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Open source finds a home in Brum

News Director of open source project OpenAdvantage, Scott Thompson, told silicon.com the centre will raise public awareness of open source tech and allow various open source projects to increase their influence.

Tags: birmingham city council, noc, birmingham, open source

[25 Oct 2006]

Online ads are 'where it's at'

News Luke Thompson, senior economist at NTC Economics, said: "Although still relatively minor, online marketing is a definite growth area. An increasing number of companies are using online marketing as a major part of their advertising strategy.

Tags: internet marketing, advertising, online

[16 Oct 2006]

Attackers 'making hay with Windows flaw'

News The CoolWebSearch gang has also adopted the new flaw as a way to compromise systems, said Roger Thompson, chief technology officer at security software maker Exploit Prevention Labs. Attackers have added another, yet-to-be-patched Windows flaw to...

Tags: flaw, exploit, microsoft windows

[02 Oct 2006]

Bank data seized in e-card scam

News Data including credit card numbers, online banking credentials, and login names and passwords of thousands of individuals from Australia and the US has already been collected in the scam, Roger Thompson, chief technology officer at security...

Tags: e-card, scam

[22 Sep 2006]

Techie share perks hit by accountants

News Graeme Ward-Thompson, reward and compensation partner at PwC, said there are two main reasons why tech businesses are suffering the most.silicon.com Financial Services Nothing says dot-com or tech start-up like stock options and share schemes but...

Tags: shares, accountants, stock options

[19 Sep 2006]

Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Ashley Highfield

News If all this wasn't enough, in July, as part of a wider reorganisation, BBC director-general Mark Thompson announced that a new Future Media and Technology division (FM&T) will be created - led by Highfield - to concentrate on emerging technologies...

Tags: ashley highfield

[19 Sep 2006]

Apple settles Creative patent spat for $100m

News Under US patent law, the first inventor to file a patent generally holds the rights to that technology, said Rod Thompson, an intellectual property lawyer with Farella Braun and Martell in San Francisco.

Tags: creative, patent, ipod, apple

[24 Aug 2006]

Robo-reporters spit out results stories

News Moreover, computers make far fewer mistakes than humans, Thompson told the Financial Times. Computers are churning out lightening-quick results stories for Thomson Financial, a business-information provider.

Tags: thomson, robo-reporters

[23 Aug 2006]

Waitrose signs SAS to stock shelves

News Rob Thompson, head of supply chain at Waitrose, said he expects the investment to repay itself through savings on wastage because, while supermarkets may fear running out of stock and disenfranchising customers, footing the bill for removing out...

Tags: waitrose, sas

[02 Aug 2006]

Microsoft unveils Exchange 2007 beta mark two

News Dave Thompson, corporate vice president of the Exchange Business Unit at Redmond, said in a statement: "Today we enter the home stretch of delivering an unparalleled messaging solution, providing our customers with a cost-effective way to meet...

Tags: email security, exchange 2007, microsoft

[25 Jul 2006]

Leader: Are Macs really more secure?

Leader In the past, John Thompson, CEO of Symantec, has likened virus writers and hackers to graffiti artists in the real world, and he likened Microsoft to the Tube train that goes through the centre of the city - everybody will see their work because...

Tags: mac os x, apple

[06 Jul 2006]

Video: Symantec CEO on the Microsoft "monoculture"

Video: Symantec CEO on the Microsoft "monoculture"

Video Diversity is key to secure infrastructure, says Thompson

Tags: symantec, microsoft

[18 May 2006]

Don't let the dust-bunnies win, protect your PC with timely maintenance

whitepaper This chapter excerpt from Repairing and Upgrading Your PC, by Robert Bruce Thompson and Barbara Fritchman Thompson, shows you how to perform proper maintenance on your personal computer.Title: Repairing and Upgrading Your PC

Tags: perform, flow, maintenance, book

[18 May 2006]

AV giants target eBay software fraud

News John Thompson, CEO of Symantec, last month told silicon.com: "The Norton brand is the BMW of the security world. Two of the world's largest antivirus software vendors are launching legal action against a group of software pirates selling illegal...

Tags: mcafee, ebay, symantec

[17 May 2006]

Symantec CEO: 'More people should buy Macs'

News Symantec CEO John Thompson has spoken out in support of Macs. In response to a question from the audience at the Future in Review conference in Coronado, California on Monday, Thompson said of Apple's Macintosh computers: "We think more people...

Tags: virus, apple mac, mac, symantec

[16 May 2006]

US hacker gets five years in the slammer

News Last month John Thompson, CEO of Symantec, told silicon.com "international co-operation is miniscule, it's almost non-existent". A US man has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison after he was found guilty of illegally controlling around...

Tags: bot-net, zombie

[09 May 2006]

Symantec eyes up ID management space

News Symantec CEO John Thompson mentioned those fields as areas the company is interested in as it tries to become a single-source supplier for management of data centres and protection of data and online transactions.

Tags: id management, identity management, symantec

[09 May 2006]

Microsoft CRM fees 'undercut by canny resellers'

News Meredith Thompson, managing director of business software advisory service Software Choice, said many of the businesses she consulted with were reluctant to explore Microsoft's CRM offering because of the named-user pricing model, which resulted...

Tags: sharepoint, crm, microsoft

[09 May 2006]

BBC online revamp embraces mobiles, podcasts and user content

News Announcing the strategy, director-general Mark Thompson said there was "a big shock coming" because the audience's relationship with the BBC and technology in general is changing. Thompson said: "We should aim to deliver public service content to...

Tags: podcast, myspace, user generated content, music

[26 Apr 2006]

A CIO's Perspective on the Value of Identity Management

whitepaper This 12-minute video clip features an interview with David Thompson, CIO of Oracle, who discusses the value of using Identity Management (IdM) technology to secure Oracle's corporate computing resources.

Tags: identity management, idm, video, reporting

[25 Apr 2006]

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