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Submission + - HP Spent Over $80M to Get Rid of Its CEOs (internetevolution.com)

Submitted by hapworth on Monday September 26, 2011 @09:54AM

hapworth writes: Analysis published today shows that Hewlett-Packard has shelled out over $80 million to get rid of three CEOs since 2005. The first CEO to take her expensive exit, Carly Fiorina, received over $42 million, once stocks, options, and pension are factored in. Mark Hurd, after just four years, received $12.2 million to take his exit; and now, after 11 months, Leo Apotheker will walk out with a reported $25.2 million in severance. With eBay's Meg Whitman in as the new CEO at HP, industry analyst Robert McGarvey writes today that "the HP gig could help Whitman replenish her personal coffers, depleted by the pumping of $119 million into a futile bid to become California's governor."

Comment News in brief (Score 1) 401

by on on Friday July 22, 2011 @12:30PM (#36847432) Attached to: Terror Attack On Norwegian Government

The police confirms explosives were used
There's also been an attack on a political youth organization just outside Oslo (parent organization is part of the government)
2 people killed, several injured (though nobody from the government - almost everyone in Norway is on vacation atm)

Comment Re:Great idea but not likely to happen (Score 1) 244

by on on Monday January 24, 2011 @02:24PM (#34983990) Attached to: Mozilla Proposes 'Do Not Track' HTTP Header

Advertisers and tracking services will fight this to the bitter end.

....and if this is ratified as a web standard, governments could simply enforce honoring such headers by law. In Norway, a national register has been in place for years where registered citizens opt-out from fax and voice spam. Norway also have laws which prevents advertisers from filling your (physical) mailbox with junk (you just place a sticker on your mailbox).

Comment Re:Correction: (Score 1) 168

by on on Saturday March 06, 2010 @06:01PM (#31383892) Attached to: Wear Leveling, RAID Can Wipe Out SSD Advantage

Well actually Web browsing and e-mail can/will gain an advantage; Web browsers and e-mail clients do cache a lot of information. Also the trend these days is to move indexing from server to client (desktop search).

Submission + - Microsoft is Screwing Up Live on Vista

Submitted by

Joe The Dragon

on Thursday May 10, 2007 @12:25PM

Joe The Dragon writes: "http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2128061 ,00.asp

Live on the PC is nothing like that mock-up demo a year ago. It's Vista-only, which I guess I can understand. They want to move Vista as the gaming platform, not just Windows PCs in general. Perhaps Vista's networking security stuff is actually necessary for Live, I dunno. Okay, fine...we need to buy your expensive new OS to use Live. Fair enough. I can still sit there browsing the web and get a game invite or a message over Live, right? Or set up a Live voice or video chat? Nope. Live on the PC only runs while you're actually playing a Live-enabled game. So in order for my friends to see me online on my PC, I have to actually have Halo 2 or Shadowrun running. This sort of defeats the point, and it's not the way the 360 has worked for the last 18 months. I can sit at the dashboard, watch a movie, listen to music, or do whatever other non-game stuff on the 360 and still be fully connected to Live. So from a very core level, you get a second-tier experience on the PC, even though Live is coming to it much later."

Submission + - Nintendo holds 20 best selling games in Japan

Submitted by moderatorrater on Thursday May 10, 2007 @12:18PM

moderatorrater writes: Further evidence of Nintendo's dominance comes from Japans sales charts for last week. The top 21 games were all for either the Wii or the DS and all but 6 were published by Nintendo themselves.

Submission + - Sounds bring Google Earth to life

Submitted by Strudelkugel on Thursday May 10, 2007 @12:14PM

Strudelkugel writes: The BBC and New Scientist report a Californian company has created software that can layer relevant recorded sounds over locations in Google Earth Wild Sanctuary has over 3,500 hours of soundscapes from all over the world. Its director, Bernie Krause said: "A picture tells a thousand words, but a sound tells a thousand pictures." Dr Krause has spent the last 40 years collecting sounds, and his recordings include more than 15,000 animal noises, and sounds from a huge array of habitats, including cities, deserts, mountains and the marine environment. It is the largest library in existence of natural sound, he said. He said the idea would be to zoom-in on a particular area and then have the option to listen to the accompanying sound.

Submission + - Scientists claim 'major leap' in engine design

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 10, 2007 @12:13PM

An anonymous reader writes: Purdue researchers say they have made a major advance in the design of the internal combustion engine, one that could seriously boost fuel efficiency and cut emmissions. A key portion involves building intake and exhaust valves that are no longer driven by mechanisms connected to the pistons, a departure from the way car engines have worked since they were commercialized more than a century ago.

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