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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... [08 Feb 2008]
Leader: Microsoft too popular for our own good
Leader John Thompson, CEO of Symantec, likened virus writers to graffiti artists - and the operating systems targeted as the surfaces they vandalise. Thompson raised eyebrows, going so far as to say the... [02 Jun 2004]
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. [09 May 2006]
Symantec on Microsoft: We won't cry 'antitrust'
News Symantec chief executive officer John Thompson said on Tuesday: "We're not looking to go whining to the EU or the DOJ [the US Department of Justice] for anything. Symantec, of Cupertino, California, has responded to... [12 Oct 2005]
$695m MessageLabs deal launches Symantec into cloud
News Speaking at the Symantec Vision + ManageFusion EMEA 08 conference, Thompson said Symantec also wants to offer data loss protection, compliance and endpoint management security services in the cloud. Symantec will pay... [08 Oct 2008]
Teen saves Gates from hackers, gets nothing
News A teenager who discovered a security hole in Windows and worked with Redmond for six months to fix the problem has received his reward from the multi-billion dollar company: a mere note of thanks on its website.year-old Matt... [16 Apr 2004]
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... [22 Sep 2006]
Public sector plays catch-up on CRM
News Gartner analyst Ed Thompson said: "In the private sector, CRM is about the value proposal and the profitability of the customer. Gartner's Thompson said while the UK's e-government programme has a number... [29 Sep 2005]
5 years ago... Student uncovers Windows Java bug
News Matt Thompson, a 19-year-old from Aberdeen in Scotland was the latest youth to spot a bug in a Microsoft application - the company's Jet Database Engine. But Thompson's efforts and endeavour caused... [29 Apr 2004]
Will spyware cause system gridlock within a year?
News Putting a positive spin on such grim predictions, Roger Thompson, director of content research for CA's eTrust Pest Patrol and Anti-Spyware solutions, said: "The good news is that if it's left unchecked users' computers... [19 Jan 2005]
ICL loses £10m UK council contract to Capita
News According to Derby City Council IT manager, Mike Thompson, Capita will also be undertaking the task of moving applications from the mainframe onto the council's midrange Unix servers sometime in the near future. [28 Sep 1998]
Pope outlines fresh role
News Barrett, who joins from his role in US-based intellectual property rights company Thompson and Thompson, agreed that domain naming is about to change. Internet guru, Ivan Pope, has been outlining plans... [10 Jun 1999]
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... [26 Apr 2006]
Promoted Palmisano in pole position for IBM top spot
News Also climbing the IBM executive ladder is John Thompson, who leaves his place at the head of the company's software group to become vice chairman. Thompson will be responsible for developing emerging... [26 Jul 2000]
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... [17 Sep 2007]
