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• 17 stories Apple

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  Apple News & Profile (AAPL 439.66 at close on 21 May 2013)

  • Chips The PC will be saved from its much predicted doom by the glorious power-saving ability of the Haswell chip, at least according to the prophecy of Intel's chief technology officer Justin Rattner. 7 hours ago

  • Business The Irish government is getting jolly cross that the US and UK are blaming its tax laws for the antics of multinational IT companies. 7 hours ago

  • Mobile Samsung Display has a few new goodies to show off at Display Week, including three displays that make Apple’s Retina panels look rather outdated. 13 hours ago

  • Business Apple is going to explain to the US government how it managed to keep billions of dollars in profits in Irish subsidiaries to pay little or no taxes to any government. 13 hours ago

  • Internet The Syrian Electronic Army, which is basically the cyber branch of Assad in Syria, has managed to hack the Financial Times. yesterday

  • Science Robots will start replacing human brains by 2045 and artificially intelligent machines may be capable of doing anything that humans can, including masturbating. And standing in line for new Apple products. 4 days ago

  • Internet After suffering from a mysterious throat condition, Larry Page is now telling the world+dog that people are being precious about hiding their medical records from the known world. 4 days ago

  • Software The long love affair between Linux users and Firefox appears to be over as the developers of Ubuntu talk about dropping the browser and replacing it with Chromium. 4 days ago

  • Business After years of being in the shadow of a Mexican millionaire, Sir William Gates III is back to being the world's richest man again. 4 days ago

  • Business The CEO of Oracle, dashing Larry Ellison, earned $96.4 million last year and it’s hard to figure out how he can make ends meet. 5 days ago

  • Mobile Together, Android and iOS make up a staggering 92.3 percent of all smartphone shipments for Q1 2013, at least according to IDC's latest worldwide quarterly mobile phone tracker. 5 days ago

  • Software IBM has decided to finally lay to rest the second killer app of the PC - the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet. 5 days ago

  • Business Google CEO Larry Page is either an arch-manipulator of public opinion or one of the least self-aware people in human history. 5 days ago

  • Chips Chipzilla's efforts to push into the mobile arena are paying off, but the fashion bag maker is still in a holding pattern waiting for Ultrabooks to take off, according to an analyst from Morgan Stanley. 5 days ago

  • Business Apple is trying to tell a US court that its former messiah, Steve Jobs, was lying in his biography when he bragged about bullying publishers into an epublishing deal. 6 days ago

  • Mobile Smartphone juggernaut Samsung has reportedly managed to beat its own sales projections with the Galaxy S4. 6 days ago

  • Software Google's update process for Android is rubbish and it can't do anything about it. 6 days ago

• 14 stories Google

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  Google News & Profile (GOOG 906.97 at close on 21 May 2013)

  • Chips The PC will be saved from its much predicted doom by the glorious power-saving ability of the Haswell chip, at least according to the prophecy of Intel's chief technology officer Justin Rattner. 7 hours ago

  • Business The Irish government is getting jolly cross that the US and UK are blaming its tax laws for the antics of multinational IT companies. 7 hours ago

  • Internet A school teacher who uploaded a history book on his website as a free educational resource for poor students faces two years in jail, forced labour, or a fine for daring to offend the Latvian government's closest chums. 13 hours ago

  • Mobile A group of former Nokia executives who left the company rather than work on Windows Mobile have created their first smartphone using Nokia's rejected operating system MeeGo. 13 hours ago

  • Internet After suffering from a mysterious throat condition, Larry Page is now telling the world+dog that people are being precious about hiding their medical records from the known world. 4 days ago

  • Mobile Eight members of the US Congress sent a letter to Google CEO Larry Page, raising concerns about Google Glass and its eavesdropping potential. 4 days ago

  • Business After years of being in the shadow of a Mexican millionaire, Sir William Gates III is back to being the world's richest man again. 4 days ago

