SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- UBM Electronics, the daily
source of essential business and technical information for the electronics
industry's decision makers, has announced the addition of "From Social Media
to Social Learning", a special evening event created for marketing and PR
leaders in the electronics industry, which will take place on February 1st
from 5pm – 6pm in Room 211 at the Santa Clara Convention Center.
DesignCon 2012, which will be held in Santa Clara, Calif., January 30 through
February 2, , will provide 100+ sessions as part of the 14 tracks that
include technical paper presentations, tutorials, sponsored training
sessions, product teardowns, panel discussions and keynote addresses.
Additionally, the number of registered attendees, just days before the show,
is up over twenty percent year-on-year, continuing the trend of double-digi... (more)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/26/12 -- Andrea "Andy" Cunningham has
joined Bite Communications as president of North America, a newly created
position to spearhead the consultancy's growth strategy and diversify its
client service offerings.
A serial-entrepreneur and tech marketing communications pioneer, Andy has
been at the forefront of strategic positioning and brand marketing for
Fortune 500 technology corporations such as AMD, Cisco, HP, IBM, Motorola,
Oracle and Xerox for over 25 years. She has been credited with shaping and
establishing game-changing market cate... (more)
AMD has named Rajan Naik chief strategy officer, reporting to CEO Rory Read.
Naik, 40, was a partner in McKinsey's technology practice. His charter will
embrace both the company's short- and long-term strategy development,
including market opportunities, strategic partnerships and investment
strategies.
Read said Naik "possesses a strong track record of execution in strategic
planning, product and market strategy, and operational performance. He will
help ensure strategic and operational alignment across our business to take
advantage of growth opportunities in lower power, emer... (more)
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is an all-volunteer group of developers,
stewards and incubators of technology. They bring us many of the
technologies powering our enterprises and consumer solutions and are
continuing to innovate in ways that are absolutely amazing and enjoyable to
try to track. One of the greatest projects at the ASF is Hadoop, a capability
that may turn out to be the greatest innovation of the century. I have been
accused of hyperbole for emphasis in the past, so please dig into the facts
of this capability and judge for yourself. As for me, something that... (more)
Virtualization Review today announced that cloud client computing products
from Wyse Technology have been named Winner and Preferred Products in the
2012 Virtualization Review Readers Choice Awards. Wyse Z90 is Winner in the
Thin/Zero Client Computing category, and Wyse Xenith Pro was named Preferred
Product. This is the second year in a row that Wyse has received recognition
as the winning product in the thin and zero client computing category. Wyse
PocketCloud also was named as a Preferred Product in the Virtual PC category.
The 2012 Winner and Preferred Product awards are pres... (more)