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EMC, Oracle Execs Turn Down AMD CEO Job: Report
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO and current Oracle President Mark Hurd and Pat Gelsinger, a longtime Intel executive and current EMC COO, reportedly are among the people who have turned down Advanced Micro Devices overtures to fill its vacant CEO slot. According to a Bloomberg report June 15, Hurd, Gelsinger and Greg Summe, manager director of investment…
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Apple’s Retail SVP Ron Johnson Heads to J.C. Penney
Apple s senior vice president of retail, Ron Johnson, is stepping down to take the CEO reins at J.C. Penney. Johnson is widely credited with helping Apple develop a formidable retail presence. Over the course of the past decade, the company has expanded from its initial two stores (in Tyson s Corner, Va., and Glendale,…
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Desktop Virtualization Taking Off, but Physical Desktops to Stay: Survey
Research conducted by Matrix42 at the 2011 Citrix Synergy San Francisco conference shows that desktop virtualization is finally being adopted by the mainstream market, with 59 percent of companies either in the process or planning to deploy within the next six months. Desktop virtualization initiatives are driven by a number of perceived benefits, but the…
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SecurID Breach: Customers Weigh Dumping RSA
As frustration builds from customers fed up with RSA’s handling of the SecurID breach and the deployment costs of replacing ineffective tokens staring them in the face, many formerly loyal to the brand are considering the once unthinkable: casting RSA’s authentication products in favor of mult-factor alternatives. According to the experts, smart channel partners should…
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Toshiba Debuts Satellite, Qosimo Series Laptops
Toshiba’s Digital Products Division (DPD), a division of Toshiba America Information Systems, announced a slew of notebooks aimed at consumers and gaming enthusiasts, including the Satellite P700 series notebooks and the Qosimo X770 and X770 3D notebooks. The Qosmio X770 Series starts at $1,199.99 and will be available later this month at major retailers, e-tailers…
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Review: Samsung Series 5 Chromebook
I’ve been playing with a loaner version of the Samsung Series 5 Chromebook for a week and the 3.3-pound notebook based on Google’s Chrome operating system is everything I expected it to be. That is, a more polished version of the Chrome OS version running on the Cr-48 experimental computer I tested last December packed…