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Goodbye PC Zone magazine: UK’s first-ever gaming mag bites the dust

Thursday, Jul 15, 2010Thursday, Jul 15, 2010 - by mike s

Seventeen years after launching, Britain’s first ever magazine dedicated to PC gaming is to close its doors for good.

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business / computing / Windows

Three quarters of business PCs stilll running Windows XP, average PC 4.4 years old

Tuesday, Jul 13, 2010Tuesday, Jul 13, 2010 - by mike s - 1 Comment

If more evidence were needed of the business-repelling qualities of Microsoft’s  deeply flawed Vista operating system, further proof comes in the shape of an astonishing statistic that reveals that nearly …

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business / mobiles

Orange and T-Mobile cuddle up and become ‘Everything Everywhere’

Thursday, Jul 1, 2010Thursday, Jul 1, 2010 - by mike s - 1 Comment

It’s a rubbish name alright, but Orange UK and T-Mobile UK have finally got around to integrating with each other, with all employees working for the new ‘Everything Everywhere’ brand.

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business / computing / video

Android-powered Cisco Cius tablet offers HD video-conferencing

Wednesday, Jun 30, 2010Wednesday, Jun 30, 2010 - by Pete Railton

Apple may not be keen on the idea of tablets with built in video cameras, but Cisco reckon businesses are going to be mad for it, and have unveiled a …

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business / computing / Microsoft

Microsoft chest-beats to the world: we’re still ruddy mahoosive

Monday, Jun 28, 2010Monday, Jun 28, 2010 - by Pete Railton

The web may be endlessly buzzing with stories about the iThis, the iThat, Google, Facebook and Twitter, but the team at Microsoft have just coughed loudly and kicked over a …

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Blackberry / business / mobiles

11.2m Blackberry phones shifted in Q1 as RIM breaks new sales record

Friday, Jun 25, 2010Friday, Jun 25, 2010 - by Pete Railton

Research In Motion (RIM) – makers of the Blackberry line of handsets – broke a company record yesterday as it shipped no less than 11.2 million BlackBerries in the last …

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business / computing

PC World’s crap customer service continues

Friday, Jun 4, 2010Friday, Jun 4, 2010 - by mike s - 27 Comments.

After being sold a second-hand wireless router as new, having our email ignored and generally having a thoroughly unpleasant experience with PC World, we wrote up our sad story here …

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business

PC World sell used goods as new, customer service says “whatever”

Friday, May 28, 2010Sunday, May 30, 2010 - by mike s - 13 Comments.

We’d had bad experiences with PC World in the past, but finding ourselves in an emergency after our router packed in two weeks ago, we thought we’d give them another …

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business / mobiles

Orange and T-Mobile team up for “Everything Everywhere”

Wednesday, May 12, 2010Wednesday, May 12, 2010 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

Orange and T-Mobile are have fluttered their eyelashes at each other and are now running hand in hand through the streets as the two unite under the “Everything Everywhere” banner.

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business / Google / software

Google buys Recorded Future… to see the future!

Wednesday, May 5, 2010Tuesday, May 4, 2010 - by mike s

Google Ventures has just slapped a ton of wedge on the table to buy up Recorded Future, a company that uses technology to predict the future. Before you start making …

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business

Freeing Ordnance Survey data: is it a good thing? Our analysis

Thursday, Apr 8, 2010Thursday, Apr 8, 2010 - by mike s

Recently, the UK mapping agency Ordnance Survey announced that it was making all of its data freely available to the public online, as part of a government drive to give …

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Apple / business / portable

US iPad sales to be blocked by Elan multi-touch patent claim?

Tuesday, Mar 30, 2010Wednesday, Mar 31, 2010 - by Lee J.

Taiwanese tech company Elan Microelectronics have filed a suit against Apple that has the potential to stop the iPad dead in its tracks. The suit filed with the U.S. International …

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business / mobiles / Palm

Palm Pre: why Palm’s innovative handset failed in the UK

Friday, Feb 26, 2010Friday, Feb 26, 2010 - by mike s - 9 Comments.

The news from across the Atlantic is looking grim for Palm, with sales well down on initial estimates, and a profit warning issued – and if things are bad there, …

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Android / Blackberry / business / iPhone / mobiles / Palm / Symbian / Windows Mobile

Worldwide smartphone sales: who were the big sellers in 2009?

Tuesday, Feb 23, 2010Tuesday, Feb 23, 2010 - by Lee J. - 1 Comment

Accompanied by a flurry of flapping flipcharts and clicking ballpoint pens, tech stat fiends Gartner have just unleashed their annual figures for worldwide mobile phone sales to end users.

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business / Google

Google rolls out ‘DoubleClick for Publishers’ ad serving tech

Monday, Feb 22, 2010Monday, Feb 22, 2010 - by mike s

Google have announced what they’re describing as “the next generation of ad serving technology for online publishers,” and are calling it DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP).

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