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RSS thompson in newsBeeb appoints new iPlayer chief
News Announcing the appointment, BBC director-general Mark Thompson said in a statement: "Erik has been a very strong group controller.He has shown tremendous commitment championing the iPlayer amongst many other projects. [18 Jul 2008]
ANPR "ring of steel" watches over Manchester
News Assistant chief constable Dave Thompson said the new fixed camera sites "will bring enormous benefits to the police and aid us in protecting our communities". The network of 15 automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras cover main approaches... [05 Jun 2008]
Microsoft touches the Surface of AT&T
News Pete Thompson, the general manager of Microsoft's surface computing unit, said: "We're in business now. Thompson said T-Mobile remains a partner but he had no update as to when that carrier will be ready to use Surface in its stores. [02 Apr 2008]
iPlayer: Download version coming to Macs
News The download version of the BBC's iPlayer will be available for Mac users by the end of the year, according to director general, Mark Thompson. Thompson made the commitment in a blog posting responding to questions about the BBC's approach to... [08 Feb 2008]
Hillary Clinton talks tech
News Not all candidates chose to respond: Republicans Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson declined, as did Democrats Joe Biden and Bill Richardson. Iraq, immigration, taxes and health care probably have been the four most... [03 Jan 2008]
Norfolk police consolidate data
News It also allows the force to side-step a third-party service, called the National Information Management System, which formats reports to be sent to the Home Office - saving it tens of thousands of pounds a year, according to Norfolk Constabulary... [17 Sep 2007]
First Choice picks call centre monitoring system
News According to First Choice UK Specialist Division IT and ecommerce director, Mark Thompson, there is an interaction with these customers that goes beyond just taking orders over the phone. Thompson said: "We also deal with travel agents through the... [01 Aug 2007]
BBC iPlayer goes public
News Speaking at the launch in London BBC Director General Mark Thompson compared the potential impact of the iPlayer to the launch of colour television in 1967. Regarding rumours of the development of a separate media player in partnership with ITV and... [27 Jun 2007]
US Homeland Security CIO blamed for security "incidents"
News The department charged with safeguarding the security of the nation's computer systems has not been setting a good example and CIO Scott Charbo hasn't shown he's serious about fixing its vulnerabilities, said Representative Bennie Thompson, a... [21 Jun 2007]
Microsoft unveils touchscreen-PC-cum-tabletop
News Each of the initial partners should have a few initial machines up and running around November, Thompson said. Pete Thompson, the former T-Mobile executive who runs Microsoft's surface-computing business, said: "It's very approachable. [30 May 2007]
$100 laptop exec blasts desktop security
News Krstić said programs such as Minesweeper have the ability to affect other programs because of a premise that dates back to 1971, when the first version of Unix was released by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, and loading code onto a computer was... [21 May 2007]
BBC's iPlayer is go
News Mark Thompson, the Beeb's director general, said he is delighted with the Trust's decision to approve the proposals. The BBC's iPlayer on-demand TV service has been given the green light, allowing viewers to download their favourite Beeb programmes... [30 Apr 2007]
Google pulls nefarious sponsored links
News Roger Thompson, CTO of Exploit Prevention Labs, added: "We detected about 20 different search strings that resulted in links to smarttrack.org. Google has removed paid links that advertised seemingly legitimate websites but actually tried to... [30 Apr 2007]
Windows at risk from fancy cursors
News Roger Thompson, chief technology officer at security software maker Exploit Prevention Labs, said: "I expect attackers will pick up on this as soon as they figure out how to - we'll very shortly see the usual suspects using it. [30 Mar 2007]
BBC beds YouTube in web 2.0 love-in
News BBC director-general Mark Thompson said the deal is a ground-breaking partnership between the BBC and YouTube and "fantastic news for our audiences". The BBC and YouTube have joined forces to bring specially commissioned content and news clips to... [02 Mar 2007]
