Previous
HP cuts 'don't mean price war' with Dell
News But Thompson stopped short of saying HP would try to beat Dell on price, a move that would likely spark a new price war in the PC market. We have gotten value from the merger, we've gotten synergies in the supply chain, and, with increased volumes...
[February 14, 2003, 11:48]
Y2K bug delays anti-virus system
News What we don't want to do is make a lot of noise about shipping a product at a time when the customer is least likely to buy it," said newly installed Symantec president, chairman and CEO, John Thompson, who expected that the millenium bug will...
[July 22, 1999, 9:30]
US law targets e-waste 'nightmare'
News Mike Thompson, Democrat-California, is the first such legislation to appear at the federal level. In proposing the legislation, Thompson cited the volume of computers entering the US waste stream -- 41 million PCs this year, with 500 million that...
[July 22, 2002, 6:57]
Dixons pulls out of VoIP
News We've reached a commercial agreement with Vonage to transfer existing Freetalk customers and will be promoting Vonage as a VoIP service through our UK stores," DSG's director of media relations, Hamish Thompson, told ZDNet UK on Thursday.
[September 7, 2006, 13:30]
Staff training is vital for security
News The threat from employees taking a lax attitude to IT security exposes businesses to too much risk to be ignored, argues PeopleSoft chief information officer David Thompson, in Sydney at the vendor's leadership summit this week.
[June 20, 2002, 10:21]
BBC unveils major online revamp
News Announcing the strategy, director-general Mark Thompson said there was "a big shock coming" because the audience's relationship with the BBC and technology in general is changing. We need to reinvent (BBC Online), fill it with dynamic audio-visual...
[April 27, 2006, 8:55]
Red Hat aggressive with premium Linux
News Red Hat has set up agreements with IBM, HP, Dell Computer, Oracle, Fujitsu and several other companies that require them to support only the premium products, Thompson said. A new version of Advanced Server, 3.0, will arrive this fall, including...
[February 6, 2003, 7:49]
Tories: Government is falling behind in open source
News In the statement, the Conservatives released recommendations drawn up by Mark Thompson, a lecturer in information systems at Cambridge University's Judge Business School. Thompson was asked by the Conservatives in March to assess how open source...
[January 28, 2009, 12:41]
Red Hat revenues rise
News For the remaining three quarters of the fiscal year, Red Hat expects the subscription price to be about $415 per server per year, Thompson said. And then there's the matter of filling Thompson's seat.
[June 18, 2004, 9:15]
Slapper worm grinds to a halt
News I thought it was very interesting, but it didn't do terribly much," said Roger Thompson, director of malicious code research at security services company TruSecure. While stressing worms that exploit holes in software, as Slapper has done, are the...
[September 20, 2002, 13:32]
Symantec to buy SecurityFocus
News By just about any way you want to cut it, we've done well," said chief executive John Thompson. The company's weakness seems to be the intrusion detection market, a sector where Thompson "was not at all pleased" with the results.
[July 18, 2002, 10:59]
Red Hat subscriptions surge
News Red Hat signed up 500 new customers and shipped 26,000 Linux packages in the latest quarter, which ended in August, chief financial officer Kevin Thompson said Tuesday during an interview at the Comdex trade show in Las Vegas.
[November 19, 2003, 9:25]
PayPal plugs in Azure, woos developers
News Back in March, PayPal's president Scott Thompson promised as much, saying that by 2011, the company should be doing somewhere between $100-120 billion in annual payments. It's truly disruptive," said PayPal chief executive Scott Thompson at the event.
[July 24, 2009, 16:42]
Microsoft unveils 'Azure' cloud OS
News Microsoft will also use it as a delivery service, David Thompson, vice president of Microsoft Online, said during the keynote presentation. All our enterprise software will be delivered as an online service, as an option," Thompson said.
[October 27, 2008, 17:15]
Do video games make children violent?
News The debate only gets more confusing with publicity surrounding cases such as that of Devin Thompson, an Alabama teen who claims that a previous version of "Grand Theft Auto" inspired him to kill three police officers when he was 16.
[February 24, 2005, 11:10]
Microsoft unveils 'Milan' surface computer
News It's very approachable," said Pete Thompson, the former T-Mobile executive who runs Microsoft's surface-computing business. Each of the initial partners should have a few initial machines up and running around November, Thompson said.
[May 30, 2007, 10:52]
Sony makes gains with Memory Stick
News Recently announced licensing deals with Fujitsu and Lexar Media, a change in attitude toward developers, and support from a handful of device manufacturers are helping to better establish the media after a "pretty bearish" initial response from...
[June 15, 2001, 9:32]
Scots demand government cash for broadband rollout
News David Thompson, a Scottish Nationalist Party candidate for the Scottish Parliament, backed up MacAskill's words by warning that the lack of affordable broadband in many parts of Scotland was damaging local businesses.
[September 23, 2002, 15:06]
Symantec announces Veritas NetBackup 6.5
News John Thompson, Symantec's chief executive officer, said that many customers running heterogeneous storage environments did not have the resources or enough staff with the necessary skills to manage such a complex environment.
[June 13, 2007, 10:33]
Red Hat below expectations, but optimistic
News In a conference call, Red Hat chief financial officer Kevin Thompson attributed the lack of profitability to unfavourable exchange rates in foreign countries, which cost the company $900,000 in the quarter, and to slower than expected sales of...
[March 26, 2003, 11:22]
