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HP’s CEO: Not Ready to Call It Better
While Intel’s (NASDAQ:INTC) and Avnet’s (NYSE:AVT) CEOs have recently mentioned the word “bottom” when referring to the current economic crisis, that’s not a word that was in Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) CEO Mark Hurd’s vocabulary during the computer giant’s second-quarter conference call with analysts this week. Instead, HP’s CEO provided a more conservative outlook on the state…
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McAfee Aims to Knock Symantec Out of HP’s Shop
McAfee, the second largest security software company, is aiming to completely undo larger rival Symantec’s longstanding alliance with Hewlett-Packard by replacing Big Yellow’s anti-virus software on all HP personal computers. In a Reuters interview, McAfee CEO Dave DeWalt said his company is trying to convince HP to drop Symantec’s products from its PC distributions and…
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President Obama, Swine Flu Make Good Spam Topics
Image spam made another resurgence during April and early May, according to the latest spam report from Symantec, but as usual spammers also latched onto headline news topics to lure in their victims, including swine flu, the end of President Barack Obama’s first 100 days in office and Mother’s Day. According to Dermot Harnett, principal…
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Symbian Sees Strong Growth in Smartphones
PARIS (Reuters) – Sales of smartphones are set to grow 12-15 percent in 2009, said Lee Williams, chief of the Symbian Foundation, the consortium of companies around the world’s most popular smartphone operating system. Smartphones are seen as a bright spot on the shrinking cellphone market this year, with some analysts forecasting above 30…
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Twitter Makes No Plans to Add Advertising
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Twitter is working on various ways to make money from its fast-growing microblogging service, but advertising is an option that is not currently being considered. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said on Monday that the company is developing various add-on tools and services for the businesses and professional users of…
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SanDisk: Flash Memory on the Rebound
NEW YORK (Reuters) – SanDisk Corp Chief Executive Eli Harari said 2009 could turn out to be "significantly better" than anticipated at the start of the year as big cutbacks in flash memory production bring balance back to an industry stung by oversupply. Shares of SanDisk rose after Harari said prices for flash memory…