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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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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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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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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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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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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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Intel profits skyrocket

15 January 2010, 09:10

Net income jumps 875 percent year-on-year. Yes, that’s 875 percent.

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PC shipments grow at fastest rate for seven years

14 January 2010, 10:01

Gartner’s latest provisional figures reveal a substantial recovery in the PC market at the end of last year.

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Samsung drives boom in OLED revenues

23 December 2009, 11:10

Emerging display technology experiences strong growth thanks mainly to high-end smartphones.

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Small businesses optimistic about 2010

22 December 2009, 11:25

A study published by O2 reveals small businesses are predicting better performance next year.

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Android closing on iPhone in the US

18 December 2009, 14:00

A new report shows Android-based smartphones are already challenging Apple’s iPhone for popularity.

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RIM ships over 10 million BlackBerry devices in Q3

18 December 2009, 10:10

Research In Motion Q3 earnings beat expectations as sales, subscribers and Q4 guidance top estimates.

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Double-digit growth forecast for PC market

17 December 2009, 11:21

IDC reckons we can expect growth of over ten percent from the PC market for the next four years.

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Western Europe leads mobile device recovery

15 December 2009, 13:06

Gartner has upwardly revised its forecasts, but warns of increasing grey market activity.

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20% of Brits would pay for digital content

14 December 2009, 16:28

A GfK survey commissioned by the Wall Street Journal reveals large majority of us expect our content for free.

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Christmas shopping sluggish, expected to pick up

9 December 2009, 13:05

UK Christmas retail footfall is slow to get going as shoppers wait for bargains.

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Confirmed: Acer is the world’s second biggest PC maker

4 December 2009, 15:55

New data from iSuppli shows Acer relegating Dell to third place in total global PC sales.

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Best Buy Europe on track as CPW raises forecast

27 November 2009, 13:41

Carphone Warehouse has reported better than expected earnings for the first half of 2009.

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Brits are the world’s biggest Internet addicts

27 November 2009, 09:42

New research reveals the Internet has overtaken TV as the world’s favourite medium, with the UK leading the way.

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Gremlins and Dubai contribute to biggest FTSE 100 fall since March

26 November 2009, 18:14

Debt deferment by Dubai World sends bank stocks down, when they’re available to trade, that is.

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DSGi cautiously optimistic after Windows 7 boost

26 November 2009, 11:49

The UK retailing giant says the launch of Windows 7 has had a positive effect on sales.

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Almost half of US consumer desktop spend goes to Apple

26 November 2009, 10:30

New research shows a big jump in revenue share for Apple in October, but how big a factor was Windows 7?

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Dell suffers financial black eye

20 November 2009, 09:07

It's not that the computer maker didn't manage to make a profit, but it was down by a whopping 54 per cent.

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AMD spends its Intel cash

18 November 2009, 16:55

Quite rightly, AMD it looking to blow its Intel windfall on paying-off some of its debt mountain.

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Netbooks offer key to mobile operator channel

17 November 2009, 15:17

As the PC and telco worlds collide, what does this mean for their respective channels?

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Are smartphones the future of the PC industry?

17 November 2009, 13:10

CEO of market researcher Canalys thinks the smart money is in smartphones, but for how long?

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Acer and Apple steal UK PC market share

11 November 2009, 10:26

The latest Gartner figures for Western Europe show the UK lagging behind France and Germany.

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Netbooks drive record quarter for CPUs

9 November 2009, 09:44

Q3 figures from IDC reveal a 23 percent jump in microprocessor shipments over the previous quarter.

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Samsung and LG gain global mobile phone market share

30 October 2009, 10:58

A return to sequential growth sees the Korean handset makers take market share from everyone else.

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Graphics market roars back to growth

27 October 2009, 08:54

Best sequential improvement in nine years as NVIDIA continues to lose market share to its rivals.

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Surveys costing UK business £10 zillion in lost productivity

26 October 2009, 19:20

A new survey has revealed that productivity surveys are affecting the productivity of those surveyed.

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