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A badly made sausage
Over a conversation with Piers Linney, co-CEO of cloud channel cloud specialist Outsourcery, about his firms involvement with the cycling competition the Tour of Britain the positives of the sport came up. Obviously there was the green argument with... Opinion
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PCs in retreat as market prepares for tablet invasion
Poor old PC. Things are not looking good. After all the furore surrounding HP's decision to retreat from the PC arena, we now read that Gartner has downgraded its PC market forecast for 2011, suggesting the PC is "not a particularly compelling p... Opinion
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Global services sector takes a big hit in Q2
Ouch. Things aren't looking great in the services sector right now. Ovum has revealed that the value of global IT services sales in the second quarter of 2011 was 40% (yes, that's right, 40%) down on the same quarter in 2010. There were no deals ... Opinion
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Where MeeGo now if Intel shifts to Android and Windows Phone 7?
I confess to knowing very little about MeeGo apart from the fact it used to be Intel and Nokia's next generation OS for smartphones and tablets. Most of the time when MeeGo has impinged on my consciousness it's been for negative reasons, such as Noki... Opinion
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Why is HP "pleasantly surprised" people will pay £89 for a TouchPad?
Let's play a game of spot the link: 1) HP says it is going to discontinue making the TouchPad and slashes the price by £260 for a 16GB model from £349 to £89 and cuts the 32GB model price from £429 to £115 (a reduction o... Opinion
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The best (and worst) of the web? It's all there on transfer deadline day
It's that time of year again when the (male) population gets an illuminating insight into the positive and destructive effects of the Web: transfer deadline day. All around the country, grown men are glued to their PC screens, returning to their favo... Opinion
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Is a PSG spin off the best route to HP's post-PC future?
This morning when I went into the garage to let my dog out, my nostrils were assaulted by a terrible smell. My dog wasn't to blame, however, the culprit being another dog who has been on an extended sleepover at our house for the last few days (you k... Opinion
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Onyx takes MicroScope's future in its hands
It's rare that MicroScope covers a contract win, as any PR with half a brain (and some of the ones with no brain whatsoever) well know. But when it's our own IT at stake we're more inclined to take an interest. Tyneside-based Cisco and Microsoft part... Opinion
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Apple has to prepare for a future without Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs has got a lot of things right in his time at Apple (and a couple of things wrong) but it's measure of how successful he - and his company - has become, especially since his return in 1996 which brought Apple back from the dead, that the an... Opinion
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Post-PC or PC Plus? The result is still the same
Are we in a post-PC age or a PC plus age? Lots of people have been saying the golden age of the PC is over, a perception reinforced by HP's abrupt decision to get out of the PC business as soon as it can. When the biggest PC maker in the world tells ... Opinion