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HP blames Euro laws for drawn-out job cuts
News In some European countries it can take a year to release someone," he told journalists in a telephone briefing. HP announced on Tuesday that it will cut 14,500 jobs over the next 18 months. When asked why it would take six quarters to finish the...
[July 19, 2005, 16:15]
Al "I invented the Internet" Gore bars press from speech
Blog Wired.com and our colleagues at CNET News.com are reporting that journalists won’t be allowed in to hear the Gore-meister hold forth and “"Video recordings, broadcasts and photography are also prohibited.
[March 26, 2008, 16:12]
News Schmooze: Hacker attacks and Amazonion profits
News Fast forward a few months later and "Earth's biggest" seller of books, CDs, garden furniture and kitchen equipment is still confounding expectations and amazing financial journalists -- this time by finally turning a profit, adding up to one cent...
[January 25, 2002, 17:36]
Thursday
Blog Used to the ways of journalists, he takes it in good spirit as we vigorously toast bloated monopolies, price-gouging broadband strategies and mobile service mishaps. Thursday 8/5/2003 Talking of such things, it's always a particular pleasure to...
[May 9, 2003, 12:37]
First UK ID Card unveiled
Blog At 11.30 on Thurs, Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, is set to show off the first National ID Card to journalists at an event at the Home Office. You can either look at this as a pilot which may completely fail or the first beach-head in the government...
[September 25, 2008, 9:30]
Digital rights group hits support milestone
News The Open Rights Group announced on Thursday that it has received pledges of support from individuals — including journalists, politicians and activists. A thousand people have backed the Open Rights Group, a recently formed collective of digital...
[November 29, 2005, 17:05]
Apple wins victory against fan site
Talkback You wait so you can release it with a huge fanfare and announce to the whole world that their life is about to change, only for all the assembled journalists to yawn and say, "Yes, we heard about that last month.
[March 14, 2005, 8:57]
LionClock Plus
Downloads Perfect for self-employed professionals such as freelancers, lawyers, journalists, consultants, web designers, service providers, etc LionClock for iPhone offers a quick and easy way to track time spent on projects.
[July 29, 2008, 8:00]
Google's first and last euro press day?
Blog Not the best piece of PR when you have assembled hundreds of journalists from across Europe to listen to how great you are. You'd like to think that the king of the Internet could handle a little thing like Wi-Fi and electricity but we have been...
[June 19, 2007, 13:31]
Can wikis change the Web?
News Instead, it was a loose collection of self-appointed "citizen journalists" reporting, linking and photographing from Louisiana and around the world. Moments after the eye of Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the US Gulf Coast on 29 August, news...
[November 16, 2005, 17:05]
IT teachers are "out of touch" - Report
News Clive Parminter, UK VP of Information Builders told journalists that the current lack of skilled programmers is "critical" and likely to get much worse "unless businesses and academia start communicating with one another effectively".
[September 21, 1998, 16:47]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Nobody -- but nobody -- is thinking in terms of strategic investments in scaleable data management solutions: not the CIO, who is contemplating a round of golf on Boxing day, and most certainly not journalists, who are contractually obliged to...
[December 17, 2004, 18:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog We're in the middle of reconfiguring our network connectivity here at ZDNet Towers, switching to a fab 100Mbps fibre that will propel our thoughts and words onto the Internet faster than we can type them (we type at roughly 50 bits a second, so we...
[July 23, 2004, 18:00]
Open source Android opens Huawei eyes
Blog It's tempting to over-analyse this, as the actual announcement was quite a passing mention by the handset division's marketing chief, given through an interpreter to four UK journalists on a visit to the company's Shenzhen headquarters.
[November 11, 2008, 17:00]
Trigger-happy BT opposes calls for broadband subsidies
News Speaking to journalists last week, Verwaayen said he did not support calls for the UK government to subsidise broadband rollout in parts of Britain where telcos such as BT have decided it is not economically viable to make affordable high-speed...
[September 16, 2002, 14:33]
A look at HTC's Hero Android phone
News The Hero was shown to an audience of journalists at the launch by HTC's chief executive, Peter Chou HTC gave the journalists at the launch a small, Hero-shaped USB key. The HTC Hero is also the first Android handset in the western world that does...
[June 24, 2009, 17:16]
Windows 7? No arm in it
Blog Comment We Already Hate It, which regardless of the facts about W7 -- still unknown -- is a fair reflection of the sentiment of not just febrile journalists, but real people too. The most interesting aspect of Microsoft's position at the moment is the...
[May 29, 2008, 11:51]
Who wants Pipex?
Blog The problem here for us journalists is that no company will ever give official comment on how much it's bidding for Company X, which in the case of Pipex is not even confirming that it's up for sale in the first place.
[April 10, 2007, 16:14]
iPhone - did Vodafone make the right call?
Blog Comment Many journalists uncovered the plans of many first day buyers planning on obtaining the handset just to mark it up for resale in the aftermarket rather than buying for personal use. The iPhone may provide a major breakthrough in the adoption of...
[July 6, 2007, 0:47]
Via confirms Willamette chipset plans
News Intel has so far not licensed any outside company to make chipsets for next-generation processors such as Willamette and Itanium, but Via told journalists at the Platform 2000 conference in California that it fully intends to build a Willamette...
[July 20, 2000, 7:19]
