Less than a month after the Board of Directors removed the CEO, AMD is seeing more management turnover, as the Chief Operating Officer and Senior VP of Corporate Strategy plan to step down.

COO Bob Rivet and VP Marty Seyer will stay with AMD to help with the transition, added the company, before leaving for "other opportunities."

CEO Dirk Meyer left in January after the Board brought up concerns about the company's lack of a concrete strategy for the burgeoning smartphone market.

Last year, Meyer raised eyebrows when he said the company would not invest in microprocessors for smartphones/tablets until the market grew more, despite the fact that the iPad is already eating into netbook and notebook demand.

AMD remains focused on chips for PCs, servers and video cards.

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AT&T has said today that they are now offering free unlimited mobile-to-mobile in the U.S. to all customers who have a qualifying voice plan and unlimited text messaging.

Starting tomorrow, you can activate the "Mobile to Any Mobile" addition from www.att.com/anymobile.

Says the carrier:

Mobile to Any Mobile is an exciting offer that will keep our customers connected to the people they want to talk to, when they want to talk to them, without the hassle of watching minutes. We're giving customers more options and even better value. And when you include Rollover Minutes, a benefit available exclusively from AT&T that lets customers keep their unused minutes for all domestic calls, including to landline numbers, it's clear that AT&T offers the most flexibility in the industry.

Unlimited text messaging plans cost $20 per month for individual lines or $30 for the full family on family plans.

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HP has unveiled their first WebOS tablet today, the TouchPad, set for release in the summer.

The device will have a 9.7-inch display with 1024x768 resolution, run a dual-core 1.2Ghz Snapdragon processor, Beats Audio technology, stereo speakers, a 1.3MP front-side camera, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR.

HP's tablet will be available as 16GB or 32GB versions, weigh 1.6 pounds and feature a gyro, accelerometer, and compass and full Flash support, just like Android.

Says Jon Rubenstein, head of HP's mobility group (via PCM):

The TouchPad is all about you how you want to work, how you want to play, how you want to connect to things you value most. No one comes close to replicating our WebOS experience.

Additionally, the tablet's virtual keypad will have a full number row, come with QuickOffice installed, Google Docs support, Dropbox, Box.net, VPN and wireless printing support.

There is no word on price, but there will be a Wi-Fi-only version, as well as 3G and later 4G versions.

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Sony's Kevin Butler, the character played by actor Jerry Lambert in PS3 commercials, accidentally retweeted the PlayStation 3 security key this morning, but has since taken it down.

The USB dongle ID generator key, which has been used by hackers to create signed firmwares and homebrew, was posted by @exiva originally.

Said Travis La Marr (@exiva):

[Edited for legal reasons]xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx Come at me, @TheKevinButler

Butler, clearly misunderstanding the reference, wrote back:

Lemme guess... you sank my Battleship? RT @exiva: xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx Come at me, @TheKevinButler

The gaff is notable because Sony recently expanded their lawsuit to include anyone caught sharing the code, via Twitter, YouTube, PSX-Scene and more.

(Pic, story via Techspot (with unedited code/their screenshot)): Here

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We have just implemented a couple of relatively small, but quite significant changes to the site. Both changes aim to improve the overall page rendering speeds. In short - pages should hopefully load and display faster than before. The changes focus on the way advertisements are displayed on our pages, and on the way certain images are loaded. After the change most of the advertisements are loaded after the page has completed, which allows you to start viewing and reading faster than before.

Even though we have done our very best to test the changes on a variety of browsers and platforms, there is a strong possibility that problems occur on some combinations of browsers, operating systems and service providers. Should you run across any problems with, for example, advertisement placement (see this fabricated example), please let us know either by commenting this news article or by sending us feedback.

Another change that we've implemented has to do with loading images on some of the "image heavy" pages at AfterDawn. A good example of this is the Desktop pics forum thread. Slow loading pictures in posts or signatures can cause some forum pages to load very sluggishly. Now, after the recent change, all the images in the all posts are loaded "lazily", i.e. when they are scrolled to view. You'll see placeholder images such as this when you view posts. Those placeholders will be replaced by the actual images once your browser has loaded them.

If you encounter any problems with either advertisements or the lazily loaded pictures, please do let us know. When reporting any problems, please make sure to mention your browser and its version, the operating system you're using, and your ISP.

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