Monthly Archives: November 2008

According to today's Apple website, Mark Papermaster is joining the Apple company as senior vice president of Devices Hardware Engineering, reporting to Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Papermaster, who comes to Apple from IBM, will lead Apple’s iPod® and iPhone™ hardware engineering teams. Papermaster has 25 years of product and technology experience, and was previously a vice president at IBM. Apple also announced that Tony Fadell, Apple’s senior vice president of the iPod Division, and his wife Danielle Lambert, vice president of Human Resources, are reducing their roles within the company as they devote more time to their young family. Fadell will remain at Apple as an advisor to the CEO. Lambert will depart the company at the end of this year after a successor is in place. “Mark is a seasoned leader and is going to be... --

News sites and political blogs are expecting extraordinary traffic tonight as Americans track results of the Presidential election, and are scaling their infrastructure to meet the challenge.  The extraordinary interest in the U.S. Presidential election is likely to translate into enormous web traffic tonight, and news sites and political blogs have had months to prepare. Several hosting companies report increased sales of dedicated servers, and election traffic will likely be a boon to content delivery networks (CDNs). For some sites, preparing their infrastructure has already been a lengthy process. Some sites started their preparation back in January when the primary results were also well followed.  Hardware is part of the solution, said Jeremy Bingham, who manages the back end for Daily Kos, the hugely popular political blog.  “To handle the traffic better, we moved to a cluster of six quad... --