Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman said this week that the company has reached the halfway point in its restructuring, with 15,000 employees left to cut to meet its layoff target. HP last May announced plans to reduce its workforce by some ...
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Avery Dennison Corporation announced that its board of directors has appointed Martha N. Sullivan a director, effective February 27, 2013. Sullivan, 56, is the president and chief executive officer of Sensata Technologies Holding N.V., ...
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Despite an extraordinary 47-year run for the Toyota Corolla, you’d be hard pressed to find anybody who would laud the ubiquitous small car as ever being a standout looker in its segment. Well, all that has finally changed in a ...
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US-based Sagicor Life Insurance Company has named Bart Catmull as the new president & chief operating officer (COO) of the company, effective from 1 April 2013. In his new job, Catmull will manage all aspects of Sagicor operations in the ...
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A night in a Royal Penthouse Suite at Geneva’s Hotel President Wilson costs a staggering $65,000, which makes the $195,100 Range Rover Vogue SDV8 seem like positively good value. Each is as palatial – and large – as the ...
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South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor will unveil the European variant of the Grand Santa Fe at the upcoming 2013 Geneva Motor Show that will be held in Switzerland during 05-17 March. The vehicle will be powered by a 2.2L 'R' VGT diesel ...
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IBM revealed details of its 5.5GHz System z microprocessor chip in 32nm high-k CMOS at ISSCC this year. Each chip has six processor cores, compared with four in its 45nm predecessor and, to form a plug-in processing element, six chips ...
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The IEEE ISSCC (International Solid State Circuits Conference), which runs this year from February 17-21 in San Francisco, is an important gathering for the electronic engineering industry. It is the world's show case for the best in ...
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The performance diesel variant of the new Volkswagen Golf range will travel quicker but also use less fuel than its predecessor. The Volkswagen Golf GTD, a kind of diesel-powered twin to the ‘GTI’, uses the German car ...
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Dell Wednesday unveiled upgrades to its disk-based backup appliance, boosting its capacity with expansion shelves, offering larger drives and increasing the number of remote backups to a central data center. The company said the new ...
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Marjan Oudeman, AkzoNobel executive committee member responsible for organizational development and human resources, has accepted an offer to become president of Utrecht University, one of Europe's leadinguniversities. She will leave ...
IBM revealed details of its 5.5GHz System z microprocessor chip in 32nm high-k CMOS at ISSCC this year. Each chip has six processor cores, compared with four in its 45nm predecessor and, to form a plug-in processing element, six chips are ...
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Hewlett-Packard is set to deliver a new blade that will quadruple the virtual desktops that can be deployed from one server compared to the company's previous offerings. The HP ProLiant WS460c Gen8 blade server uses graphics processors to ...
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Nvidia on Tuesday announced the GeForce GTX Titan, a GPU designed to handle the most demanding games by harnessing the processing power of 2,668 graphics cores. The GPU, which the company claims is the world's fastest graphics processor, ...
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The fourth-generation 2013 Toyota RAV4 represents an entirely new approach to building and marketing the Japanese compact SUV. It features a new look, ditches the barn-door rear tailgate for the first time, and offers the option of a diesel ...