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Nintendo's profits plummet

27 January 2011, 15:59

Sales of Wii and DS significantly down. Nintendo hopes arrival of the 3DS will improve matters in 2011.

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Google censors BitTorrent and more from its instant search service

27 January 2011, 15:34

Search giant capitulates to entertainment industry.

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Win an NVIDIA GTX 560 Ti 3D Vision PC, plus one of five cards

27 January 2011, 15:19

Put the NVIDIA 'claw' in an imaginative place to be in with a chance of winning top prizes.

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Lenovo and NEC officially tie the knot

27 January 2011, 15:03

Companies to create joint-venture, forming Japan’s largest PC group.

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Silent Hill Downpour - It's raining screenshots

27 January 2011, 14:15

New Silent Hill game officially titled and accompanied with a batch of spooky screenshots.

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AMD releases Fusion-capable GPGPU SDK

27 January 2011, 13:58

New Accelerated Parallel Processing tools to help devs leverage the power of a CPU and GPU on one chip.

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Operation Flashpoint Red River key features showcased

27 January 2011, 12:29

In-game action and key features shown off in the first of a series of developer diaries for Codemaster's upcoming shooter.

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70,000 homes sign up for Sky 3D

27 January 2011, 12:04

Three dimensional milestone marked.

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MSI announces AMD Fusion-powered CR650

27 January 2011, 12:02

Low-power APU gets thrown into a full-sized laptop.

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Xbox 360 top-selling arcade titles of 2010 revealed

27 January 2011, 11:36

LIMBO highest grossing arcade game of 2010, but Dead Rising 2: Case Zero sells the most units.

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Previews of Sony Ericsson ‘Xperia Play’ surface online

27 January 2011, 11:34

a.k.a. the PlayStation Phone.

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Google brings pop-up Gmail notifications to Chrome

27 January 2011, 10:55

Desperately checking for that important e-mail? Now you don’t have to.

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Champions Online now free to play

27 January 2011, 10:36

Cryptic's comic-book style MMO is now free, with options for upgrading.

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PlayStation gaming on Android in 2011

27 January 2011, 10:32

Following the announcment of the successor to the PSP2, comes news of the PlayStation Suite, a new software platform compatible with Android devices.

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Sony announces next-gen hand-held. NGP first details and specs revealed

27 January 2011, 10:32

Dubbed the NGP, Sony's successor to the PSP2 will feature 3G, GPS and Wi-Fi functionality, along with a host of other features aimed at widening its appeal.

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Everything Everywhere to roll out contactless mobile payments

27 January 2011, 10:08

Barclaycard partnership aims to 'revolutionise' buying on the high street.

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AMD posts Catalyst 11.1 drivers

27 January 2011, 10:06

First update of the new year will bring all GPUs up to the latest software.

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Android reveals more Honeycomb details

27 January 2011, 09:41

Still no release date but plenty of screen-shots and features for the tablet-optimized OS.

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EU gives conditional approval to Intel acquisition of McAfee

26 January 2011, 18:28

Intel can buy McAfee so long as it promises to play nice with other security software companies.

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Samsung plans massive surge in laptop market

26 January 2011, 16:56

Electronics giant looks to boost shipments by 60 per cent in an effort to compete with the big players.

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AMD’s 1GB Radeon HD 6950 becomes officially official...sort of

26 January 2011, 15:53

Confusion abounds as reviews pop-up and stock appears at major retailer.

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App store revenue set to triple this year

26 January 2011, 15:00

A new forecast from Gartner predicts exponential growth in both downloads and revenues from mobile apps.

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Google enables number porting with Google Voice

26 January 2011, 14:54

New service allows existing phone numbers to be transferred to Google’s web-based system.

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Intel’s hardware-based anti-virus could put an end to zero-day attacks

26 January 2011, 13:42

CTO waxes lyrical about next-gen security measures that will 'change the game'.

Samsung milks the Galaxy brand

26 January 2011, 12:45

The tech giant has launched four new handsets under the Galaxy brand to fill out its smartphone range.

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Mozilla releases tenth Firefox 4 beta

26 January 2011, 12:04

Beta-fatigue starts to set in as version number hits double digits.

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Dual-GPU AMD Radeon HD 6990 poses for the camera - again!

26 January 2011, 11:27

This time the cameras get up close and personal with the jewel in AMD's crown.

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O2 reveals major new Wi-Fi hotspot roll-out

26 January 2011, 10:51

The new network aims to be twice the size of BT Openzone and The Cloud combined by 2013.

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Razer shows off Ferox portable gaming speakers

26 January 2011, 10:33

‘Tiny but mighty’ sound system promises a lot of punch on the go.

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Intel appoints rap star ‘director of creative innovation’

25 January 2011, 19:11

Black Eyed Peas front-man will.i.am is brought on board to, erm, help out.

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GfK reports surprisingly strong UK Christmas notebook sales

25 January 2011, 17:59

Not only were more sold than a year ago, the average price jumped sharply too.

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Document Foundation announces first stable release of LibreOffice

25 January 2011, 17:02

OpenOffice spin-off launched and gets the nod from Ubuntu devs.

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ACS: Law capitulates

25 January 2011, 16:36

Illegal file-sharing specialist Andrew Crossley has announced he will cease his work due in response to cyber-attacks.

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