informationweek.com - 11/7/2008
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Apple's newly appointed chief of iPod and iPhone engineering said his move to Cupertino does not violate a noncompete contract he signed with former employer IBM because Apple and IBM are not competitors. "To the best of my knowledge, IBM does not design, manufacture or market consumer ...
blogs.barrons.com - 11/11/2008
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blogs.barrons.com —
Every month, Trip Chowdhry , the one-man band
who covers all things tech under the moniker Global
Equities Research , writes a piece he calls Silicon Scoop on current trends and gossip from the Valley. It’s always a good read, but this time ...
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Trippin’ With Trip: One Man’s View Of Carnage To Come
techpin.com - 11/4/2008
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techpin.com —
Datamancer announced us about his new keyboard design
posted on his website. It looks unique, like all
the other gadgets built by him, and the base model is a rare IBM M-15 ergonomic split keyboard. Datamancer turned it into this cool Datamancer Ergo ...
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Datamancer Ergo Built from an IBM M15 Ergonomic Split ...
appleinsider.com - 11/13/2008
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appleinsider.com —
A series of statements made in court filings
by tentative iPod & iPhone chief Mark Papermaster and
those who recruited him at Apple show that the company at first considered him a secondary pick. They also reveal that IBM's own management has ...
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Docs show Apple failed to find ideal successor for iPod ...
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Court response defends new Apple mobile hire's jump from IBM
AppleInsider —
... in his contract forbidding work with a competitor for up to a year after leaving, court submissions found by InformationWeek reveal a response from Papermaster which asserts that there is no conflict between his tentative new role and his earlier work. His argument centers around the specific nature of the products. IBM, he says, focuses exclusively on server-side hardware and software, pure data storage, as well as the services to support them both. None of these apply to his work with Apple's handheld group, which covers very home-friendly devices like iPhone and iPod ...
Judge Orders Apple's New iPod and iPhone Chief to Stop Work Immediately [Apple]
Gizmodo —
... Papermaster's argument is that Apple actually doesn't compete with IBM, since "IBM focuses on high-performance business systems such as information technology infrastructure, servers and information storage products, and operating systems software," while "Apple, on the other hand, is in the business of designing, manufacturing and marketing consumer-oriented hardware and related products." More to the point, he says that "I do not recall a single instance of Apple being described as a competitor of IBM during my entire tenure at IBM." ...
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