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Strong profits but weaker outlook from Qualcomm

28 January 2010, 11:03

Mobile phone chip giant manages a big yearly increase in profits but its stock falls on a lower than expected forecast.

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Apple launches its own chip for the iPad

27 January 2010, 20:13

The A4 chip makes Apple self-sufficient when it comes to the brains inside its new product.

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CES 2010 - Tegra 2 powered tablet PCs

27 January 2010, 12:51

CES 2010 saw the launch of NVIDIA's Tegra 2... and here's where they reckon Teagra 2 will make a real difference.

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BSkyB to win £200 million damages from EDS

27 January 2010, 09:44

Court finds the HP-owned IT services giant lied to Sky in order to secure a contract.

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Graphics market grew by 14% last year

26 January 2010, 17:45

Pretty good effort, considering, and 2010 is expected to be a lot better yet.

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Vodafone claims largest music subscriber base

26 January 2010, 14:36

‘All you can eat’ music subscription services gather momentum as music industry wakes up and smells the coffee.

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AMD steals share from Intel in record quarter for PC sales

26 January 2010, 12:04

PC industry puts the recession behind it with a solid Q4, as AMD gains share across the board.

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The recession is over – yay

26 January 2010, 10:36

The UK managed GDP growth of 0.1 percent in Q4, but that could get revised down.

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A good but confusing quarter from Apple

26 January 2010, 09:30

Tech giant announces record revenue and profit, but how much of that was due to new accounting standards?

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Acer to launch app store, e-reader, confirms Chrome netbook

25 January 2010, 17:14

Having stolen a bunch of PC market share, Acer now ponders how to make it more profitable.

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HEXUS.TalkingShop: AMD as a consumer electronics company

25 January 2010, 13:41

AMD’s head of marketing, Nigel Dessau, spoke to HEXUS.channel at CES 2010 and reflected on AMD’s transformation.

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HEXUS.sharewatch: Cisco, Nokia and Oracle added amid market correction

25 January 2010, 12:20

Three more tech giants added to better reflect the scope of our coverage, as markets have a down week.

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HP to preload Omnifone unlimited music service

25 January 2010, 11:02

Partners with UK company to launch MusicStation on Pavilion, Presario and Envy PCs across Europe.

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Rambus gets another result – NVIDIA this time

25 January 2010, 09:52

Having only just settled with Samsung, memory patent outfit Rambus wins a ruling against several other tech companies.

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Bing search engine serves up recipes

22 January 2010, 10:49

Not sure what to eat tonight? Bing and Decide.

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ARM-based chips predicted to dominate ultra-mobile devices

22 January 2010, 10:23

ABI Research reckons ARM will overtake x86-based platforms in netbooks and the like by 2013.

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AMD makes a profit...thanks to Intel

22 January 2010, 08:59

The now fabless chip-maker registered its first profit in three years with a little help from its, erm, friends.

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Growth in worldwide IT spend to return this year

21 January 2010, 17:30

Gartner improves its forecast for 2010 based primarily on a projected weakening of the US dollar.

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Europe clears Oracle acquisition of Sun

21 January 2010, 14:38

Oracle concessions on MySQL and the existence of PostgreSQL enough to reassure the Commission.

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YouTube's HTML5 experiment sheds the need for Adobe's Flash Player

21 January 2010, 12:53

Popular video-sharing website YouTube has launched an experimental version of an HTML5-supported player.

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BT undercuts Virgin on super-fast broadband

21 January 2010, 12:12

The pricing for BT’s Infinity 40Mbps broadband has been released, but does it improve on the Virgin Media offering?

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Boxing Day busiest of the year for e-tail

21 January 2010, 10:50

Figures from Hitwise reveal the extent of the immediate post-Christmas shopping frenzy.

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YouTube to offer movie rentals

21 January 2010, 10:11

Google's video-sharing website YouTube has confirmed that it will begin to rent feature-length movies.

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NY Times latest to start charging for web content

20 January 2010, 18:20

As the mainstream media looks to compensate for declining ad revenues, the trend towards online subscription grows.

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YouTube to broadcast live sporting events

20 January 2010, 16:28

Search giant Google has confirmed that it will broadcast all Indian Premier League cricket matches via YouTube.

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Samsung pays $900 million to settle with Rambus

20 January 2010, 11:02

The Korean tech giant resolves its DRAM spat with license holder Rambus by agreeing to hand over a bunch of cash.

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Acer founder reckons US PC brands could disappear

19 January 2010, 18:27

Stan Shih reportedly thinks US PC makers lack the ability to make PCs cheaply enough.

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AMD now world’s second biggest fabless chip company

19 January 2010, 15:19

New figures from researcher IC Insights put AMD behind only Qualcomm, with NVIDIA back in fifth place.

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Sony launches new, top-end VAIO Z series

19 January 2010, 11:28

Positioning them as ‘ultra-mobile’ the Z series crams a premium spec into a 13 inch notebook.

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UK PC market shrank in Q4

19 January 2010, 09:04

Preliminary figures from IDC reveal continued reluctance from businesses to invest in new kit.

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HEXUS.sharewatch: ARM and Qualcomm big CES winners

18 January 2010, 12:07

Gadgets running on ARM-based SoCs were a big feature of CES, and investors have taken notice.

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Intel not giving up on Pentium and Celeron

18 January 2010, 09:39

A couple of new launches reveal there’s life in the old dogs yet, and there’s a new Core 2 Quad too.

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Mobile security market set to explode

15 January 2010, 16:56

As smartphones become ubiquitous and store more data, protecting that data will become a priority.

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