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RSS harry in newsBarclays Capital raises interest in online trading
News Managing director and global head of fixed income flow trading at Barclays Capital, Harry Harrison, said he expects to see the benefits of the technology "very quickly". Barclays Capital, the investment banking division... [20 Oct 2008]
Queen to visit Google London HQ
News The Queen is fast on her way to becoming the world's most famous silver surfer, setting up The Royal Channel on Google-owned video sharing site YouTube in 2007 and reportedly keeping in touch with her grandchildren including Princes... [12 Sep 2008]
Insider security risks exposed
News Samar labelled the cast of security risk employees as Curious Cat, Complacent Connie, Forgetful Floyd, Rushing Rupa, Insider Ian and Malicious Malfoy - named after no-good Harry Potter character, Draco Malfoy. [10 Apr 2008]
Microsoft "hell-bent" on building ad business
News Headed by Harry Shum, the centre's research will focus on search relevance, spam prevention and searching scanned images, such as book pages. Hefty investments in online services and consumer electronics will let... [27 Jul 2007]
Podcast: The Weekly Round-Up 22.06.07
Round-Up Podcast Up for discussion this week: Facebook jumps the shark, death 2.0, inside the O2 (formerly known as the Millennium Dome) and Harry Potter gets hacked. Host Will Sturgeon is joined in the studio by Andy McCue, Ben Howard... [22 Jun 2007]
JD Sports puts applications on broadband
News Harry Willoughby, group IT manager for JD Sports, told silicon.com: "Its prime function is to handle sales data, price data and transactions from all the till systems. High street retailer JD Sports is using a broadband... [11 Sep 2006]
Tech group appeals ISP wiretapping diktat
News Judge Harry Edwards, who had called the FCC's arguments "gobbledygook" and "nonsense" during oral arguments before the appeals court, dissented. A coalition of civil liberties groups and technology companies, including... [24 Jul 2006]
US toys with emergency warning system update
News The existing system, first deployed by President Harry Truman in 1951 with the intention of warning Americans about impending nuclear threats, requires national presidential alerts to be transmitted through analogue... [21 Jul 2006]
Taskforce aims to end NHS care records row
News The taskforce will be chaired by Harry Clayton, national director for patients and the public at the Department of Health, and members will include representatives from the British Medical Association, the College of... [20 Jul 2006]
Oracle CFO Maffei to step down
News Harry You, who preceded Maffei, was the software maker's CFO for nine months, before leaving in March to accept a post at BearingPoint as its chief executive. Greg Maffei is resigning as chief financial officer of... [04 Nov 2005]
Microsoft ups search investment in China
News The new Search Technology Center is a natural next step for Microsoft Research, building on our lab's steady growth since opening in 1998, the results of our information services research efforts to-date, and our extremely successful... [31 Oct 2005]
Nortel names new CEO
News Harry J Pearce, Nortel's chairman, said in a statement: "Mike Zafirovski has the kind of proven, team-building leadership that has seen him create significant new value during his career in two of the world's most... [18 Oct 2005]
Lower prices key to MP3 subscription success
News can afford to keep the price low because they have other revenue streams to subsidise their music services," said Harry Wang, research analyst at Parks Associates, in a statement. The cost of subscribing to music... [26 Aug 2005]
Microsoft: IT isn't sexy enough
News In a speech to 400 university researchers gathered Monday at the company's Faculty Summit in Redmond, Washington, Chairman Bill Gates admitted that he has not read enough Harry Potter - and noted that majors like... [19 Jul 2005]
Amazon having a 'wizard' time with Potter sales
News Online retailer Amazon is once again set for a windfall thanks to teen wizard Harry Potter and the sixth instalment in the world-conquering series of books by J K Rowling which is release at midnight on 15 July. [13 Jul 2005]
