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Seagate cuts warranties on bare drives

12 December 2008, 15:42

Internal hard drives sold through the channel now have a three rather than five year warranty.

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Semiconductor industry revenue declines for 2008

12 December 2008, 10:19

Preliminary results from Gartner predict a year-on-year decline of over four percent.

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Indie channel warms to the ‘balanced PC’ concept

11 December 2008, 16:18

The latest Brigantia road show focused on commercial opportunities in today’s challenging market.

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Google's year-end Zeitgeist reveals 2008's most popular searches

11 December 2008, 12:50

Search giant Google has published its 2008 Zeitgeist, and it's little surprise to find social-networking websites proving most popular.

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NVIDIA summarises its proposition to investors

11 December 2008, 10:58

The graphics giant presented its wares at a global technology conference yesterday.

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Target bolsters commercial team

10 December 2008, 17:16

New sales director and marketing manager as Castleford distie bucks the global trend by expanding.

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Intel says it’s on track for 32nm

10 December 2008, 16:53

Chip giant announces it has completed the development phase of move to 32 nanometre manufacturing.

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OCZ and Super Talent both announce new high-end SSDs

10 December 2008, 10:28

Two memory specialists look to raise the bar in the growing competition between SSDs and hard disk drives.

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Kosmix explores, Google searches. Which is better?

10 December 2008, 09:34

Don't search, explore.

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Android group adds 14 new members

9 December 2008, 17:13

ARM, ASUS, Sony Ericsson and Vodafone are among the new recruits to Google’s smartphone software platform.

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Acer overtakes ASUS in netbook market

9 December 2008, 16:17

ASUS beaten at its own game in Q3 as Acer grabs nearly two fifths of the global netbook market.

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Bullguard secures $5 million investment

9 December 2008, 11:54

Security software outfit continues its transformation with cash injection from investment company.

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Sony to axe 8,000 jobs

9 December 2008, 11:16

Japanese consumer electronics giant announces measures to bolster company and improve profitability.

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NVIDIA adds OpenCL support to CUDA

9 December 2008, 10:26

The graphics company’s own GPGPU toolkit will now support the new, completely open API.

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The HEXUS.channel weekly roundup – on TV

8 December 2008, 13:09

The summary of last week’s hot stories on HEXUS’s business news site has switch to TV. Here’s the first episode.

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Intel launches Celeron dual-core CPUs for notebooks

8 December 2008, 12:49

Chip giant adds two new lower-end notebook processors to its portfolio.

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Intel reveals new optical data transfer technology

8 December 2008, 11:07

The next advance in the technology of Silicon Photonic claims to significantly improve data transfer rates.

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David Ross quits

8 December 2008, 09:53

Co-founder of Carphone Warehouse used most of his CPW shares as security against personal loans without declaring it.

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HEXUS.sharewatch: mixed fortunes for distributors

8 December 2008, 07:00

Avnet and Ingram Micro buck the downward trend, but Tech Data loses nearly eight percent.

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Ebuyer extends next-day delivery deadline

5 December 2008, 09:32

Giant etailer will now deliver orders made up until 10pm the next day in order to encourage Christmas shoppers.

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Sky Player brings Sky TV to the Internet

4 December 2008, 15:08

Sky's array of channels and on-demand content are now available on a subscribtion basis via its online Sky Player.

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Mac OS now bigger than Windows in smartphone market

4 December 2008, 11:12

As Apple becomes the third biggest smartphone company, its OS overtakes Windows Mobile in Q3 sales.

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FSC explains notebook for life offer

3 December 2008, 17:22

Fujitsu Siemens is offering purchasers of Lifebooks a free new one, every three years, forever.

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Microsoft deploys Windows Live Wave 3 services update

3 December 2008, 13:22

Microsoft's Windows Live software-plus-services platform continues to gradually evolve, and has today been issued a services overhaul.

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Inside AMD: where does it go now?

3 December 2008, 13:15

HEXUS.channel recently visited AMD in Texas and got an insight into where it’s headed. Here’s our take.

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Cooler Master discusses channel implications of price cuts

2 December 2008, 15:43

Following its recent price cuts, Cooler Master’s UK channel marketing manager talks exclusively to HEXUS.channel.

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Channel insurer Euler Hermes issues profit warning

2 December 2008, 13:23

The largest insurer of the UK technology channel has revised its 2008, blaming the bankruptcy of Woolworths.

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Global server shipments grew 4% in Q3

2 December 2008, 10:54

Volume growth comes at the expense of margin as revenue declines by five percent.

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Intel and Hitachi collaborate on SSDs

2 December 2008, 10:04

Joint development agreement targets enterprise usage models for solid state drives.

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Qimonda delays release of results as it looks for funding

1 December 2008, 18:17

German memory maker Qimonda is delaying the release of its Q4 financials until partnership discussions conclude.

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HP announces $1 billion saving on IT costs

1 December 2008, 17:36

Three year IT strategy overhaul on track to save a cool billion per year, next phase begins.

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Virgin Mobile partners with Yahoo! on new mobile portal

1 December 2008, 11:42

Yahoo! mobile-specific search service to be the backbone of Virgin Media’s brand-new mobile hub.

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VAT reductions in effect at hardware etailers, but is the saving enough?

1 December 2008, 10:57

Today's the day that the Chancellor's VAT reduction comes into play, we take a look at core-component pricing.

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