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Microsoft stock drops by 11%

Shares of Microsoft dropped badly on Friday, wiping out billions of dollars of the software companies value. This happened after they announced earnings below Wall Street expectations. They dropped by $4,04 or 11.4% to $31.40 in trading on Friday. As we reported earlier in the week, Microsoft missed their financial …

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Tesco’s Blinkbox boosted by Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones continues to be a media force to be reckoned with, as the introduction of the show's third series on Tesco owned and operated on-demand service Blinkbox, saw an increase in year-on-year revenue boost of a massive 632 per cent. Granted we're only comparing the revenue earned on …

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Uber delivering ice cream – same day via taxi

UK'ers are struggling with the heat wave lately, although very few people are really complaining. We all love the sun after all, right? Well to help deal with the temperatures, UBER, the luxury taxi service are delivering ice creams throughout London today.  Generally you would book an Uber car through …

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HTC One Mini preorder price set at £379.99

HTC have released the HTC One Mini in the UK with a pre-order price of £379.99. The smartphone has 1GB of ram, 16GB of internal storage (12gb free) and a 1.4 ghz dual core processor. The screen is 4.3 inches with a 720p resolution, less than the HTC One's 4.7 …

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THQ receives approval for official liquidation

That's it folks, the 23 year history of THQ has finally come to an end, as it has received approval for liquidation by Judge Mart F Walrath at a Delaware court heading. Creditors will now be paid using whatever can be made of THQ's remaining assets. THQ filed for bankruptcy …

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Nokia Lumia outsells Blackberry

Nokia have generated an operating loss of £98.8 mllion in the second quarter and revenues have fallen 24% as they have struggled to turn their handset business around. It isn't all bad news for the company however as their Lumia smartphones have outsold rival Blackberry. This is seen as very …

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Power your mobile phone with urine

A group of scientists at Bristol Robotics Laboratory in the United Kingdom have managed to create a new power source for a mobile phone – urine. While not exactly the most practical or hygienic way to keep your iPhone or Samsung smartphone running, it is part of a project to …

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Google earnings below expectations. Mobile is blamed

Google have announced second quarter earnings which are below analyst estimates. The details have been shared on this page. It seems they are still struggling to get to grips with mobile advertising. Google's CPC (cost per click) rate dropped a noticeable 6 percent. This is an indication of how much …

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Big tech firms urge Obama to allow PRISM disclosure

One of the biggest problems with the US government's PRISM information gathering program, is that it forbids many of the companies involved from being open about what information has been shared – making it hard for anyone to know exactly what data has been collected about them. Yesterday though, many …

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NVIDIA Splinter Cell Blacklist competition winners announced

Nvidia partnered up with us for a very cool competition to win codes for SPLINTER CELL BLACKLIST – we had hundreds of entries on our facebook page in the last week and the five winners have been announced today. They are Sanzhar Ramankulov – Benji TheReverend Sharpe – Farouk Hussein Dimaporo Alonto – Ryan Lee and Jordan Melecio – we …

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Netflix and Spotify combat piracy, by just existing

Who'd have though it? If we'd all been drinking the media lobbyist cool-aid for the past decade, we'd have been under the belief that the only way to tackle piracy, was to crush individual uploaders and downloaders under massive fines and scare them into never touching a PC again, when …

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No dawdling in Team Fortress 2 from now on

Valve's item system for Team Fortress 2 has been a resounding success, but it's seen an unscrupulous few, idle in games simply to get their hands on new ones. No longer though, as Valve has updated the game, meaning you have to be actively playing in order to receive the …

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Android gets BitTorrent share ‘n’ sync tool

The new BitTorrent share ‘n' sync tool called BitTorrent Sync has been released after Alpha testing, available to download for Android devices. Having used the Alpha for a short while, I can say there really isn't much in the software to make it stand out from competitors such as DropBox. …

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Women paving the way for tablet growth

Men may be seen globally as being most interested in new technology but UK research has detailed that more women are using tablets than men. A survey of 3,824 British adults by YouGov show that women claim 52 percent of tablet market share in the UK, up from 43 percent …

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Autonomous cars on UK roads by end of year

A government policy paper was published this week, showing that Autonomous cars will be tested on UK roads before the end of the year. The BBC say that trials will take place on less busy rural and suburban roads using the ‘semi autonomous mode' which will allow a driver to …

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Whatsapp dropping up-front fee on iOS

Whatsapp, one of the world's most popular communication platform – the owners even claim it has more messages and regular users than Twitter – has announced it is finally going free on iOS – at least for the first year. After that, you'll need to cough up the princely sum …

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