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The Big Interview: William Webb
News Professor William Webb is a man walking something of a tightrope between two roles. The basic problem is that there is always a trade-off between range and bandwidth, says Webb. Webb, 39, who lives in Cambridge with his wife and two young daughters...
[December 12, 2006, 11:42]
Podcast: Building The James Webb Space Telescope
White Papers When the Webb Telescope takes off for its perch in space, it will be operated by some 200,000 lines of software code. Since a system failure would involve a space shuttle mission to repair, the software needs to be right the first time.
[November 29, 2007, 23:00]
Microsoft Proposes Joint Anti-spam Fight
News George Webb, group manager of Microsoft's anti-spam technology and strategy team, said last Friday that it has been working with the people behind SPF, or Sender Policy Framework, a proposed standard for verifying the domain of an email sender and...
[May 24, 2004, 11:40]
Wireless Needs A New Way Forward
Leader Apart from some diehard marketing executives, 4G is on nobody's lips — and, according to Ofcom's head of research William Webb, there are no generational changes due for the next 10 to 20 years. So while Webb is correct that there'll be no single...
[December 13, 2006, 15:19]
Ultrawideband Legal In EU Within Six Months
News Ofcom's chief technologist, Professor William Webb, told ZDNet UK on Friday that the UK regulator was "delighted" at the approval of ultrawideband (UWB). We think it's important to allow as many technologies to be tried in the marketplace as...
[December 8, 2006, 12:45]
Online Cons Slipping Past Trading Standards
News The coordinator post is needed to assess what consumers want -- it is impossible to do this at the moment with 200 local authorities working to their own priorities," said Richard Webb, Trading Standards' officer for e-commerce, who authored the...
[June 21, 2001, 8:43]
KPNQwest Collapse Hands Future Back To Big Players
News The exception will be Colt Telecom, whose continued existence Webb attributes to its ownership of metropolitan fibre in the City of London and elsewhere. At one time, there were 17 pan-European networks being built," said Richard Webb, European...
[June 12, 2002, 16:10]
Security Concerns Hamper Corporate Wi-Fi
News According to Richard Webb, European network and WLAN analyst at Infonetics Research, security is still the No.factor deterring firms from embracing wireless. The industry has work to do to address these concerns," said Webb, who believes that media...
[October 13, 2003, 16:40]
New NHS System To SMS Patient Appointments
News From the practice point of view they save money, as a text is a fraction of the cost of a stamp," said Webb. The project has the backing of Liberal Democrat MP and health spokesman Steven Webb. Once the system has been set up, costs come down...
[December 16, 2005, 8:00]
Police Chief Criticises ID Cards Scheme
News Phillip Webb, former chief executive officer of the Police Information Technology Organisation (PITO), said that linking police and identity databases could help to solve unsolved crimes. The ID database as a super-tool is of huge value to us...
[May 15, 2007, 18:01]
Tech Chief Quits EBay
News Responsibility for the project is spread between several senior eBay staff, including chief operating officer and former technology president Maynard Webb, who will continue to oversee the project, said Pursglove.
[February 27, 2003, 9:09]
Analysis: Experts Agree Napster Cannot Be Stopped, Part II
News As the British Publishers Association's communications manager, Alex Webb, points out, "what this ultimately means is that the artist doesn't get paid. Most of these users are music fans, and none of them want to kill the goose that lays the golden...
[March 24, 2000, 12:30]
Gates: Custom Windows Could Run On PCs
News Microsoft attorney Dan Webb then asked additional questions, spending much of Gates' remaining time on the witness stand trying to rehabilitate his testimony on XP Embedded. During Webb's questioning, Gates did not directly deal with whether it is...
[April 25, 2002, 9:15]
Vonage And Verizon Go Head-to-head In Court
News Later in the trial, Vonage may call its own damage expert, who is expected to say the company would owe only about $72m by his method of calculation, according to Verizon attorney Dan Webb. Under questioning by Webb, Shavell criticised the Vonage...
[February 28, 2007, 8:17]
Online Pension Tracking Launched In The UK
News According to Nigel Webb, senior manager at Equitable Life, it is the first such system available to UK life assurance and pension policy holders. Webb believes the system will prove a winner for customers: "Now they can switch between funds, change...
[October 26, 1998, 16:58]
Trading Standards Orders Dot-com Shake-up
News Richard Webb, the Trading Standards Institute's spokesman on e-commerce, told business representatives at the National Consumer Week seminar last week that the situation is damaging Britain's reputation and the nation's aspirations to become an e...
[October 23, 2000, 9:18]
'Dongle Mania' May Threaten Wi-Fi Hotspots
News Richard Webb, directing analyst for WiMax, Wi-Fi and mobile at Infonetics Research, said in a statement: "The mobile data services market is becoming more competitive, as mobile operators try to recoup their investments in 3G networks and drive up...
[March 31, 2008, 8:48]
New.net Downloads Reignite Kazaa Controversy
News Cexx webmaster Bill Webb said he had received many complaints from people who had downloaded the software without realising, and were subsequently unable to remove it from their computers. Finding himself inundated, Webb said he began recommending...
[April 10, 2002, 9:58]
HP-Compaq Merger: Communication Is Key
News Webb and I are going to be doing this for a year at a minimum," Clarke said. He shares the role with Webb McKinney, who headed HP's sales efforts before the merger. A year ago, Hewlett-Packard announced that it was buying rival Compaq in a deal...
[September 3, 2002, 6:27]
Mobile Operators Defensive Over 3G Auctions
News William Webb, the regulator's chief technologist, said refarming might be unfair and cause competitive imbalances. Webb told ZDNet UK in a recent interview that: "A solution may be found tomorrow, or it might take many years to find a solution that...
[December 14, 2006, 12:40]
