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Apple Fires Exec Responsible for the iPhone 4 Antenna - Report

Mark Papermaster, the Apple executive in charge of hardware for the iPhone, has left the company in the wake of widely reported problems with the phone's antenna, although the reason of his departure is yet unclear. A spokesman for Apple has confirmed that Papermaster is no longer with the company. Apple's ...

8 August 2010
16:21 GMT

Apple's Executive Board Finally Includes Mark Papermaster

Apple's Executive Profiles page now lists Mark Papermaster as one of the company's execs, following a six-month-long wait. The ex-IBM chip expert is believed to have been sought out for hiring in the purpose of creating a portable device bigger than the iPhone, but smaller than the MacBook. Last year, Apple...

28 April 2009
02:49 GMT

Judge Rules: Apple Can't Have Papermaster

U.S. District Court Judge Kenneth Karas seems to have had his final say in the Papermaster case, ruling that Apple's new VP could indeed cause "irreparable harm" to IBM, just like the Big Blue alleged when suing its ex staffer for running off to Apple.IBM sued Papermaster in October, claiming that a non-competit...

26 November 2008
10:14 GMT

IBM Forced to Pay $3 Million to Ex-Staffer (Papermaster-Apple Case)

On Friday, last week, a federal judge ordered IBM to provide a $3 million bond by the end of the day to keep the case going, the company and Mark Papermaster, ex blade server expert at IBM. Mark Papermaster was recently hired by Apple as SVP of Devices Hardware Engineering. For his decision to move to Apple IBM sued...

17 November 2008
05:45 GMT

Papermaster Fights for His Role at Apple, Sues Back

26-year old IBM veteran Mark Papermaster filed a countersuit last week, days after U.S. District Court Judge Kenneth Karas ordered the blade server guru to "immediately cease his employment with Apple." As noted in previous court filings, Papermaster argued that Apple and IBM were not really rivals, a Computerworld r...

17 November 2008
04:15 GMT

Papermaster May Not Be the Best Choice for Apple

With Apple's official announcement of replacing Tony Fadell with Mark Papermaster still online, documents showing that IBM's former exec might not be the best candidate for senior vice president of Devices Hardware Engineering at Apple are starting to surface. InformationWeek points out quick product cycle...

14 November 2008
04:04 GMT

Papermaster Erased from Apple's Bio Site

The brief bio of Mark Papermaster, posted among those of Apple's senior executives, disappeared this week, CNet is reporting. Apple, however, hasn't pulled the official press release announcing his new position within the “devices” division of the company.While the document is no longer present ...

12 November 2008
05:14 GMT

IBM Afraid Apple Will Beef Up iPods with Its Tech

Because of an injunction preventing Mark Papermaster from starting work at Apple, IBM will negotiate a bond with the "blade server guru" that will allow monetary compensation to be sought by either party, if the injunction is found to be unjust, according to InternetNews.The report notes that, if the court finds IBM&...

12 November 2008
03:43 GMT

Judge Orders Apple's Newly Hired VP to Cease Work

Days after it was revealed that IBM was holding a grudge against its former blade server guru, Apple issued an official announcement saying that Mark Papermaster was joining the company as Senior Vice President of Devices Hardware Engineering. Soon after these events had unfolded, a federal judge ordered the former I...

10 November 2008
02:45 GMT

Speculation: Father of the iPod 'Asked' to Step Down

During yesterday's announcement that IBM's Mark Papermaster was joining Apple as Senior Vice President of Devices Hardware Engineering, the company also announced that Tony Fadell, Apple’s Senior Vice President of the iPod Division, and his wife, were “reducing their roles within the company.&rd...

5 November 2008
04:19 GMT

Mark Papermaster Becomes SVP at Apple

Apple has made official that ex-IBM chip design expert, Mark Papermaster has joined the company as Senior Vice President of Devices Hardware Engineering. Softpedia recently reported that IBM was suing Papermaster for defecting and running off to Apple, as the "blade server guru" possessed highly-confidential IBM trad...

4 November 2008
10:26 GMT

IBM Sues Ex Employee for Fleeing to Apple

Apple has contracted an ex-IBM chip design expert which should begin working full time for Apple if only IBM let him. Yes, apparently the multinational computer technology and consulting corporation based in Armonk, New York, is suing its former executive for switching teams with the intention of divulging trade secr...

31 October 2008
09:24 GMT


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