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AMD drops Phenom II prices

20 January 2009, 09:38

As expected AMD has responded to Intel’s wide-ranging price cuts with some cuts of its own.

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Microsoft gets more anti-competitive grief from European Commission

19 January 2009, 13:14

Tying of Internet Explorer to Windows is naughty says the EC in a Statement of Objections.

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HEXUS.sharewatch: AMD fares worst in declining market

19 January 2009, 12:23

Much of the New Year gains were lost last week, although not necessarily where you might expect.

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Seagate reveals firmware bug in some hard drives

19 January 2009, 11:04

Some Barracuda and DiamondMax drives manufactured in December 2008 are failing.

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Intel drops prices of quad core CPUs by up to 40%

19 January 2009, 08:28

As predicted the chip giant responds to AMD’s launch of the Phenom II. No movement on Core i7, however.

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Early AMD Phenom II pricing

16 January 2009, 18:20

A quick look at the UK prices and availability of AMD's latest CPU offering and how it compares to equivalent Intel ones.

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The HEXUS.channel week in review, on TV

16 January 2009, 17:40

The economy dominated the week’s news, for a change, but so did education and carbon footprints.

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AMD tightens its belt one more notch

16 January 2009, 14:43

An additional 900 people to lose their jobs at the chip company as the recession takes its toll.

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VIP to stock Antec Nine Hundred Two chassis

16 January 2009, 10:42

Confusingly named gaming chassis expected at the distributor by the end of the month.

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Sifting through Intel’s financial results

16 January 2009, 09:18

Intel’s full Q4 and annual earnings announcement reveals some interesting details about trends in the market.

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BETT 2009: MSI X320 will cost less than £499

15 January 2009, 13:15

In its first year at the education show, MSI has revealed aggressive pricing for its new thin and light notebook.

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Apple’s Jobs to take medical leave of absence

15 January 2009, 10:15

Steve Jobs’ health issues not as straight-forward as he had hoped.

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Christmas quarter sales down 10% at DSGi

15 January 2009, 08:48

In the 12 weeks ended 10th January 2009, like for like sales across the group were significantly lower.

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BETT 2009: New Intel classmate makes a splash

14 January 2009, 16:07

Recently unveiled new touch-screen notebook for kids heads stampede to equip all school kids with a lappy.

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NVIDIA issues dramatic revenue warning

13 January 2009, 14:20

Graphics giant issues a massive downward revision of expected Q4 revenue.

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What’s happening at DSGi?

13 January 2009, 13:51

PC World and Currys websites down yesterday as the bad omens start to build up for their parent company.

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UK December online sales up 30%

13 January 2009, 10:28

While the High Street suffered, etailers seem to have had their best Christmas ever.

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Dennis closes Computer Buyer magazine

12 January 2009, 14:10

Plummeting circulation leads publisher to put 18 year old title out of its misery.

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Is Google bad for the environment?

12 January 2009, 11:51

New research claims two Google searches generate as much CO2 at boiling a kettle. Google doesn’t agree.

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HEXUS.sharewatch: the semiconductor yoyo continues

12 January 2009, 09:55

AMD up, Intel and NVIDIA down in the aftermath of CES 2009.

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Ingram Micro commercial director decides to call it a day

9 January 2009, 16:07

Bhavesh Patel, a 17-year veteran of the broad-line distributor, has decided to move on to pastures new.

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BEAST Computers rescued by Wired2Fire

9 January 2009, 15:37

Liquid-cooled specialist gaming PC maker is moving into administration. Former rival is picking up some of the pieces.

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AMD gets Dell on board with Dragon

9 January 2009, 12:16

New gaming platform based around the new Phenom II CPU is embraced by infrequent AMD partner Dell.

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Review: NVIDIA (BFG) GeForce GTX 295 - retaking the performance crown

8 January 2009, 18:17

The old 2 GPUs in one card trick does the job as NVIDIA retakes the single card performance crown from AMD.

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Review: AMD Phenom II - raising the bar

8 January 2009, 18:01

The 45nm Phenom II is AMD's most powerful desktop processor yet, but is that enough to scare Intel?

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More images of new ASUS stuff at CES

8 January 2009, 16:34

The Eee concept takes on a distinctly touch-screen theme at this year’s Las Vegas gadget fest.

CES 2009 2

Bank cuts interest rates by a further 0.5%

8 January 2009, 12:02

Rates at their lowest ever as the Bank of England tries to get people spending.

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Dell to move EMEA manufacturing from Ireland

8 January 2009, 11:53

1,900 Irish jobs will be lost as Dell relocates EMEA PC making to Poland and third-party manufacturers.

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Lenovo announces 2,500 redundancies

8 January 2009, 10:17

The expected restructuring announcement involves axing 11 percent of workforce and reducing executive pay.

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Lenovo suspends trading of its shares

7 January 2009, 18:49

Chinese system builder temporarily halts trading of its shares in advance of a “price-sensitive” announcement.

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Intel Q4 revenue down 23%

7 January 2009, 16:05

Chip giant’s sales even lower than expected due to weak end-user demand. Value of Clearwire stake written down.

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Counterfeit GECUBE HD4000 cards appear

7 January 2009, 12:23

GECUBE issues a statement acknowledging the problem and advising how to identify the genuine article.

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Lenovo launches UK web shop

7 January 2009, 11:46

Chinese system builder claims new direct model complements existing channel business.

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