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• 04 February 2010

• News: Amazon to upgrade kindle to take on Apple iPad?

  Amazon has purchased a flexible touchscreen manufacturer with the intention of upgrading its Amazon Kindle device to compete against the Apple iPad, the New York Times reports.

• 03 February 2010

• News: OFT says Orange-T-mobile merger will hamper competition

  The planned merger between T-Mobile and Orange will significantly decrease competition in the UK market, says the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).

• News: Apple iPad to feature mobile ads

  In another stage of its mounting battle with Google Apple has hired two mobile ad industry big hitters.

• Video: Robonaut2 humanoid robot to help aerospace and auto

  The Robonaut2 is being jointly developed by NASA and General Motors to help humans in space and on Earth

• News: Online giant Google builds a call centre

  Google, the ultimate online company, is advertising to staff a call centre.

• News: Facebook growth 'explosive', requires Terabit Ethernet

  According to a senior Facebook network engineer, the growth of the site has been such that Facebook's data centres already need 100-Gigabit Ethernet and ideally could use 1-Terabit Ethernet.

• News: Apple iPad 'will destroy market for MIDs'

  Analyist ABI says that sales of media tablets such as Apple's iPad will zoom past Mobile Internet Devices.

• 02 February 2010

• News: 57 million tablets a year, after Apple iPad

  Apple's iPad launch marks the start of a new market segment for media tablets that - according to analysts at ABI Research - will see four million units shipped this year. By 2015, shipments are forecast to reach about 57 million annually.

• News: Orange named best mobile broadband provider

  Orange has been named the top mobile broadband provider in the UK, by YouGov.

• News: T-Mobile to offer Google Nexus One?

  Google's latest 'superphone' the Nexus One - could be available in the UK on T-Mobile.

• News: Windows 7 takes three months to gain 7.5% share

  Microsoft's Windows 7 has gained the same amount users in three months that Vista in nearly a year, says Net Applications.

• News: Google to open an app store for business software

  According to the Wall Street Journal, Google plans to open an app store for business software.

• 01 February 2010

• News: Tories: Licence fee should pay for fast broadband

  Next generation fibre broadband could be partly funded by TV licence fees, say the Conservatives.

• News: Intel and Micron to unveil first 25nm flash memory chips

  Intel and Micron plan to unveil new 25-nanometer flash memory chips on Monday via their IM Flash Technologies joint venture, the first commercial chip products made using advanced 25nm manufacturing technology.

• News: FTC verdict deals Intel blow in antitrust case

  The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has released a redacted version of its decision not to grant an Intel request to disqualify FTC Commissioner J Thomas Rosch from the antitrust case against the company, saying it didn't express any reservations about Rosch until it became clear he would support action against the chip maker.

• News: Samsung to mass-produce 30nm DDR3 DRAM

  Samsung has announced that two customers have approved its 30nm DDR3 DRAM and it will begin mass-producing chips that use it from mid-2010

• News: Chinese company to sue Apple over iPad

  Chinese company Shenzhen Great Loong Brother Industrial is considering suing Apple, claiming the iPad is too similar to its P88 tablet.

• 30 January 2010

• News: 6 IT skills you'll need this year

  As the economy slowly begins to revive, organisations will be looking for IT pros with a mix of skills. We look at what you'll need to get ahead in 2010.

• News: Analysis: What would happen if Microsoft died?

  Ever wondered about what PCs and technology as a whole would be like if Microsoft's Windows didn't exist? We have. Here's our vision of a life without Windows.

• 29 January 2010

• News: O2 and Orange to offer the iPad?

  Apple's iPad could be available on O2 and Orange when it hits the UK in two months time.

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