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Sun Co-founder Set To Depart
News Sun Microsystems on Tuesday said that Bill Joy, its co-founder and chief scientist, is leaving the company. Joy helped develop many Sun technologies, including its Java software, SPARC microprocessor architecture and the Solaris operating system.
[September 9, 2003, 15:25]
Top Execs Depart In Yahoo Reshuffle
News Yahoo's chief operating officer and the head of its entertainment group are leaving as part of a major reorganisation announced late on Tuesday. Chief operating officer Dan Rosensweig and Lloyd Braun, the head of Yahoo's media and entertainment...
[December 6, 2006, 7:47]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback It is rebellion that causes each generation to depart from the established language, incited by the Devil, for the purpose of causing the Bible to become difficult or impossible to understand (at least for the common folks).
[June 9, 2006, 19:45]
BT Lays The Path For Universal Broadband
Talkback I enjoy BT's ISDN service but would dearly love Broadband before I depart this world. As a 70 year old pensioner I came late to the Computer World - I am catching up fast. The latest news is more than welcome - Cropredy exchange (Banbury-Oxon) was...
[November 17, 2003, 23:53]
Gates New Book Marred By Glitches
News In "The Road Ahead," Bill Gates disappointed both fans and the curious who had hoped the world's richest man might depart from the usual script and lift the veil on what makes him tick. So when my reviewer's copy of "Business @ the Speed of Thought...
[March 24, 1999, 10:44]
Benchmarks Don't Measure Up For New Platforms
Leader Some time next month - the smart money is on 11 April - the latest and by any measure greatest Airbus will depart the tarmac on its first test flight. There is great excitement in the aviation community about this: the A380 is an aircraft of...
[March 23, 2005, 12:30]
Standard Blades Cut Both Ways
Leader Summer is over when the football starts, the swifts depart and IBM/Intel issue a joint press release about blade servers. Two years ago, the companies announced they were working together. A year ago, they said that what they had was so good it...
[September 2, 2004, 11:55]
Maxtor Loses Another CFO
News Disk drive maker Maxtor on Thursday said its chief financial officer has resigned, the second time this year the company has seen its CFO depart. Maxtor said Michael Bless, who became CFO on 23 August, quit "for personal reasons".
[October 15, 2004, 9:40]
Novell Loses Another Exec
News Dock is the latest of a growing number of Novell officials -- including marketing director John Slitz and senior VP Chris Stone -- to depart in the past few months. Only six months after joining Novell, director of marketing Patti Dock has left the...
[October 20, 1999, 10:22]
Morpheus Gets A New Lease On Life
News StreamCast, which saw most of its top executive staff depart last month, said on Wednesday that Weiss had returned to the helm, and that it would release a wholly new version of its file-trading software on 1 May.
[May 1, 2003, 8:11]
Novell Loses More Linux Executives
News Harman is not the only member of the SuSE old guard to depart. Amnon Harman, chief operating officer of Novell's SuSE Linux group, will leave the company in August, sources familiar with his plans said, making him the latest departure from the...
[March 31, 2006, 9:05]
Amazon Appoints New Finance Executive
News Szkutak's hiring harkens back to the heady days of the dot-com boom, when it was common to see executives depart old-line companies for young upstarts. Amazon.com has appointed a new chief financial officer, hiring Tom Szkutak away from General...
[August 30, 2002, 14:59]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary - Holy Land Special
Blog Thankfully, the pilot refuses to depart because the coffee pots aren't working — an hour later, they're fixed and we're off. Just before Christmas, Intel shipped me and a handful of other European journalists out to Israel to tour the company's...
[January 6, 2006, 17:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I have a meeting at 10:30, so at 9:30 I'm up, dressed, reasonably able to frame and answer simple questions, and poised to depart. Friday 14/5/2004As I write this, it's lunchtime. I have already had an entire month's worth of angst in a mere four...
[May 14, 2004, 19:00]
Palm Creators Prep Faster, Cheaper Visor
News But, that's where Visor will depart from the Palms that have come before it. Handspring will turn the Palm world on its ear next Tuesday when it releases Visor -- a cheaper, faster and more expandable Palm operating system-based handheld device.
[September 8, 1999, 14:44]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog And this year, as ever, the networks give a communal shudder at the stroke of midnight and depart for their own party. Monday 31/12/2001 It's 23:55 on the 31st of December, and in a sumptuous mansion in Richmond the champagne is nicely on ice.
[January 8, 2002, 8:26]
Vivendi Exec Shuffle Raises Net Questions
News Should the company's biggest Internet cheerleader depart, it would clear the way for a re-examination of its VUNet division under fresh eyes. Reports on Monday that Jean-Marie Messier is stepping down from his post as Vivendi Universal's chief...
[July 2, 2002, 8:25]
Rupert Goodwin's Diary
Blog It's the start of the party season and following a hard day pushing news stories around, checking URLs, much chewing of lips (my own, alas) over what goes where and how much space to give it, I and many of my fellows depart to a club in Covent...
[November 21, 1998, 5:25]
Rupert Goodwin's Diary
News It's the start of the party season and following a hard day pushing news stories around, checking URLs, much chewing of lips (my own, alas) over what goes where and how much space to give it, I and many of my fellows depart to a club in Covent...
[November 21, 1998, 5:25]
BT Hoovers Up Broadband Punters With 'free' Flights
News Also, customers can only depart from Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Manchester. BT has unveiled its latest weapon in the fight to sign up broadband customers -- subsidised air travel. Any customer who subscribes to one of BT's consumer high-speed...
[May 11, 2004, 11:50]
