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The Home PC is About to Die

Within a year or two, the home PC (including laptops) will start to die out. Smart devices such as the smartphone, tablet and smart TV will make them redundant. We’ll have a variety of different screens around the house which can either be TVs or workstations for us to work on … but the processing [...]

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Who Will Save Nokia?

So far, Nokia’s comeback – where they bet everything on the Windows Phone operating system – has been an unmitigated disaster: – In late 2011 they launched their Lumia 800 smartphone, which was immediately out-sold 100 to 1 by the Samsung Galaxy S2 in the UK … a country known to traditionally love Nokia – [...]

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Gigapixel Cameras

If you’re the owner of a top-of-the-range smartphone like the iPhone 4S or Samsung Galaxy S2, you are probably very impressed with your phone’s 8 megapixel camera. Rightly so, you can take some stunning shots with something that fits easily in your pocket. However, thanks to R&D funded by the US military, megapixel cameras are [...]

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Fastest Smartphones – November 2011

Looking at just the specifications of the latest smartphones is becoming a little misleading. For example, Apple merely states that their iPhone 4S comes with a dual-core A5 processor … it doesn’t tell anyone that it is running at around 800Mhz. Similarly, dual-core processors and their respective chipsets vary a great deal in raw performance. [...]

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Google’s Moat

Google’s share price has underperformed in recent years. Despite growing strongly, even through the credit crisis, investors appear to have misunderstood Google’s strategy and feared that competitors may steal a march on the search engine giant. Investors instead fell in love with Facebook and Apple, the latter probably completely justified given its enormous profitability. Many [...]

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