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AMD: PC Sales for Fourth Quarter to Improve
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 14 (Reuters) – Consumers will likely buy more PCs in the fourth quarter but manufacturers will continue to use up components they had over-accumulated in recent months, chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc (NYSE:AMD) said on Thursday. Two days after Intel’s (NASDAQ:INTC) better-than-expected earnings lifted hopes for technology companies, which have been hurt…
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Tablet Sales to Near 20 Million in 2010, Gartner Predicts
Driven by sales of the Apple iPad, worldwide media tablet sales to users are forecast to reach 19.5 million units in 2010, according to IT research firm Gartner. The firm said media tablets are poised for strong growth with worldwide user sales projected to total 54.8 million units in 2011, up 181 percent from 2010,…
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Apple Quarter Earnings Expected Strong on iPad, iPhone Sales
(Reuters) – Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) should affirm next week that its six-month-old iPad tablet computer is selling well despite a shaky consumer market, while the iPhone continues to fend off a strong challenge from rival Google Inc. Analysts expect fourth-quarter earnings next Monday to showcase Apple’s powerful one-two punch of the iPhone and the iPad,…
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HP Hires Nokia Meego Executive to Head Up WebOS
(Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard has hired Ari Jaaksi, a software executive from Nokia, as a Senior Vice President of its new mobile operating system webOS, a spokeswoman for HP said on Friday. Earlier this month Nokia said Jaaksi, the head of Finnish handset makers key Meego software platform, had decided to leave the company. Nokia, once…
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Hacker Attacks Rise Among Business, McAfee Reports
Security specialist McAfee released research finding mid-sized organizations have seen increased attacks on their networks and systems since last year. According to the McAfee report The Security Paradox, more than half of midsize companies surveyed globally have seen more security incidents in the past year, 40 percent have had data breaches and 75 percent believe…