Chipmaker AMD to cut workforce by 15 percent after weak 3Q

Chipmaker AMD continues to struggle in the wake of a global downturn in PC sales, with the company on Thursday announcing further restructuring plans. These are evidently troubled times for PC chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). With revenue down in the its third quarter, and the outlook for the fourth equally grim, the Sunnyvale, California company has...

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Report: White House finds no evidence of Huawei spying for China

Huawei may be off the hook with The White House, just not officially A White House review has found no evidence that Chinese telecom company Huawei has been spying for its home country, according to a report from Reuters citing two unnamed sources. This 18-month assessment by the executive branch stands in contrast to a year-long probe into China's Huawei...

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Nokia CEO invites a Microsoft Surface smartphone

The more handsets the merrier Nokia CEO Stephen Elop seems to be tempting fate, encouraging Microsoft to make a Surface phone of its own. While Microsoft is launching the Surface tablet with Windows 8, the company has not announced any plans to make its own Windows Phone 8 handset. Elop thinks it would be a good idea, not just for Microsoft, but for the...

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Will Lightt fade in Instagram’s shadow or could its future make it more than just another image app?

Lightt is a new take on content sharing, producing animated GIF-like video clips of the world as you're seeing it. Will the platform prosper thanks to a future integration or is it doomed to fall on Instagram's sword? You can’t launch a new photo-sharing app without being called an Instagram challenger, and the unfortunate label has not escaped Lightt. The new...

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Google's shares fall after quarterly financials accidentally revealed

Google stock drops as company fails to meet expectations Google's shares took a 9 percent hit, dropping to $687.30 on Thursday as news the company wouldn't make revenue or earnings expectations hit the market. The bad news came a bit earlier than expected, as Google's quarterly financial report was released ahead of schedule and without proper authorization...

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Nokia outs Q3 2012 results, reports reduced operating loss

Nokia's financial results for Q3 2012 are out and things are still looking grim for the Finns, which have reported an operating loss of $754 million. If you recall, for each of the last three quarters Nokia had to report north of a $1 billion loss. That's why the company had to undertake some unpleasant job cuts and we guess the results are starting to show up. ...

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Apple filings for AirPlay Mirroring, Siri land in U.S. patent office

Siri's understanding of context is the subject of a new Apple patent Even as Apple works to defend existing technology patents in court, the iPhone maker continues to shore up its arsenal with a pair of new applications protecting AirPlay Mirroring and Siri. CNET reported on Thursday that Apple filed new patent applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark...

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Oppo Find 5 has a FullHD 5-inch screen, pics and specs emerge

The Oppo Find 5 is no stranger to us, we've already heard the rumors. And this time around they seem to be confirmed to the letter. The Oppo Find 5 has a 5-inch screen of FullHD resolution with a narrow 3mm bezel. It runs on 1.5Ghz Qualcomm's APQ8064 quad-core chipset with 2GB RAM. The aluminum unibody has a thickness of merely 6.9mm and the 12MP camera with a Sony backlit...

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Nokia posts another loss as Lumia fans hold out for Windows Phone 8

Lumia - not so hot Nokia has announced another steep loss of €969 million (£786 million, US$1.2 billion, AU$1.2 billion) for the third quarter of 2012. Revenue was down 19 per cent after the July to September period, thanks in part to a 22 per cent drop in sales of Symbian handsets, Nokia's traditional cash-cow. Sales of its Lumia line-up for the three...

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Jelly Bean arrives on Samsung Galaxy S3 in the UK

Three gets there first with Jelly Bean The Samsung Galaxy S3 is finally getting the Android 4.1 update in the UK, as network Three starts pushing Jelly Bean out to customers. The data-championing network took to Twitter to announce the news, tweeting: "#ThreeSoftwareUpdate Jelly Bean has arrived for #GalaxySIII users :-)". By the looks of it the update...

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Apple loses appeal in UK courts, still has to publicly state Samsung did not copy the iPad

After losing in court to Samsung in the UK this July, Apple was ordered to publicly state its rival didn't copy the iPad. It appealed the verdict, but the decision was upheld in court today, meaning Apple's punishment stands. Back in July, Apple lost a court battle in the UK to ban the sale of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab family of tablets, which it claimed infringed...

