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The Internet of the 21st century
News And that revolution is only just beginning, according Paul Saffo, a leading futurist and director of California's Institute for the Future. The feeling was echoed by President Clinton, who claimed at an economics forum in Florence last month that...
[December 27, 1999, 6:00]
A Year Ago: The Internet of the 21st century
News And that revolution is only just beginning, according Paul Saffo, a leading futurist and director of California's Institute for the Future. For those without access there is a risk of disenfranchisement and the new generation of have-nots will be...
[December 27, 2000, 6:04]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Much internal gossip and mildly depraved behaviour - the highlight of the evening comes when I describe a grandiose idea to Tony Westbrook, online director, with an expansive sweep of the arms. Am carrying a glass of red wine which impinges on the...
[May 10, 1997, 8:00]
McAfee attacks Symantec's product launches
News Vimal Solanki, senior director of worldwide product marketing for McAfee, said: "Symantec is seven years behind McAfee — ePO version 1.0 came out in 2000. Jeffrey Hausman, a senior director of product management for Symantec, said that Symantec's...
[June 14, 2007, 11:00]
WiMax's head start over LTE may decide 4G race
News Teresa Kellett, director of global development for telco Sprint Nextel, said during a panel discussion at this week's WiMax Forum Asia 2008 that WiMax's first-mover advantage over the long-term evolution of 3G (LTE) may eventually help the former...
[April 11, 2008, 8:13]
International lawsuit treaty raises sovereignty fears
News Alternative forms of dispute resolution and mediation "are just getting in place, and we are concerned that the Hague convention doesn't adequately protect or recognize the full range of these mechanisms," said Marilyn Cade, AT&T's director of...
[May 29, 2001, 17:02]
Legacy application causing regulatory confusion
News Billy Hamilton-Stent, a director at Loudhouse Research, which undertook the study on behalf of Hal Knowledge Solutions, said, “The more IT organisations are asked to do in compliance and IT governance terms, the more they need to know what is...
[June 15, 2005, 17:40]
MobileMoney:Africa's 11
Blog Founding Director and CEO of WIZZIT: Brian Richardson Director : Dare Okoudjou Contacts: Marc Rennard, executive director in charge of Orange’s operations in Africa, Middle-East and Asia To reach its customers, WIZZIT has adopted a unique direct...
[May 19, 2009, 16:21]
Wanted: Software researchers in China
News The team is set to expand to 200 people by 2003, Microsoft Research Asia Managing Director Zhang Ya-Qin told CNETAsia. By scaling up its research operations in China, Microsoft hopes to tap into the country's huge knowledge pool.
[May 10, 2002, 13:28]
Stanford, tech execs unveil science centre
News As CEES Director Jerry Harris put it at the opening ceremony, the centre is about "computer-driven science and science-driven computer design", meaning that CEES partners from industry and government will be able to learn from its work on how to...
[June 21, 2006, 11:00]
Police to give cybercrime-fighting courses
News But Paul Simmonds, co-founder of the Jericho Forum -- a security user group -- and global information security director, said it was questionable whether delegates should pay. Scotland Yard's Computer Crime Unit (CCU) said the seminars are meant to...
[January 19, 2005, 12:20]
Microsoft takes on supercomputing
News Zane Adams, the director of Windows Server marketing. Our typical user has no knowledge of Unix and Linux," said Cox, who has no time for other technologies favored by academics, such as grid computing.
[June 9, 2006, 14:25]
Government CIOs urged to tap into the cloud
News Steve Hodgkinson, Ovum's director of government practice, said agencies in the public sector face the same pressures this year to cut costs and boost operating performance. CIOs should be tapping this emerging body of knowledge and exploring ways...
[March 9, 2009, 12:37]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Much internal gossip and mildly depraved behaviour - the highlight of the evening comes when I describe a grandiose idea to Tony Westbrook, online director, with an expansive sweep of the arms. Am carrying a glass of red wine which impinges on the...
[May 10, 1997, 9:00]
Facebook modifies its privacy controls again
News It is important for developers to have access to information, but we want to balance that with transparency and control for users," Ethan Beard, Facebook's director of platform product marketing, said in a blog post geared toward developers.
[August 28, 2009, 11:12]
Singapore's future lies in services, says WTO
News The advice came from Supachai Panitchpakdi, director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), in a high-level industry forum hosted in Singapore on Tuesday by computer systems maker IBM. With China's rising importance as a production hub...
[July 10, 2002, 8:32]
Australian expo aims to entice UK techies
News Steve Rogers, director of ICT recruitment specialists Rusher Rogers, said that while British IT professionals' skill sets by no means surpass their Australian counterparts, they do bring a sense of "global experience".
[March 18, 2008, 8:38]
Software patent fight moves to Parliament
News If the Council had taken the decision to remove patent protection the UK's individual inventors, SMEs and large multinationals, would all have been unable to protect their inventions, undermining the incentives to undertake research and...
[May 21, 2004, 12:10]
UK 'needs' a minister for IT and innovation
News Tom Willis-Sandford, director of public affairs at Intellect, said that technology is vital for securing jobs, enhancing the quality of life for families and delivering high quality public services that are affordable.
[May 3, 2005, 16:50]
Sarbanes-Oxley 'good for IT'
News Speaking on Thursday at the financial technology show FinExpo, Stephen Ashton, director of Global IT business management at the bank said Sarbanes-Oxley was a knee-jerk reaction to corporate scandal that was costing companies "a fortune" to comply...
[January 27, 2005, 15:40]
