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Hardware

Smartphone and tablet demand boosts ARM profits

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Pre-tax profits up 31 per cent year-on-year as chip designer benefits from mobile device boom
23 Apr 2013

Essex County Council seeks bidders for IT hardware contract

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Council procuring on behalf of other public sector bodies for provision of mobiles, tablets, laptops and servers
22 Apr 2013

“We’re yet to find an MDM solution that truly works,” says Channel 4 CISO

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Selective wiping is a must for Channel 4, but is not a feature in many MDM solutions
19 Apr 2013

The USB flash drive is “dying”, says inventor of product

“Connected world” negates need for portable storage, claims Dov Moran
19 Apr 2013

Nine out of 10 companies in Europe plan data centre expansion

UK the epicentre of an EU-wide data centre building boom
18 Apr 2013

Microsoft and Foxconn sign patent agreement for Chrome devices

Microsoft to receive automatic royalties on patents in future
17 Apr 2013

Intel profits down by a quarter but firm sticks to its forecasts

Q1 profits drop to $2bn and revenues also slip
17 Apr 2013

Foxconn ramping up staff numbers to produce Apple iPhone 5s for summer release

Apple's contract manufacturer of choice gearing up for new iPhone 5s
16 Apr 2013

Analysis: Has BlackBerry run out of juice?

Discouraging financials and a lack of customer success stories seems to suggest the Canadian mobile firm’s BlackBerry 10 gamble may be its last. Peter Gothard asks: what has BlackBerry done wrong, and is it too late to change it?
16 Apr 2013

Windows RT: living on borrowed time?

When Windows RT shipped, a sceptical IT industry opted to steer clear – with good reason. Now, the question is when will Microsoft kill it
16 Apr 2013

iPhones are about 'fashion rather than functionality', says DWF CTO

BlackBerrys are the mobile for enterprise and Android devices 'are nonsense', says Richard Hodkinson
15 Apr 2013

Office of Fair Trading to investigate legality of in-app payments

OFT to consult developers, parents and consumer groups over in-app payments
12 Apr 2013

Microsoft's Xbox 720 to use AMD chips

Cost reduction drive behind switch from IBM's Power PC for next-generation of games system
09 Apr 2013

Canada lends Telefónica £170m to buy BlackBerry phones

Government loan helps Spanish telecoms group to buy BlackBerry's latest technology
08 Apr 2013

Facebook Home app and tie-in HTC First phone announced

Facebook's app will take over many everyday aspects of Android UI
04 Apr 2013

Crash Podcast: Samsung, Google, Phones & Windows RT

On this week's podcast we discuss Samsung breaking away from Android, Google's privacy woes, then 40th anniversary of the mobile phone, and the potential demise of Windows RT
04 Apr 2013

ESSA Academy: Trading textbooks for tablets

Peter Gothard visits Bolton secondary school the ESSA Academy to find out how a mobile device for every student is revolutionising the education process.
04 Apr 2013

TSMC 'tapes out' high-performance 64-bit ARMs, ready for production

Taiwan Semiconductor readies 16-nanometre, 64-bit ARM microprocessors for production - in a direct challenge to Intel
04 Apr 2013

In-memory computing market to be worth £700m by 2016 says Gartner

Mainstream adoption beckons for IMC, say analysts
03 Apr 2013

Semiconductor industry hit by falling revenues in 2012

Intel stays top for 21st year in a row, but falling PC sales and competition hits revenues
03 Apr 2013

Facebook phone to launch on Thursday

After 36 months of rumours, HTC-made Android-based phone to be unveiled on 4 April
03 Apr 2013

Analysis: does PC performance affect productivity?

Do slow PCs also slow the minds and reduce the performance of office workers? Or would a little reduction in speed be beneficial?
03 Apr 2013

BlackBerry to expand smartphone portfolio, says Thorsten Heins

Mid-tier and entry level devices to be released later this year
02 Apr 2013

Apple patents wraparound smartphone screen technology

'Transparent housing and flexible display assembly' may feature in company’s next devices
02 Apr 2013