REDMOND, Wash. — Jan. 17, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the appointment of Tony Scott to the role of chief information officer (CIO) and corporate vice president of Microsoft. Scott, 56, will manage Microsoft's...
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Mozilla has announced that chief executive Mitchell Baker is stepping down in favour of chief operating officer John Lilly. Baker will remain as chairman of the open source non-profit organisation, but Lilly will take over...
Microsoft Corp. announced today that it had fired its chief information officer due to alleged company policy violations. Unfortunately, a spokesman declined to give the exact reason for the dismissal, so we're as much in...
A British businessman is threatening a landmark legal action against Google, the world's leading internet search engine, after claims that it has defamed him. Brian Retkin has warn that he will proceed with a libel...
Microsoft has appointed Tom Hanrahan, former director of engineering at the Linux Foundation, to head up the Interoperability Lab and take the job title of director of Linux interoperability. Hanrahan is a Linux veteran, having...
During an interview with ChileHardware web-site, Chief executive Manju Hedge of Ageia Technologies, announced that his company plans to offer a physics processing unit (PPU) for mobile applications, target the PhysX chips at non-gaming apps...
The new chief of manufacturing at Advanced Micro Devices said the company has already made first test chips using 45nm process technology, however, he said the new fabrication process still does not employ high-k dielectrics...
Sitting behind a one-way mirror, a white-haired man struggles to access a shared music library within Windows Vista. "I'm lost," he says. "I'm in trouble here." On the other side of the glass, several Microsoft...
Apple's vice president of retail, Ron Johnson, has furnished more detail on the company's plans to upgrade some areas of its retail stores. The company wants to make more room for iPods and Macs,...
In a disappointing move for online firms, Federal Communications Commission Chief Kevin Martin said that he supported ISPs that wished to offer tiered service for providers willing to pay for preferential treatment. However, at the...
Microsoft has named Kevin Turner as their new Chief Operating Officer (COO) – a position which has remained vacant for a three year stretch. Turner, the former president and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of...
Apple Computer Chief Executive Steve Jobs has quietly returned to work full time after taking a leave of absence to recover from cancer surgery. Jobs has been participating in high-level staff meetings over the past...
Recently, Neowin sat down with Ben Goodger, the chief developer of Firefox, and had a good long chat. Ben talks to us about 1.0 PR, Ben's views (or lack of) on SP2, the...
On the morning after Microsoft's exclusive E3 drinks reception in Hollywood, where the likes of Allard, Peter Moore, Shane Kim and the European Xbox team mixed with a handful of sweaty hacks, the Xbox creator...
Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer is discussing the European antitrust case against the company with Mario Monti, the European competition commissioner in Brussels, a person close to the talks said Tuesday afternoon. "They...
It's not often that we at Neowin get to talk to someone who really is pioneering a new look on the internet, so it was a real surprise when Ben Goodger, chief developer of Mozilla...
Just weeks after launching Office 2003, VP Joe Eschbach is moving on to 'pursue other interests.' Veteran Chris Capossela is moving into his spot. A high-profile member of Microsoft's information-worker business unit...
Apple's QuickTime chief Frank Casanova has criticized Microsoft's move to transform its proprietary Windows Media 9 multimedia software into a standard, telling Macworld that "when you are part of a standards organization you don't develop...
Ding Dong the witch is dead...Well no, not quite but the wicked witch of the RIAA has announced she will step down at the end of 2003 after 5 controversial years at the helm. Thanks...
A couple of days ago Sega America President, Peter Moore resigned in uncertain circumstances. Most believed that his resignation was due to lower than expected profits for the fiscal year of 2002. However it has...
Bernard Ebbers, the brash executive who built WorldCom Inc. into one of the top telecommunications companies, has resigned, bowing to a plummeting stock price and government probes into accounting issues and personal loans he received....
Barry Schuler, the chief executive of AOL Time Warner's embattled AOL division, will relinquish his post and lead a newly formed division to develop digital services for the media giant. Bob Pittman,...
Head of the UK's Internet Watch Foundation, David Kerr, is to stand down as chief executive after five years in the job. The IWF is the UK's only internet pornography watchdog and...
