China Retakes Supercomputing Crown With a Lot of American Chips

Titan, America’s previous champ, is now No. 2.
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HP Names Heiko Meyer New Enterprise Head in Germany

Tech giant Hewlett-Packard is shaking up management of its enterprise operations in Germany. Last week, the company announced internally that it had named Heiko Meyer as VP of HP’s Enterprise group in that country. He replaces Volker Smid, who had held the post since 2009 and is leaving HP. Meyer, who joined HP in 1984, will report to Peter Ryan, who was named to run HP’s Enterprise business in Europe last year, after a wider reorganization.

SAP Vaults Into Top Three E-Commerce Players With Hybris Buy

Buying into a market where it struggled before.
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Auto-Ban: German Court Orders Google to Delete Offensive Search Suggestions

A German Court says it’s Google responsibility to remove defamatory autocomplete results when they’re brought to its attention.
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German Court Slams Apple on Privacy

The Berlin Regional Court tells Apple to fix its privacy policies.
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German City of Hamburg Fines Google Over Street View Service

The commissioner for data protection of the German city of Hamburg said Monday he has fined Google Inc. for violating privacy law when collecting data for its Street View service.

HP Negotiating Early End to San Jose Arena Naming Rights Deal

The deal to call it the HP Pavilion could end as soon as this summer. SAP is interested.
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German Government Goes BlackBerry 10

BlackBerry is drumming up some new enterprise business abroad.
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iMac Ship Times Improve — If You Live in the U.S.

One to three days in the States. Significantly more than that everywhere else.
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Samsung’s Ill-Conceived Apple VoiceOver Suit Stayed in Germany

Another setback for Samsung on the German front of its Apple patent brawl — the PR equivalent of punching yourself in the face.
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