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Apple vs. HTC – Someone blinked.

          One of the skirmishes is over. Apple and HTC have signed a 10 year license deal dismissing all outstanding patent litigation. As usual no details...

Cheap Tablets – Plenty pain for no gain.

          The arrival of the iPad Mini threatens to disrupt the mid to low end of the tablet market but its price premium is likely to...

Apple and Intel – Birds and stones

          The result of the recent management shake-up at Apple seems to have opened up a series of new avenues that had previously been considered closed....

Japanese Consumer Electronics – Apocalypse Now!

          Things are so bad at Sharp that it may have to ask the Japanese state to bail it out when its $2.5bn of convertible bonds...

Windows Phone 8 – Thirsty horse?

          Microsoft officially launched Windows Phone 8 at its event in San Francisco yesterday with the main question remaining: is anyone actually going to buy it?...

Windows 8– A sedate frenzy

          It has not been a mad rush nor a scrum down but there has been more interest in Windows 8 (especially the Surface) than the...

Windows RT – Confusion abound

          Windows 8 launches tomorrow, doubtless to much fanfare, but will the users be interested? No one has any confidence in the ability of this new...

Storage – Obsolete? Me?

          Those predicting the demise of the HDD need to think again. The idea has long been that the superior performance of a solid state disk...

Google – Engineering disease

          Many have derided Google for its mishap in releasing its Q3 results early but it seems to me that real mistake has been the $12.5bn...

$100 Tablet – lose lose

          The notion of a tablet that costs $100 may sound exciting but those that rush out to purchase the device are likely to quickly discover...