Each product group owns their own monetization product now, which has improved monetization, he says.
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"They speak English and they are very well educated, " said Julia MacLauchlan, director of Microsoft's worldwide product group.
At Google he led the product group that launched PhotoVine, a photo-sharing app.
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"We're going to wake them up when we launch this, " says Rich Bergman, general manager of AMD's graphics product group.
"Our latest Idea-branded products offer more comfort, simplicity and responsiveness than ever before, " said Wei Jun, vice president, Idea Product Group, Lenovo.
"The ThinkPad X131e has proven to be very successful in education environments, " said Jerry Paradise, executive director of product marketing, ThinkPad Product Group.
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These benchmarks make the Sun Fire servers the leading platform for Java applications, said Steve Campbell, director of enterprise systems and product marketing in the Systems Product Group at Sun.
At an event here, Jeff Clarke, senior vice president and general manager of the Dell business product group, said the new models represent a million man-hours of research, more than 3, 200 prototype test units and feedback from more than 4, 000 customers.
The Corona, created under the guidance of Gene Bauman, VP and General Manager of SMCC's Desktop Systems and Workstations Product Group, represents Sun's attempt to make good on many of the promises that it failed to deliver a couple of years ago.
"The XPS 10, XPS Duo 12 and XPS One 27 represent the culmination of a deep understanding of the 'Bring Your Own Device' movement and insights gained from both our consumer and business customers, " said Sam Burd, global vice president, PC product group at Dell.
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On the other side of the fence, TBG will be led by Senior Vice President (Product Group) Dr. Peter Hortensius to better establish the business-friendly Think brand in the consumer market, as well as continuing to stay ahead of the game in the global commercial business.
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At an event here, Jeff Clarke, senior vice president and general manager of the Dell (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ) business product group, said the new models represent a million man-hours of research, more than 3, 200 prototype test units and feedback from more than 4, 000 customers.
"As one of the most widely used business PCs in the world, Dell Latitude brand laptops need to support a broad range of technology so our customers can connect virtually anywhere and at any time, and Qualcomm's Gobi platform helps us achieve this, " said Kirk Schell, executive director and general manager of Dell's Business Client Product Group.
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Now customers want to talk about years of support rather than a particular product upgrade, says Andrew Erlandson, a director in Microsoft's product support group.
Shuji Minami -- the product business group's general manager -- is suggesting that increased production by alternative manufacturers will open up the currently tight supply line.
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Instead, Microsoft will send out periodic updates with new apps to all Kin phones, says Roger Synder, a group product manager for Microsoft.
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Now customers want to talk about years of support rather than a particular product upgrade, says Andrew Erlandson, a director in Microsoft's product-support group.
He was rumored to have clashed repeatedly with local darling Shai Agassi, who took SAP onto the Internet as the head of the product and technology group.
"Just keep the marketplaces running--that was the biggest priority, and that was smart, " says Leonard Speiser, who was a group product manager at Ebay from 2000 until 2005.
The Superchunk fan of 1993 would have no trouble recognizing the song as the product of the group that helped define the indie-rock scene of the post- Nirvana era.
Companies can promote their videos by keywords to appear in YouTube search results, or display their video ads on pages with interesting content, said Baljeet Singh, YouTube group product manager.
Khoi Nguyen, a group product manager for security provider Symantec, said that in a world of sophisticated online technology, smartphone users are most likely to fall prey to a more basic attack -- old-fashioned theft.
"Despite all the investment going on to make credit cards more secure, fraud is still on the rise and much of it is simply going undetected by consumers, " Lynda Kershaw, group product manager at Macro 4 said.
This had the benefit of humanizing the new characters that parents may well have thought were the product of a focus group.
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Gilles, senior vice president of product design for Chrysler Group.
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The Portman Group investigated the product after receiving one complaint over the "childish" design.
Using ASICs would have left the group with a product failure if they guessed wrong on the standards.
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