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Credit crisis sees eBay slash 1,000 jobs
News PayPal president Scott Thompson, who will oversee the unit, said: "You can have a wonderful credit business that continues to operate in a down market. When asked about the risks of any exposure to credit issues,... [07 Oct 2008]
Credit crisis sees eBay slash 1,000 jobs
News PayPal president Scott Thompson, who will oversee the unit, said: "You can have a wonderful credit business that continues to operate in a down market. When asked about the risks of any exposure to credit issues,... [07 Oct 2008]
Beeb 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... [05 Jun 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... [08 Feb 2008]
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... [21 Jun 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... [21 May 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... [30 Mar 2007]
Symantec spends $830m on asset management firm
News John Thompson, Symantec's chief executive, said in a statement: "The most secure end point is a well-managed end point. Symantec has announced plans to acquire IT management software company Altiris, in... [29 Jan 2007]
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... [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,... [22 Sep 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. [09 May 2006]
RIM patent appeal rebuffed by high court
News Rod Thompson, an intellectual-property lawyer with Farella Braun and Martel in San Francisco, said RIM has some time to play with in the courts but it may want to settle the suit with NTP considering recent changes in... [27 Oct 2005]
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... [12 Oct 2005]
Popularity won't make Firefox insecure, says Mozilla head
News Symantec CEO John Thompson and other security executives have claimed that open-source programs will become more vulnerable as they pick up more users, because more hackers will become attracted to it. [23 Mar 2005]
