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Norio Ohga, key to Sony’s audio legacy, dies at 81 | Network World

Norio Ohga, one of the handful of men who shaped Sony into the global consumer electronics giant that it is today, died on Saturday morning in Tokyo at the age of 81, Sony said.

EMC founder Richard Egan dies after long battle with cancer | Network World

EMC founder Richard Egan, who started his electronic data storage company 30 years ago, died Friday after a long battle with cancer. Egan served as EMC's CEO until 1992, as chairman of the board until 2001 and as the U.S. ambassador to Ireland, his ancestral home.

MITS founder and Altair inventor Ed Roberts dies aged 68 | Network World

Henry Edward Roberts, designer of the Altair 8800 personal computer that inspired Bill Gates and Paul Allen to enter the software business, has died aged 68.

Longtime Motorola executive Robert W. Galvin dies | Network World

Robert W. Galvin, the son of the founder of Motorola and CEO of the company for 29 years, has died. He was 89.

Enterasys CEO Fabiaschi dies suddenly | Network World

Enterasys President and CEO Mike Fabiaschi passed away suddenly this week at his home in Rye, N.H. He was 53.

Computer science leader Jim Horning dies at 70 | Network World

James "Jim" Horning, described by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) as "a leading figure in the evolution of computer science as a discipline and a profession, " has died at the age of 70 in Palo Alto.

Open source luminary Atul Chitnis dies of cancer at age 51 | Network World

Atul Chitnis, a pioneering technologist and former contributing editor to the landmark Indian IT publication PCQuest, died Monday at the age of 51, following a battle with intestinal cancer.

Founder of Citrix and much more, Ed Iacobucci dies at 59 | Network World

Ed Iacobucci, whose work on OS/2 at IBM helped fuel the PC craze and whose efforts at Citrix and VirtualWorks aimed to bring computing back under control, has died at the age of 59 from pancreatic cancer.

Virtual tape the YouTube way (and other snippets) | Network World

Virtual Tape Library vendor Sepaton has been busy this holiday season by posting a few YouTube videos predicting the demise of tape. The first is called Max Baxter: Data Never Dies. Maybe a paintball court is a good use of a data center floor emptied of its tape libraries.

AI-yai-AI! Smarter Viruses! | Network World

A few weeks ago I watched the entire six-movie Star Wars series. I wish that malware writers could be turned away from the Dark Side, but I don't see anything likely to achieve even the terminal redemption that Anakin Skywalker experiences just before he dies. It's a pity, because we have to admit that malware is getting smarter. Here are some developments from 2005.

Webroot founder dies in Hawaii | Network World

Two weeks after going missing Webroot Software founder Steven Thomas has been found dead in Hawaii.

Linux evangelists: Every time you build a client-server app, the Internet dies a little bit | Network World

Everyone's bullish about the future of open-source software in the business world at this year's LinuxCon in New Orleans, as IBM announces a billion-dollar new investment and Linux business use continues to spread.

Arthur C. Clarke dies at 90 | Network World

Science fiction writer, inventor, scuba diver, and visionary Sir Arthur C. Clarke died Tuesday at his home on the island nation of Sri Lanka at the age of 90.

Just when you though the Storm was over | Network World

There's been a lot of credit taking among security groups over who killed the Storm worm. Looks like no one did. The pesky worm reared its ugly head with another wave of attacks on unsuspecting users. It's like Jason from Friday the 13th or Mike Meyers from Halloween, it never really dies. We've also got word that a somewhat popular Firefox plugin shipped with malicious code onboard.

Former IBM CEO dies | Network World

Frank Cary, former IBM CEO, died Jan. 1 at the age of 85.

IDG Founder and Chairman Patrick J. McGovern dies at 76 | Network World

International Data Group (IDG) announced Thursday with great sadness that its Founder and Chairman, Patrick J. McGovern, died March 19, 2014, at Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, California.

Moving to Cloud to Gain Agility: 5 Lessons | Network World

When Biogen Idec considered a move to the cloud, cost savings was not the primary concern. For a biotechnology company that lives and dies by its research division, the ability to quickly spin up computer resources for its scientists was far more important.

WorldCom’s former CEO Sidgmore dies at 52 | Network World

John Sidgmore, the Internet pioneer and former WorldCom executive who steered the company as it emerged from a multibillion-dollar accounting scandal, died Thursday at the age of 52.

Former HP chief Lew Platt dies | Network World

Lew Platt, who spent 33 years at HP, including seven at the helm, died Thursday night in California, according to a statements issued by The Boeing Co., where he served as a non-executive chairman after leaving HP. He was 64.

If net neutrality dies, blame the comms junkies | Network World

Mark Gibbs ponders net neutrality, service agreements and consumer comms addiction.

Ray Tomlinson, email inventor who picked the @ sign for addresses, dies | Network World

Raymond Samuel Tomlinson, who is credited with inventing email and putting the now ubiquitous “@” sign in addresses, has died at the age of 74.

Former Intel CEO and Silicon Valley legend Andy Grove dies | Network World

Intel's former CEO Andrew S. Grove, who is credited with the transition of the company from making memory chips into microprocessors for the PC era, has passed away at the age of 79.

Silicon Valley venture capitalist Kleiner dies at 80 | Network World

Eugene Kleiner, who founded two of the most influential companies in the history of the technology industry, died last week at the age of 80.

Marvin Minsky, AI pioneer and Turing award winner, dies at 88 | Network World

Marvin Minsky, a professor emeritus at MIT who pioneered the exploration of the mind and its replication in a machine, died on Sunday from a brain hemorrhage at the age of 88, according to MIT Media Lab.