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• 23 July 2010

• News: Dell responds to motherboard malware issue

  A sequence of errors led to Dell's delivery of motherboards with malware and the company is in the process of overhauling its testing process to resolve issues before dispatching hardware to customers, it said on Thursday.

• News: Microsoft profits up via sales of Office 2010, Windows 7

  The release of Office 2010, as well as continued strong sales of Windows 7, helped buoy Microsoft through another quarter of increased revenue and profit, the company announced on Thursday.

• 22 July 2010

• News: Samsung, Toshiba seek big increase in NAND flash speeds

  Samsung Electronics and Toshiba on Wednesday said they plan to push for a new specification meant to speed up the flow of data in NAND flash memory, used to store data in products from iPads and iPhones to SSDs (solid state drives) used in PCs and data centres.

• News: Twitter to banish Fail Whale with own data centre

  Twitter hopes to improve the reliability of its service by moving into its own, custom-built data centre later this year, the company said this week.

• News: Netbook sales to double by 2013

  60 million netbooks are expected to ship worldwide in 2010, with double that number reaching global markets in 2013.

• News: 46% of broadband complaints remain unresolved

  Nearly half (46 percent) of complaints about broadband services remain unresolved, says Broadbandchoices.

• News: Nokia reports 40% drop in earnings

  Nokia has revealed it suffered a 40 percent year-on-year drop in earnings this quarter as its customers shun its high-end smartphones.

• News: FTC extends antitrust settlement talks with Intel

  The US Federal Trade Commission has extended settlement talks with Intel in the agency's antitrust investigation into the chip maker's treatment of its rivals.

• News: RIM shows off BlackBerry 6 OS - details

  Research In Motion has been slowly releasing details of its forthcoming BlackBerry 6 operating system and this week outlined some of the multimedia features.

• News: 'Chinese Google' enjoys record profits

  Internet searches surged during the World Cup, helping Baidu.com score its best quarter ever in terms of revenue and net profit.

• 21 July 2010

• News: Obama considers fate of UK NASA hacker

  NASA hacker Gary McKinnon could be spared trial to the US after Barack Obama told Prime Minister David Cameron he would try to find an 'appropriate solution' to the ongoing battle over McKinnon's extradition to the US.

• News: Intel runs into major WiMax snafu in Taiwan

  An apparent lack of communication between Intel and the Taiwan government over the closing of Intel's WiMax Program Office in Taiwan has brewed into a media storm here to rival Apple's Antennagate in the US.

• News: Yahoo profit up, but revenue falls short of forecasts

  Yahoo's second-quarter revenue was US$1.60 billion, coming in on the low end of the company's expectations and falling short of analyst predictions.

• News: VMware beats forecast with strong Q2 results

  VMware on Tuesday reported a 48 percent jump in revenue for the second quarter, a greater increase than expected, and raised its outlook for the full year on strong demand for its virtualization software.

• 20 July 2010

• News: 11 million iPad-like tablets in 2010

  11 million tablets, led by Apple’s iPad, are expected to be sold by the end of 2010. This is three times the estimate ABI Research made just six months ago.

• News: BT wants to provide national smart meter system

  The potentially lucrative smart meter market has seen a new competitor enter the fray, after BT said it was looking for large contracts.

• News: Dell to acquire storage vendor Ocarina Networks

  Dell announced Monday that it plans to acquire Ocarina Networks, a maker of hardware and software designed to reduce the amount of storage capacity enterprises need, for an undisclosed sum.

• News: WSJ: Nokia searching for new CEO

  Struggling to keep up with newer and more inventive rivals, number one phone maker Nokia is looking for a new CEO, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal on Monday.

• News: Motorola deal may end mobile-gear consolidation

  Nokia Siemens Networks' acquisition of most of Motorola's cellular networks business may be the last move in a long game of consolidation in the industry, which has been hammered by price pressures.

• News: Google making strides in emerging businesses

  Google's second-quarter financial report last week provided further signs that, after years of trying, Google may finally be seeing material results from emerging businesses that could help it diversify from search advertising, which still generates most of its revenue.

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