  • Business A committee of the House of Commons summoned a Google executive to give testimony again today and raised the possibility that the corporation might find itself in contempt of parliament. 5 days ago

  • Mobile Together, Android and iOS make up a staggering 92.3 percent of all smartphone shipments for Q1 2013, at least according to IDC's latest worldwide quarterly mobile phone tracker. 5 days ago

  • Business Google CEO Larry Page is either an arch-manipulator of public opinion or one of the least self-aware people in human history. 5 days ago

  • Chips Chipzilla's efforts to push into the mobile arena are paying off, but the fashion bag maker is still in a holding pattern waiting for Ultrabooks to take off, according to an analyst from Morgan Stanley. 5 days ago

  • Mobile Google wants Microsoft to kill its homebrew YouTube app for Windows Phone 8. The search giant sent a cease and desist letter to Microsoft earlier this week, asking it to remove the app from the Windows Phone Store and disable existing copies by May 22, reports | Wired. 5 days ago

  • Chips It is Paul Otellini’s last day at work today, as he steps down from the role of CEO to spend more time with his family and quite possibly growing tulips in his garden. 6 days ago

  • Software Google's update process for Android is rubbish and it can't do anything about it. 6 days ago

• 9 stories Microsoft

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  Microsoft News & Profile (MSFT 34.85 at close on 21 May 2013)

  • Mobile A group of former Nokia executives who left the company rather than work on Windows Mobile have created their first smartphone using Nokia's rejected operating system MeeGo. 13 hours ago

  • Software The long love affair between Linux users and Firefox appears to be over as the developers of Ubuntu talk about dropping the browser and replacing it with Chromium. 4 days ago

  • Business After years of being in the shadow of a Mexican millionaire, Sir William Gates III is back to being the world's richest man again. 4 days ago

  • Software IBM has decided to finally lay to rest the second killer app of the PC - the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet. 5 days ago

  • Business Google CEO Larry Page is either an arch-manipulator of public opinion or one of the least self-aware people in human history. 5 days ago

  • Chips Chipzilla's efforts to push into the mobile arena are paying off, but the fashion bag maker is still in a holding pattern waiting for Ultrabooks to take off, according to an analyst from Morgan Stanley. 5 days ago

  • Mobile Google wants Microsoft to kill its homebrew YouTube app for Windows Phone 8. The search giant sent a cease and desist letter to Microsoft earlier this week, asking it to remove the app from the Windows Phone Store and disable existing copies by May 22, reports | Wired. 5 days ago

  • Security A German security outfit claims it has evidence that Microsoft is reading user Skype messages. 6 days ago

  • Software Microsoft has announced that its coming Windows Blue, or Windows 8.1, will be delivered as a free update through the operating system's app store. 6 days ago

• 7 stories IBM

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  IBM News & Profile (IBM 208.65 at close on 21 May 2013)

  • Science IBM is packing off its Watson software to the health industry where it is going to be telling people what is wrong with them. 7 hours ago

  • Software IBM has been tinkering under the bonnet of its ancient COBOL server platform and updated the mainframe platform so it can host cloud based applications and services. yesterday

  • Business The CEO of Oracle, dashing Larry Ellison, earned $96.4 million last year and it’s hard to figure out how he can make ends meet. 5 days ago

  • Business IBM lost a lucrative government contract because it made a bid for the work which was a bit on the Finn side. 5 days ago

  • Software IBM has decided to finally lay to rest the second killer app of the PC - the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet. 5 days ago

  • Business It appears that things are finally starting to turn around for the IT industry, after the industry bellwether Cisco published some decent results for once. 5 days ago

  • Chips The Bitcoin hash network is eight times faster than the world’s top 500 supercomputers combined. 6 days ago

• 6 stories Intel

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  Intel News & Profile (INTC 24.15 at close on 21 May 2013)

