Research in Motion Case Study: Clifford Chance
White Papers Clifford Chance is the world's first fully integrated global law firm, with 32 offices in 19 countries and annual revenues of over £1 billion. As a result, it is no surprise that the BlackBerry wireless communications platform has been adopted by...
[February 21, 2006, 23:00]
Symbian aims for the mass market
News Symbian's newly crowned chief executive, Nigel Clifford, has reiterated his company's commitment to mid-tier phones and promised to smarten up the market as a whole. Speaking on Tuesday at the Smartphone Show, Clifford said Symbian's chief ambition...
[October 12, 2005, 10:20]
New information commissioner named
News A top lawyer from City law firm Clifford Chance has been named to take over as information commissioner when Elizabeth France steps down later this year. Richard Thomas, director of public policy at Clifford Chance, will take up the post in November.
[July 26, 2002, 9:58]
New Symbian CEO named
News Symbian has announced Nigel Clifford will be the company's new CEO, starting this June. Clifford, 45, was formerly CEO at telecoms software and service provider Tertio Telecoms and joins Symbian charged with boosting the smartphone OS company's...
[May 18, 2005, 17:00]
Open source community retaliates
News British Linux developer Jason Clifford has led the backlash against Microsoft's claims, viewing them as a cynical marketing ploy. But Clifford is keen to point out that open source is a tried, tested and trusted security architecture for Web...
[December 6, 1999, 11:25]
Symbian checks into executive class
News While Symbian has made no secret of its desire to become a mid-tier player, the company now has chief information officers on its hit list, according to the mobile OS company's chief executive Nigel Clifford.
[May 17, 2006, 15:30]
Symbian forecasts the death of the PC
News Giving the keynote speech at the Symbian Smartphone Show in London, chief executive Nigel Clifford told delegates that the era of the smartphone was dawning, representing a shift "as profound as the Internet and PC were in the 1990s".
[October 17, 2006, 13:25]
Privacy tsar: Data protection should be 'way of life'
News Richard Thomas, 53, formerly the director of public policy at law firm Clifford Chance, took over from Elizabeth France in December 2002, and having got to grips with his new job, he on Tuesday stressed the importance of striking this balance...
[January 8, 2003, 9:52]
Manufacturers go for RFID, but not Linux
News With 60 percent of manufacturers already under way with an RFID project, Datamonitor analyst and report author Richard Clifford said the sector is now unexpectedly sophisticated in its deployments. Clifford added that the "immaturity of the...
[April 28, 2005, 10:00]
Symbian Foundation launch: What members said
News Nigel Clifford, chief executive of Symbian, was one of the main speakers during the press conference. We want to respond to any barriers to innovation," said Clifford. Representatives of the major mobile-phone manufacturers joined mobile-operating...
[June 24, 2008, 14:58]
Online album sales hit UK charts
News The whole point of the charts is to represent the best selling records that people are buying," said Paul Clifford, chart operations manager at CIN. The decision to include online sales figures will only affect the album charts to begin with, but...
[September 27, 2000, 7:12]
Data centres face cooling crisis
News Bill Clifford, chief executive of Aperture, said: "Many users are simply unaware of the dangers they are introducing to their data centres. Clifford said that in the past, cooling issues could be resolved in a matter of weeks as suppliers of...
[April 13, 2007, 10:02]
Email snooping code suffers 'unnecessary' delays
News A lot of the Code goes beyond normal interpretations of data protection principles," said Mark Ford, lawyer at city firm Clifford Chance. John Angel, head of online legal services at Clifford Chance, believes that the Code of Practice should...
[May 2, 2001, 13:22]
Symbian makes a profit
News You're right to assume we're in the black," chief executive Nigel Clifford told Reuters. Although some had predicted that 3G might be Symbian's downfall, Clifford believes Symbian is taking a lead: "In Q2 2006, 92 percent of the worldwide 3G...
[August 23, 2006, 14:00]
Linux viruses from China predicts Russian expert
News But while Kaspersky warns of imminent doom for the open source phenomenon, Jason Clifford, Linux developer and consultant, thinks the threat is overblown. Clifford reckons the suggestion harks back to the old myth of "security by obscurity" and...
[January 24, 2000, 13:51]
Hypertorus
Downloads Hypertorus - shows the Clifford torus as it rotates in 4d. A quick port from Carsten Steger's xscreensaver module.
[July 1, 2003, 8:00]
Microsoft Office Specialist Success Story: George Leung
White Papers Ying Kit "George" Leung has been appointed Training/PC Support Officer at global law firm Clifford Chance. Leung studied Computer Science at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia. He gained hands-on experience with Microsoft Office...
[September 8, 2006, 0:00]
Symbian boosts mobile connection management
News According to Symbian chief executive Nigel Clifford, it will bring "low latency, low jitter and absolutely crystal-clear VoIP calls" to the popular smartphone platform. We are bringing the equivalent of your home broadband to your pocket," Clifford...
[October 16, 2007, 13:13]
Symbian upbeat as shipments treble
News However, Symbian's chief executive, Nigel Clifford, reiterated that there remains work for the company to do to reach mass market penetration. Symbian's strategic focus must remain on driving increased shipments through the adoption of Symbian OS...
[August 19, 2005, 10:00]
Orange, mmO2, T-Mobile swap photo messages
News This is not the case with MMS," said Richard Clifford in a statement. Clifford also predicted that text-messaging revenues will peak this year, and then begin to decline as other technologies emerge. Orange, mmO2 and T-Mobile have begun to correct...
[January 27, 2003, 16:05]



