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PC and Components: Interviews

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    AN agent of change: Phil Cronin 27 October, 2009 16:24:00

    Hall of Fame 2009 - Phil Cronin
    Intel’s Phil Cronin is a passionate believer in technology’s influence on society as connectivity pervades all corners of the globe. He speaks to NADIA CAMERON about his industry heritage and experiences, channel evolution and why ICT is so important.
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    Q&A: Why Apple's co-founder is hot on solid state storage 14 October, 2009 03:59:00

    Steve Wozniak joins a storage start-up and sees similarities to his early Apple days
    Earlier this year, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak accepted the position of chief scientist at start-up solid state drive company Fusion-io. It's the first time since 1972, when he worked in Hewlett-Packard Co's calculator division, that he's held a technologist's position for a company that wasn't his own.
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    Inside the new Big Blue: A Q&A with IBM's CIO 13 February, 2009 10:24:00

    Mark Hennessy speaks candidly on transforming the IT organization at IBM.
    Mark Hennessy speaks candidly on transforming the IT organization at IBM, fostering a culture of innovation, managing IT during the financial crisis, maximizing the value of social networking tools, and taking advantage of an imminent technological game-changer.
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    Barrett says time is right to close digital divide 16 January, 2009 11:15:00

    Craig Barrett has turned his attention to a new challenge -- spreading computers and education throughout the developing world.
    Craig Barrett spent decades using his business skills to make Intel the world's most powerful semiconductor company. He has now turned his attention to an even bigger challenge -- spreading computers and education throughout the developing world.
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    To the edge and back 10 December, 2008 11:08:00

    MPA Systems owner, Guy Goodman, is a veteran of the Australian channel who has witnessed the introduction of the processor and dumb terminals to desktop computing and back again. He spoke to ARN about getting through tough times and his love of technology.
    Can you tell us about MPA?
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    HP, Paul Robson: Two in a row 22 November, 2008 15:17:00

    Hardware Vendor | Channel Choice Vendor HP
    This time last year HP was the toast of the hardware vendor town. In 2007, it had become the world’s leading PC vendor and was rewarded for its channel consistency with the ARN Hardware Vendor of the Year award.
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    Surviving 15 years in IT 12 November, 2008 11:20:00

    After spending most of his career in large multinational organisations, Raj Sharma decided to start-up his own small computer services business, Pentaq, 15 years ago. He’d already been general manager of distribution organisation, Tech Pacific, in Hong Kong as well as the director of its Asia-based offices, and spent some time with NEC Corporation in the 1980s. Pentaq has since expanded into PC assembly, technical services and software development. Sharma spoke to ARN about the advantages and challenges of running your own business, adapting to change and moving into the Indian market.
    After spending most of his career in large multinational organisations, Raj Sharma decided to start-up his own small computer services business, Pentaq, 15 years ago. He’d already been general manager of distribution organisation, Tech Pacific, in Hong Kong as well as the director of its Asia-based offices, and spent some time with NEC Corporation in the 1980s. Pentaq has since expanded into PC assembly, technical services and software development. Sharma spoke to ARN about the advantages and challenges of running your own business, adapting to change and moving into the Indian market.
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    Lenovo's Yang takes the high-end road 26 March, 2008 12:45:52

    Lenovo Group chairman wants to challenge perceptions of Chinese companies as mainly producers of cheap, low-end products
    Lenovo Group Chairman Yang Yuanqing wants to challenge perceptions of Chinese companies as mainly producers of cheap, low-end products.
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    Q&A: Gates' role as innovator, deal-maker, philanthropist 08 January, 2008 12:17:29

    Microsoft co-founder says PC industry has had greatest impact in the past 30 years
    Microsoft co-founder and Chairman Bill Gates has been giving keynote speeches at Las Vegas conventions, including the Consumer Electronics Show and the now-defunct Comdex, for decades. Before his last CES keynote speech as a full-time company employee, he talked with the IDG News Service about his legacy as an innovator, the background behind some of the deals announced at CES this week and directions for Microsoft.
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    Intel CTO: Computing's future in multicore machines 21 November, 2007 11:35:20

    Intel CTO on the future of processors
    For much of his 34 years at Intel, Justin R. Rattner has been a pioneer in parallel and distributed processing. His early ideas didn't catch on in the market, but the time has come for them now, he recently told Computerworld's Gary Anthes.
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    Salvaging IT equipment is good news 17 October, 2007 12:50:45

    Highlighting re-use and recycling
    Why would a business that focussed on technology recovery, refurbishing and resale, want to re-brand itself? Ask TechTurn, once called Newmarket IT, who felt that its service - diverting potential IT scrap from e-waste to usable technology, or IT salvage - was an idea whose time had come.
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