  • Chips The PC will be saved from its much predicted doom by the glorious power-saving ability of the Haswell chip, at least according to the prophecy of Intel's chief technology officer Justin Rattner. 7 hours ago

  • Business Although AMD has seen better days, the stock had quite a rally in the first half of the year. Propped up by encouraging console design wins, AMD gained 83 percent this year, but now it is tumbling back again. 4 days ago

  • Business The CEO of Oracle, dashing Larry Ellison, earned $96.4 million last year and it’s hard to figure out how he can make ends meet. 5 days ago

  • Software IBM has decided to finally lay to rest the second killer app of the PC - the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet. 5 days ago

  • Chips Chipzilla's efforts to push into the mobile arena are paying off, but the fashion bag maker is still in a holding pattern waiting for Ultrabooks to take off, according to an analyst from Morgan Stanley. 5 days ago

  • Chips It is Paul Otellini’s last day at work today, as he steps down from the role of CEO to spend more time with his family and quite possibly growing tulips in his garden. 6 days ago

• 4 stories Qualcomm

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  Qualcomm News & Profile (QCOM 65.76 at close on 21 May 2013)

  • Business Although AMD has seen better days, the stock had quite a rally in the first half of the year. Propped up by encouraging console design wins, AMD gained 83 percent this year, but now it is tumbling back again. 4 days ago

  • Chips Chipzilla's efforts to push into the mobile arena are paying off, but the fashion bag maker is still in a holding pattern waiting for Ultrabooks to take off, according to an analyst from Morgan Stanley. 5 days ago

  • Mobile Smartphone makers are coming up with increasingly gimmicky features and ways to distinguish their Androids from the rest of the pack. 5 days ago

  • Software Qualcomm CIO Norm Fjeldheim is in the limelight following statements made about Oracle at the SuiteWorld 2013 conference on Tuesday, claiming NetSuite is a better fit for the company than Oracle. 6 days ago

• 4 stories Samsung

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  Samsung News & Profile (005930.KS 1492000 at close on 21 May 2013)

  • Mobile Samsung Display has a few new goodies to show off at Display Week, including three displays that make Apple’s Retina panels look rather outdated. 13 hours ago

  • Mobile Together, Android and iOS make up a staggering 92.3 percent of all smartphone shipments for Q1 2013, at least according to IDC's latest worldwide quarterly mobile phone tracker. 5 days ago

  • Mobile Smartphone makers are coming up with increasingly gimmicky features and ways to distinguish their Androids from the rest of the pack. 5 days ago

  • Mobile Smartphone juggernaut Samsung has reportedly managed to beat its own sales projections with the Galaxy S4. 6 days ago

• 3 stories ARM

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  ARM News & Profile (ARM.L 1065.00 at close on 21 May 2013)

  • Business Although AMD has seen better days, the stock had quite a rally in the first half of the year. Propped up by encouraging console design wins, AMD gained 83 percent this year, but now it is tumbling back again. 4 days ago

  • Chips Chipzilla's efforts to push into the mobile arena are paying off, but the fashion bag maker is still in a holding pattern waiting for Ultrabooks to take off, according to an analyst from Morgan Stanley. 5 days ago

  • Mobile Smartphone makers are coming up with increasingly gimmicky features and ways to distinguish their Androids from the rest of the pack. 5 days ago

• 3 stories Thomson Reuters

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  Thomson Reuters News & Profile (TRI 34.95 at close on 21 May 2013)

  • Mobile A group of former Nokia executives who left the company rather than work on Windows Mobile have created their first smartphone using Nokia's rejected operating system MeeGo. 13 hours ago

  • Business Apple is going to explain to the US government how it managed to keep billions of dollars in profits in Irish subsidiaries to pay little or no taxes to any government. 13 hours ago

  • Mobile While Chinese telecom makers are facing a McCarthy style security purge in the US, in Europe they have fallen foul of anti-dumping and anti-subsidy guidelines. yesterday

