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Nintendo loss measured at £395 million, poor Wii sales

Nintendo have had a tough 2011, facing stiff competition from the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles. More and more people are shifting to high definition televisions which is the strength of the Microsoft and Sony consoles. Other costs for Nintendo include the development and launch of the 3DS hand …

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‘Invisibility Cloak’ breakthrough by scientists

It appears that the possibility of an ‘Invisibility Cloak' is no longer limited to the Klingons in Star Trek movies. Researchers at the University of Texas in Austin have managed to cloak an 18 centimeter (7.2 inch) cylindrical tube. It may be some time before we can mask a giant …

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McDonald’s falls victim to Twitter honesty

Selective blindness can affect businesses as easily as it can individuals. In the case of tech-mad young execs at McDonald's, it led to the kicking off of two conversations that they quickly realised were heading in the wrong direction. KitGuru covers itself in camouflage and heads off to the bushes, …

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Apple sell more iPads than HP sell PC’s in Q1 2012

We reported on Apple's fiscal earnings earlier this morning, but a staggering piece of news is that they sold 15.4 million iPads, which is higher than the Hewlett Packard PC sales over the same time period, totaling 14.7 million. While Apple outperformed Hewlett Packard in the Tablet v PC wars, …

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Apple $46.33 billion revenue – all time record

Apple announced yesterday their financial results for the fiscal 2012 first quarter which was tied into 14 weeks, ending December 31st 2011. They posted record quarterly revenue of $46.33 billion and record quarterly net profit of $13.06 billion, or $13.87 per diluted share. They have improved on the year previous, …

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Apple jailbreak downloaded a million times in 3 days

There is a huge audience who love to ‘open up' their iPhone handsets, verified today by the latest figures released by Chronic Dev Team and iPhone Dev Team. The joint developers of an untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S have said that the hack was downloaded around 1 million times …

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Xbox 720 may have AMD HD6670 graphics

Microsoft may still be making good money with Xbox 360 sales, but the next generation of console is already being developed with a launch said to be at the end of the year, probably around October or November. It should be around six times as powerful as the current model …

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Intel acquire QLogic Infiniband business for $125 million

Intel have paid out $125 million to acquire the InfiniBand switch and adapter product range from QLogic. The move was noted on The Register last night and will help Intel improve their Data Center and Connected Systems business by asking network equipment providers to use Xeon processors inside their networking …

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Virgin America name a jet after Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs was one of the most important technology leaders, and to mark his legacy, Virgin America have named one of their fleet after him. They have embedded a popular Steve Jobs quote on the side of the Airbus A320 which reads “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish”. The phrase was coined …

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Solar Radiation storm is heading towards Earth

The Earth is due to be bombarded by one of the strongest solar radiation storms in recent years, which could damage power grids and satellites. This ‘coronal mass ejection', which is a violent release of magnetic fields and plasma from the Sun, is heading towards the Earth at the speed …

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Youtube uploads pass 60 hours per minute

Youtube bosses posted in a blog that the amount of video content uploaded to the sharing site has increased by a factor of 10 times since 2007. They said “Since the dawn of YouTube, we’ve been sharing the hours of video you upload every minute. In 2007 we started at …

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AMD claims Pepsi Challenge Double-Whammy

Over the weekend, in AMD's back yard over in Dallas Texas, an impromptu survey yielded some rather interesting responses. Given a choice of options, without knowing which was which, gamers seem to be choosing AMD. KitGuru mutters “Shirley some mistake” and does some digging. One of the things KitGuru likes …

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Adult tablet adoption: 19% USA, 7% UK

The netbook market was hit hard in 2011 by the growing adoption of tablets. Latest research from the PEW Research Center has revealed their latest figures, which indicate that 19 percent of adults in America are now using a tablet of some kind. The main bulk of the growth in …

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Megaupload leader tells New Zealand court he is innocent

The founder of Megaupload has been held in custody in New Zealand as he denies charges of internet piracy and money laundering. He said the authorities were trying to make him look as bad as possible. Anne Toohey, the prosecutor said that Kim Dotcom, a German national, who is also …

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Blackberry in disarray as both CEO’s step down

Research In Motion co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis have both stepped down, after many years holding the reins. The company has been struggling in the last year to compete in the mobile phone sector and a new leader has been put in place to reverse the fortunes. Thorsten Heins, …

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200 Million Office 2010 sales in 18 months

Microsoft have announced record quarterly revenue for the quarter ending December 31st 2011. This is a 5 percent increase on year on year. Operating income, net income, and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $7.99 billion, $6.62 billion, and $0.78 per share, compared with $8.17 billion, $6.63 billion …

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Federal sites come back online after Anonymous attack

Many of the websites which were shut down by well known hacking group Anonymous were back up and running today. Megaupload.com leaders were arrested, with the site subsequently shut down and Anonymous acted in retaliation taking down the FBI websites and the U.S. Department Of Justice. A law enforcement officer …

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Sony Ericsson record €207 million net loss in Q4

Sony Ericsson have had a tough run up to the end of the year in 2011, claiming that market competition and the disaster in Thailand have damaged their earnings. In the three months ending December 31st Sony Ericsson sales were €1.29 billion, down from €1.53 billion in the same quarter …

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Wikipedia claim millions speak out for free internet

As we reported yesterday, many leading websites shut down for a day to protest anti piracy bills now in Congress. On the website on Thursday morning was a message which read “Thank you for protecting Wikipedia. We're not done yet.” When clicked, the message took the reader to a thank …

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Asian companies set to rule future patents

On of the biggest PC manufacturers ever in the UK, Elonex, stopped making traditional desktop PCs many moons ago when its founder discovered that he was making significantly more money from patents he owned in/around the modern day email system.While China and the rest of the Far East has become …

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G.Skill establishes RMA service center in Europe

G.Skill International Enterprise Co Ltd., a worldwide leading manufacturer of extreme performance memory and solid-state storage, today announces the establishment of Return Merchandise Authorization (RMA) service center for end-users in Netherlands, Europe. Align with G.Skill’s business strategy for growing customer segments, G.Skill’s RMA service center established aims to provide more …

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Ctrl-Alt-Delete to be replaced in Windows 8

Electronista have filed a report on the upcoming range of Windows 8 tablets. They have got a hold of the hardware requirements document which details some of the conditions for Windows 8 tablets. They say “Every slate will need at least a 1366×768 display with five-point multi-touch, ruling out the …

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Yahoo Co Founder Jerry Yang resigns from board

Jerry Yang, the co founder of Yahoo has resigned from the board. He founded the company in 1995 and has been the chief executive from June 2007 to January 2009. His resignation hits two weeks after the company hired former Paypal executive Scott Thomson to take over as CEO. Yang …

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