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Has the mobile device speculative bubble burst?

23 February 2011, 10:26

Mobile chip stocks have been going crazy this year, perhaps literally.

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HEXUS.sharewatch: AMD and Dell up on acquisition rumours

21 February 2011, 12:30

There’s a rumour doing the rounds that Dell might be looking to buy AMD – not obvious why.

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Many smartphone users unaware of security threats says survey

15 February 2011, 12:37

But nearly 30 percent have considered anti-virus software.

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Nokia’s shares taking a kicking on Microsoft news

11 February 2011, 17:16

Pretty much everyone seems to be disappointed with the new mobile partnership, but what were they expecting?

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Gartner confirms Android ascendancy in 2010

9 February 2011, 15:03

Another raft of mobile phone market figures confirm the predicament Nokia finds itself in.

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Smartphones have overtaken PCs by shipments

9 February 2011, 12:24

The long-anticipated moment has arrived a lot sooner than was previously predicted.

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Apple breaks into top 5 UK PC vendors

8 February 2011, 17:50

Amid an overall decline in the Western European PC market, Apple continues to gain share.

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HEXUS.sharewatch: AMD benefits from Intel chipset stumble

7 February 2011, 14:00

Intel is having to recall thousands of Sandy Bridge boards, should be good news for rival AMD.

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Kids spend almost 2 hours online every day, says survey

2 February 2011, 12:05

Personal computers, mobiles and social networking profiles common.

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Chrome's browser share breaks into double digits

2 February 2011, 11:43

Google gains, while iOS grabs two per cent of global web traffic.

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Cisco: mobile data traffic growing four times faster than fixed

1 February 2011, 15:16

A new study from the networking giant reveals mobile data use is growing exponentially.

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HEXUS.sharewatch: Mobile chip-makers surge

31 January 2011, 11:51

Good results from Qualcomm mean the mobile buzz continues in the build-up to MWC.

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Tablets hit PC graphics sales in Q4

31 January 2011, 09:50

A new report from JPR shows a big decline in Intel graphics sales last quarter, with tablets likely to blame.

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GfK reports surprisingly strong UK Christmas notebook sales

25 January 2011, 17:59

Not only were more sold than a year ago, the average price jumped sharply too.

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Double-dip recession feared after surprise GDP drop

25 January 2011, 11:47

The ONS has revealed the UK economy shrank in Q4 2010, but blames it on the snow.

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HEXUS.sharewatch: Apple suffers hangover from Jobs announcement

24 January 2011, 12:21

Even reporting record results wasn’t enough to rescue Apple’s shares from its CEO’s medical issues.

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European PC sales suffer over Christmas

20 January 2011, 16:49

PC market struggles to combat recession recovery and the surge of tablets.

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UK haunted by the spectre of stagflation

19 January 2011, 17:07

Inflation is rising and so is unemployment so what, if anything, can policy-makers do about it?

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HP beats Apple in reliability survey

19 January 2011, 16:42

Rescuecom puts world’s largest PC maker in the top spot.

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HEXUS.sharewatch: AMD gets a kicking over CEO axe

17 January 2011, 12:51

Investors were not amused at the AMD board’s decision to boot out Dirk Meyer.

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Games industry set for growth year after poor 2010

14 January 2011, 11:50

Total spending on video games and accessories fell six percent last year.

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89 percent of all emails in 2010 were spam

13 January 2011, 15:43

Just one of a number of intriguing stats in a round-up of the 2010 Internet by the numbers.

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Q4 PC shipments fall short

13 January 2011, 12:14

Gartner’s latest figures reveal global PC shipments fell significantly short of its forecast in the last quarter.

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UK e-tail had best post-Christmas period ever

11 January 2011, 14:55

In stark contrast to bricks-and-mortar retail, the weather and VAT rise seem to have helped online retailers.

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Almost half of Brits 'unhappy' with their broadband provider

11 January 2011, 12:05

And a third plan to swap ISP this year, says survey.

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Snow equals bad Christmas for UK retailers

10 January 2011, 14:09

The December 2010 figures from Synovate reveal a bigger than expected decline in footfall.

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HEXUS.sharewatch: NVIDIA goes ballistic on CES announcements

10 January 2011, 12:58

The runaway winner of CES, if you measure it by share price, is chip-maker NVIDIA.

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Rival app stores grow faster than Apple’s

10 January 2011, 10:48

The chasing pack goes into exponential growth mode as free apps start to dominate.

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Is Samdroid the new Wintel? Not yet

5 January 2011, 18:15

A study of the growth of Android has led mobile analytics outfit to prematurely crown the new mobile kings.

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Adspend on mobile games to reach $900m by 2015, says research

5 January 2011, 15:26

Rapid increase driven by launch of ad platforms on main app stores.

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Android set to overtake Apple and RIM in the US

3 January 2011, 16:44

The latest US smartphone market share figures from Nielsen reveal the inflection point is close.

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HEXUS.sharewatch: ARM and NVIDIA are the festive winners

3 January 2011, 12:16

Mobile Internet speculation, especially in tablets, gives the two semiconductor companies a strong start to 2011.

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HEXUS.sharewatch: Oracle up on better than expected forecast

20 December 2010, 12:41

The business software giant has its strategy of buying anything it can get its hands on vindicated.

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