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Microsoft's CEO reaffirms mobile ambitions

15 July 2015, 09:36

Satya Nadella is very positive about mobile opportunities in a new interview.

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AMD said to have secured priority access to SK Hynix's HBM2 chips

14 July 2015, 13:11

Could it put the brakes on Nvidia's Pascal plans in 2016?

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Mozilla Firefox browser starts to block Flash by default

14 July 2015, 12:06

But it's easy to enable Flash if you want it, just click the 'allow' button on affected sites.

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Apple Pay arrives in the UK for iPhone 6 and Apple Watch users

14 July 2015, 10:59

More than 250,000 shops across the UK will support the £20 or less payment system.

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Samsung to launch Galaxy Note 5 in August to pre-empt iPhone 6S

10 July 2015, 15:00

The WSJ says that a major US city will host the Note 5 launch event weeks before IFA.

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PC market slips about 10 per cent in Q2 2015

10 July 2015, 10:21

Both IDC and Gartner have released their Q2 2015 PC industry figures.

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IBM announces first functional transistor equipped 7nm chip

9 July 2015, 10:10

Leveraged SiGe alloy, channel transistors and EUV lithography tech to achieve goal.

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Microsoft extends layoff plans to hardware, smartphone business

8 July 2015, 13:30

Meanwhile four new Microsoft mobile accessories are detailed in a leak.

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Sapphire Tri-X Radeon R9 Fury pictured, specs listed

8 July 2015, 11:12

Sapphire appears to have a standard and an overclocked Radeon R9 Fury prepared.

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Intel Kaby Lake to be Skylake successor next year says report

8 July 2015, 10:09

Intel inserts another 14nm processor in roadmap as it delays 10nm Cannon Lake.

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Samsung reins in outlook due to tepid demand for its Galaxy S6

7 July 2015, 14:51

Galaxy S6 Edge was as popular as the regular S6 but Samsung didn't make enough of them.

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AMD expects Q2 2015 revenue to be lower than previously guided

7 July 2015, 10:07

Complains that PC demand is weaker than expected.

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Amazon Prime Day will have "more deals than Black Friday"

6 July 2015, 12:06

Event takes place on 15th July. And for the next two days you can join Amazon Prime for £59.

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ASUS Strix GTX 980 Ti with DirectCU III cooling released

3 July 2015, 13:06

Said to be 30pc cooler and offer 3x quieter performance than the Nvidia reference card.

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EE fined £1 million for poor complaints handling

3 July 2015, 12:06

Ofcom's monitoring and enforcement programme investigation bites.

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Facebook to start sharing ad revenue with video creators

2 July 2015, 12:19

And the social network company changed its logo yesterday, did you notice?

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Gigabyte outs super-compact WindForce 2X GeForce GTX 960s

30 June 2015, 13:21

These are 76mm shorter than its regular WindForce 2X models.

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EU mobile roaming charges will end in June 2017

30 June 2015, 12:06

And strong Europe-wide net neutrality rules will come into effect from 30th April 2016.

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Microsoft makes mapping and display ad deals with Uber, AOL

30 June 2015, 10:06

Microsoft's CEO said the company is focussing upon its strengths.

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Sky calls for Ofcom investigation into UK's broadband marketplace

29 June 2015, 13:38

Both competition and quality of service have 'issues' due to Openreach, it asserts.

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Nvidia Quadro M5000 and M4000 graphics cards expected in Aug

29 June 2015, 10:06

The new workstation cards will probably be launched at the SIGGRAPH 2015 event.

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Samsung claims it can double Li-ion battery life using graphene

26 June 2015, 12:26

Firm also announced withdrawal from the hard disk drive motor business today.

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Gigabyte latest to launch AMD Radeon R9 Fury X graphics card

25 June 2015, 12:36

Again it's based entirely upon AMD's reference design.

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Free ad-supported Google Play Music offered to US residents

24 June 2015, 12:31

Is this a pre-emptive strike against the soon-to-launch Apple Music?

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Lenovo announces Ideacentre Stick 300 HDMI PC

24 June 2015, 12:06

It will be available from Lenovo direct, Dixons and Amazon for £129.99 from July.

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Is Microsoft planning to sell Windows 10 on USB flash drives?

24 June 2015, 10:06

USB drive distribution will offer both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows installs says source.

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Amazon to pay e-book authors based on number of pages read

23 June 2015, 12:21

Change will apply to payments to Kindle Direct Publishing authors.

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Hybrid PC sales to rise by 70 per cent this year

22 June 2015, 13:36

With many thanks to Windows 10 and Intel Core M, says Gartner.

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Apple U-turns on musicians' pay in wake of Taylor Swift open letter

22 June 2015, 12:21

Cupertino originally felt that it didn't need to pay artist royalties during free trial.

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Price of SSDs "in a free fall" says report

22 June 2015, 10:06

Deployment of 3D NAND is expected to help SSDs surpass HDDs in capacity next year.

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Microsoft will give away Windows 10 to all Windows Insider testers

21 June 2015, 11:36

This 'will they – won't they' saga has at last come to an end.

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AMD company split rumours officially denied

21 June 2015, 10:36

A Reuters report said that AMD was reviewing whether to split or spin off a business.

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Intel Skylake processors to make debut at Gamescom, early August

19 June 2015, 15:35

Gaming trade show will see official unveiling of Core i7-6700K and Core i5-6600K CPUs.

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