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Ballmer cites 'facts' in Microsoft's battle against Linux
News Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has used the software giant's latest executive email to stoke up Microsoft's fight against the rise of Linux. The executive email can be read in full here. Gael Duval, co-founder of Mandrakesoft, believes...
[October 27, 2004, 17:20]
Ebay execs defend IPO share grab
News Ebay chief executive Meg Whitman in an internal email to employees defended herself and other eBay executives amid an IPO share controversy, saying their actions were "legal" and "quite common". As part of an investigation, a federal government...
[October 24, 2002, 9:58]
Key Intel exec email lost in AMD case
News Despite an antitrust lawsuit against the company, Intel's chief executive and chairman failed to preserve email and documents, according to transcripts from a hearing in the suit brought by AMD. Paul Otellini, Intel's chief executive, Craig Barrett...
[March 13, 2007, 8:40]
eBay tries email in net neutrality fight
News Meg Whitman, chief executive of the Internet auctioneer, called on more than a million eBay members to get involved in the debate over telecommunications laws and "send a message to your representatives in Congress before it is too late".
[June 2, 2006, 9:30]
SCO engineer: No smoking gun found in Linux
News The email, which was sent to SCO Group chief executive Darl McBride by a senior vice-president at the company, forwards on an email from a SCO engineer. The project was a result of SCO's executive management refusing to believe that it was possible...
[July 15, 2005, 9:10]
Ballmer: We must 'compete relentlessly'
News Microsoft needs to do a better job of convincing customers that the latest versions of its products are worth having, chief executive Steve Ballmer said in a companywide email on Tuesday. The Microsoft chief executive also used part of the message...
[July 7, 2004, 8:35]
Mozilla seeks Firefox's success for Thunderbird
News David Ascher, currently chief technology officer at ActiveState and a long-time Mozilla community member, will become the new email corporation's chief executive. Now it's doing the same with Thunderbird, providing the as-yet-unnamed subsidiary...
[September 18, 2007, 8:34]
CIO who merged HP and Compaq dies
News Bob was a great leader and a great friend and colleague to all of us," HP chief executive Carly Fiorina said in an email to HP employees. Bob Napier, the executive who led the merging of the computer systems of Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Computer...
[October 15, 2003, 15:10]
IBM: Mainframes enjoying global resurgence
News Richard Pape, mainframe systems executive at IBM Asia-Pacific, told ZDNet Asia in an email interview that the company is witnessing a resurgence in the mainframe. The mainframe is finding its way into emerging markets and is still holding strong...
[August 18, 2008, 11:14]
HP fires worker who 'leaked info'
News Meanwhile, the company said it is still trying to find out who leaked a controversial voicemail message that chief executive Carly Fiorina left for another top HP executive. Hewlett-Packard has said in an email to employees that it has fired a...
[April 19, 2002, 7:32]
Steve Jobs has surgery for cancer
News Apple Computer chief executive Steve Jobs underwent surgery this weekend to remove a cancerous tumour in his pancreas, but told employees in an email that the surgery was successful and said he expects to be back on the job next month.
[August 2, 2004, 8:50]
Microsoft on trial: Intel treads softly over Java
News They see this as supporting their mortal enemy.and argue Sun is our enemy as well," Intel executive Frank Gill wrote in an internal 1995 email summarising a meeting with Microsoft executive Paul Maritz.
[November 10, 1998, 8:42]
Telecom New Zealand apologises for email woe
News New Zealand's incumbent telco has just named the former chief executive of BT Wholesale, Paul Reynolds, as its new chief executive. Telecom New Zealand is planning a NZ$1m (£354,253) donation to charity and a week's free internet access for its...
[August 28, 2007, 11:58]
Ballmer describes the 'new normal'
Blog Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer on Monday sent one of his periodic public emails, outlining the business realities of what he called "the new normal", Ina Fried of CNET News.com reports. Because you are a subscriber to Executive Emails from...
[September 29, 2009, 14:12]
Dell cuts bonuses and reduces management
News Michael Dell, who returned to the company as chief executive officer on Wednesday after the resignation of Kevin Rollins, also said in the email on Friday that he planned to stay with the company "for the next several years".
[February 5, 2007, 9:17]
Time to drop 'AOL'?
News In an email memo forwarded to CNET News.com, the America Online unit's chief executive, Jonathan Miller, said he approached AOL Time Warner chief executive Richard Parsons with the suggestion to drop the AOL from AOL Time Warner.
[August 12, 2003, 11:40]
SAP and Microsoft unveil fruits of collaboration
News In another instance, the executive displayed how someone working in the Mendocino-tailored version of the email software could access data produced by SAP's analytical software without ever leaving the Outlook interface.
[May 20, 2005, 9:15]
Rival involved in Harris email blockade
News Harris chief executive Gordon S Black is so angry that he's now calling for government intervention and regulation of email systems, a rare demand from any Internet executive. We would much prefer the fairness of an American court system and a jury...
[August 3, 2000, 11:04]
Research firm clarifies its 'integrity'
News In an email from an Oracle executive to an analyst at a well-known research company, Oracle accused the analyst of being biased in favour of PeopleSoft and asked what the researcher would do if PeopleSoft were to "go away.
[October 8, 2003, 12:20]
EC reveals details of Intel antitrust breaches
News The decision quotes an October 2004 email from a Dell executive to Intel, which stated: "AMD is a great threat to our business. The evidence quotes a December 2006 email sent by a Lenovo executive which reads, in part: "Late last week Lenovo cut a...
[September 21, 2009, 15:07]
