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Retina based Macs could generate $1 billion profit

Management consultant Rags Srinivasan has reported on gigaom that the new Retina powered MacBook Pro computers could generate another $1 billion in pure profit for Apple. He explains that Apple made a gross margin of $18.5 billion in the last quarter, it says $1.65 billion of this is due to …

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Samsung Galaxy S III demand exceeds supply

Samsung said today that they aim to sell more than million Galaxy S III smartphones by July. They said that they should achieve a 10 million sales record within two months of the product launch. Sadly, the company are struggling to create the smartphones fast enough, due to component shortages. …

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Exclusive interview with Dr Lisa Su from AMD

You can always tell how useful a person is to a company. As each new skill is realised, so another set of responsibilities is loaded on your shoulders and your job title increases. Not only does Lisa Su have Bachelors, Masters and Doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts …

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Windows Phone 8: What We Missed Yesterday

If you missed our Windows Phone coverage from yesterday we highly suggest you read up on those before venturing onwards – articles are found here, here and here. We also warned you that we were bound to miss something from yesterday and here is the article that will redeem ourselves. …

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Nintendo struggle – will release supersized 3DS

Nintendo have upgraded the 3DS handheld to include a screen almost twice as big as the current model. Analysts feel that the screen size increase is to help Nintendo counter the rising sales from smartphones and tablets. The Nintendo 3DS LL (XL in some markets) will go on sale in …

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Dutch court order Apple to pay damages to Samsung

A Dutch court have ruled in favour of Samsung, in one of their global battles against Apple. The court in The Hague ordered Apple to pay damages for infringing a technical communications patent in some of the mobile devices, including the iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4 and iPad 1 and 2. …

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BT Pirate Bay block already circumvented

BT Pirate Bay Block

While BT might have held off the longest in instigating the court ordered block of torrent search site The Pirate bay, it has now become one amongst many, including: Virgin, O2, Everything Everywhere and TalkTalk. The ISP did attempt to go a step further than the others, by preventing users …

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Nokia announces 808 PureView for America

Nokia could have chosen a better date for their own Monday press conference considering Microsoft's announcement of the Surface tablets, but what is done, is done. Yesterday, the falling giant announced that their 808 PureView camera-phone is destined for the US market. It will be available for $699 (roughly the …

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Acer founder claims Microsoft Surface is an OS sales ploy

Microsoft's Surface tablet has been caused a huge ripple in the industry since Microsoft officially announced it a few days ago. Industry sources claim that many Microsoft hardware partners are annoyed at the hardware release, but Acer founder Stan Shih has a different take. He spoke out to the press …

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Partners unhappy with Microsoft Surface tablet

Microsoft recently announced their upcoming Surface tablet – set to target the Apple iPad. It would appear that Microsoft PC partners are unhappy with the new product, which was kept a secret until the recent announcements. Reuters have reported that industry sources seem unhappy with the new Surface tablet release, …

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