Richard Williamson, who was responsible for the maps service in Apple devices, was dismissed by Eddy Cue, a senior software executive at the company, Bloomberg reported.

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He was involved in pushing out the executive who oversaw Apple's new mapping service, Richard Williamson, about two weeks ago, according to people briefed on that matter.

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The tech news sites all reported yesterday that Richard Williamson, who oversaw the maps team at Apple, was fired, because of the recent Apple Maps PR fiasco.

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Bishop Richard Williamson was one of four bishops excommunicated 20 years ago by the Church for belonging to a group that rebelled against the Vatican's modernizing reforms in the 1960s.

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Apple just let go its senior director of iOS services, Richard Williamson, in a move that lops another name off of the list of company minds behind the flawed Apple Map app.

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The invitation followed the first high-level dialogue between the three main political parties when the US delegation led by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Assistant Secretary of State Richard Williamson visited China from March 30 to April 3.

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U.K. designers including Burberry's Christopher Bailey, Matthew Williamson, Giles Deacon and Richard Nicoll created dresses for the opening party, dressing the likes of Li Na (Deacon) and Ana Ivanovic (Williamson).

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