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US Report: Microsoft Online Overseer Steps Down
News A 15-year Microsoft veteran and member of the eight-person executive committee, Higgins is taking a leave of absence starting at the end of the year. As group vice president of Microsoft's Interactive Media Group, Higgins oversees efforts such as...
[November 11, 1998, 9:05]
Open-source ID Tool Awaits Microsoft's Go-ahead
News That did help the Higgins project, but developers say that wasn't enough to help them deliver all the features they hope to. Developers working on the Higgins project want to create a tool equivalent to Microsoft's Windows CardSpace, but fear the...
[March 12, 2007, 7:39]
Open-source Projects Link To Microsoft System
News The Higgins and Bandit open-source projects are claiming a milestone in the development of open-source identity services with a link to a new Microsoft identity system. At next week's RSA Conference in San Francisco, backers of Higgins and Bandit...
[January 29, 2007, 8:17]
Open Source InfoCard Rival Gets Heavyweight Support
News IBM is expected to support Higgins in its products sometime next year. The companies plan to contribute to an open source initiative code-named Higgins Project. The Higgins Project will complement InfoCard in providing client software for operating...
[February 27, 2006, 15:50]
Government A 'roadblock' To IT Success
News Delivering his keynote address to the UK Technology Partnering and Investment Forum, John Higgins, director general of trade body Intellect, highlighted the issue as an illustration of the effects of what he said is a widespread perception in...
[March 2, 2004, 15:15]
Empire Struck By Game Delays
News We now expect the group not to meet market expectations for the full year, principally due to the provision taken against development cost overruns and the postponement of one of our key titles, Ghost Master on the PC," said Ian Higgins, Empire...
[September 26, 2002, 11:15]
Tesco.com Launches Music Service
News Jon Higgins, head of e-commerce development at Tesco, said the music market won't always favour the Cupertino-based company. With more and more companies joining in the music download fray - Virgin, Sony, Coke and Oxfam to name a few - Higgins said...
[November 8, 2004, 13:08]
Patent Injustice For Small Software Companies
News Although a "fair proportion" of people file patents without the help of patent attorneys, Smith-Higgins says that legal help is generally advisable. We have been made aware of the difficulties that SMEs may face in defending patents," says Lawrence...
[June 29, 2005, 18:15]
Microsoft's Jim Allchin Takes A 'vacation'
News In late January, former Interactive Media Group head Pete Higgins announced he would not return to Microsoft "in a different capacity" as promised. Higgins left in November 1998 after 15 years with the company where he also headed the Microsoft...
[May 23, 2000, 13:13]
Old Microsoft Execs Never Die ...
News Pete Higgins, the 45-year-old former group vice president of Microsoft's interactive media division, saw the company evolve from a lean, entrepreneurial organisation into a much larger institution in his 16 years there.
[February 12, 2002, 17:21]
Uncalibrated Stereo Correspondence By Singular Value Decomposition
White Papers This paper presents a new simple method for achieving feature correspondence across a pair of images which requires no calibration information and draws from the method proposed by Scott and Longuet Higgins.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Novell Plugs Bandit For ID Management
News These include the Liberty Alliance's protocols and specifications and Higgins, an open source project backed by Novell and IBM. Higgins is meant to give people more control of their data when they do business online.
[June 12, 2006, 9:00]
Wake County, North Carolina Automates Network Management And Reporting With CA And OakTree Integrated Solution
White Papers Unicenter NSM delivers total enterprise management for the internal and web infrastructures, and OakTree Navigator gives Higgins an easy-to-use, add-on solution for generating canned reports and service level analysis.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Firms Without Broadband 'stuck In Ignorance'
News John Higgins, chief executive of Intellect, has urged the broadband industry to address this lack of understanding about the benefits of broadband within the SME community. There is a huge job to be done telling people about the ways that broadband...
[November 27, 2002, 12:52]
Government Urged To Be Bold With IT Projects
News John Higgins, director general of supplier trade body Intellect, said there needs to be more trust and bold leadership -- and cited the example of the pace at which Richard Grainger is pushing through the £2.3bn NHS IT programme.
[October 29, 2003, 16:35]
UK Beefs Up IT Code Of Practice
News John Higgins, director general of IT supplier body Intellect, said the IT industry is committed to maintaining the pace of reform, improving the relationship between government and industry, and ensuring value for money for the British taxpayer.
[January 17, 2005, 14:35]
Campaigners Celebrate Patent Directive Defeat
News John Higgins, the director general of Intellect, said that he preferred that the directive had been rejected rather than being passed with amendments that would have narrowed the scope of patentability.
[July 7, 2005, 16:45]
Top Microsoft Exec Calls It Quits
News In recent months, former company hot shots such as Nathan Myrhvold and Pete Higgins decided to leave the company. Another senior Microsoft official is heading for greener pastures. Tod Nielsen, vice president of developer marketing, becomes the...
[June 13, 2000, 8:55]
Government Joins Push For IT Professionalism
News The group, which also includes John Higgins, director general of public sector IT supplier body Intellect, is due to meet in June. The British Computer Society (BCS) has launched a new scheme involving Whitehall and industry figures which aims to...
[May 11, 2005, 16:30]
Microsoft: The Next Quarter Century
News Microsoft's PC-era heyday -- led by the likes of former Windows and Internet Explorer champion Brad Silverberg and Office and Interactive Media chief Pete Higgins -- is over. Do you know Brian MacDonald?
[September 4, 2000, 14:22]
