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Kodak gets $500 million bid for patents portfolio

7 December 2012, 10:00

A Silicon Valley consortium has almost clinched the deal.

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Samsung Galaxy S IV coming with unbreakable screen in April?

6 December 2012, 16:30

Yes, according to Reuters analyst sources.

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Intel to continue making socketed CPUs for “foreseeable future”

6 December 2012, 11:30

Also AMD has "no plans at this time to move to BGA only packaging".

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Apple’s shares suffer biggest single-day fall in four years

6 December 2012, 10:00

Over six per cent fall on Wednesday "due to fears of intensifying mobile competition."

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Privacy Alert: ITU secretly approves Deep Packet Inspection

6 December 2012, 09:24

Standard even includes provision for decrypting encrypted traffic.

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Nokia introduces Lumia 620 Windows Phone 8 smartphone

5 December 2012, 12:30

The Finnish company’s most affordable WP8 handset will cost around US$249 in January.

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Subsidised Nexus 7 is carrot to entice Times subscriptions

5 December 2012, 10:08

Digital Pack promotion offers up 32GB Nexus 7 tablet “for just £50”.

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Nokia sells off HQ to raise €170 million

4 December 2012, 17:35

Sell and lease plans seem to be in fashion right now.

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Making flash memory more reliable with 800°C heat pulses

4 December 2012, 12:30

Macronix makes NAND chips that will last “100 million” cycles.

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The 106 forbidden passwords from the BlackBerry 10 OS

4 December 2012, 10:30

Trustno1 with your secret blackberry password, cowboy. (That’s 5 of them)

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WhatsApp to be bought by Facebook say sources

3 December 2012, 12:30

Facebook buying-in the multi-platform mobile messaging service?

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The $99 ASUS Jellybean tablet

3 December 2012, 11:30

A new ASUS ME172V tablet appears in GLBenchmark results.

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Staples to bring 3D printing into stores with Mcor IRIS printers

3 December 2012, 10:45

The multinational firm opts for paper-based full-colour printing.

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Yahoo loses court case in Mexico, has to pay up $2.7 billion

3 December 2012, 10:00

Following a contract dispute with the Mexican version of Yellow Pages.

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BPI says it wants Pirate Party UK Pirate Proxy gone

3 December 2012, 09:16

The BPI has sent the Pirate Party a nice letter.

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Microsoft says that Internet Explorer sucks... less

30 November 2012, 15:39

In a humorous new advertising video.

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Is the internet is about to gain three billion new users?

30 November 2012, 11:30

Yes, say the makers of the Aakash 2 tablet which will cost as little as $25.

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Newzbin2 kicks the bucket

30 November 2012, 10:02

Site was blocked by UK ISPs, had payment firms withdraw services and editors leave.

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Microsoft CEO claims Windows Phone sales have quadrupled

29 November 2012, 16:30

Windows Phone 8 is “off to a great start” says Ballmer at shareholder’s meeting.

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Rosewill unleashes the HERCULES 1600W power supply

29 November 2012, 15:04

For the “Biggest, Toughest, most Extreme Ultimate PC Gaming Enthusiast machine”.

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ASUS CFO says Windows 8 demand ‘not that good right now’

29 November 2012, 13:00

Touchscreen enabled Windows 8 notebook prices need to come down.

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AMD is selling 58-acre Austin, Texas campus to raise cash

29 November 2012, 10:30

Chipmaker will lease it back from new owner.

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Don’t waste cash on Antivirus software suggests new report

28 November 2012, 16:00

Freebie antivirus software is the “optimal” solution says University of Tel Aviv study.

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Could Haswell be Intel’s last range of swappable CPUs?

28 November 2012, 11:11

Rumours and leaked roadmap from Japan say “Hai” (yes).

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40 million copies of Windows 8 sold in its first month

28 November 2012, 10:00

That’s better than Windows 7 did three years ago, says Tami Reller.

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EE tweak up 4G mobile broadband data allowances

27 November 2012, 16:06

Customer demand must have been weak for previous offerings.

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Google-branded touch-enabled Chromebook coming Q1 2013

27 November 2012, 11:30

Big G tentatively orders 200,000 units from Compal Electronics and Wintek.

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Shocking evidence suggests US set-up in Megaupload case

27 November 2012, 10:45

Newspaper reports FBI forced Megaupload to retain 'illegal' materials used to gain warrant.

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More screens are now produced for tablets than for laptops

26 November 2012, 16:00

Panel shipments for tablet PCs overtook those destined for laptops during October.

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Microsoft Stores to open in UK, if US stores perform well

26 November 2012, 14:00

Microsoft is in talks with UK property landlords for store openings during 2013 says FT.

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EU says no to ITU world-wide rule of world-wide web

26 November 2012, 11:15

No one organisation to rule them all.

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Motorola closes dedicated websites for several markets

26 November 2012, 10:30

Streamlining effort closes sites in India, Hong Kong, Israel and many more regions.

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Kids are looking forward to an Apple-flavoured Xmas

24 November 2012, 11:00

iPad leads wish lists by a large margin in a new survey of kids in the US.

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