make its Solaris operating system an open source project, ZDNet UK sister site CNET...
[January 19, 2005, 15:10]
Apple gives break to multi-Mac homes
News Mac OS X was released just 18 months earlier than its upgrade, and, according to some users, Jaguar is not a radical departure from the original operating system. Aiming to reward those households with more than one Mac, Apple will introduce a...
[August 16, 2002, 7:53]
