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HP Talks Future of PSG, Names New Channel Chief
HP has named a new channel chief to replace the recently promoted Stephen DiFranco and is moving to transition HP’s direct SMB sales efforts into a demand generation program for HP channel partners. Mike Parrottino will move into the job of leading U.S. PSG Channel Sales, effective immediately, Stephen DiFranco, senior vice president and general…
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McAfee, Intel Take Security Closer to Silicon
Intel and McAfee took the first big step to rationalize the technology reason for the marriage between the two companies with a product launch at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) this week that unleashes a hardware-assisted security technology designed to mitigate risks at the sub-operating system level. Called McAfee DeepSAFE, the product was demoed by…
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Cisco Systems CEO Attacks Competition at Analysts’ Day Event
Cisco Systems, which for years owned more than 50 percent of the Internet networking gear market but has lost some 10 percent of that market share in the last few years, never had to position itself as aggressive in the marketplace because it was usually in a comfortable first-place position. Today, the company still is…
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MacBooks, OS X ‘Lion’ Driving Solid Sales for Apple: Report
Apple may sell as many as 4.6 million Macs in the third quarter of 2011 thanks to "pent-up demand" for the new MacBook Air and MacBook Minis, as well as the Mac OS X "Lion," which all launched in July, according to new report by Piper Jaffray. Apple could break Mac sales record for the…
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AMD Sets Land Speed Record for Fastest Desktop CPU
Now the Guinness Book of World Records is judging performance in the central processing unit business. Advanced Micro Devices, which apparently needs all the publicity it can generate, announced Sept. 13 that it has achieved the Guinness World Record for the "Highest Frequency of a Computer Processor," by overclocking the upcoming octa-core AMD FX Bulldozer-based…
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Intel Announces Google Partnership, Ultrabook Details at IDF
SAN FRANCISCO–Intel executives are continuing to push their mobile computing efforts on multiple fronts, including with a newly announced partnership with Google to optimize the Android operating system for the chip maker’s Atom processor platform. In his opening keynote Sept. 13 at the first day of the Intel Developer Forum, Intel President and CEO Paul…