Text messaging is on the wane, warns Logica
News Our mobile networks business remains powerfully positioned globally and is by far the fastest growing business organically.however we are not seeing the stellar growth rates of the recent past," said Andrew Given, Logica's finance director.
[June 6, 2001, 14:50]
BitKeeper: No holds barred open source infighting
News I think Linus is mistaken to criticise Andrew, as what Andrew did was equivalent to the techniques we use in Samba, and obviously I have a strong feeling that what we do is standard engineering practice, and is done by software engineers worldwide...
[April 20, 2005, 17:40]
Pensioners without cash after system failure
News The Conservative shadow work and pensions secretary David Willetts has written to his opposite number Andrew Smith demanding an explanation. The latest failure is particularly worrying given the government's record over automated benefits projects.
[August 25, 2004, 16:45]
Vista rating tool is tweaked
News It should be very clear to everyone how important graphics are," said Andrew Dodd, a software product manager at graphics specialist ATI Technologies. It has also given the new name "base score" to the overall rating generated by the tool.
[July 10, 2006, 10:10]
.Name masterplan to rake in the cash
News Your name could become your cell phone number," says Andrew Tsai, chief executive of the 40-employee Global Name Registry. Global Name has a long way to go to realize that dream, but it's been given a good headstart with the rights to the .name...
[May 30, 2001, 16:49]
Wonderland paedophiles are sentenced
News Ahmet Ali and Andrew Barlow each received two years. Experts have been calling for the maximum three year sentence to be given to all defendants. Judge Macrae told the men that despite "pandering to the basest interests of man" they would have to...
[February 13, 2001, 14:28]
Security experts look to 'whitelisting' future
News These tools, according to Andrew Clarke, senior vice president of Lumension Security, would ensure that "if someone is introducing a rogue application into an organisation and it's not on the whitelist and it's not a known good, it won't run.
[May 28, 2008, 10:01]
E-Envoy sees Chancellor as broadband obstacle
News A split may have broken out within government circles after e-Envoy Andrew Pinder told business leaders on Monday that Chancellor Gordon Brown was unconvinced of the benefits of broadband. Attending the annual conference of the Confederation of...
[November 6, 2001, 14:14]
E-government plans in disarray
News An interim replacement, independent IT consultant Andrew Pinder, has been appointed while the government re-advertises the post. Given these changes, it has been decided that it is not possible to proceed to the implementation stage as originally...
[October 19, 2000, 14:54]
Google invests in e-commerce start-up Pixazza
News Google has given little information on Google Ventures: "This is a project we're working on, but we're not ready to share any details right now," spokesman Andrew Pederson said. Given the similarity to AdSense, perhaps it is not a surprise the...
[March 25, 2009, 8:55]
HP lowers revenue expectations
News It's basically as expected," said Bear Stearns analyst Andrew Neff, noting that the economy looks worse now than it did in June. Although retailers enjoyed strong sales over the Thanksgiving sales period, she said, such sales were not necessarily a...
[December 4, 2002, 15:28]
Big Brother Files: Thursday
News Andrew is still drooling over the "token black girl" (as she earlier described herself), and admits he'd "love to shag her", despite likening her to a "pinball" bouncing between one bloke and the next.
[July 20, 2000, 17:07]
Welsh broadband kicks England into touch
News The rest of the UK has a lot to learn from Wales when it comes to making a success of broadband, according to Andrew Davies, Welsh Assembly minister for economic development and ICT. However, Blair only committed to getting every school broadband...
[December 3, 2002, 11:05]
NHS IT programme faces cutbacks
News I do think it is necessary for me on Wednesday to indicate areas where we are going to cut spending or where we are not going to spend as much as we were," Darling told the Andrew Marr Show. Connecting for Health (CfH), which administers NPfIT...
[December 7, 2009, 13:51]
AOL plugs AIM security hole
News No action has to be taken by users.and to our knowledge no users were affected by the issue," said AOL spokesman Andrew Weinstein. Given the general nature of social networks and how they are structured, we predict that it wouldn't take long for...
[January 4, 2002, 11:02]
IDF Day Zero: Of Intel China, Carrying Small and Living Large
Blog Andrew Grove, Exceptional Manager. And then it was Andrew Chein, director of Intel Research. Then Andrew Chein comes back, and he's really speaking my language. No guidance is given as to who are the cowboys, who the Indians.
[April 1, 2008, 20:46]
Virtualisation in the Linux kernel
News For one thing, Andrew Morton, a top deputy to Torvalds, told ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com he hasn't looked at OpenVZ or Vserver. We need to have a lot of conversations with Andrew Morton and Linus Torvalds," he says.
[January 20, 2006, 10:50]
ISPA awards: Boos for BT and criticism for ISPs
News The evening was formally opened by the new e-envoy Andrew Pinder, making his first public appearance since he was formally appointed last month. That honour fell to Dave Hughes, president of BT Ignite, who was greeted with boos and hoots of...
[February 8, 2001, 14:53]
Broadband's inspectors sport varied track records
News Conservative MP Andrew Lansley is a committee member, and in July this year he opposed amendments to the Communications Bill that would have given Ofcom a specific responsibility to encourage the availability of broadband in the UK.
[September 16, 2003, 18:30]
Rooting out plagiarists with software
News That's the problem faced by Andrew McCann, an instructor of English and philosophy at Drexel University in Philadelphia. He and his team are teaching a freshman class of around 400 engineering students, all of whom will be given the same assignments.
[April 8, 2002, 7:01]



