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• Cisco to cut 6,500 jobs in cost-cutting blitz

  Cisco Systems will cut about 6,500 jobs as part of an effort to focus its business and reduce operating expenses by about US$1 billion per year, the company announced on Monday.

• VMware CTO looks back at 'wild ride'

  Few IT companies have fundamentally changed the <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/data-center.html">data center</a> like VMware. Yet 13 years into VMware's existence nearly all of its co-founders, including the wife-and-husband team of <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/091008-vnware.html">CEO Diane Greene and Chief Scientist Mendel Rosenblum</a>, have moved on.

• Ballmer: Windows Phone 7 not successful yet

  While Microsoft has enjoyed many successes over the past year, Windows Phone 7 hasn't been among them, admitted Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer during the opening keynote Monday at the 2011 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, being held this week in Los Angeles.

• Skype executives depart after Microsoft buyout

  Eight Skype executives have departed the company following Microsoft's $8.5 billion buyout in May, a Skype spokeswoman confirmed on Monday.

• Age discrimination not rife: recruiters

  When <a href="http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/careers/over-50s-harder-to-place-recruiter?Opendocument&amp;HighLight=2,over,50s">Computerworld asked a local IT recruitment firm</a> to comment on a legal case in the US involving a 58-year-old, who is suing outsourcer Infosys over alleged age discrimination in the hiring process, the company's opinion sparked a flurry of comments on our website.

• Tech support teams understaffed by 42%

  Today's tech support teams are significantly understaffed, which leaves staffers juggling too many requests for help and end users suffering long wait times to get that help.

• Bank of America to further ramp up security with new CISO

  Bank of America has named Patrick Gorman, a veteran government and corporate technology executive, as its new chief information security officer.

• Java founder Gosling joins Google

  Java founder James Gosling has taken a job with Google, he revealed in a blog post on Monday.

• Cebit kicks off with talk of openness

  Open democracy, open borders and open standards were the themes to which speakers returned again and again at the opening ceremony for the Cebit trade show in Hanover, Germany, on Monday night.

• Intel to hire 4,000 workers this year

  Intel will hire 4,000 workers in the U.S. this year, primarily in product development and research and development, the company said on Friday.

• Departure of AMD executives points to strategy shift

  Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday announced a flurry of moves, including the departure of two senior executives, which analysts said was part of an internal cleanup effort as the company searches for a new CEO.

• Microsoft names new server and tools president

  Microsoft has appointed its online services veteran, Satya Nadella, to head its US$15 billion server and tools business, the company announced Wednesday.

• Fry Up: Youth is wasted on the young

  <strong>Youth is wasted on the young</strong>

• Top 11 hottest and quirkiest Apple stories of January

  Apple (NASDAQ – AAPL)  kicked off 2011 with a series of highs and lows: The company reported that the iPhone and iPad fueled record sales, joined forces with Verizon and opened a new app store, but it also said CEO Steve Jobs was taking a medical leave and found itself embroiled in a slew of new lawsuits and controversies.

• Intel, HP, IBM invest in effort to create jobs in US

  IBM, Intel and Hewlett-Packard on Monday said they would invest in an effort led by the White House to create jobs and promote growth in emerging technology areas such as cloud computing, health care and mobile applications.