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Steve Jobs' job for life
News Of course, Jobs supporters counter that his decision to again take charge of company he co-founded with Steve Wozniak is commitment enough. I can't imagine anyone who would have better managed their company in the last two years than Steve Jobs.
[April 28, 1999, 9:46]
Ballmer's email to staff on latest layoffs
Blog After Microsoft announced it would lay off another 3,000 people as part of expected job cuts, CEO Steve Ballmer sent an email to the rank and file. From: Steve Ballmer Steve In January, in response to the global economic downturn, I announced our...
[May 5, 2009, 17:53]
SQL Server and Visual Studio get updated
News Paul Otellini joins Steve Ballmer onstage to talk up Windows' potential that there is no job too big to run on the Windows and Microsoft platform," Ballmer said. Chief executive Steve Ballmer officially launched SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio...
[November 8, 2005, 9:35]
Is it easier to hire open source developers?
Blog Naturaly Steve, who hails from JBoss, will have a biased view of such matters - after all it is his job to sell the idea of open source software to enterprises. Chatting to Steve Raby, UK country manager for open source ECM vendor Nuxeo yesterday...
[October 19, 2007, 11:42]
Steve Jobs now on sick leave until June
Blog Steve Job has today written to Apple employees saying he will be off day to day work til June. A more complicated than thought health issues has meant that Tim Cook will now take over from Jobs until the summer.
[January 15, 2009, 9:03]
Steve Ballmer for President?
Blog It seems that Republican presidential hopeful John McCain - has made it clear that he wants Steve Ballmer to serve in his cabinet if he wins the election. Given the Microsoft chairman's habit of throwing around chairs - we hope that McCain doesn't...
[June 4, 2007, 9:47]
The MacWorld clock is ticking...
Blog Tick, tock, tick, tock.At 5pm GMT Apple fans everywhere will get their yearly dose of the messianic, turtle-necked, presence that is Steve Job's keynote speech at MacWorld . The rumour mill is spinning ferociously, spewing out everything from the...
[January 9, 2007, 14:24]
Steve Jobs has a hormone imbalance and is being treated for weight loss
Blog More intrigue on the eve of Macworld with Apple citing hormone imbalance as the cause of more weight loss for Steve Jobs. In a public letter Job states he is already receiving treatment and will remain at the Helm of Apple- he adds he should be...
[January 5, 2009, 14:41]
Steve Jobs has surgery for cancer
News Apple Computer chief executive Steve Jobs underwent surgery this weekend to remove a cancerous tumour in his pancreas, but told employees in an email that the surgery was successful and said he expects to be back on the job next month.
[August 2, 2004, 8:50]
Lacey: Chairman's role more than Steve Jobs worth
News For crying out loud, why doesn't Steve Jobs just stand up and say, one way or another, whether he is going to take the goddamn job or not? Come on Steve. We've got Reuters quoting Larry Ellison who claims he will, and folk at Pixar leaking an...
[August 1, 1997, 15:50]
Steve Ballmer's love letter to Yahoo
Blog For now - here’s Steve Ballmer’s letter to the Yahoo board in full - released today: In the meantime we are chasing the great and the good for some insight and perspective on this deal and what it means not only for competition with Google but what...
[February 1, 2008, 11:29]
3D Klondike
Downloads Set in a teal cinema with the likes (or rather, likenesses) of Steve Jobs, Jen (the spokesperson for Freeverse Software) with her new polar bear companion, an animated iMac, and Bill Gates (who may never live down the antics of that pie-throwing...
[October 6, 1998, 2:06]
Q&A: Steve Ballmer - trust Microsoft
News Little in Steve Ballmer's two years as chief executive resembles the scope of the challenge Microsoft embarks upon this month, when the company will go into lockdown mode to conduct a top-to-bottom review of its software code.
[February 6, 2002, 16:18]
Microsoft 2.0 review
Reviews To be sure, he handed the CEO job over to Steve Ballmer in 1998, and Ballmer is almost as well known. There's a thing about long-term specialists, whether the specialty is Microsoft, Apple, tennis or the Royal Family: in order to be maximally...
[March 6, 2009, 9:57]
Network Associates reshuffles top execs
News Network Associates also said chief financial officer Steve Richards would take on the job as chief operating officer. For all job and work-related news, or to search for a job and get information on training, go to ZDNet Jobs.
[December 4, 2001, 6:31]
Huge HP job cuts feared
News Merrill Lynch analyst Steve Milunovich predicted job cuts would be announced by August; he projected an earnings boost of 21 cents to 42 cents per share for a hypothetical reduction of 5 percent to 10 percent of employees.
[May 23, 2005, 9:05]
Apple 1 goes up for auction
News Designed by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak while he was still working for Hewlett-Packard, the Apple 1 inspired Steve Jobs to set up the company and talk Wozniak into leaving the day job. It might not look like much of a bargain, but for the price...
[April 17, 2002, 12:01]
Microsoft UK head: We've grown up
News For the interview process in this job I saw Steve Ballmer and Kevin Johnson, and my mentor is a senior VP. What are the top-of-mind issues for you in your new job? You expect people to do a great job in terms of delivery, but they can take risks...
[April 8, 2004, 15:10]
What to do when your job is outsourced
News When Steve Kaluzny, a senior infrastructure support analyst for nine years at the Gillette Company, learned that the company was considering outsourcing the help centre and his department, it didn't come as a surprise: company leaders had alerted...
[May 5, 2004, 15:00]
HP increases PC competition with itself
News But in general, I can't say that HP has not done a good job," said Steve Baker, analyst with NPD Techworld. While HP has done a great job with some of the premium stuff -- Media Centre PCs and DVD burners -- right now there's not a lot of volume in...
[June 6, 2003, 11:08]
