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• 11 stories Apple

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  Apple News & Profile (AAPL 0.41% at 19:32 GMT)

  • Internet It is starting to look like Apple's defence of its anti-trust antics in the ebook trade is doomed even before it starts. 9 hours ago

  • Chips Nvidia seems to think that no crisis should ever go to waste, hence it believes it can capitalize on disruptions in the PC market and weather the storm with ease. We are of course talking about Tegra, Nvidia’s foray into the ARM SoC market, which was off to a slow start but it seems that it is here to stay. yesterday

  • Chips AMD has finally taken the wraps off its low-power APU line-up for 2013. Of course, avid readers probably know what AMD has cooked up with its Jaguar and Piledriver based chips, which now have proper names to go by, and they sound worse than the codenames. yesterday

  • Mobile The smartphone wars are heating up and now we are hearing that Samsung and HTC flagship Android phones are flying off the shelves, leaving the competition in a cloud of dust. yesterday

  • Chips AMD has fallen behind rivals Qualcomm and Samsung on IC Insights' list of microprocessor vendors. 2 days ago

  • Business It is no secret that HTC is trying to reinvent itself and transform its somewhat geeky brand image. It's off to a good start, as its flagship HTC One handset is getting very positive reviews and giving Samsung’s Galaxy S4 a run for its money, but all is not going well. 2 days ago

  • 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. 3 days 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. 3 days 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has a few new goodies to show off at Display Week, including three displays that make Apple’s Retina panels look rather outdated. 3 days ago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. 3 days ago

  • Internet The Syrian Electronic Army, which is basically the cyber branch of Assad in Syria, has managed to hack the Financial Times. 4 days ago

• 9 stories Google

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  Google News & Profile (GOOG -1.02% at 19:32 GMT)

  • Internet The Federal Trade Commission is taking yet another look at Google, this time over allegations the company used its near-monopolistic position online to sell and serve graphic and video ads. 6 hours ago

  • Security The latest malware designed for Android forwards a copy of your SMS to Russian criminals. 9 hours ago

  • Mobile The smartphone wars are heating up and now we are hearing that Samsung and HTC flagship Android phones are flying off the shelves, leaving the competition in a cloud of dust. yesterday

  • Business Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Go Ogle, was in Oxford yesterday, speaking at the Sheldonian about goodness knows what. It was probably attended by arse lickers, big time. yesterday

  • Software Google has released a new version of its Chrome browser for Windows, Mac, and Linux. 2 days ago

  • 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. 3 days 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. 3 days 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. 3 days 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. 3 days ago

• 7 stories Thomson Reuters

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  Thomson Reuters News & Profile (TRI 0.80% at 19:32 GMT)

  • Internet It is starting to look like Apple's defence of its anti-trust antics in the ebook trade is doomed even before it starts. 9 hours ago

  • Security Cybersecurity researchers are getting more worried that focusing on "rational" attackers such as the Chinese might be a dangerous way to go, and the country needs to fear the irrational types more. yesterday

  • Business It looks like whatever its new CEO Meg Whitman is doing at HP to turn the outfit around is starting to work. yesterday

  • Chips Chipzilla's new chief executive, Brian Krzanich, has surprised analysts by ordering a sweeping company reorganisation. 2 days 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. 3 days 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. 3 days 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. 4 days ago

• 5 stories Samsung

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  Samsung News & Profile (005930.KS 1486000 at close on 24 May 2013)

  • Chips Nvidia seems to think that no crisis should ever go to waste, hence it believes it can capitalize on disruptions in the PC market and weather the storm with ease. We are of course talking about Tegra, Nvidia’s foray into the ARM SoC market, which was off to a slow start but it seems that it is here to stay. yesterday

  • Mobile The smartphone wars are heating up and now we are hearing that Samsung and HTC flagship Android phones are flying off the shelves, leaving the competition in a cloud of dust. yesterday

  • Chips AMD has fallen behind rivals Qualcomm and Samsung on IC Insights' list of microprocessor vendors. 2 days ago

  • Business It is no secret that HTC is trying to reinvent itself and transform its somewhat geeky brand image. It's off to a good start, as its flagship HTC One handset is getting very positive reviews and giving Samsung’s Galaxy S4 a run for its money, but all is not going well. 2 days 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. 3 days ago

• 4 stories Microsoft

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  Microsoft News & Profile (MSFT 0.23% at 19:32 GMT)

  • Business Sears has decided that one of the best things to do with all those stores it had to close after the US ran out of money was to convert them into data centres. 9 hours ago

