Ex-iPlayer boss made Microsoft UK consumer chief
News Microsoft has appointed Ashley Highfield as its new managing director of UK consumer and online operations. Microsoft today announced the appointment of Ashley Highfield as managing director and [vice president], consumer and online UK," Microsoft...
[November 10, 2008, 17:11]
Malicious code 'could hide in Windows Registry'
News It can be used to hide malicious programs on a system that would go undetected by security software or registry scanning tools," said Mitchell Ashley, chief technology officer at StillSecure, which is based in Louisville, Colo.
[August 30, 2005, 9:40]
HP settles inkjet refilling suit
News InkCycle Chief Technology Officer Tom Ashley told CNET's News.com that his company was not aware that HP's more than 200 patents included specifics on ink until he got the call from HP's legal department.
[June 9, 2005, 10:40]
Hospital loses information on child patients
News Lynton Stewart-Ashley, country manager for GuardianEdge Technologies, claimed that the loss would have serious aftershocks for the trust. When you add up the cost of legal fees, lack of trust in the community, and potential payouts to affected...
[March 27, 2007, 16:26]
Sun's Jini gets new lease of life
News The Jini-based registration service was "key" to making Templar's system work, said Ross Ashley, one of the company's founders. Even in a Microsoft .Net environment -- from a technical standpoint -- it's easy to do a distributed solution, Ashley said.
[May 12, 2003, 11:48]
Rickroll virus author hired by iPhone app company
News Ashley Towns, the Australian behind the ikee iPhone worm that replaced the background picture of insecure jailbroken iPhones, has reportedly been hired by Sydney company Mogeneration. The BBC reports that a spokesperson for iPhone app developers...
[November 27, 2009, 7:53]
Infortrend moves into enterprise storage
News Infortrend hopes this will be enough to help the company break out of its traditional SME market, says Jon Ashley, the company's director of marketing. The company wants to be in the mid-tier and enterprise space, and we think this provides a...
[June 17, 2009, 12:14]
Two Europeans indicted for US cyberattacks
News Paul Ashley, a business associate of Echouafni, was then responsible for contacting Walker and Gembe to carry out the attack, the DOJ said. Ashley pleaded guilty in 2004 and has already served two years in an Ohio prison for his part in the...
[October 6, 2008, 13:23]
BBC's digital supremo quits
Blog Ashley Highfield, champion Birtspeaker and outgoing (now in multiple ways) chief of "future media and technology" for the Beeb, is heading off to the realms of Project Kangaroo. Kangaroo is basically an aggregated platform for programmes from the...
[April 14, 2008, 9:57]
BBC proposes ISP 'broadband charter'
News BBC technology chief Ashley Highfield has hit back at ISPs who want online organisations to pay extra for distributing bandwidth-draining video and multimedia content. In a posting on the BBC blog, Highfield, the corporation's director of future...
[April 7, 2008, 8:50]
Sun's second blade delayed
News When Sun announced its blade servers in February, it said the Intel processor-compatible system would arrive "midyear," according to Ashley Eikenberry, group manager of blades product marketing. Sun Microsystems could release its second blade...
[July 14, 2003, 12:11]
Microsoft and BBC sign digital strategy pact
News The memorandum was signed by BBC director general Mark Thomson, director of new media and technology Ashley Highfield, and Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on Wednesday in Seattle. The BBC has signed a memorandum of understanding with Microsoft to...
[September 28, 2006, 15:40]
Ntl plays down speculation of a separate float
Talkback my connectivity details is down and aslo my web browser is details is down and aslo my common email settings is not work at all it,s keeping asking me to set my cookis I don't know how to do that at all so I ask if some one could phone me from...
[July 26, 2004, 0:52]
The Tuttles Madcap Misadventures
Downloads s biggest names: Bob Saget (Barry Tuttle), Jamie Lee Curtis (BarbaraTuttle), Ashley Tisdale (Jess Tuttle), Dominic Scott Kay (Zach Tuttle), Dave Thomas (The Australian), Dave Coulier (The Native and several other characters), and William Shatner.
[June 19, 2008, 8:00]
iPlayer enjoys 'wonderful start' to 2008
News Ashley Highfield, director of future media and technology at the BBC, said the corporation thought the public's response to the iPlayer represents a "wonderful start". In an exclusive interview with sister site silicon.com, Ashley Highfield...
[January 16, 2008, 11:06]
E-commerce sites open to legal attack
News This is serious in that ultimately these sites are breaking the law," says Joanne Ashley, a solicitor with law firm Sprecher Grier Halberstam specialising in online issues. Many UK consumer Web sites are leaving themselves open to legal action by...
[March 14, 2001, 16:11]
Dissecting a hard drive review
Reviews In many notebooks, 'the disk drive is eighteen inches from your ear' acording to Ashley Lo, Western Digital's senior director of customer quality assurance. The 160GB 'Scorpio' 2.5in.hard disk drive is Western Digital's most recent release to the...
[November 14, 2007, 7:08]
Game makers aren't playing favourites
News The kid-friendly nature of the GameCube makes it a natural for such Acclaim franchises as the 'Mary Kate & Ashley' series of girl games. Who will win the battle for the video game market raging among Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo?
[May 21, 2001, 11:45]
Garret Keogh's Weekend Diary
News Chat to people from Noho, Nethead and Charles Ashley of Netventures. Here to cover for Martin Veitch as he's lording it up at Comdex. Spend the morning grappling with kit and instantaneous deadlines at PC News Daily.
[November 23, 1996, 7:00]
Google trumps Microsoft in UK power elite
News The only other new media figure to make the top 100 was Ashley Highfield, who directs the BBC's online activities. The ever-lengthening shadow of Google has now fallen over the UK's media sector according to this year's MediaGuardian 100, which...
[July 12, 2004, 13:45]



