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Sepa adoption 'could take five years'
News According to reports, the European Central Bank's (ECB) executive board member Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell said a deadline should be set for implementing Sepa and switching off legacy payment systems. We... [18 Nov 2008]
VMware gets into mobile virtualisation game
News The company's president and chief executive, Paul Maritz, in a statement: "By abstracting the applications and data from the hardware itself, we expect that virtualisation will not only enable handset... [11 Nov 2008]
Google pulls plug on Yahoo! ad deal
News Chief executive Eric Schmidt said in October that Google typically gives the bulk of revenue to advertising partners that carry its ads. Assistant attorney general, Thomas Barnett, who leads the Justice Department's... [05 Nov 2008]
IBM chip guru agrees to join Apple
News If Apple wants to continue its strategy of designing and building complete systems, hardware, software, and now chips for iPhone and iPod Touch, it's going to need someone who can predict the future of chip design and... [31 Oct 2008]
Symbian Foundation prepares to shock the competition
News Lee Williams, currently head of mobile maker Nokia's S60 division in its devices business, will take up the reins as executive director of the not-for-profit organisation once it becomes operational, pending regulatory... [28 Oct 2008]
Canonical readies its latest Ubuntu Linux for launch
News Canonical will release the newest version of its Ubuntu version of Linux on Thursday, chief executive Mark Shuttleworth said Monday, but the company's profitability isn't on such a fast track. The company bases its... [28 Oct 2008]
Microsoft £5m freebie plugs RNLI IT budget hole
News In a statement, RNLI chief executive Andrew Freemantle said: "[This donation] will help us weather the storm that we along with many other charities are facing. Microsoft is waiving the fee for the Royal... [24 Oct 2008]
Is tech hiring on freeze?
News In a meeting with reporters last week, chief executive Eric Schmidt supplied a big dose of caution about whether there might be effects from the broader economic issues. We are optimistic about our... [06 Oct 2008]
Microsoft turns to Europe to fight the Google might
News Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said at the end of last week, in the midst of a five-city European tour. Ballmer said in a statement: "Increasingly, we are finding the talent we... [06 Oct 2008]
'I take my hat off to the iPhone': Nokia CEO
News Multiply what RIM has been doing here," the Nokia executive said of his own company's strategy to provide email not only to business users but also consumers and a category of avid users in between the two markets,... [02 Oct 2008]
Can £7m dent £105bn cyber crime menace?
News David Roberts, chief executive of the Corporate IT Forum, which represents some of the largest corporate users of IT all with a turnover of more than £300m, expressed grave reservations about the funding. [01 Oct 2008]
Canonical hires Ubuntu makeover team
News The company plans to sign up designers and specialists in user experience and interaction to lead Canonical's work on usability and to contribute to other free and open-source desktop-environment projects, including Gnome and KDE, Mark... [12 Sep 2008]
O2 mobile coverage takes the subway
News No deal to provide this service in Glasgow has yet been announced, but the SPT's assistant chief executive, Gordon Maclennan, was quoted in Wednesday's statement as saying the deployment "opens the door for wider wi-fi... [11 Sep 2008]
Cloud - not ready for mission-critical business
News Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is "several years away" from being enterprise-ready but companies should begin experimenting with the technology, according to a Citrix executive. Companies that need quick... [03 Sep 2008]
Gates: Software innovation poses privacy challenge
News In a demonstration shortly after his address, a Microsoft executive showcased a TV that was pulling a video clip from the internet. This provides more comprehensive search results beyond current methods of running a text... [14 Aug 2008]
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