BT Chief Steps Down
News He is well-placed to accept a governmental role, having been honoured in three countries including the UK, where he has received an honorary knighthood for services to communications. Verwaayen has also been awarded a Chevalier de la Legion d...
[April 8, 2008, 17:06]
Rake To Succeed Bland At BT Helm
News Rake, who acquired his knighthood in the most recent New Year Honours List, will succeed Sir Christopher Bland as head of the incumbent British telco in September. The firm subsequently admitted creating illegal tax shelters so that its client...
[February 19, 2007, 15:33]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback And,.if you want to attack someone for doing massive damage to Africa,why don't you talk about that ex-leader of yours, one Sanni Abacha ,who was Nigerian head of state for 6 years and in that time managed to steal to the the tune of billions of...
[January 28, 2004, 12:17]
Outrage At Gates' Knighthood
Talkback People just stick with the status quo and that is how Bill makes those billions. I agree: Why should the founder of an aggressive monopoly be praised? Yes, the software is good (on the whole) but even if another company produced better they could...
[March 7, 2005, 8:47]
