PCs and mobile devices connected to peripherals via USB ports will in the future be able to transfer data at twice the speed possible today. A new specification that doubles the data transfer over USB to 10Gbps is in the works, said the ...
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Avago Technologies Ltd of San Jose, CA, USA and Singapore (a designer, developer and supplier of III-V-based analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications) has appointed Bryan Ingram, senior VP & ...
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Hewlett-Packard's Ray Lane is giving up his role as chairman amid ongoing shareholder disapproval of HP's troubled Autonomy acquisition. Lane will remain on HP's board as a director but has given up his position as chairman, HP said ...
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It's been a turbulent decade at Hewlett-Packard, with board members and CEOs resigning or being ousted for all manner of colorful reasons, including strategic missteps, accusations of spying on journalists and alleged sexual harassment. ...
Hewlett-Packard’s Ray Lane is giving up his role as chairman amid ongoing shareholder disapproval of HP’s troubled Autonomy acquisition. Lane will remain on HP’s board as a director but has given up his position as ...
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US stocks started the second quarter down, pressured by disappointing manufacturing data, after the Dow industrials and S&P500 capped off the first quarter with records. The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 5.69 points, or less than ...
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The new 3D animated movie "The Croods" may be about a stone-aged family, but DreamWorks said it is by far its most sophisticated production to date, topping all others in compute cycle hours. The movie, out in theaters last Friday, ...
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According to Gartner, Oracle suffered the most as growth in the storage market continued to slow during the end of 2012. Hewlett-Packard, Dell and IBM also struggled while EMC emerged as the big winner. Revenue totalled US$6 billion in ...
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IBM's decision to base its cloud services on OpenStack may prove to be a key to establishing the fledgling open-source platform as the enterprise standard. The announcement earlier this month follows similar moves by rival enterprise IT ...
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Hewlett-Packard’s shareholders have voted to re-elect its entire board of directors, despite opposition from investors who wanted some members held accountable for recent troubles at HP, including the ill-fated acquisition of ...
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Based on a study of 10,000 U.S consumers, Apple and HP earned the top spots in the computer sector of the 2013 Temkin Experience Ratings. At the other end of the spectrum, Sony and Lenovo were the lowest-rated computer makers. "Apple ...
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Oracle suffered the most as growth in the storage market continued to slow during the end of 2012. Hewlett-Packard, Dell and IBM also struggled while EMC emerged as the big winner. Revenue totaled $6 billion in the fourth quarter of last ...
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Simon Segars will become CEO of ARM when Warren East retires on July 1, the company said on Tuesday. Segars is currently ARM’s president. As CEO, he will take charge of a fast-growing company whose processor designs are used in most ...
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Hewlett-Packard may seek damages of US$4 billion to $4.2 billion from Oracle in its lawsuit over support for Itanium server architecture. An economist that HP plans to call in the case made the estimate at an evidentiary hearing on Monday ...
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Samsung Electronics catapulted to the top of the optoelectronics supplier ranking in 2012 from 12th place in 2011 after it gained full ownership of Samsung LED, a 50-50 joint venture in light-emitting diodes that was created in 2009 between ...
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