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Orange San Diego review

Orange San Diego review Best In Class award The Orange San Diego marks a significant milestone in the mobile industry. It's not the biggest, fastest, smallest, slimmest or cheapest phone, but Intel is inside. It's not even the first handset to sport an Intel chip, that accolade goes to the Lenovo K800, but the San Diego is the first Intel phone to land...

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Asus Padfone 2 to get JB next month, keyboard dock later

The Asus event, which brought us the new Padfone 2 smartphone/tablet was over all too quickly and some details almost slipped through. Among them were the Jelly Bean update schedule and the keyboard dock, which wasn’t presented. According to an Asus representative, the company plans to have the Android 4.1 update ready by November. This means that even if you are...

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Apple rumored to be dipping into its savings to acquire Color Labs

After Color Labs was rumored to be closing its doors, the photo-sharing app startup refuted the allegation by saying it was doing no such thing. Now, a new rumor suggests it's be acquired by none other than Apple. One minute Color Labs, creator of the photo-sharing social app Color, is closing down, then the next it’s not, and now there’s a rumor it’s about...

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Quad-core Acer Iconia Tab A110 announced, ready to take on the Nexus 7

Acer has announced the Iconia Tab A110, a budget Android tablet with a simila-but-subtly-different specification to the Google Nexus 7, leaving buyers to decide if they want more internal storage space or a higher screen resolution. It was back in June that we last covered the Acer Iconia Tab A110, a time when the world of budget Android tablets was a very different...

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Nokia Lumia 920 to be exclusive to AT&T for only 6 months

Training videos meant for AT&T staff show us that the exclusivity rights to the Nokia's latest and greats - the Lumia 920 - will only go on for 6 months. Exclusivity to certain hot smartphones can be a big thing for carriers, potentially driving sales through the roof. However, you won't see any of this year's flagships messing with carrier exclusivity, simply because...

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Acer considering Intel-powered smartphone

Intel looking to get inside more phones Acer may be planning an Intel-powered smartphone as it aims to join the growing number of other manufacturers that have already dabbled with firm. The Taipei Times and China Post quoted Acer's vice president Peter Shieh saying the company was planning on producing a smartphone with Intel inside before the end of the...

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Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini UK release date revealed

First batch set to arrive November 8 The Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini release date has been confirmed as November 8 by online retailer Expansys. Apparently the November 8 Galaxy S3 Mini release date has been confirmed by the website's suppliers, but it's worth noting this is just for the 8GB white version. If you fancy getting your hands on the pebble blue Samsung...

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Samsung Galaxy S III drops to $99 in the US on a 2-year contract

If you're in the US and want to update to a Samsung Galaxy S III, now might be a very good time to do it. Amazon Wireless is offering the Samsung flagship for $100 if you sign a contract with Verizon or Sprint and for $120 if you want to go with AT&T. We checked the carriers' own web sites but the they still offer it on their usual prices ($200). Then we headed...

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New Surface ad launches, this time more than just dancing (and clicking)

Microsoft has launched a second ad for its Surface tablet, which launches next week. The new ad highlights some of the device's features and contains no dancing. The first ad for Microsoft’s new Surface tablet may have been an all-clicking all-dancing affair, but its second has a little more substance. For a start, there’s a voiceover telling us a few things...

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UK networks come together to accelerate 4G rollout

Zoom, zoom, zoom EE, O2, Three and Vodafone have joined forces to form a joint company focused on accelerating the 4G network rollout on the frequency freed up by the analogue TV switch off. The company is called Digital Mobile Spectrum Limited and is responsible for ensuring Freeview customers continue to receive clear TV signal, while the 4G network is...

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Huawei Ascend W1 Windows Phone 8 handset images appear online

HTC may have a word with Huawei The Huawei Ascend W1 has apparently been leaked in photos, sporting a design which may look familiar to some HTC owners. Of all the initial Windows Phone 8 handsets set to launch alongside the new mobile platform at the end of the month, the Huawei Ascend W1 is the one we know least about. We've already heard all about the...

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Nokia officially pulls the plug on Symbian, puts it in 'maintenance mode'

No more updates for the troubled OS Once upon a time, Symbian was everywhere. It was the de facto operating system for mobile phones for years, before the iPhone was a twinkle in Steve Jobs' eye. And now it's gone, with Nokia officially putting the humble operating system into maintenance mode. The decision to kill off Symbian has been in the works for...

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