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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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.