Dell Looks to Cut $2 Billion in Costs Over Next Three Years | Sonos gets $45 million in new cash, adds biggies to its board | Apple Runs Out of Retina MacBook Pros | iOS 6 Features You Might Have Missed | Exploit Available for Root-access Vulnerability in F5 Networks Products

Dell Looks to Cut $2 Billion in Costs Over Next Three Years

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Dell on Wednesday said it wants to cut US$2 billion in costs over the next three years as the company moves a larger part of the business toward the enterprise to increase profitability.
The cost cuts will come in a number of areas including standardizing PC and server system configurations, moving operations to more affordable geographic areas and making the supply chain more efficient, said the company's CEO, Michael Dell, during a keynote at the company's analyst day, which was webcast.
The company will reinvest some of the savings attained through cost cuts into growth areas such as the enterprise business to increase profitability, Dell said. The company has already been pouring financi[...]
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Sonos gets $45 million in new cash, adds biggies to its board

Posted by Gigaom
The company also executed $90 million in secondary financing. The secondary financing allows existing investor BV Capital and other shareholders such as employees, founders and angel investors to cash in their chips. BV Capital has come to the end of its association with Sonos and as a result, Andreas Von Blottnitz from BVCapital is going to leave the board.
Sonos is adding a few new people to its board. KKR will be represented by David Kerko along with Elevation’s Fred Anderson (and�former�Apple CFO) and John Maeda, president of the Rhode Island School of Design. I think addition of Maeda is a pretty�big deal for the nearly ten-year-old company that started out making an expensive wir[...]
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Apple Runs Out of Retina MacBook Pros

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Apple has exhausted supplies of its new $2,200 MacBook Pro that sports a high-resolution "Retina" screen, with the company's online store reporting a wait of three to four weeks by Tuesday's end.
Not surprisingly, someone is trying to cash in by listing the hard-to-find computer on eBay for $1,000 over list.
The 15-in. notebook -- which Apple has taken to tagging with the mouthful "MacBook Pro with Retina display" -- was introduced Monday during the keynote address that kicked off Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).
As he closed his introduction of the laptop, Philip Schiller, Apple's head of marketing, said, "The best thing is, it's going to start shipping today." But by[...]
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iOS 6 Features You Might Have Missed

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Apple says iOS 6 contains more than 200 new features and enhancements, so here's a closer look at less-publicized new iOS features coming this fall[...]
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Exploit Available for Root-access Vulnerability in F5 Networks Products

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An exploit for a recently patched vulnerability that allows potential attackers to obtain administrative access on network appliances from hardware vendor F5 Networks was added to the Metasploit penetration testing framework on Tuesday.
In a security advisory published on June 6, F5 Networks advised customers that attackers could exploit a SSH configuration error to obtain root access on many of its products.
The vulnerable platforms are VIPRION B2100, B4100, B4200; Enterprise Manager 3000, 4000; BIG-IP 520, 540, 1000, 2000, 2400, 5000, 5100, 1600, 3600, 3900, 6900, 8900, 8950, 11000, 11050; and BIG-IP Virtual Edition.
The vulnerability is the result of a SSH private key present in many F5 a[...]
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