  • Business It would appear that Microsoft's failed attempt to get rid of the start button from Windows 8 have got its designers a little grumpy. 9 hours ago

  • Business No one can say that Microsoft Paul Allen has not done a lot with his life. He has been a philanthropist, inventor, investor, cancer survivor and author. yesterday

  • 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. 3 days ago

• 4 stories Twitter

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  Twitter News & Profile

  • Security Cybersecurity researchers are getting more worried that focusing on "rational" attackers such as the Chinese might be a dangerous way to go, and the country needs to fear the irrational types more. yesterday

  • Internet Steve Wilhite, the inventor of the GIF file format, caused controversy by declaring the file format should properly be pronounced 'jif' - but this has been refuted by the chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. 2 days ago

  • Business It is no secret that HTC is trying to reinvent itself and transform its somewhat geeky brand image. It's off to a good start, as its flagship HTC One handset is getting very positive reviews and giving Samsung’s Galaxy S4 a run for its money, but all is not going well. 2 days ago

  • Internet The Syrian Electronic Army, which is basically the cyber branch of Assad in Syria, has managed to hack the Financial Times. 4 days ago

• 3 stories Amazon

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  Amazon News & Profile (AMZN -0.58% at 19:32 GMT)

  • Internet It is starting to look like Apple's defence of its anti-trust antics in the ebook trade is doomed even before it starts. 9 hours ago

  • Business No one can say that Microsoft Paul Allen has not done a lot with his life. He has been a philanthropist, inventor, investor, cancer survivor and author. yesterday

  • Software Troubled hardware maker Dell has become one of the first high profile companies to dump its public cloud plans. 3 days ago

• 3 stories AMD

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  AMD News & Profile (AMD 1.00% at 19:32 GMT)

  • Chips Nvidia seems to think that no crisis should ever go to waste, hence it believes it can capitalize on disruptions in the PC market and weather the storm with ease. We are of course talking about Tegra, Nvidia’s foray into the ARM SoC market, which was off to a slow start but it seems that it is here to stay. yesterday

  • Chips AMD has finally taken the wraps off its low-power APU line-up for 2013. Of course, avid readers probably know what AMD has cooked up with its Jaguar and Piledriver based chips, which now have proper names to go by, and they sound worse than the codenames. yesterday

  • Chips AMD has fallen behind rivals Qualcomm and Samsung on IC Insights' list of microprocessor vendors. 2 days ago

• 3 stories ARM

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  ARM News & Profile (ARM.L 985.4999 at close on 24 May 2013)

  • Chips Electronics giant LG has signed with ARM to licence the ARM Cortex-A50 CPU as well as the next gen of the Mali GPU. yesterday

  • Chips Nvidia seems to think that no crisis should ever go to waste, hence it believes it can capitalize on disruptions in the PC market and weather the storm with ease. We are of course talking about Tegra, Nvidia’s foray into the ARM SoC market, which was off to a slow start but it seems that it is here to stay. yesterday

  • Chips AMD has fallen behind rivals Qualcomm and Samsung on IC Insights' list of microprocessor vendors. 2 days ago

• 3 stories Intel

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  Intel News & Profile (INTC -0.91% at 19:32 GMT)

  • Chips AMD has fallen behind rivals Qualcomm and Samsung on IC Insights' list of microprocessor vendors. 2 days ago

  • Chips Chipzilla's new chief executive, Brian Krzanich, has surprised analysts by ordering a sweeping company reorganisation. 2 days ago

  • 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. 3 days ago

• 2 stories HTC

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  HTC News & Profile (2498.TW 279.00 at close on 24 May 2013)

  • Mobile The smartphone wars are heating up and now we are hearing that Samsung and HTC flagship Android phones are flying off the shelves, leaving the competition in a cloud of dust. yesterday

  • Business It is no secret that HTC is trying to reinvent itself and transform its somewhat geeky brand image. It's off to a good start, as its flagship HTC One handset is getting very positive reviews and giving Samsung’s Galaxy S4 a run for its money, but all is not going well. 2 days ago

• 2 stories IBM

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  IBM News & Profile (IBM -0.20% at 19:32 GMT)

  • 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. 3 days 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. 4 days ago

• 2 stories Nvidia

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  Nvidia News & Profile (NVDA 0.07% at 19:32 GMT)

  • Chips Nvidia seems to think that no crisis should ever go to waste, hence it believes it can capitalize on disruptions in the PC market and weather the storm with ease. We are of course talking about Tegra, Nvidia’s foray into the ARM SoC market, which was off to a slow start but it seems that it is here to stay. yesterday

