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For AOL, it's Case closed
News A Honolulu native, Case worked briefly in product development at Pizza Hut before co-founding AOL in 1985. Having defied naysayers for the better part of two decades, the man who built the biggest Internet access company in the world finally met...
[January 13, 2003, 7:37]
Net gently weeps for Beatle Harrison
News Fans crowded online message boards and chat rooms Friday to express their sadness over the death of former Beatle George Harrison. Harrison passed away yesterday at the age of 58 in Los Angeles after a prolonged struggle with cancer.
[November 30, 2001, 17:09]
Tales of the rising Sun
News Sun chief executive Scott McNealy had to be wined and dined at a Silicon Valley McDonald's before he gave up his reluctance to help launch the workstation maker in 1982, according to one of many tales the company co-founders recounted last week.
[January 16, 2006, 12:10]
WordPress blogs at risk from worm
News A worm is circulating that can post malware and spam to some WordPress blogs using outdated versions of the blogging software, according to a post by Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress. The worm can be tough to catch, as Mullenweg...
[September 8, 2009, 9:04]
National open source centre comes to Birmingham
News Founding partners of the NOC include the National Computing Centre, Birmingham City Council and the council-led Digital Birmingham initiative, which aims to build an IT future for a city with an industrial past.
[October 25, 2006, 16:00]
Bribery tipped as key to CRM success
News Speaking on Tuesday at CRM provider RightNow Technologies' annual UK user conference, Rebecca Wettemann, founding partner of analyst Nucleus Research, said that the central tenet behind CRM is motivating personnel to share information -- something...
[February 22, 2005, 16:25]
Negroponte to share vision at Red Hat summit
News The four-day event will feature keynote speeches from company executives such as Red Hat chief executive Matthew Szulik, former MIT guru Nicholas Negroponte, and Eben Moglen, founding director of The Software Freedom Law School.
[May 31, 2006, 11:20]
Egenera racks up another $30m
News In addition, Rick Kimball, founding general partner of Technology Crossover Ventures, has joined Egenera's board, the company said. Egenera, a specialist in high-end blade servers, has raised $30m (£16.25m) in a fourth round of funding, the company...
[January 12, 2004, 11:00]
P2P group seeks cross-industry detente
News But in their bid to win respectability -- as well as economic and legal breathing room -- that's just what Distributed Computing Industry Alliance (DCIA) founding members Sharman Networks and the affiliated Altnet say they're seeking: at the group...
[October 8, 2003, 15:25]
Torvalds criticises GPL revisions
Talkback The intent of this new version (3) of the GNU GPL is to, in light of recent events i.e.tivoization, protect those same core, founding, freedoms, in practical terms. GNU GPL Is About The Four Freedoms:
[July 31, 2006, 20:47]
'Moon' network launches next-gen Internet
News Founding members of the forum group 3Com, Cisco Systems, AT&T and BellSouth. A group of tech heavyweights announced on Monday that it has launched the largest North American network that uses the new Internet address system.
[October 21, 2003, 9:04]
Gates' foundation to fund synthetic biology
News We now have a firehose of precursors," said Jack Newman, founding scientist of Amyris. The emerging field of synthetic biology -- creating organisms in the lab that act like those found in nature -- received a big boost Monday in the form of a...
[December 14, 2004, 8:05]
'Tis the season to be spending... online
News Adir Shiffman, founding director of Website analysts Global Reviews, has seen the online retail space change dramatically in the past year. 'Tis the season to be spending, and these days more and more people are choosing to avoid the tacky tinsel...
[December 6, 2002, 15:25]
Your questions for Red Hat?
Blog I have got some good interviews lined up including one with the Red Hat execs involved with the One Laptop per Child scheme, and Eben Moglen, founding director of the Software Freedom Law Centre. Red Hat's chief exec Matthew Szulik at last year's...
[May 4, 2007, 14:40]
ARM joins Symbian Foundation, releases tools
News Founding members include Samsung, Vodafone, Texas Instruments and others, while more recent additions include 3, Marvell and Opera. ARM has joined the Symbian Foundation and has collaborated on one of two developer tool releases for the soon-to-be...
[October 22, 2008, 12:16]
Opera signs up to Symbian Foundation
News Founding members included Nokia (which initiated the group when it bought out the remaining shares in Symbian that it did not already own), Symbian, Motorola, AT&T, NTT DoCoMo, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and...
[September 9, 2008, 16:54]
Antitrust ally returns to haunt Oracle
News He left to try his hand at being an entrepreneur, founding Internet-telephony startup Voxeo, and now has returned to practising law by affiliating himself with the law firm of Carr & Ferrell. One of Oracle's old antitrust allies has become the...
[June 27, 2003, 9:30]
Siggraph audience takes Sony to task on DRM
News In addition to Singer, the "Digital Rights, Digital Restrictions" panel discussion featured Karen Sandler, an attorney from the Software Freedom Law Center; Emru Townsend, founding editor of Frames Per Second magazine and a contributor to PC World...
[August 2, 2006, 10:10]
Dell aims for carbon neutrality
News Founding members of "Plant a Forest for Me" include ABN Amro, AMD, Ask.com, Salesforce.com and WellPoint. Dell claimed on Wednesday to be the first of the large IT suppliers to commit to a carbon-neutral strategy for all of its operations worldwide...
[September 27, 2007, 17:29]
Is Microsoft losing ground to Linux?
News The real issue for schools is not the cost of proprietary software licensing, but the challenges and costs of deployment, maintenance and skilled human resources," Joris Kamen, founding executive director for SchoolNet Namibia, stated in a letter...
[November 4, 2002, 12:11]