• 2 stories Amazon

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  Amazon News & Profile (AMZN 268.86 at close on 21 May 2013)

  • Software Troubled hardware maker Dell has become one of the first high profile companies to dump its public cloud plans. 13 hours ago

  • Business Apple is trying to tell a US court that its former messiah, Steve Jobs, was lying in his biography when he bragged about bullying publishers into an epublishing deal. 6 days ago

• 2 stories AMD

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  AMD News & Profile (AMD 4.02 at close on 21 May 2013)

  • Business AMD has won a rather unusual legal battle involving a small gang of AMD defectors who gave in to the dark side of the Force and joined Nvidia. 4 days ago

  • Business Although AMD has seen better days, the stock had quite a rally in the first half of the year. Propped up by encouraging console design wins, AMD gained 83 percent this year, but now it is tumbling back again. 4 days ago

• 2 stories BitTorrent

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  BitTorrent News & Profile

  • Internet Mass suing by copyright trolls could be about to be consigned to the dustbin of legal history, according to the Mail Tribune 5 days ago

  • Internet Pirate Bay co-founder and former spokesperson Peter Sunde plans to run for European Parliament next year on the Finnish Pirate Bay ticket. 6 days ago

• 2 stories Hewlett Packard

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  Hewlett Packard News & Profile (HPQ 21.11 at close on 21 May 2013)

  • Business The CEO of Oracle, dashing Larry Ellison, earned $96.4 million last year and it’s hard to figure out how he can make ends meet. 5 days ago

  • Business An MP has asked the UK Attorney General about a Crown Prosecution Service decision to buy 4,700 HP tablets from Logica. 6 days ago

• 2 stories Mozilla

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  Mozilla News & Profile

  • Software The long love affair between Linux users and Firefox appears to be over as the developers of Ubuntu talk about dropping the browser and replacing it with Chromium. 4 days ago

  • Mobile Together, Android and iOS make up a staggering 92.3 percent of all smartphone shipments for Q1 2013, at least according to IDC's latest worldwide quarterly mobile phone tracker. 5 days ago

• 2 stories News Corporation

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  News Corporation News & Profile (NWS 33.37 at close on 21 May 2013)

  • Business The CEO of Oracle, dashing Larry Ellison, earned $96.4 million last year and it’s hard to figure out how he can make ends meet. 5 days ago

  • Business Apple is trying to tell a US court that its former messiah, Steve Jobs, was lying in his biography when he bragged about bullying publishers into an epublishing deal. 6 days ago

• 2 stories Nokia

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  Nokia News & Profile (NOK 3.74 at close on 21 May 2013)

  • Mobile A group of former Nokia executives who left the company rather than work on Windows Mobile have created their first smartphone using Nokia's rejected operating system MeeGo. 13 hours ago

  • Mobile Together, Android and iOS make up a staggering 92.3 percent of all smartphone shipments for Q1 2013, at least according to IDC's latest worldwide quarterly mobile phone tracker. 5 days ago

• 2 stories Nvidia

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  Nvidia News & Profile (NVDA 14.92 at close on 21 May 2013)

  • Business AMD has won a rather unusual legal battle involving a small gang of AMD defectors who gave in to the dark side of the Force and joined Nvidia. 4 days ago

  • Chips Chipzilla's efforts to push into the mobile arena are paying off, but the fashion bag maker is still in a holding pattern waiting for Ultrabooks to take off, according to an analyst from Morgan Stanley. 5 days ago

• 2 stories Oracle

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  Oracle News & Profile (ORCL 35.10 at close on 21 May 2013)

  • Business The CEO of Oracle, dashing Larry Ellison, earned $96.4 million last year and it’s hard to figure out how he can make ends meet. 5 days ago

  • Software Qualcomm CIO Norm Fjeldheim is in the limelight following statements made about Oracle at the SuiteWorld 2013 conference on Tuesday, claiming NetSuite is a better fit for the company than Oracle. 6 days ago

