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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…
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Cisco, Polycom Put Focus on Telepresence for SMBs
When Cisco Systems bought telepresence rival Tandberg last year for $3.3 billion, analysts said Cisco would be able to leverage Tandberg’s presence in the midmarket space to expand its video-conferencing offerings into that area. It was a market Cisco needed to access to continue growing its visual-communications business, the analysts said. That push down the…
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HP Launches Compaq 100B Desktop PC for Small, Midsize Businesses
Featuring Advanced Micro Devices E-350 Dual-Core processors, integrated AMD Radeon HD 6310 Discrete-Class Graphics and AMD Vision Technology, the Compaq 100B from Hewlett-Packard is less than half the size of a traditional PC tower, the company said, and offers an array of productivity, security and servicing tools. It can handle up to 4GB of DDR3…
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HP Shakes Up Management Ranks
HP (NYSE:HPQ) is shaking up its executive ranks again just a month after a disappointing quarter report when CEO Leo Apotheker promised a greater focus on services and appointed HP veteran Ann Livermore to head up that effort in the interim. Now HP will send Livermore to its board of directors and relieve her of…
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HP’s Top Executives
HP’s Top Executives President and CEOLeo ApothekerApotheker joined HP in November 2010, succeeding Mark Hurd who left suddenly in the summer of 2010. Apotheker had served as the sole CEO of SAP for seven months before a sudden resignation in February 2010. Prior to that role he spent 22 years at SAP and also founded…
