HEXUS.net - Business

Legal loophole paves way for high street VAT-free videogames

21 July 2008, 12:02

High street giant HMV is rolling out over 250 kiosks to stores across that country that will allow consumers to purchase tax free items.

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HEXUS.sharewatch: Q2 earnings season takes shape

21 July 2008, 11:26

Intel, AMD, Google, Microsoft and IBM announced last week, this week its Apple and Yahoo!'s turn. We look at the stock implications.

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The HEXUS.channel week in review

18 July 2008, 17:55

Featuring high drama in the CPU sector, yet another Microhoo chapter and channel fire fighting.

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Target Components offers its customers a helping hand

18 July 2008, 16:38

UK distributor Target Components has created a direct marketing tool that is free for its customers to use.

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AMD shares down 12% in early trading

18 July 2008, 15:04

Following the replacement of its CEO and Q2 losses of nearly $1.2 billion, AMD’s share price dropped sharply.

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Intel hits back at AMD’s Centrino 2 graphics claims

18 July 2008, 14:05

Intel has defended the quality of the integrated graphics in Centrino 2 after an AMD exec called them into question.

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AMD succession was planned two years ago

18 July 2008, 13:08

An AMD director has revealed that the replacement of Ruiz with Meyer is the final phase of a two year succession plan.

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HEXUS.community forums now featuring HEXUS.hardlines

18 July 2008, 12:16

Head on over to the HEXUS.community forums to see a brand new feature, and keep your eyes peeled as we've plenty more on the way.

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IDC: UK PC market grows by 26.4%

18 July 2008, 11:54

Confounding talk of a slowdown, consumer notebook market growth of 85% drives healthy Q2 for the UK PC market.

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Intel responds to Euro commission allegations

18 July 2008, 09:47

The chip giant has issued an initial statement in response to the EC’s new statement of objections, more to follow.

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AMD CEO Hector quits - AMD announces appointment of Dirk Meyer as President and CEO of AMD

17 July 2008, 22:14

Hector Ruiz is stepping down and has announced the appointment of Dirk Meyer as new President and CEO of AMD as it reports Q2 loss of $1.189 billion.

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Has AMD missed its chance with Puma?

17 July 2008, 19:22

AMD has revealed that there is only one Puma notebook currently available for sale in the UK. six weeks after launch...

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Symantec responds to channel crisis

17 July 2008, 15:56

Reports that the security software giant plans to take its biggest accounts away from the channel have demanded immediate fire-fighting from Symantec.

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Gigabyte M912 netbook to hit the UK by September

17 July 2008, 13:19

The next entrant to the increasingly crowded netbook market will be with us by the end of the summer, but it won’t be cheap.

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Intel launches two Centrino 2 motherboards for the channel

17 July 2008, 10:56

Mobile boards for consumer and business users are the latest incarnations of Rich Creek 2 form factor specification.

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AMD exec questions Intel Centrino 2 graphics

16 July 2008, 18:42

Patrick Moorhead, AMD’s VP for advanced marketing, questions the graphics capabilities of Intel’s new notebook platform.

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Channel speaks out on GPU price cuts

16 July 2008, 15:40

The Brigantia community of independent PC professionals discusses its relationships with chip vendors and falling GPU prices.

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Email evidence unveiled in NVIDIA/ATI price fixing civil action

16 July 2008, 13:19

Judge in antitrust class action certification hearing reads out an email between an NVIDIA and an ATI exec.

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Review: NVIDIA's riposte: the GeForce 9800 GTX+

16 July 2008, 10:28

Cheaper and faster than the GeForce 9800 GTX, does the '+' version have what it takes to dethrone AMD's Radeon HD 4850 an 4870?

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Intel announces best ever Q2 revenue

16 July 2008, 10:07

The chip giant chalked up a cool $9.5 in revenue for Q2 ’08, with net income up 25% year-on-year.

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NVIDIA issues ConnectorGate damage control statement

16 July 2008, 09:17

GPU giant offers some more details on the extent of its weak die/packaging material issue.

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BT to bring super-fast broadband to Britain by 2012

15 July 2008, 16:24

BT has announced plans to invest £1.5 billion into its fibre-optic network, bringing broadband speeds of up to 100Mbps to its customers.

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Ingram Micro EMEA abandons freight subsidies for the channel

15 July 2008, 15:39

The distribution giant will now pass on the full cost of shipping products to its customers.

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Former Gateway, Acer and AMD exec now at Dell

15 July 2008, 13:05

Sarah Shields, last seen as European sales director for Gateway, is now EMEA retail sales director for Dell.

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Novatech is backing Centrino 2 all the way

15 July 2008, 10:35

UK system builder and retailer going big on Intel’s Centrino 2 mobile platform over AMD’s Puma.

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Hannstar says it’s not closing production company for Hannspree and Hanns.G

15 July 2008, 10:19

Recent reports that Hannstar is getting out of manufacturing entirely have been denied by the company.

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BigPockets.co.uk special: 17in Core 2 laptop for only £299.99

14 July 2008, 18:14

The latest big bargain from BigPockets.co.uk is Gateway's 1.73GHz Core 2 Duo laptop, available for the netbook-beating price of £299.99.

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Icahn puts forward his side of the Yahoo! story

14 July 2008, 15:13

Activist investor Carl Icahn has issued a press release in response to Yahoo!’s press release. Where’s Microsoft’s one?

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Yahoo! will now accept $33 a share from Microsoft

14 July 2008, 12:31

Yahoo! unsurprisingly rejects joint proposal from Microsoft and Icahn to buy its search business, but will sell all for $33 a share.

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Review: AMD ATI HD 4870 X2 - the new graphics performance leader?

14 July 2008, 11:37

Radeon HD 4870 X2 punches with 2.4TFLOPS of compute power. Good enough to dethrone the NVIDIA GTX 280? - we tell you.

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HEXUS.sharewatch: Q2 earnings week for Intel and AMD

14 July 2008, 11:10

Intel announces its Q2 earnings on Tuesday and AMD does the same on Thursday amid more ATI writedowns.

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Digital Distribution

14 July 2008, 00:00

This HEXUS.help guide discusses digital distribution, what it is, how it affects both manufacturers and consumers, and what the future holds for digital media delivery.

AMD to take a further $880 million impairment charge from ATI acquisition

11 July 2008, 18:06

In a filing with the SEC, AMD announced that it is taking impairment charges from the handheld and DTV units of ATI.

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