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There will be no “full retail version” of Windows 8 on sale

13 July 2012, 14:49

Rumour says only cheaper OEM and upgrade versions from Microsoft.

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Digg sold for just $0.5 million

13 July 2012, 11:43

Social news site was valued at over $160 million in 2008.

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Facebook advertising value is thrown into doubt

13 July 2012, 09:55

BBC finds most “likes” not really interested in your product.

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Hackers expose 453,000 Yahoo accounts

12 July 2012, 21:41

Gmail, AOL, Hotmail and MSN accounts and others also compromised.

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Toshiba spins up 2.5-inch 900GB, 10,500 RPM drive

12 July 2012, 17:07

High capacity 6 Gb/s SAS interface enterprise class HDD.

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AMD and Intel; diverging fortunes

10 July 2012, 17:16

One experiences weak sales while the other invests billions in the future.

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Kickstarter heading to the UK this autumn

10 July 2012, 10:41

Intends to mix in a little British innovation.

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Intel agrees to buy 15 per cent of ASML for $4.1 billion

10 July 2012, 10:11

Could accelerate Intel’s 450mm wafer EUV deployment by two years.

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Windows 8 preview take-up is relatively sluggish

9 July 2012, 10:41

Lagging behind the Windows 7 experience.

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Samsung quarterly profits hit a new record of £3.8 billion

6 July 2012, 11:25

Thanks largely to the Galaxy range of smartphones.

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Amazon is developing a smartphone

6 July 2012, 10:15

Foxconn will be the manufacturer.

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Microsoft to kill SBS and WHS in Windows Server 2012 release

6 July 2012, 09:56

Reveals pricing details of the upcoming line-up, with some old favourites missing from the list.

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Windows 7 runs on over 50 per cent of PCs

5 July 2012, 12:00

Or maybe not, depending on whose stats you believe.

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European anti-piracy ACTA struck down in landslide vote, 478 to 39

5 July 2012, 11:04

Europe doesn't want "vague" and "overreaching" terms in its law.

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UK High Court brings common sense to Apple vs All patent war

5 July 2012, 10:18

Finds HTC did not infringe any of Apple's four patent claims, includes slide-to-unlock.

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Qualcomm Snapdragon S4... or wait, is it Samsung Snapdragon?

5 July 2012, 09:40

Amidst shortages, Samsung agrees to manufacture the Snapdragon S4 SoC.

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UK’s most powerful GPU supercomputer booted up

4 July 2012, 13:37

Emerald has 372 NVIDIA Tesla GPUs and 114 teraflops of power.

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NAND flash contract prices stabilising

4 July 2012, 08:57

SSD drive price nosedive may bottom out.

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EU rules that users can resell digital downloaded games

3 July 2012, 22:02

It doesn’t matter if you sold your soul by agreeing to the EULA.

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Microsoft $6.2 billion writedown of 2007 acquisition aQuantive

3 July 2012, 11:07

Bought to help compete with Google search related advertising.

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Fake Digital Economy Act fines being sent out via email

2 July 2012, 17:46

Phishing for fifty quid.

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ASUS makes the Nexus 7 for the sake of the brand

2 July 2012, 12:32

Not for the money, it's sold at cost price.

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Micron to acquire Elpida

2 July 2012, 10:23

Elpida's financial suffering to soon be put to an end as Micron comes to the rescue.

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Samsung and Google unite in legal fight against Apple

1 July 2012, 23:15

“Working closely” says Samsung spokeswoman Lim Yoon-jeong.

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STMicroelectronics compass and motion sensor is 3mm square

29 June 2012, 12:09

Integrates a 3-axis digital accelerometer with a 3-axis digital magnetic sensor.

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RIM reports $518m loss, will cut 5,000 jobs

29 June 2012, 10:20

Also BlackBerry 10 fightback will be delayed to Q1 2013.

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Google Docs gains offline editing ability

28 June 2012, 23:28

You will need Google Chrome and Google Drive to gain this functionality.

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Got a Mac? Then you can afford a more expensive hotel!

27 June 2012, 15:44

Travel site Orbitz shows Mac users more costly options.

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 US sales blocked by the Federal Court

27 June 2012, 14:23

Because of evidence Samsung changed the design to mimic the iPad.

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Ofcom 'three strikes' policy for illegal downloaders

27 June 2012, 08:45

Three warning letters sent to infringers before revealing identity.

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Seagate SSDs will be boosted by "Memory Modem"

26 June 2012, 15:11

DensBits investment will bring cheaper, faster and more reliable SSDs.

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Microsoft confirms Yammer social network takeover

26 June 2012, 11:55

Spends $1.2 billion on best-in-class enterprise social networking service.

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Kickstarter crowd-funding site stats reveal £142 million of funds

26 June 2012, 10:20

61,304 projects launched with a success rate of 44 per cent and £142 million in funds.

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