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IBM Internet guru takes Opera role
News John Patrick, who was credited with bringing the Internet to IBM, joined Web browser company Opera on Friday. Christian Thommessen, the chairman of Opera Software, said in a statement that the Norwegian company is very excited about appointing...
[January 30, 2004, 10:45]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Take John Patrick, an old IBM hand of the very highest calibre: he is the person who got IBM to first notice and then take seriously a rather arcane invention called the Internet. A minute later, John Patrick phoned back "Dunno what happened there...
[February 13, 2004, 16:50]
Internet Explorer gets a new evangelist
News One of IE's competitors in the stand-alone browser sector is Opera, which earlier this year appointed ex-IBM Internet guru John Patrick to its board of directors. Patrick told ZDNet UK he is not worried about Microsoft improving IE or the arrival...
[June 22, 2004, 13:15]
US tech firms lock horns over patent law
News House members are currently finalising bill language with Senator Patrick Leahy, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and hope to introduce identical bills simultaneously, Boucher said. Many changes promoted by large high-tech companies...
[March 30, 2007, 8:58]
Venture-capital firms oppose US patent changes
News House members are currently finalising bill language with Senator Patrick Leahy, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and hope to introduce identical bills simultaneously, Boucher said. Many changes promoted by large high-tech companies...
[April 2, 2007, 11:36]
The future is... Linux televisions
News John Patrick spent 35 years at IBM and was one of the original Internet and Linux enthusiasts. In late January, Patrick joined the board at Norwegian Web browser company Opera - which is planning an IPO in March.
[February 20, 2004, 13:55]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback He/she will have a notable American name like Patrick, Matthew or even a Shaun. Please welcome substitute columnist John Stumpf. But just for fun, reader John Stumpf, ex-CIO and now just a "retired geek," wrote up a Guide to Dell Tech Support that...
[June 19, 2006, 15:04]
Famous Speeches
Downloads Francis of Assisi, Napoleon Bonaparte, Winston Churchill, Marie Curie, King Edward VIII, Dwight Eisenhower, Queen Elizabeth I, Mahatma Gandhi, Lou Gehrig, Patrick Henry, Adolph Hitler, Victor Hugo, Harold Ickes, Helen Keller, John F.
[June 23, 2009, 12:51]
Real bandwidth: Internet2 goes live
News Working with the Internet2 community, IBM will build powerful new applications that are feasible only on a backbone with such enormous capacity as Abilene," said John Patrick, vice president of Internet technology at IBM, in a statement.
[February 26, 1999, 10:10]
Rank of tech billionaires dwindled in 2000
News Patrick H Nettles, Ciena, +$232m John E Warnock, Adobe Systems, +$91m After watching their stocks soar to astounding heights in 1999, the technology chief executives with the highest net worth looked on helplessly in 2000 as their fortunes dwindled...
[January 2, 2001, 13:47]
US Report: Tech execs will meet with the FBI over crypto
News The recently formed Americans for Computer Privacy, for instance, elicited the support of Senate Judiciary members Senator John Ashcroft, and Senator Patrick Leahy, in drafting recent legislation that would guarantee Americans' right to use strong...
[June 1, 1998, 14:32]
OOXML expert: ODF standard is broken
News Brown referred to a post by Patrick Durusau, editor of the ODF standard, in which Durusau argued that standards supporters should promote and develop their own standards instead of "bashing" others. There may be flaws in ODF, but it is quite usable...
[May 2, 2008, 15:47]
NakedWife virus spreads from US military
News At the onset, (those infected were) strictly military," said Patrick Nolan, an antivirus researcher with McAfee's Antivirus Emergency Research Team, adding that three of the 18 organisations so far infected with the virus were part of the US...
[March 7, 2001, 8:34]
iSoft faces another financial probe
News The AIDB has decided not to specify the individuals involved, but they will certainly include Patrick Cryne, Whiston's predecessor, who sold 3.5 million of his iSoft shares last year at £4.25 each, almost ten times their current value.
[October 25, 2006, 13:40]
The Day Ahead: B2B companies should deliver strong quarters
News Lehman Brothers analyst Patrick Walravens said he sees upside to his revenue target of $13.2m, but maintains a "neutral" rating on the stock. E*Offering analyst John Ederer started coverage of FreeMarkets Monday with a "buy" rating.
[July 11, 2000, 12:00]
Police: Not enough evidence for paedophile crackdown
News Television broadcaster Carol Vorderman has worked with the child victims of many Net paedophile cases, including the 13-year-old girl who was raped by Patrick Green last year. We can see from America that there's no reason to be complacent about...
[March 22, 2001, 11:25]
NHS IT timescale questioned as iSoft CEO resigns
News Last year, ex-chairman Patrick Cryne sold 3.5 million of his iSoft shares at £4.25 each. Whiston’s temporary replacement will be the company’s chairman, John Weston, who is reported to have sought headhunters to fill the top job even before iSoft...
[June 15, 2006, 9:40]
Are storage-server hybrids the future?
News To be honest, we're seeing the market move in the opposite direction (than in the past)," said Patrick Rogers, vice president of products and partners at networked storage powerhouse Network Appliance.
[July 27, 2006, 9:55]
FBI digs deeper into the Web
News Such an approach to police authority in the United States is directly contrary to the First and Fourth Amendment and the system of checks and balances established by our form of government," a group of organisations including the American Library...
[June 6, 2002, 12:28]
Attacks silence privacy concerns
News Senator Patrick Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, urged members of Congress last week to resist the temptation to abandon civil liberties in the face of terrorist threats.
[September 18, 2001, 9:16]
