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Yahoo's CEO Scott Thompson Out; Levinsohn In-> 0

Submitted by Google85 on Sunday May 13, @12:49PM

Google85 writes "Yahoo’s embattled CEO Scott Thompson is set to step down from his job at the Silicon Valley Internet giant, in what will be dramatic end to a controversy over a fake computer science degree that he had on his bio, according to multiple sources close to the situation.

The company will apparently say he is leaving for “personal reasons.”

Thompson’s likely replacement on an interim basis will be Yahoo’s global media head Ross Levinsohn, who most recently also ran its Americas unit, including its advertising sales."
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Review of The First Intel Medfield Phone in the market-> 0

Submitted by Google85 on Wednesday April 25, @06:28AM

Google85 writes "Beginning April 23rd, Intel, through Lava International, began selling the Xolo X900 smartphone in India for 420$, Anandtech has just published a review of the smartphone which runs Android on x86 and uses binary translation as the mitigation for both libraries and NDK applications that haven’t yet been ported to x86"
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HP: WebOS Is Now an Open Source Project-> 0

Submitted by Google85 on Saturday December 10, @07:52AM

Google85 writes "WebOS, the software behind HP’s failed TouchPad tablet and Palm’s failed Pre smartphones, is getting another shot at life as an open source operating system.
The company will now "contribute webOS to open source license"
One source said that this move will accelerate platform and ecosystem development, benefiting current and future users. "Future" being a clear indication that more HP webOS hardware could be on the radar."
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Apple market cap more than Wintel-> 0

Submitted by Google85 on Saturday June 04 2011, @07:05AM

Google85 writes "As of market close on Friday, June 3, 2011, Apple surpassed the market capitalization of Microsoft and Intel combined. the closing value of Apple (AAPL) $317.60 billion exceeded that of Wintel.
Microsoft (MSFT) had a market value of $201.59 billion while the market value of Intel (INTC) stands at $115.21 billion. Bringing “Wintel” worth to $316.8 billion."
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Nvidia acquires baseband processor maker-> 0

Submitted by Google85 on Tuesday May 10 2011, @03:53AM

Google85 writes "Nvidia announced plans to acquire to acquire baseband-processor developer Icera Semi for $367m.
Jen-Hsun Huang called the deal "a key step in Nvidia's plans to be a major player in the mobile computing revolution"
Nvidia's senior vice president of it mobile business unit, Phil Carmack, said "This is a significant step forward in Nvidia's strategy to be the processor company for the post-PC era,""
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Wozniak: I would consider return to Apple-> 0

Submitted by Google85 on Saturday April 09 2011, @08:10AM

Google85 writes "Steve Wozniak told Reuters would consider returning to an active role at Apple, the company he co-founded, and believes the consumer electronics giant could afford to be more open than it is."
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Schwarzenegger launches animated TV series-> 0

Submitted by Google85 on Monday April 04 2011, @01:12PM

Google85 writes "He's back. In his first post-politics project, Arnold Schwarzenegger launched a TV cartoon series for kids called The Governator, Schwarzenegger told a press conference at the MipTV conference in Cannes today that the show will spawn comic books, digital content and ultimately a 3D movie.

The star also said he is planning a return to the big screen in non-animated form. "I will also be in front of the camera, and I'm looking at many different scripts," he said. "We have somewhat held off with that because we really wanted to pay full attention to The Governator.""
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Comment: Samsung's official response (Score 1) 515

by Google85 on Wednesday March 30 2011, @08:01PM (#35672998) Attached to: Samsung Plants Keyloggers On Laptops

"Samsung takes Mr. Hassan's claims very seriously. After learning of the original post this morning on NetworkWorld.com, we launched an internal investigation into this issue. We will provide further information as soon as it is available." posted here

Nokia sells Qt licensing and services business-> 1

Submitted by Google85 on Monday March 07 2011, @07:01AM

Google85 writes "Now that Nokia has shifted to a Windows Phone-centric smartphone strategy, it's only natural for the company to divest itself of responsibility with regard to the Qt framework. It has been announced Digia will acquire the Qt commercial licensing and services business from Nokia, including the transfer of some 3,500 desktop and embedded customers actively using Qt today."
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Duke Nukem release date revealed-> 1

Submitted by stupid_is on Friday January 21 2011, @09:47AM

stupid_is writes "At last, the Duke might actually hit the shelves of stores on May 3rd this year."
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