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Apple shreds bio of recent IBM hire amid proceedings
AppleInsider — ... for Apple just days after he reported to the company; a hearing on the matter is scheduled for next week. Until then, Apple's bio describing Papermaster as the company's senior vice president of Devices Hardware Engineering has been pulled. A copy is still visible from Google's cache, CNet News ...

Apple retcons Papermaster out, presses "delete" on bio
Ars Technica - Infinite Loop — Poor Mark Papermaster: he quit his cushy job at IBM to work for Apple, and then IBM sues him . Then, just when he is about to start his new job, a judge bars him from reporting to work until IBM's lawsuit is settled. No doubt Apple could, you know, loan Mark a few bucks in the meantime, what with $25 bil in the bank. But it seems Apple has already removed Papermaster's bio from the "Executive Profiles" section of its PR web site. The bio, still in Google's cache from November 8, described Papermaster as leading "the iPod and iPhone engineering teams" and reporting "directly to Apple's CEO." It also detailed his 25 years of work at IBM, including work on blade servers, ASIC development, and management. No doubt Apple ...