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19 November 2010
News: IBM builds world's 'greenest' supercomputer

While China can take pride in topping the list of the world's most powerful supercomputers, IBM has been given another recognition: building the world's most energy-efficient supercomputer.
18 November 2010
News: Arm in talks with Google over Web TV

Arm Holdings is in talks for its chip technology to be used with Google TV, the software aimed at putting the Internet on television sets everywhere.
News: BlackBerry: smartphone users 'don't need apps'

Research in Motion’s attitude toward mobile applications seems to be, "If you can't beat 'em, dismiss 'em."
News: Microsoft: IE JavaScript scores 'misleading'

Microsoft's top executive for Internet Explorer (IE) today dismissed browser speed trials as 'at best, not very useful, and at worst, misleading.'
News: Twitter to continue duplicating external apps

Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams was unapologetic on Wednesday about his company's recent decisions to build features for the site that duplicate and often render irrelevant applications created by third-party developers.
News: Dell head of mobile to leave company

Just as it gets back into the mobile-phone business, Dell is losing its top mobile executive.
15 November 2010
News: China supercomputer named world's fastest

A new supercomputer installation in China has rocketed to the top of the twice-annual ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputers.
12 November 2010
Video: Samsung shows high-tech, see-through window displays

Flat-panel screens are intended to be used as high-tech windows
News: Fibre leads fixed broadband rise

Global fixed broadband subscribers increased by 1.4 percent from 456.5 million in the second quarter of 2010 to 463 million in the third quarter of 2010. Among the fixed broadband platforms, the major subscriber net addition was in the fibre segment.
News: 23 technology buzzwords that we'd like banned

As technology moves forward, the English language sometimes takes a step backward. You can thank public relations professionals, CEOs and technology journalists for that. Whether grammatically incorrect or simply annoying, here's our list of 23 overused tech buzzwords that are painful to hear.
11 November 2010
News: BlackBerry down but still top in 2015

Global smartphone shipments to mobile business customers are forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 15 percent. But there will be a hyper-competitive marketplace defined by the operating system.
News: BT fibre rolled out to three million premises in the UK

BT's fibre broadband service has been rolled out to more than three million premises around the UK.
News: Motorola hits back with lawsuit against Microsoft

Motorola's mobile phone subsidiary has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft alleging the world's largest software maker has infringed 16 of its patents in PC, mobile and server software, as well as Xbox products.
09 November 2010
Video: DoCoMo demos 56Mbps LTE downloads

Demonstrates new LTE data service for first time
08 November 2010
News: Apple kills Xserve server line

Apple has said it will stop selling its Xserve rack servers early next year, killing a product that has traditionally sold in low quantities.
News: Dell ditches BlackBerry for Windows Phone 7

Dell is moving its 25,000 employees from BlackBerrys to its own Windows Phone 7-based smartphone as the company prepares to offer a service that enables customers to make the same switch, Dell confirmed Friday.
News: Amazon.com to buy Diapers.com & Soap.com

Amazon.com has agreed to acquire Quidsi, operator of online retailers Soap.com and Diapers.com, for about US$540 million, according to published reports.
03 November 2010
News: Android gains smartphone market share

Google Android continues to gain ground in the smartphone market, rising 6.5 percentage points to capture 21.4 percent of all US-based smartphone subscribers from July to September 2010.
Video: One Laptop Per Child XO-3 tablet delayed

Interview with OLPC chairman Nicholas Negroponte
02 November 2010
News: Samsung Galaxy Tab costs only £128 in parts

Calling Samsung's Galaxy Tab a jumbo smartphone rather than a "true competitor" to Apple's iPad, iSuppli calculated a $205.22 bill of materials in its Galaxy Tab teardown.