• 2 stories Sony

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  Sony News & Profile (SNE 22.91 at close on 21 May 2013)

  • Security Three members of the hacktivist group LulzSec have been sentenced to 24-30 months porridge in a UK jail. 4 days ago

  • Mobile Smartphone makers are coming up with increasingly gimmicky features and ways to distinguish their Androids from the rest of the pack. 5 days ago

• 2 stories Sun Microsystems

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  Sun Microsystems News & Profile

  • Security Three members of the hacktivist group LulzSec have been sentenced to 24-30 months porridge in a UK jail. 4 days ago

  • Security One of the leaders of the international hacking ring Lulzsec was caught when he broke into a website belonging to a local authority in northwestern New South Wales, 'Straya. 6 days ago

• 2 stories Yahoo

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  Yahoo News & Profile (YHOO 27.00 at close on 21 May 2013)

  • Business Yahoo's beleaguered board has written a rumoured $1.1 billion cheque to buy the social blogging site Tumblr. yesterday

  • Business Apple is trying to tell a US court that its former messiah, Steve Jobs, was lying in his biography when he bragged about bullying publishers into an epublishing deal. 6 days ago

• 1 story Adobe

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  Adobe News & Profile (ADBE 44.02 at close on 21 May 2013)

  • Software The long love affair between Linux users and Firefox appears to be over as the developers of Ubuntu talk about dropping the browser and replacing it with Chromium. 4 days ago

• 1 story Broadcom

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  Broadcom News & Profile (BRCM 37.40 at close on 21 May 2013)

  • Chips Chipzilla's efforts to push into the mobile arena are paying off, but the fashion bag maker is still in a holding pattern waiting for Ultrabooks to take off, according to an analyst from Morgan Stanley. 5 days ago

• 1 story Cisco

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  Cisco News & Profile (CSCO 24.01 at close on 21 May 2013)

  • Business It appears that things are finally starting to turn around for the IT industry, after the industry bellwether Cisco published some decent results for once. 5 days ago

• 1 story Dell

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  Dell News & Profile (DELL 13.39 at close on 21 May 2013)

  • Software Troubled hardware maker Dell has become one of the first high profile companies to dump its public cloud plans. 13 hours ago

• 1 story Ericsson

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  Ericsson News & Profile (ERIC 11.95 at close on 21 May 2013)

  • Mobile While Chinese telecom makers are facing a McCarthy style security purge in the US, in Europe they have fallen foul of anti-dumping and anti-subsidy guidelines. yesterday

• 1 story Facebook

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  Facebook News & Profile

  • Business Yahoo's beleaguered board has written a rumoured $1.1 billion cheque to buy the social blogging site Tumblr. yesterday

• 1 story Foxconn

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  Foxconn News & Profile

  • Business Just as it seemed the Foxconn suicide saga was winding down, reports have emerged that three more workers have killed themselves over the past three weeks. yesterday

• 1 story Fujitsu

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  Fujitsu News & Profile (6702.T 0% at 22:55 GMT)

  • Chips The Bitcoin hash network is eight times faster than the world’s top 500 supercomputers combined. 6 days ago

• 1 story Gartner

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  Gartner News & Profile (IT 58.19 at close on 21 May 2013)

  • Chips The PC will be saved from its much predicted doom by the glorious power-saving ability of the Haswell chip, at least according to the prophecy of Intel's chief technology officer Justin Rattner. 7 hours ago

• 1 story GlobalFoundries

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  GlobalFoundries News & Profile

  • Business Although AMD has seen better days, the stock had quite a rally in the first half of the year. Propped up by encouraging console design wins, AMD gained 83 percent this year, but now it is tumbling back again. 4 days ago

• 1 story Hitachi

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  Hitachi News & Profile

  • Mobile HGST, or what's left of Hitachi's hard drive business after it was taken over by Western Digital, has come up with the world's most spacious 2.5-inch hard drive. 12 hours ago

