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Wherever there is money, there is crime. If Darwin were a modern day economist, he could have written amazing book that correlates the development of humans and society with the length, depth and soph... more.

It looks as if Apple iTV is going to hit retail later this year. We can expect huge demand for the new Apple product, with huge queues already expected outside the retail stores. Steve Jobs said in hi... more.

Windows 8 is just around the corner and many companies are preparing their strategy to get market share in the tablet sector. AMD have a tough fight ahead, having to release very power efficient chip ... more.

It look as if Mark Zuckerberg is set to get even richer than he is now. His stake in Facebook is said to be worth $28.4 billion, making him richer than Google's co-founders and almost at the same leve... more.

The VeriSign breach, which has only just been revealed after 18 months, is what Gartner has recently warned about in a recent report, citing that that certificate management is a real problem, that mo... more.

Aria are certainly on the ball for all you Intel lovers this week. Today they listed the new C2 stepping version 2011 processors. They are available now for pre-order. ARIA informed us that they wi... more.

Synology are announcing a new Managing Director in the United Kingdom - Mike Chen. Mike joins the UK office from Taiwan where he has been working for Synology since 2007 as European Sales Manager. ... more.

Sony have reported severe losses of $1.2 billion between October and December 2011. This figure is worse than expected, and is being blamed on a strong yen, a dull economy and Thai floodings. The c... more.

Mark Zuckerberg has copied Steve Jobs, by reducing his salary from $500,000 in 2011, to just $1. Zuckerberg has in the past taken advise from Steve Jobs and considered his success an inspirational goa... more.

The Swedish Supreme Court has announced that it won't grant leave to an appeal against Pirate Bay staff members. Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström will all face jail se... more.

We reported a short while ago that Intel were planning to release a new range of Core i5 processors with the graphics circuitry stripped from the die. Makes sense really as many enthusiast users have ... more.

Neil Young is one of music's veterans, a man who has released more albums than I can remember. He isn't a big fan of the digital era. He said MP3's should die. I can't disagree. I remember when mus... more.

be quiet! scored first place in reader's survey for best power supply brand at German Hardwareluxx. It is one of the biggest online publications for computer hardware with their own quarterly print ma... more.

The Apple train keeps 'a rolling with no sign of slowing down. The latest reports from analysts Canalys show that Apple shipped 20 million personal computing devices in Q4, claiming 17 percent of the ... more.

While the world plus dog might have thought that the days of graphics battles between the industry giants might fade with time (and the ever increasing market share being taken by integrated solutions... more.

James 'Lizard' Gorbold, the editor of Custom PC has left his role at Dennis Publishing in the heart of London and moved north to Boston, according to our sauces. Originally part of the PC Pro team,... more.

Research In Motion have struggled to compete against Apple and Android devices and 2011 was a disaster for the Canadian organisation. The situation was that bad that Co CEO's Jim Balsillie and Mike La... more.

Yesterday we ran with a story which explained that Megaupload users may start losing their data. The latest news to reach us is that the data will be safe for a while longer. Kim Dotcom, founder of... more.

Acer are planning to attack the market this year and are targeting four sectors - tablet PC, smartphone, notebook and ultrabook. Acer Chairman JT Wang spoke about the plans at the company ceremony for... more.

Research In Motion had a rough year in 2011, but it appears that they have escaped unscathed in the United Kingdom. According to the company themselves, their handsets claimed the number 1 spot. Da... more.

Sony have just announced three new Cyber shot cameras for the mainstream audience. The DSC-WX50, DSC-WX70 and DSC-TX200V are all scheduled for release in March, a couple of months after the W610, W620... more.

Money from a State Settlement with Microsoft is being put to good use, although we aren't so sure that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will have the same view. A total of 1,400 iPad tablets are being purc... more.

The Facebook version of Angry Birds is due for release on Facebook this Valentines Day, February 14th. In the past you may have taken your better half to the movies or to the theater, but now a... more.

We have been reporting recently on the working conditions at partner factories which produce Apple goods. Since then many of the mainstream press organisations are also latching onto the stories of te... more.

Federal prosecutors in the states have said that data from Megaupload users could start being deleted by Thursday this week. The lawyers for the defense however are trying to fight the procedure, sayi... more.

Remember the one about HP leaving the PC behind?  At the point where the PC giant decided to run away from the tablet and PC markets, its channel stock got dumped to low, low prices - and sales incre... more.

3D in theory sounds like it would make a lot of sense. After all people could enjoy the material in a more 'realistic' manner, right? Producers don't seem to think so. One of the adult industries top ... more.

Apple lovers are a fanatical bunch and we often hear of funny and amusing stories, including camping out for days in the rain for a new product launch. New York Writer Susan Orlean was recently on sta... more.

Nintendo have extended their full year forecast, after yesterdays report, focusing on lower than predicted sales for their 3DS handheld console. The net loss ending in March 2012 may be up to 65 bi... more.

At the end of 2010, the mood at AMD was pretty positive. After languishing around the $4 Billion turnover mark for ages, the company finally delivered a quantum jump to a bigger revenue position. Howe... more.