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Telewest Chief In Unexpected Departure
News Singer's departure comes only a day before Telewest announces interim financial results, leading to speculation that the cable firm may be about to reveal some bad news - possibly a second-quarter loss of up to £200m
[July 31, 2002, 16:45]
Bill Gates' Departure Means Microsoft Holy Cows Are Being Slaughtered.
Blog Well, no but the departure of Bill Gates means some of the holy cows are finally being slaughtered. That is the take from analyst The 451 Group following Thursday night’s “it looks really big but its actually not” announcement from Microsoft that...
[February 25, 2008, 12:10]
Fiorina's Departure: The Beginning Of The End?
News While the departure of HP CEO Carly Fiorina is unlikely to immediately alter the computer hardware market, it will be used as ammunition by Dell and others in an attempt to win HP customers, analysts say.
[February 10, 2005, 13:45]
Confusion Surrounds Granger's NHS Departure
News Confusion surrounds the future of the job running the NHS's £12.4bn flagship IT programme, and the timetable for the departure of director-general Richard Granger. But an NHS spokesman admitted this week that Granger is currently still in the role...
[January 16, 2008, 11:19]
Police Chief's Departure Won't Halt E-crime Plans
News The development of a centralised e-crime unit is to go ahead, the Metropolitan Police has said, despite the departure of the project's main proponent. Commander Sue Wilkinson has been leading a project that aims to create a Police Central e-Crime...
[October 4, 2007, 16:03]
Klein's Departure Won't Impact MS Case
News Joel Klein's departure from the US Department of Justice is unlikely to have any significant impact on the Microsoft antitrust case, according to legal experts and trial watchers. What's more, legal experts cautioned against reading into the timing...
[September 20, 2000, 8:01]
Fiorina's Departure: The Beginning Of The End?
Talkback As corporate IT decision maker I have always said, if it is a printer it must have an HP badge on it, if it is a server it must have a Compaq badge, if it's a laptop a Toshiba badge and a desktop a Dell badge - experience of reliability is the...
[February 12, 2005, 10:46]
Bill Gates' Departure Means Microsoft Holy Cows Are Being Slaughtered.
Blog Comment "MSFT controls the desktop and has no intention of ceding that to anyone, open source or otherwise. Past attempts to unseat them have failed mainly because of inter-operability, now with browser based applications; the better they get the more...
[February 26, 2008, 8:07]
Fiorina's Departure: The Beginning Of The End?
Talkback I don't know much about HP. I have a Compaq laptop that I use at home and I have always been impressed by the customer support that they give. That is the brand to me. Support that continued even after the merger.
[February 11, 2005, 6:54]
Online Travel Portal Nears Departure
News The UK's online travel information service has completed the second stage of its development with enhanced features now available as a test portal, the Department for Transport (DfT) said. Transport Direct, which is due to be launched publicly in...
[August 4, 2004, 12:20]
Interview: Novell's Schuster On Life After Bob
News PCDN: Were you expecting the announcement of Frankenberg's departure? A high-level departure like this must always be upsetting to a company though? No, the news has been a complete surprise but it has been well received.
[September 2, 1996, 12:32]
NHS IT Loses Another Leading Light
News The departure of a leading official responsible for the NHS IT programme means the scheme has lost its second clinical chief in six months. The departure means that the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has lost its two most senior officials...
[September 23, 2004, 14:10]
Mobile OS Developer Seeks Commercially Minded Chief
News The departure on Friday of Symbian's chief executive Colly Myers has left the way open for a more commercially focused replacement. Industry experts, to whom the announcement of Myers' departure came as a surprise, believe that there is now an...
[February 18, 2002, 15:03]
Windows Live Program Manager Quits 'paralysed' Division
News The departure of a Windows Live program manager has highlighted concern within Microsoft about the strategic direction of the company. Kennedy's post sparked a lively debate on the Mini-Microsoft blog, where some Microsoft employees argued that his...
[August 10, 2006, 13:45]
Apple's Head Lawyer Steps Down
News Apple Computer's top lawyer has left the company, in the third high-level departure from the Mac maker in recent months. The company on Monday confirmed the departure of general counsel Nancy Heinen, who was its highest-ranking female executive...
[May 9, 2006, 8:40]
ST-Micropolis Plans Assault On WD, Seagate
News Hewlett-Packard's (HP) recent departure from the hard disk drive business, taking a charge of $150m against third quarter 1996 revenues, might look like a big drop in competition in the storage business, but another vendor has stepped in to fill...
[July 19, 1996, 14:29]
Lacey: Apple Down, But Far From Out
News The departure of the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer just a week ahead of the firm posting third quarter results has once again got the soothsayers predicting the fall of the house of Apple. This is possibly a bigger blow to Apple than the...
[July 10, 1997, 16:01]
HP Loses Services Chief
News Hewlett-Packard is searching for another high-level executive after the departure of its services chief this week. Neumann declined to comment on whether Smith's resignation was related to the company's boardroom scandal, which has seen the...
[October 27, 2006, 9:15]
Informix Faces Uphill Struggle
News said Sybase general manager Colin Penwick referring to the departure of Informix chairman Phil White, who quit the company yesterday. White's departure came just three months after Informix announced a $140 million loss and days before the company...
[August 1, 1997, 16:23]
Sun Cobalt Prepares May Appliance Launch
News Sun Cobalt is preparing a major addition to its line of Linux-based server appliances this month despite the departure -- just weeks before the launch -- of the key executive who heads up the operation.
[May 3, 2002, 16:48]
