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A little more than a year after taking over the leadership position of troubled U.S. computer maker Gateway, J. Edward Coleman has resigned as the company's CEO, leaving leadership of the firm in the hands of Acer executive Rudi Schmidleithner. Taiwanese computer maker Acer recently completed its $710 million acquisition of Gateway, simultaneously giving it a foothold in the North American market while foiling rival Lenovo's… Read More

Computer maker Gateway has ended more than half a year of hazy direction and undefined leadership by naming former Arrow executive J. Edward Coleman as its new chief executive officer, taking over from Rick Snyder who had been serving as the company's interim CEO since February 2006 following the resignation of Wayne Inouye. Coleman most recently worked for Arrow Electronics, where he served as senior video president and then… Read More

The volunteer-run, online reference site Wikipedia is built on idea that by involving the larger Internet community, they can collectively create a useful and comprehensive online reference tool for everyone. And they seem to be correct: from humble beginnings, in the last five years Wikipedia has turned into a widely-used information source, recently found to compare favorably with the vaunted Encyclopedia Britannica on the accuracy of its… Read More