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Yesterday, AMD announced a major internal restructuring and operating model which re-centers the organizational goals around four “equally critical functions”. AMD will focus on “products, technology, marketing and customers”. AMD believes the new structure “is better designed to optimize AMD’s operations to drive industry-leading performance graphics and microprocessors and further integrate the company’s x86 processor and [...]

IBM has continued to develop the mainframe computer for nearly 50 years despite repeated predictions that the model was outmoded, first by the long-defunct minicomputer and later by desktop computer and microcomputer servers. But the mainframe has continued to remain relevant for corporate applications that require massive computing capacity and to serve up data for cloud computing, the Internet and mobile applicaitons.By Darryl K. Taft - ...

IBM, long known for its mainframe capabilities, has not given up on the platform. In fact, IBM is working to make the mainframe even better for new workloads that include cloud computing, massive transactions, management of enterprise mobile solutions and a host of others. This slide show takes you through decades of IBM mainframe technology. The slides in this deck show early IBM data processing machines to the latest z10, which is a cornerstone of what IBM views as the New Enterprise Data Center.By Darryl K. Taft - ...

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New Zealand software developer Freeridecoding announced the release of BurnAgain FS 1.3 on Thursday, the company's multisession CD/DVD burning utility for Mac OS X. The application allows users to repeatedly change the content of a data CD or DVD directly in the Finder.

TransGaming on Thursday brought Tale of Tales' horror game, The Path, to the Mac. The game tells the story of six sisters living in a city apartment. Their mother sends them on an errand to their sick grandmother's house in the woods, but the path leading there is beset by wolves on both sides, and players are encouraged to stray from their route.

RICHMOND, May 7 -- The FBI and Virginia State Police are searching for hackers who have demanded the state pay them a $10 million ransom by Thursday for the return of millions of personal pharmaceutical records they stole from the state's prescription drug database.

Computer containing confidential data about Lockheed Martin staff was bought onlineHighly sensitive details of a key US missile defence system have been found on the hard drive of a computer that was disposed of in California.The information about defence contractor Lockheed Martin included a document detailing test launch procedures, blueprints of facilities and photos and personal daat about employees - including their social security numbers.Access to such data could allow identity theft or industrial espionage against Lockheed Martin, which is working on the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) system - a project begun under president Ronald Reagan's 'Star Wars' Strategic Defence Initiative in the 1980s.The computer, which has been turned over to the FBI, was bought online as part of a global research project conducted by three universities - Longwood University in the US, Glamorgan University in the UK and Edith Cowan University in Australia - along with BT and Sims Recycli

The so-called Wireless Gigabit Alliance seeks to set a unified standard for delivering data without wires at speeds that are at least 10 times faster than what is now possible with Wi-Fi technology.

(Telecompaper) T-Mobile UK has appointed Richard Moat the new managing director from June, succeeding Jim Hyde who left the company at the end of March. Moat has been the CEO of Orange Romania since 2004 and in general, has spent the last 17 years in a variety of leading positions within France Telecom's Orange Group.