Restructuring within Intel

Intel has appointed Andy Bryant as Vice President of the Executive Committee. It should replace the current director, Jane Shaw, who will retire in May 2012. This appointment reflects the type of strategy that the founder wishes to maintain. Jane Shaw arrived at his post in May 2009. She then replaced Craig Barrett, a doctor of science was considered a visionary technology company.

It marks a fundamental break in strategy since Ms. Shaw came from the world of management. She has led many companies and has held management positions within Intel in 1993. The committee seems to be satisfied with that direction since Andy Bryant is from the same world. It was Intel's chief financial officer for thirteen years before becoming executive director.

Kingston Wi-Drive: SSD and WiFi USB

Revealed there are a couple of months for Kingston, Wi-Drive SSD is now available in both 16 GB and 32 GB Displaying the dimensions of 121.5 x 61.8 x 9.8 mm, the SSD has an external connector mini USB controller but also includes 802.11n WiFi. This SSD loads a battery providing a range of up to 4 hours.

Designed for iPad, iPhone (3G, 3G, 4G) and iPod touch (IOS allows an application to use it from an Apple product), this storage solution wireless should then also be compatible with devices and products running Android. Guaranteed one year, the Wi-Drive is currently posted at 129.99 dollars for the 16GB version and $ 179 for the 32GB model

• Kingston 256GB Internal 2.5″ SSD: $280 (26/07/2011)
• Kingston Wi-Drive, SSD Storage Without Wires (05/06/2011)
• Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate G2 USB 3.0 Flash drive (22/07/2011)
• Kingston outs fastest USB 3.0 flash drive to date (20/05/2011)
• Move files from Hard drive to SSD on Windows (26/07/2011)

Wi-Fi (wikipedia)  Universal Serial Bus (wikipedia)  Solid-state drive (wikipedia)  

Microsoft also heaped billions

Last week was the presentation of the financial results of large companies that populate our daily news. Among them we forgot one major player: Microsoft. The Redmond giant shows yet an Olympic shape: 17.37 billion turnover (+ 8% over 2010) and 5.87 billion net profit (+30% compared to 2010) for the quarter.

In fiscal year 2011 (ended June 30) Microsoft has made 69.94 billion dollars in sales, up 12%. Similarly, the operating profit increased by 13% (27.16 billion) and net income increased 23% (23.15 billion U.S. dollars).

• Imagine World Cup: Qantas Loses Aussie 'Thought Control' Tech (13/07/2011)
• Microsoft Betting on Bing for Mobile Search (26/07/2011)
• Microsoft Launches New R&D Facility in Bangalore (26/07/2011)
• Microsoft signs off on Windows Phone 'Mango' RTM build (26/07/2011)
• Answering your Q: My predictions for Microsoft (26/07/2011)

Microsoft (geolocation)  Microsoft (homepage)  NASDAQ: MSFT (googlefinance)  SEHK: 4338 (googlefinance)  Microsoft (MSFT) (wikinvest)  Microsoft (crunchbase)  Microsoft (wikipedia)  

The Opteron Bulldozer Interlagos on the run

Genuine mistake or flight organized? The fact is that the characteristics (supposedly) some Opteron Bulldozer "Interlagos" AMD have "accidentally" found online on the website of Gateway. Since then, the manufacturer has cleared the course in question, but our colleagues BSN still have had time to take a screenshot.

Warning, this information should be taken with the tongs essential. The characteristics of four models Opteron Bulldozer, namely the Opteron 6220, 6234, 6272 and 6276, are therefore - at least temporarily - appeared on the web. The Opteron 6220 should be a model with 8 cores running at 3 GHz, 4 MB L2 cache and 8 MB of L3 cache.

Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition 3960X against Core i7 990X: Fight at the top

The partners have unveiled the web Donanimhaber a comparison between the Intel Core i7-E 3960X Sandy Brige pitted against a Core i7 990X in a battle of test to evaluate their performance. Intel wanted to demonstrate the performance of their next top-end processor Sandy Brigde-E, Core i7 Extreme Edition 3960X LGA2011 socket pitted against the current top-end in the socket 1366, the Core i7 990X.

TDJ: HD audio files

Our colleague BHMag just published a small feature on the audio files "High Definition" that some broadcasters and other music paperless record companies often offer a price superior to the files "classic". Digital manipulation, reissues of recordings or analog sampling rates: high-definition audio files are they?

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Seagate defective memory: Recall of iMac hard drives

Announced on its website that it is a major in iMacs which were sold between May and July 2011 and have a screen size of 21.5 (54.6 centimeters) and 27 inches (68.6 centimeters). Producer of the faulty hardware is up to the end of July 2012. Whether you have an affected iMac at home, check on the use of your computer.

If that is the case, go to the computer to an Apple Store, an Apple Authorized Service Provider or contact Apple technical support . Important: before you can make the exchange.

• Apple will replace some 1TB Seagate iMac HDDs (25/07/2011)
• Why I avoid Seagate hard drives like the plague (25/07/2011)
• Apple Launches iMac Seagate 1TB Replacement Program (Report) (24/07/2011)
• Apple to replace bricked Seagate 1TB hard drives in iMacs (25/07/2011)
• Apple recalls "small number" of 1TB Seagate hard drives in latest iMac line (22/07/2011)

IMac (homepage)  IMac (wikipedia)  The First iMac Introduction (youtube)