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Google to unlock libraries
News For example, Harvard Publications Director Peter Kosewski said the university is in a pilot programme with Google to scan only 40,000 randomly selected books from its collection of 15 million, the largest academic library in the United States...
[December 14, 2004, 8:50]
Home PCs at most risk from Nimda
News It is still out there, and home users are going to be the primary mechanism for the email spread of this virus," said Vincent Weafer, a senior director of Symantec's security response centre, who took part in the coalition's discussions on Tuesday.
[September 20, 2001, 9:13]
Do your bit to bridge Africa's digital divide
News Chas Moloney, associate director of marketing at Ricoh UK, said: "Ricoh has made a great many commitments to sustainability and to bridging the digital divide but our work in this area, and that of the IT industry as a whole, is far from done.
[October 13, 2006, 17:20]
Carnivore raises new concerns
News In comments before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Donald Kerr, assistant director of the FBI's laboratory division told senators that "it's critically important to understand that all of those.other communications are instantaneously vaporized...
[November 20, 2000, 8:39]
Adobe looks towards Linux
News Adobe wants to hire a director of Linux market development to "identify and evaluate strategies for Adobe in the Linux and open-source desktop market" and to identify projects that "will help improve Linux as a desktop environment.
[November 3, 2004, 13:43]
BT buys PlusNet for CRM system
News PlusNet has a 13 percent business base, and that's attractive to Bill Murphy [managing director of BT Business]. Strafford will report to BT's consumer managing director Gavin Patterson. BT is acquiring rival ISP PlusNet, which the former incumbent...
[November 16, 2006, 9:06]
Platform-hopping virus poses new threat
News This is really pushing the boundaries on how to create cross-platform viruses," said Vincent Weafer, senior director of security response for antivirus-software maker Symantec. Roger Thompson, technical director of malicious code research for...
[June 5, 2002, 14:39]
Enum VoIP registry goes live in UK
News According to the organisation's director of marketing, Phil Kingsland, Enum will help businesses reduce or eliminate the cost of the calls to suppliers and clients by routing all calls between those parties over the internet.
[March 12, 2009, 15:24]
Apple increases distribution bandwidth
News It's a much bigger pie we're offering today than two years ago," said Jeff Hansen, Apple senior director of US channel sales and distribution. Kelly Johnson, business unit director for Ingram Micro's Mac division, agreed that Apple's sales can...
[March 21, 2000, 14:21]
Tech giants team up on digital-literacy push
News To head the effort, the troika has tapped professor Barry McGaw, currently the director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute at the University of Melbourne, to serve as the project's executive director.
[January 13, 2009, 10:49]
Start-ups find an edge in the cloud
News I could find a company that had a product I could use, and I could get it and try it for very little outlay," said Lee McReady, alliances director of managed-services company NTT Europe. You don't need to know the details about how to fix it...
[November 6, 2008, 16:06]
NPfIT future in question as BT reviews contract
News A £1bn contract to link up and standardise all of the NPfIT computer systems in the London area, due to run until 2013, is thought to be among these final two, according to director of analyst house TechMarketView, Richard Holway.
[January 23, 2009, 8:21]
Sun shines on Jxta
News Now Sun is devising plans to slip Jxta tools into its own server and desktop product lines, Ingrid Van Den Hoogen, the company's director of software marketing, told ZDNet UK's sister site CNET News.com on Tuesday.
[January 29, 2004, 11:50]
Best of UK graphic talent to be celebrated
News Lord Puttnam will preside over a panel of more than 30 judges, including director Danny Boyle, Autodesk's EMEA director Patrick Jocelyn and industry figures from companies such as Pixar, DreamWorks and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.
[January 28, 2008, 16:16]
Experts predict new virus rampage
News I think we are going to see a repeat of the (MSBlast worm)," said Vincent Weafer, senior director of Symantec's antivirus research centre, referring to the program that spread across the Internet in August.
[October 24, 2003, 8:45]
Police swoop on New Zealand botmaster
News FBI director Robert S Mueller III said botnets are the "weapon of choice" for cybercriminals. FBI Cyber Division assistant director James E Finch has warned users to protect their systems. New Zealand Police this week swooped on an alleged botnet...
[November 30, 2007, 7:59]
Cisco flaw exploit posted online
News The worry is that someone automates this (attack) and uses it for mass denial of service against people who haven't upgraded their routers," said Al Huger, senior director of engineering for Symantec's security response team.
[July 21, 2003, 8:03]
Will merger shut lid on open access?
News Cliff Staten, executive director of the Open Access Alliance of the Bay Area, agreed. We think it sucks," said James Love, director of Ralph Nader's Consumer Project on Technology. Jeff Chester, executive director of the consumer advocacy group...
[January 11, 2000, 14:03]
Intel debuts new mobile chips
News SpeedStep technology is helping PC makers deliver near desktop-equivalent performance in smaller, lighter mobile PCs that run longer," said Don MacDonald, marketing director at Intel's Mobile Platforms Group, in a statement.
[September 25, 2000, 12:55]
Cellnet launches Net access on a prepay mobile phone
News Cellnet is investing £160m in the venture which Cellnet managing director Peter Erskine describes as "The turning point for mobile Internet. In the next quarter we have cornered the market in WAP handsets and over half of handsets we ship will be...
[March 9, 2000, 13:12]
