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• 19 stories USA

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  • Security In an effort to prove that it can be almost as menacing as China, Iran has apparently hacked a bunch of US energy companies. 7 hours ago

  • 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. 8 hours ago

  • Security While the US is scratching its head about what to do about 3D printed guns finding their way into the hands of criminals and right-wing nutjobs, the Australian cops want them banned. 8 hours ago

  • 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. 8 hours ago

  • 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. 8 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Security It seems that the US government’s belief in the efficiency of its private sector to run its power infrastructure is proving completely bogus. 2 days ago

  • Science The belief that the US government will be using drones to spy on its citizens might not have any basis, as its security forces move towards satellite spying instead. 2 days ago

  • 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

  • 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

  • Security Telecoms companies involved in a US government scheme to provide an affordable phone service to the poor have threatened reporters who found a security hole in their Lifeline phone system with charges under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. 3 days ago

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

  • 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

  • Security It seems that the French backed Junta which took control of the English colony of Virginia is desperate to populate its Big Brother databases on its citizens using its award winning "no taxation without representation" laws. 4 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

  • Business The US software jobs market might have grown by nearly 64,000 jobs last year, but as the workforce expanded, the average size of workers' pay checks declined by nearly two percent. 4 days ago

• 9 stories Smartphone

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  • 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

  • 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 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

  • 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

  • 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 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

  • 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

  • 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

• 9 stories Tablet

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  Latest Tablet news

  • 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 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

• 5 stories China

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  Latest China news

  • Security In an effort to prove that it can be almost as menacing as China, Iran has apparently hacked a bunch of US energy companies. 7 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 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

  • 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

  • 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

• 4 stories Europe

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  Latest Europe news

  • 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

  • Science A panel of researchers has released a paper confirming that a device made by a secretive Italian might be cold fusion. yesterday

  • 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

• 4 stories Germany

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  Latest Germany news

  • 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. 8 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

  • 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

  • Science A team of German researchers from the Fraunhofer Instiute at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology has come up with a new technique to boost wi-fi speeds, much like MW-50 injection on interceptor variants of Kurt Tank’s FW-190. 4 days ago

• 4 stories Graphics card

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  Latest Graphics card news

  • 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 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 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 Ireland

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  Latest Ireland news

  • 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

  • Business Gareth Thomas, Labour MP for Harrow West, has asked questions about lost or stolen computers, mobiles, Blackberrys and other IT equipment to the Treasury and other government departments. 2 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

  • 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

• 3 stories Cyber attacks

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  Latest Cyber attacks news

  • Security In an effort to prove that it can be almost as menacing as China, Iran has apparently hacked a bunch of US energy companies. 7 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

  • Security It seems that the US government’s belief in the efficiency of its private sector to run its power infrastructure is proving completely bogus. 2 days ago

• 3 stories TV

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  Latest TV news

  • Science Scientists have put to bed a theory about space brains, which will be a great relief to those who have trouble sleeping over such matters. yesterday

  • 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

  • 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

• 2 stories European Union

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  • 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 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

• 2 stories Labour Party

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  Latest Labour Party news

  • Business Gareth Thomas, Labour MP for Harrow West, has asked questions about lost or stolen computers, mobiles, Blackberrys and other IT equipment to the Treasury and other government departments. 2 days ago

  • 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

• 2 stories Privacy

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  Latest Privacy news

  • Security Telecoms companies involved in a US government scheme to provide an affordable phone service to the poor have threatened reporters who found a security hole in their Lifeline phone system with charges under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. 3 days ago

  • Security It seems that the French backed Junta which took control of the English colony of Virginia is desperate to populate its Big Brother databases on its citizens using its award winning "no taxation without representation" laws. 4 days ago

• 2 stories Solid state drives

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  Latest Solid state drives news

  • 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

  • Science A team of German researchers from the Fraunhofer Instiute at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology has come up with a new technique to boost wi-fi speeds, much like MW-50 injection on interceptor variants of Kurt Tank’s FW-190. 4 days ago

• 1 story 3D

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  Latest 3D news

  • Security While the US is scratching its head about what to do about 3D printed guns finding their way into the hands of criminals and right-wing nutjobs, the Australian cops want them banned. 8 hours ago

• 1 story 4G

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  • 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 Australia

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  Latest Australia news

  • Security While the US is scratching its head about what to do about 3D printed guns finding their way into the hands of criminals and right-wing nutjobs, the Australian cops want them banned. 8 hours ago

• 1 story Big Brother Watch

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  • 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 Cloud computing

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  • 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

• 1 story DDoS Attacks

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  • Security In an effort to prove that it can be almost as menacing as China, Iran has apparently hacked a bunch of US energy companies. 7 hours ago

• 1 story Department of Justice

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  • 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

• 1 story FCC

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  Latest FCC news

  • Security Telecoms companies involved in a US government scheme to provide an affordable phone service to the poor have threatened reporters who found a security hole in their Lifeline phone system with charges under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. 3 days ago

• 1 story FTC

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  • 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

• 1 story HTML5

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

• 1 story India

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  • 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 Java

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  • 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

• 1 story Laptop

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  • Business Gareth Thomas, Labour MP for Harrow West, has asked questions about lost or stolen computers, mobiles, Blackberrys and other IT equipment to the Treasury and other government departments. 2 days ago

• 1 story LED

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  • 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

• 1 story Linux

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

• 1 story LTE

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  • 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

• 1 story MeeGo

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  • 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 NAND

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  Latest NAND news

  • 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 OLED

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  Latest OLED news

  • 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

• 1 story Printers

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  Latest Printers news

  • Science A team of researchers at Northwestern Engineering has come up with a new way of producing graphene, which could eventually lead to printable graphene ink. 2 days ago

• 1 story Russia

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  • 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

• 1 story Solar

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  • Science A team of researchers at Northwestern Engineering has come up with a new way of producing graphene, which could eventually lead to printable graphene ink. 2 days ago

• 1 story Spain

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  • 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 Stuxnet

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  • Security In an effort to prove that it can be almost as menacing as China, Iran has apparently hacked a bunch of US energy companies. 7 hours ago

• 1 story Taiwan

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  • 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

• 1 story Virus

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  • Security In an effort to prove that it can be almost as menacing as China, Iran has apparently hacked a bunch of US energy companies. 7 hours ago