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The ZDNet UK community strikes back!
Blog Full marks to community member dercoss, who dropped into the site a week ago to give us a handy tip about the resignation of Hugh Paterson, erstwhile CEO of internet service provider Biscit. Paterson then accused Netservices of playing dirty by...
[February 22, 2007, 14:03]
Biscit denies cash flow problems
News Cheques bounce, Hugh Paterson said the story was "overblown" and "no mystery". However, Paterson told ZDNet UK on Thursday that the problem had accidentally arisen when Biscit closed one of its bank accounts.
[February 1, 2007, 14:01]
The Manx turn from Unix to Windows
News Allan Paterson, director of the information systems division in the Manx government, said the move was a "strategic position" with no overarching contract, but just an intention to standardise on the Windows platform over the next five years.
[December 1, 2004, 17:10]
Chink in encryption armour discovered
News ISG lead professor Kenny Paterson told ZDNet UK last Monday that the flaw was more significant than previous vulnerabilities in OpenSSH. This is a design flaw in OpenSSH," said Paterson. According to Paterson, a man-in-the-middle attacker could sit...
[May 19, 2009, 13:13]
Microsoft faces up to the netbook challenge
News Our position is that netbooks are small notebook PCs," said Don Paterson, a director in Microsoft's Windows unit. We're pretty squarely focused on thinking the sweet spot moving forward on netbooks is going to be home premium," Paterson said.
[March 13, 2009, 9:05]
Isle of Man snubs iSoft
News Speaking to ZDNet UK on Thursday, the Isle of Man Treasury's director of information systems, Allan Paterson, said that — following a tendering process — the island had decided to go with System C's software, as what System C offers "exists, can...
[March 23, 2007, 12:19]
Internet supplier denies customer-retention ploy
News Biscit's chief executive, Hugh Paterson, told ZDNet UK on Monday that he had been contacted by NetServices during the period of "due diligence" that occurred as part of Biscit's acquisition of V21, to say that Biscit could expect a "burst...
[December 4, 2006, 16:06]
Confusion as Biscit withdraws from ISP association
News Biscit chief executive Hugh Paterson claimed the cheques had bounced following an administrative error, but it emerged last week that he has resigned as a Biscit director. Speaking with ZDNet UK on Friday, Paterson insisted that, despite the fact...
[February 26, 2007, 10:55]
Ofcom: Return of the MAC
News Biscit/V21's Hugh Paterson, on the other hand, said he "totally agreed" with the new rules. Paterson was in an ebullient mood when contacted, claiming a High Court injunction victory on Tuesday against NetServices.
[December 13, 2006, 11:52]
He won't be signing anymore..
Talkback I don't think Mr Paterson will be signing anymore cheques for Biscit. At least not as a Director of the company as he has now resigned from the board. Strangely, the link to the Biscit management team has disappeared from their site as well.
[February 15, 2007, 20:51]
The Manx turn from Unix to Windows
Talkback "I am a technical person," continued Paterson, "but this is not a tech decision. It is a business decision. Too often it is presented as a technical decision, but really it is about the wow you give to the end user at the end of the day.
[December 2, 2004, 18:14]
Medical Physics Calculators
Downloads Includes calculators for atmospheric temperature & pressure correction of ionization chambers, equivalent field, adjoining therapy field gap, HDR brachytherapy quality assurance based on the Paterson-Parker tables (volume, planar, linear...
[July 30, 2005, 8:00]
Parliament to get wireless network
News Sheila Paterson, procurement manager for the House of Commons, told Government Computing News that work is still at the early stages. Paterson acknowledged that there had been some concerns over the system's security, but the project is going ahead...
[August 9, 2004, 12:50]
HDR Volume, Planar, Linear Source
Downloads Paterson-Parker radium volume implant tables modified for HDR brachytherapy quality assurance. The planar and linear source tables are also available.
[October 6, 2003, 8:00]
Microsoft AntiSpyware (Beta): a first look review
Reviews Famously, back in 1980, when IBM was seeking an operating system for its PCs, Microsoft bought q-DOS (a.k.a 'Quick and Dirty Operating System') from developer Tim Paterson for $50,000 and called it MS-DOS.
[January 11, 2005, 12:10]
IT apologies mask sorry state of affairs
Leader Rather than snapping up Tim Paterson's Quick and Dirty Operating System, William H. Sorry isn't a word often associated with Microsoft, unless you're looking to describe the state of Internet Explorer's security.
[February 25, 2005, 13:30]
Biscit falls into administration
News The news also comes shortly after the resignation of chief executive Hugh Paterson. In the latest twist for customers of Biscit, it has emerged that the internet service provider has gone into administration.
[March 8, 2007, 12:55]
CoonTown
Downloads CoonTown is a word puzzle logistics game that is fun & more importantly free!
[February 23, 2001, 6:00]
News Burst: Starr report due on Internet around 7pm
News Download sites (which will go live when the report is released) include: ZDNet USwww.thomas.loc.gov/icreport www.house.gov/icreport
[September 11, 1998, 15:39]
New security hole found in IE 4
News The L0pht Heavy Industries report details a method of compromising IE 4.0/4.01 involving a "heap overflow" when accessing a type of URL with the prefix "mk:". The report describes exploiting the bug as "complicated, but .nonetheless, do-able" and...
[January 15, 1998, 18:37]
