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Excite Founders Launch New Venture
News Excite.com co-founders Joe Kraus and Graham Spencer will announce a new start-up on Wednesday geared toward letting developers build Web applications using a shared online template. Called JotSpot, the company uses wiki technology, essentially Web...
[October 6, 2004, 12:40]
Freeserve Founders Switch To VoIP Venture
News The founders of ISP Freeserve -- now known as Wanadoo and owned by France Telecom -- have accepted the top spots at voice over IP (VoIP) company Callserve Communications. Freeserve co-founder Ajaz Ahmed will take the role of chief executive and...
[September 23, 2004, 10:25]
Freeserve Loses Two Founders
News Ajaz Ahmed and Rob Wilmot were two of the original four founders who set up the ISP which transformed the industry by scrapping the monthly subscription fee. As reported by ZDNet News last week, two of the founder members of ISP Freeserve are to...
[April 30, 2001, 16:16]
Kazaa Founders Tout P2P VoIP
News Kazaa co-founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom have a new target: the telephone industry. They've launched Skype, which they claim is the first Internet phone service to use peer-to-peer software.
[September 12, 2003, 10:30]
Lastminute Co-founders Cash-out Day Arrives
News Lastminute.com's management, including co-founders Brent Hoberman and Martha Lane-Fox, could turn their virtual millions into cold, hard cash for the first time starting Monday. With the end of the company's post-flotation lockup period, directors...
[September 11, 2000, 11:19]
Company Founders Buy Back Labours Of Love
News Companies and their founders got famous, with the personalities of the two often becoming intertwined. Some analysts are more sceptical about the founders' motives. Several other company founders who stepped aside or sold their companies have made...
[February 19, 2001, 10:11]
Exploit-selling Site Will Boost Security, Say Founders
News An eBay-like auction site that sells vulnerabilities will improve security by ensuring researchers get a fair price for their work, say the founders. The existing business model to reward researchers is a failure," said Herman Zampariolo, chief...
[July 6, 2007, 13:55]
Kazaa Founders Tout P2P VoIP
Talkback Excellent! Phones are becoming more and more fuctional. It seems that capabilities are being added everyday. I'd like to see high fedelity audio playback soon. I know it's coming. Joel Longboarders Organization
[September 16, 2003, 1:28]
Kazaa Founders Tout P2P VoIP
Talkback Hi Ben, Thanks so much for the excellent Skype article. I hope there's a way to preserve the link to it for a few months because I just posted a HTML address link to it in the new Yahoo! discussion group, "SkyPe Voice Over Internet Protocol Software.
[September 14, 2003, 19:44]
Founders At Work
Talkback I read this book last year - it's very good. The Firefox chapter is excellent.
[June 19, 2008, 19:33]
Kazaa Founders Tout P2P VoIP
Talkback I have allways wondered who was the person or persons who was putting these hundreds of blank dummy downloads on the Kazaa P2P system. I found out recently the film industry hires companies to put these blank downloads on the internet so as to...
[August 17, 2004, 15:24]
Dell's Linux PC Launch Founders
News Dell's Linux PC launch has gone belly up as the computer supplier admitted it has been hit by "gremlins". Dell said on Tuesday that it would launch two PCs with a pre-installed Linux operating system today.
[August 8, 2007, 18:25]
Grid Computing Founders Form Start-up
News The researchers who spawned the idea of grid computing will launch a company on Monday to commercialise what so far has been a very academic software project for sharing computing resources. The company, called Univa and based near Chicago, is...
[December 13, 2004, 8:00]
Wikipedia, Ubuntu Founders Back 'open Education'
News Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales and Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth are backing a scheme to make publicly funded education materials freely available on the internet. The backers of the Cape Town Open Education Declaration, announced on Tuesday, said the...
[January 22, 2008, 16:39]
Google Founders Win Marconi Engineering Award
News The two ex-Stanford students who founded Google, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, have been named the 2004 Fellows of the Marconi Foundation at Columbia University. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who won the same prize in 2002, said in a statement: "Google held a...
[September 23, 2004, 14:50]
Partnership Site Aims To Drive Wireless
News A social networking site aimed at the wireless industry is a sign of sustained growth, not a new technology bubble, according to its founders. Mobility is a way of life and a real opportunity, say the founders.That kind of adoption precludes...
[August 30, 2006, 10:10]
Google Hires Another Brilliant Larry
News Search giant Google has hired an award-winning expert in health and development to oversee the charitable arm of its business, which Google's founders claim could one day have a greater impact on the world than the main company.
[February 22, 2006, 15:45]
Ongame Powers High Transaction Online Poker System With MySQL
White Papers When the founders of PokerRoom.com set up shop in their basement in 1999, they started out with a small budget. The founders had to build the game system with available, low-cost tools and infrastructure software.
[November 14, 2005, 23:00]
Tech VCs Toughen Up On Funding Terms
News These terms can let VCs usurp or wipe out outstanding shares held by previous investors, founders and employees in order to protect or boost their stake in the company. Some struggling start-ups are forcing company founders to accept stock options...
[March 18, 2002, 13:01]
Startup Spotlight: Chase Episode I
News But perhaps more valuable than any amount of cash are the group's founders, who bring to the table years of experience with two of the UK's biggest Internet and computing firms: Simon Murdoch, former UK managing director and Europe Vice President...
[January 19, 2000, 8:51]
