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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 07:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Apple VP sells off $13.7 million in stock]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 07:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Bob Mansfield, Apple&amp;39's senior vice president of Macintosh hardware engineering.(Credit:Apple)Bob Mansfield, Apple's senior vice president of Macintosh hardware engineering, sold off 99 percent of his company shares earlier this week, a sale amounting to just under $13.7 million. Mansfield, who joined Apple when the company acquired Raycer Graphics in 1999, now owns 501 shares following the sale according to a Form 4 filed with the SEC on Monday. But that doesn't mean he's divesting himself from the company. Fortune reports that Mansfield still holds fully vested options to buy 30,000 more shares of company stock at $36.54 per share, along with an additional 100,000 restricted stock units that vest in 2014. Mansfield's last big sale was 40,000 shares of company stock back in October, netting $10.84 million after strike price. In the past three years, Fortune estimates the net gain from these trades at $37.9 million. Along with Mansfield's transaction this week, Apple Vice President and Corporate Controller Betsy Rafael sold 2,956 shares of common stock on the same day.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Oracle declares Intel's Itanium dead]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 07:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A wafer of Itanium 9300 processors(Credit:Intel)Oracle has signed the death certificate for Intel's Itanium chips, saying that none other than Intel has decided to end the high-end processor family.The old software giant and new server maker announced yesterday that it has &quot;decided to discontinue all software development on the Intel Itanium microprocessor.&quot; After several discussions, Oracle said, &quot;Intel management made it clear that their strategic focus is on their x86 microprocessor and that Itanium was nearing the end of its life.&quot;Nonsense, said Intel Chief Executive Paul Otellini in a reply today.&quot;Intel's work on Intel Itanium processors and platforms continues unabated with multiple generations of chips currently in development and on schedule,&quot; he said. &quot;We remain firmly committed to delivering a competitive, multi-generational roadmap for HP-UX and other operating system customers that run the Itanium architecture.&quot;The next code name in the Itanium road map after its present Tukwila model is Poulson, an eight-core chip that Intel promises will double Tukwila performance, and after that comes Kittson, which is in active development. Intel said it plans to detail Itanium momentum at the upcoming Intel Developer Forum in Beijing.HP, too, said erstwhile ally Oracle's statement was an &quot;action of disinformation [that's] clearly an attempt to force customers into purchasing Sun servers in a desperate move to slow their declining market share.&quot; HP has a 10-year road map for Itanium servers and its HP-UX version of Unix, and boasted that the line has bumped Oracle's Sparc-Solaris servers into third place in the Unix market.&quot;Oracle continues to show a pattern of anti-customer behavior as they move to shore up their failing Sun server business,&quot; said Dave Donatelli, executive vice president and general manager, Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking, HP. &quot;We are shocked that Oracle would put enterprises and governments at risk while costing them hundreds of millions of dollars in lost productivity in a shameless gambit to limit fair competition.&quot;Oracle's move spotlights how significantly the server market has changed in recent years.In 2006, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said, &quot;There is no more important platform for Oracle than HP and Itanium.&quot;Oracle, of course, has its own server lines now after acquiring Sun Microsystems last year, and those servers use mainstream x86 chips and the Sun-spawned Sparc family of processors. And today is the day that Itanium ally Hewlett-Packard holds its first shareholder meeting with new Chief Executive Lee Apotheker. Although HP continues to put Itanium chips into new server products, Oracle went out of its way to say &quot;Apotheker made no mention of Itanium in his long and detailed presentation on the future strategic direction of HP.&quot; The Itanium processor family got its start at Hewlett-Packard in the 1980s, but the company decided it would be better for a high-volume manufacturer to bring it to market, so Itanium became the product line with which Intel hoped to lead the charge to 64-bit processing.But a series of problems derailed the plan. Software written for Intel's dominant x86 chip family wouldn't run on Itanium chips. The first Itanium chip, Merced, was so late and slow that it became a mere device to test software. The formerly broad support among server makers steadily dwindled, and software makers including Red Hat and Microsoft dropped support for Itanium, largely leaving only HP-UX. The present Tukwila generation of Itanium was beset by delays, too, and instead of becoming the server market's &quot;unifying architecture,&quot; spanning many server lines and operating systems, it's been relegated to a high-end niche.Perhaps most significantly, x86 processors--including the competitive 64-bit Opteron models from AMD--improved in performance and popularity. Some high-end features formerly only in Itanium chips, such as machine check architecture, have made their way into Intel's increasingly powerful Xeon line of x86 server processors.Meanwhile, Intel faces powerful threats in the low-end, high-volume mobile market, where processors from a number of companies based on ARM's chip designs dominate among the fast-growing, high-profile array of smartphones andtablets.Updated 9:23 a.m. PT and 12:06 p.m. PTwith comment from Intel and HP, respectively.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yahoo shows signs of life with Search Direct]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Maybe it really is too early to count Yahoo out when it comes to search.Today, the company held a press event where it announced a new product called Search Direct, which is supposed to bring searchers the answers theya4a4re looking for as they type. I didna4a4t go, mainly because I had to meet with the team behind the cool (and well-funded) mobile photo app Color &amp;8212' but also because, well, Ia4a4ve been to these events before. Yahoo executives take the stage, talk about how theya4a4re going to turn the company around, and then when it comes to delivering meaningful product or business news a4 therea4a4s not much. In fact, I can think of multiple events where all the reporters at my table stared at each other, mouthing, a4AWhat the heck are we supposed to write abouta4Now, you could argue that thata4a4s a rather insider-y complaint about Yahooa4a4s PR strategy, rather than a significant criticism of the company. But I think it reflects a larger problem. Since 2009, when Yahoo announced that its search results would actually come from Microsoft, the company has been insisting that ita4a4s still serious about search and that the deal frees Yahoo to focus on improving the search engine rather than the results. In practice, that seems to have amounted to minor tweaks that weren&amp;'t really enough to build a search strategy around.Search Direct, however, looks to be a significant improvement. Ita4a4s certainly the biggest change to Yahoo Search that Ia4a4ve noticed in a long time. It obviously owes some of its inspiration to Google Instant, the feature that Google unveiled last year that reveals and revises your search results as you type. But, hey, even copying the competitiona4a4s cooler features is nothing to sneeze at, especially since Yahoo brings its own approach. The company says Search Direct is about finding answers, not links, which means trying to provide content relevant to your search (say, weather predictions for a weather search, or movie times for a movie search) in a little box above your normal results.Over at Search Engine Land, Danny Sullivan notes that this a4Aanswers-baseda4 approach results in fewer practical differences than Yahoo wants us to believe, and that in many cases, Google Instant delivers superior results. Still, I prefer the Search Direct design &amp;8212' Google Instanta4a4s constantly changing results gives me a headache.Previous Story: Sony says PS 3 hacker Geohot has fled to South AmericaPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Yahoo Search DirectCompanies: Yahoo          Tags: Yahoo Search DirectCompanies: YahooAnthony is a senior editor at VentureBeat, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining the site in 2008, Anthony worked at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. He attended Stanford University and now lives in San Francisco. Reach him at anthony@venturebeat.com. (All story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com) You can also follow Anthony on Twitter. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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