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Telco retailer and wholesaler M2 has acquired Commander's small and medium business brands and assets for around $19 million, but not Commander's network infrastructure.
People Telecom CEO John Stanton has resigned, the company announced yesterday.
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For the first time, all of the chipmaker's mobile processors for mainstream notebook PCs operate at speeds of 2GHz or more.
The launch of the 2.4GHz processor for desktops, the chipmaker's fastest Pentium 4 to date, is part of bigger plan to push the Pentium 4 into nearly every sector in the PC market.
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