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Rodney C Adkins who is Senior Vice President at International Business Machines Corp.

Semiconductor stocks have performed well in the early stages of 2012. The PowerShares Dynamic Semiconductors ETF -- with most of its components coming predominantly from chipmakers -- is up more than 13 percent year to date as industry heavyweights posted strong earnings results for the final quarter of 2011.

New Delhi: Security software provider McAfee has appointed Jagdish Mahapatra as the Managing Director for India and SAARC operations.

The companies have collaborated for a long time and 12 research and development employees for Insightix are joining McAfee's center in Israel as a result of the sale.

Andy D Bryant who is Vice Chairman at Intel Corporation , sold 400,000 shares at $26.69 per share for a total value of $10,674,200. The shares recently traded at $0, down $26.69, or 0% since the insider sale.

Cyber scammers are out to tug on your heart and purse strings this Valentine's Day with their usual spam and online fraud arsenal but you can avoid being heartbroken by following these tips from Internet security firm McAfee Inc.

Apple Inc. : Apple will launch its iPad 3 during the first week in March, according to All Things D, which cited unnamed sources.

Former Electronic Arts CFO Eric Brown is stepping into the CFO gig at Polycom, along with serving in two other executive roles.

Brown had been CFO at Electronic Arts . He also previously served as COO and CFO at McAfee, and before that as president and CFO of MicroStrategy .

Intel : Advanced Micro Devices disclosed at an analyst event that it has started manufacturing some chips, potentially including its next-generation A-series Fusion chips, at IBM's facilities, reported the hardware review blog X-bit Laboratories.

More than half of security experts believed a worldwide arms race was taking place in cyberspace, where security was more important than missile defense in protecting critical infrastructure.

Micron Technology Inc. : After the death of Micron CEO Steve Appleton, Oppenheimer believes the company has a deep executive bench and several positive catalysts this year.

Investment analysts at Maxim Group started coverage on shares of Intel in a note issued to investors on Monday.

Cape Town - Google has announced its "Bouncer" service which scans for malicious software on Android smartphones amid a massive spike in use of the phones.

The VeriSign breach is an example of how no one is too secure, or too big to be attacked.

Symantec recants its scary Android malware warning, as Google's new app security system, called Bouncer, makes the Android Marketplace more secure.

A new report has ranked the UK among the top nations for its ability to protect itself from cyber attack, but warned that greater international co-operation is needed.

McAfee has launched the next generation mobile security software, supporting Android based smartphones and tablets, including those running on Intel architecture as well as BlackBerry and Symbian smartphones.

Facebook filed papers Wednesday to become a public company, in the most anticipated IPO in a decade, with the company looking to bring in US$5 billion in investment.

Senior administration officials are headed to Capitol Hill on Wednesday afternoon to brief the entire Senate on addressing cyber security threats, a day after key senators expressed frustration with what they described as a lack of a cohesive approach to such threats.