AMD hires former HP executive as CIO

From InfoWorld: AMD continued shuffling its senior executive ranks on Monday, appointing former Hewlett-Packard executive Mike Wolfe as its chief information officer.

Wolfe will be responsible for managing AMD's global technology infrastructure, the company said in a statement. He...

LG's 3D-enabled G-Slate Tablet Priced Starting at $529

From PC World: The LG Electronics G-Slate tablet will be available from T-Mobile for "as low as" US$529 with a two-year contract, the carrier said Tuesday.

The G-Slate, which has an 8.9-inch screen, was first shown at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where it...

Acer Iconia Tab A501 coming to AT&T

From CNET News.com: Along with a couple of smartphones, AT&T is adding a new tablet to its portfolio.

The carrier announced today here at CTIA 2011 that it will bring the Acer Iconia Tab A501 with 4G support in the second quarter. The Iconia Tab is an Android Honeycomb tablet with...

Adobe fixes critical Flash Player bug affecting Reader

From CNET News.com: Adobe today released a fix for a critical vulnerability in Flash Player that affects Adobe Reader and Acrobat and which reportedly has been exploited in attacks via Flash files embedded in Excel files distributed via e-mail.

The vulnerability, reported last week...

T-Mobile 3G Phones Will Require Replacement After AT&T Merger

From DailyTech: AT&T is no stranger to gobbling up smaller wireless firms on its march to be the biggest wireless carrier in the United States. The company gobbled up Cingular and made all of those customers into AT&T users. The same is expected to happen with T-Mobile now that AT&T...

Nokia May Not Use Windows for Tablets - Report

From X-bit Labs: One of the fields where Nokia Corp. is not presently presented at all is that tablet PC segment, which the company needs to address and better quickly as it falls behind Apple, HP/Palm, RIM and others. However, while the choice of operating system for smartphones has...

General Manager of Intel's Ultra Mobility Group Leaves Company

From X-bit Labs: Anand Chandrasekher, senior vice president and general manager of ultra mobility group (UMG), announced on Monday that he will be leaving Intel to pursue other interests. The decision seems to be rather surprising as the executive has been involved into multiple...

Sun.com name could fetch Oracle $1 million

From InfoWorld: Last year, when Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems, it got a wealth of customers, technologies and personnel for its $7.4 billion. It also obtained one of the choicest domain names on the Internet, Sun.com.

Now that Oracle is actively decommissioning the site, it...

Facebook to Acquire Mobile Application Developer Snaptu

From PC World: Facebook plans to buy Snaptu, a four-year-old startup that develops versions of Web-based applications for cheaper mobile phones.

Snaptu, which was founded in 2007, said on its blog on Sunday that the acquisition should close within a few weeks.

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