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Cisco Hires Apple iPhone Antennagate Exec
Nov 12 (Reuters) – Cisco Systems Inc (NASDAQ:CSCO) has hired former Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) executive Mark Papermaster, who left that company weeks after it was rocked by the "Antennagate" controversy on the latest iPhone. Cisco said on Friday Papermaster has joined the networking giant as vice president of its silicon switching technology group. Papermaster, who…
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Intel SSD Prices Drop for Holiday Shopping Season
Intel has dropped the price of its Solid-State Drive (SSD) product line and introduced a new model, a move the company says comes just in time for holiday shopping season. While it may not be as glamorous as a brand new iPad or Samsung Galaxy Tab or new color eNook, Intel points out that SSDs…
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IBM Touts Customer Wins From Oracle/Sun and HP
IBM says that nearly 400 IT customers have moved their critical business workloads to IBM servers and storage systems, off of Oracle/Sun and HP during the third quarter alone in what IBM says is a record high since the company began tracking such migrations four years ago. IBM has been offering premiums to channel partners…
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Cisco Outlook: A Bellwether or A Cisco Problem?
(Reuters) – Cisco Systems Inc’s (NASDAQ:CSCO) reliance on government spending for a big piece of its business was seen as a good thing — until governments stopped spending. Now, a sudden crunch in spending by debt-burdened European nations and U.S. state and local governments is partly to blame for a bleak forecast that rocked global…
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HP’s CEO Apotheker Surfaces in Japan
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 9 (Reuters) – If the private eyes hired by Oracle Corp (NASDAQ:ORCL) to track down Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) CEO Leo Apotheker could read Japanese, they might have already closed the case. Apotheker’s whereabouts have been the subject of much debate in a high-profile legal battle between Oracle and SAP (DE:SAPG), the company he…
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AMD Fusion Chips for Low-End Laptops Shipping
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov 9 (Reuters) – Advanced Micro Devices Inc (NYSE:AMD) has begun shipping its first "Fusion" microprocessors for low-end laptops, launching a product line it hopes will help it regain ground lost to larger rival Intel Corp (NASDAQ:INTC). The new "Ontario" processors, which combine a graphics processor and central processing on a single chip,…