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Apache founder joins OpenSolaris board
News Sun has tapped a founder of the successful open source Apache software project to join a new advisory board governing the OpenSolaris operating system project, the software and server maker said Monday.
[April 5, 2005, 10:20]
Carphone Warehouse co-founder resigns
News Carphone Warehouse co-founder David Ross has resigned after failing to declare that he had used shares in the company as collateral against personal loans. Ross resigned as a director on Sunday after using 136.4 million of his shares in Carphone...
[December 8, 2008, 12:59]
Napster founder unveils new P2P venture
News With $10m in venture funding and the backing of at least one major record label, Napster founder Shawn Fanning will officially unveil his new peer-to-peer music company on Monday. As previously reported, his new company, dubbed Snocap, is a far cry...
[December 3, 2004, 8:25]
Napster founder scales new peaks
News Jordan Mendelson, who helped develop Napster's search technology in its early days, is also a co-founder. Far from his anarchic Napster days, file-swapping pioneer Shawn Fanning and several of his old colleagues are quietly working on a new venture...
[January 27, 2004, 10:55]
Demon Internet founder trial postponed
News The crown court trial of Redbus and Demon Internet founder Cliff Stanford, who faces charges of blackmail and email intercepting, has been postponed until the end of the month. Stanford was charged last year under the Regulation of Investigatory...
[January 10, 2005, 11:45]
Sophos founder: Mac viruses are spreading
News The co-founder of antivirus firm Sophos said that the Apple Mac is not a virus-free platform. He also believes that Windows can be as secure as Linux — if it is configured correctly. In an interview with ZDNet Australia on Thursday, Dr Jan Hruska...
[June 11, 2007, 9:25]
Reduced role for Sun co-founder Bechtolsheim
News Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim is shifting to a reduced role at the Silicon Valley stalwart as he turns his attention to getting yet another start-up off the ground. The company's PR team quickly responded by saying there were a "few inaccurate...
[October 24, 2008, 12:53]
Net founder: traffic growth spells revival
News Internet traffic quadrupled during the past year, and demand from corporations is so strong that carriers will be forced to start spending significant money on upgrades early next year, sparking a turnaround in the industry, a founder of the...
[August 19, 2001, 8:30]
AOL co-founder steps down
News AOL co-founder Steve Case stepped down from Time Warner's board of directors as the Internet division tries to make a comeback. We have great respect for his long record of achievement - as a co-founder of AOL to a valuable member of our board.
[November 1, 2005, 16:15]
Freenet founder launches business P2P product
News That's a far cry from the radical anticensorship drive of co-founder Ian Clarke, whose Freenet project which first brought him and Uprizer into the public eye. Hard drive space and processors are cheap enough that a company could simply buy a few...
[May 1, 2002, 12:46]
Mandriva co-founder booted from Linux firm
News Gael Duval, a co-founder of Linux seller Mandriva, is among employees who lost their jobs at the company after it became unprofitable in its most recent financial quarter. To deal with the situation, the company announced the elimination of...
[March 16, 2006, 9:35]
Overture founder set to unveil new search venture
News The founder and CEO of famed venture capitalist Idealab plans to unveil a new search venture on Tuesday at the Web 2.0 Conference being held in San Francisco. But company CEO and founder Stuart MacFarlane said he plans to introduce the service more...
[October 5, 2004, 10:40]
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]
Yahoo's founder responds to China criticism
News Yahoo executives feel "horrible" about political arrests of Internet users in China but believe it's better to operate in that market and cooperate with authorities than not be there at all, Yahoo co-founder
[March 9, 2006, 15:35]
Peoplesoft's founder steps aside
News PeopleSoft founder and chief executive David Duffield announced Tuesday that he was stepping aside to make room for current president Craig Conway to assume the helm of the software giant. The announcement comes at a time when PeopleSoft, a maker...
[September 22, 1999, 11:39]
Ubuntu development hits founder in the pocket
News Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has admitted that he spends a significant sum of his own money developing the Linux distribution. Ubuntu is expensive," he said, in an interview with German news site Heise, published on Monday.
[May 9, 2006, 16:40]
Sun acquires firm employing its co-founder
News Sun Microsystems has agreed to acquire Kealia, a start-up that designs servers with Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor and that employs Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim. Sun chief executive and fellow co-founder Scott McNealy greeted...
[February 11, 2004, 7:50]
Exclusive: Founder Gill exits Quark
News After months of speculation that his departure was imminent, Quark founder, chairman and chief technology officer Tim Gill has reportedly told the staff of the publishing software powerhouse that he has sold his holdings in Quark to concentrate on...
[October 25, 2000, 9:17]
MySQL co-founder clarifies closed-source strategy
News MySQL's move to begin offering parts of its namesake database as closed source only will apply only to plug-ins, according to co-founder David Axmark. Clarifying reports that emerged from the MySQL conference in Florida last week, MySQL co-founder...
[April 25, 2008, 16:54]
Demon founder in court over email interception charges
News Clifford Stanford, the founder of Demon and Redbus, went on trial on Tuesday over charges of unlawful email interception. The trial at Southwark Crown Court began with the counsel for the defence asking for the judge to rule on certain legal...
[September 13, 2005, 16:05]