  • Chips AMD has fallen behind rivals Qualcomm and Samsung on IC Insights' list of microprocessor vendors. 2 days ago

• 2 stories Qualcomm

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  Qualcomm News & Profile (QCOM 0.35% at 19:32 GMT)

  • Chips Nvidia seems to think that no crisis should ever go to waste, hence it believes it can capitalize on disruptions in the PC market and weather the storm with ease. We are of course talking about Tegra, Nvidia’s foray into the ARM SoC market, which was off to a slow start but it seems that it is here to stay. yesterday

  • Chips AMD has fallen behind rivals Qualcomm and Samsung on IC Insights' list of microprocessor vendors. 2 days ago

• 1 story Airbus

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  Airbus News & Profile

  • Security US defence contractor Northrop Grumman has landed a rather interesting contract to equip a couple of civilian Airbus A319CJ aircraft with a top of the line infrared countermeasures system. 9 hours ago

• 1 story BBC

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  BBC News & Profile

  • Security The UK thought it was rid of the reviled 'snooper's charter' communications bill, which would make storing data on all Britains legal, but now political figures are suggested it be resurrected in light of the axe attack in Woolwich yesterday. yesterday

• 1 story Dell

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  Dell News & Profile (DELL 0.11% at 19:32 GMT)

  • Software Troubled hardware maker Dell has become one of the first high profile companies to dump its public cloud plans. 3 days ago

• 1 story Ericsson

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  Ericsson News & Profile (ERIC -0.24% at 19:32 GMT)

  • 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. 4 days ago

• 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. 4 days ago

• 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. 4 days ago

• 1 story Gartner

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  Gartner News & Profile (IT -0.44% at 19:32 GMT)

  • 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. 3 days ago

• 1 story GlobalFoundries

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  GlobalFoundries News & Profile

  • Science Talk of immigration reform in the US has been halted by partisan bickering for years, and it might be about to start taking its toll on the economy, coupled with less than stellar high school education. 2 days ago

• 1 story Hewlett Packard

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  Hewlett Packard News & Profile (HPQ -2.05% at 19:32 GMT)

  • Business It looks like whatever its new CEO Meg Whitman is doing at HP to turn the outfit around is starting to work. yesterday

• 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. 3 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. 4 days ago

• 1 story Lenovo

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  Lenovo News & Profile

  • Business Lenovo has pulled it off again. Although most PC peddlers are in the red, the company reported record PC shipments, annual sales, global market share and annual pre-tax income. yesterday

• 1 story LG

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  LG News & Profile (003550.KS 68700 at close on 24 May 2013)

  • Chips Electronics giant LG has signed with ARM to licence the ARM Cortex-A50 CPU as well as the next gen of the Mali GPU. yesterday

• 1 story Mozilla

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  Mozilla News & Profile

  • Software Google has released a new version of its Chrome browser for Windows, Mac, and Linux. 2 days ago

• 1 story Nokia

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  Nokia News & Profile (NOK 1.66% at 19:32 GMT)

  • 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. 3 days ago

• 1 story Novell

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  Novell News & Profile

  • Business Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Go Ogle, was in Oxford yesterday, speaking at the Sheldonian about goodness knows what. It was probably attended by arse lickers, big time. yesterday

• 1 story SAP

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  SAP News & Profile

  • Software The company which makes software that no one understands says it aims to train 650 workers with autism to become IT specialists by 2020. yesterday

• 1 story Texas Instruments

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  Texas Instruments News & Profile (TXN -0.15% at 19:32 GMT)

  • Chips AMD has fallen behind rivals Qualcomm and Samsung on IC Insights' list of microprocessor vendors. 2 days ago

• 1 story Toshiba

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  Toshiba News & Profile (TOSBF -2.44% at 19:28 GMT)

  • 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. 3 days ago

• 1 story VMWare

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  VMWare News & Profile (VMW -0.26% at 19:32 GMT)

  • Software Troubled hardware maker Dell has become one of the first high profile companies to dump its public cloud plans. 3 days 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. 3 days 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 4 days ago

• 1 story Wikimedia Foundation

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  Wikimedia Foundation News & Profile

  • Internet Wikipedia has admitted that one of its editors has been conducting a campaign to purge the encyclopaedia of all references to the occult and modern pagans. 2 days ago

• 1 story Yahoo

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  Yahoo News & Profile (YHOO 1.35% at 19:32 GMT)

  • Business Yahoo's beleaguered board has written a rumoured $1.1 billion cheque to buy the social blogging site Tumblr. 4 days ago

• 1 story ZTE

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  ZTE News & Profile (000063.SZ 12.92 at close on 24 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. 4 days ago