Friday, October 9, 2009

IT News HeadLines (Overclockers Club) 09/10/2009

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NZXT Beta Evo Review

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AMD Announces Thomas Seifert as New CFO

California based company AMD, today announced its new Senior Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Thomas Seifert. Mr Seifert has replaced his predecessor Robert Rivert, who was previously promoted to Chief Operations and Administrative Officer. Seifert, aged 46 will be in charge of AMD's global finances and will report directly to AMD's president and CEO Dirk Meyer. Mr Meyer said that “Thomas is a talented industry veteran with a wealth of knowledge and experience managing the operations and finances of companies in the most difficult and competitive sectors of the semiconductor industry” and that “This knowledge and experience will enable him to further strengthen AMD’s financial foundation and help accelerate our transformation into a product design and marketing leader.” Thomas Seifert previously worked in various leadership roles at Qimonda, Infineon AG, Siemens AG, White Oak Semiconductor and Altis Semiconductorbefore prior to his appointment at AMD.


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Steve Ballmer Denies Microsoft E-Reader Rumor

Steve Ballmer has announced that Microsoft has no plans to enter the portable e-reader market. Rumors had been swirling around a Microsoft device referred to as “Courier” which would have similar features as that of the Kindle from Amazon. Ballmer stated that Microsoft didn't need to create an e-reader as it already had the most popular e-reader available, the PC. Ballmer did however state the he would like it if Amazon and other companies released their content for the PC. By bringing its service to PCs, Amazon would be able to greatly expand its business, as roughly 90% of all computers run Windows.


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