HP reportedly plans to split PC and printer business from enterprise unit

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Business Microsoft HP reportedly plans to split PC and printer business from enterprise unit By Dante D'Orazio on October 5, 2014 02:26 pm @dantedorazio 72 Don't miss stories follow The Verge Like Follow Subscribe Follow Share on Facebook View the original article here

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AT&T promotes key executives as it integrates mobile, business units

AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega, pictured at Mobile World Congress 2013, will have new responsibilities at the company. Roger Cheng/CNET

AT&T is doing a little executive reshuffling of its own.

In the wake of Sprint naming a new CEO earlier this month, AT&T is making some changes at the top of its mobility unit, although they are far less dramatic. AT&T's head of mobile, Ralph de la Vega, was promoted to CEO of the company's new mobile and business unit, which is tasked with integrated the two disparate businesses. Glenn Lurie, who was the head of emerging businesses and devices, was promoted to CEO of the consumer mobility business. The changes are effective immediately.

Fierce Wireless earlier reported on the executive changes.

The changes underscore the fact the mobility is the centerpiece of a company that once depending on landline telephones and DSL for most of its revenue. It represents a consolidation of power for de la Vega, who already held a visible role at the company. De la Vega absorbs the business unit previously run by Andy Geisse, who is retiring.

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De la Vega will be tasked with bringing the two units together. AT&T's business unit is already heavily focused on mobile, with business-related customers representing more than 50 percent of its mobile revenue.

While both executives are getting a promotion, the hierarchy within the company hasn't changed. Lurie, considered a rising star because he led one of the faster growing businesses at AT&T, will continue to report to de la Vega, who reports to AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson.

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Business cards grow a brain with SwivelCard

It's like an origami USB drive. SwivelCard

Most business cards end up in the recycle bin or tucked away in a drawer, discarded and forgotten. That's why there have been some creative attempts at making business cards more interesting, like the playable Tetris business card. The latest shot at a smart business card has appeared on Kickstarter in the form of the SwivelCard.

SwivelCard combines a printed USB drive with a normal business card. The card folds up to fit into a USB port and directs the recipient to open a Web page. That page can be changed after the fact, so you could hand a prospective client a business card that leads to your main website and then go in and have that particular card direct to a specific product page instead.

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The USB drive has less than 1 megabyte of storage and is read-only to prevent someone from changing the information on your card and handing it off to someone else. Each card has a unique ID. It appears on a user's computer like any other mass-storage USB drive. A QR code on the back lets users with mobile devices connect to the website without needing a USB port. Some of the cards also support NFC, depending on which pledge level you select.

It took less than eight hours for SwivelCard to hit its $10,000 goal and it's now over $40,000 in pledges with 29 days to go. You can test out the tech for a $29 pledge, which gets you 10 mini cards. There's no room for your contact information, but the cards can be redirected just like full-size SwivelCards. Moving up to the big cards will cost you $319 for a set of 200. The NFC-enabled cards run $379 for 200.

The team behind SwivelCard is working on improving an analytics component that can track cards as to their location and the times when the cards are used. The cards themselves are nifty enough to stand out from the crowd of normal, lifeless business cards, but the cost of buying them might make you think twice before handing them out to just anyone.

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