• 1 story HTC

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  HTC News & Profile (2498.TW 288.50 at close on 21 May 2013)

  • Mobile Smartphone makers are coming up with increasingly gimmicky features and ways to distinguish their Androids from the rest of the pack. 5 days ago

• 1 story Huawei

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  Huawei News & Profile

  • Mobile While Chinese telecom makers are facing a McCarthy style security purge in the US, in Europe they have fallen foul of anti-dumping and anti-subsidy guidelines. yesterday

• 1 story International Data Corporation

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  International Data Corporation News & Profile

  • Mobile Together, Android and iOS make up a staggering 92.3 percent of all smartphone shipments for Q1 2013, at least according to IDC's latest worldwide quarterly mobile phone tracker. 5 days ago

• 1 story Juniper Networks

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  Juniper Networks News & Profile (JNPR 17.64 at close on 21 May 2013)

  • Business It appears that things are finally starting to turn around for the IT industry, after the industry bellwether Cisco published some decent results for once. 5 days ago

• 1 story NEC

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  NEC News & Profile

  • Mobile Smartphone makers are coming up with increasingly gimmicky features and ways to distinguish their Androids from the rest of the pack. 5 days ago

• 1 story Nintendo

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  Nintendo News & Profile

  • Security Three members of the hacktivist group LulzSec have been sentenced to 24-30 months porridge in a UK jail. 4 days ago

• 1 story Research In Motion

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  Research In Motion News & Profile

  • Mobile Together, Android and iOS make up a staggering 92.3 percent of all smartphone shipments for Q1 2013, at least according to IDC's latest worldwide quarterly mobile phone tracker. 5 days ago

• 1 story SAP

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  SAP News & Profile

  • Software Qualcomm CIO Norm Fjeldheim is in the limelight following statements made about Oracle at the SuiteWorld 2013 conference on Tuesday, claiming NetSuite is a better fit for the company than Oracle. 6 days ago

• 1 story Skype

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  Skype News & Profile

  • Security A German security outfit claims it has evidence that Microsoft is reading user Skype messages. 6 days ago

• 1 story Toshiba

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  Toshiba News & Profile (TOSBF 5.295 at close on 21 May 2013)

  • Chips Toshiba has developed its second generation 19nm process that will be applied to mass produce 2-bit-per-cell 64Gb NAND memory chips starting later this month. 12 hours ago

• 1 story TSMC

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  TSMC News & Profile (2330.TW 112.50 at close on 21 May 2013)

  • Business Although AMD has seen better days, the stock had quite a rally in the first half of the year. Propped up by encouraging console design wins, AMD gained 83 percent this year, but now it is tumbling back again. 4 days ago

• 1 story Twitter

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  Twitter News & Profile

  • Internet The Syrian Electronic Army, which is basically the cyber branch of Assad in Syria, has managed to hack the Financial Times. yesterday

• 1 story VMWare

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  VMWare News & Profile (VMW 76.22 at close on 21 May 2013)

  • Software Troubled hardware maker Dell has become one of the first high profile companies to dump its public cloud plans. 13 hours ago

• 1 story Western Digital

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  Western Digital News & Profile

  • Mobile HGST, or what's left of Hitachi's hard drive business after it was taken over by Western Digital, has come up with the world's most spacious 2.5-inch hard drive. 12 hours ago

• 1 story Wikileaks

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  Wikileaks News & Profile

  • Security Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has revealed some instant messages from Britain's espionage agency, GCHQ, which discuss the possibility of the Swedish sex scandal being a "fit-up yesterday

• 1 story ZTE

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  ZTE News & Profile (000063.SZ 12.99 at close on 21 May 2013)

  • Mobile While Chinese telecom makers are facing a McCarthy style security purge in the US, in Europe they have fallen foul of anti-dumping and anti-subsidy guidelines. yesterday