One in three net users attempt digital detox
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Thursday, 04 August 2016 15:40

One in three net users attempt digital detox

Hey you, get off of our cloud

A report by British regulator Ofcom said the time people are on the internet has increased so much that one in three adults in the UK are consciously giving up their reliance on gadgets.

AMD’s cash cow is being milked
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Monday, 01 August 2016 19:18

AMD’s cash cow is being milked

Opinion It’s on some kind of a roll - bacon roll, sausage roll?

It takes a lot of money to make and sell microprocessors  - it always has done and it probably always will, but it seems to some that Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is burning an awful lot of that rare commodity.

Rumor is that ARM will target Intel
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Friday, 29 July 2016 13:12

Rumor is that ARM will target Intel

Chipzilla tortoise everything we know

People are still wondering why Japanese giant SoftBank paid over the odds for plucky British chip designer ARM earlier this month.

Oracle pays $9.3 billion for Netsuite
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Thursday, 28 July 2016 16:18

Oracle pays $9.3 billion for Netsuite

Hey, you! Get into my cloud

Oracle paid $9.3 billion to snap up cloud company Netsuite in a bid to extend its place in the cloud market.

PC shipments slightly up in Western Europe
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 Doldrums time

A research note from IDC said that PC shipments in the EMEA region accounted for 16.1 million units in the second quarter of this year.

China cracks down on internet news
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Monday, 25 July 2016 16:01

China cracks down on internet news

No original reporting, thank you so much

Online companies in mainland China have been ordered to put a halt to writing news that isn’t sanctioned by the government.

AMD is on the up
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Monday, 25 July 2016 11:36

AMD is on the up

Opinion Intel must be worried

Last week’s AMD results show that the company is set to make more headway this year and next, with its upcoming Zen processors definitely giving Intel the heebie jeebies.

Has Microsoft given up on Windows?
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Wednesday, 20 July 2016 16:52

Has Microsoft given up on Windows?

In some ways it sure looks like it

As we reported earlier today, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella proclaimed the virtues of its cloud computing platform.

Intel says buy new PCs shock
Published in PC Hardware
Monday, 18 July 2016 16:59

Intel says buy new PCs shock

Smart workplaces

A survey sponsored by Intel and Dell has come to the surprising conclusion that slow software and hardware are huge time wasters at work.

ARM sells for an arm and a leg
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Monday, 18 July 2016 15:29

ARM sells for an arm and a leg

It’s not good news

The decision to sell ARM to SoftBank for £24.3 billion has been deprecated by its founder, Hermann Hauser, but praised by the new British prime minister, Theresa May.