You do not need a research report to predict the fate of netbooks. The fledgling segment has been battered badly by burgeoning tablet market. However, if you still need numbers and figures to back up the claim, then research firm Canalys has just proved the same with their latest report. While tablets topped netbooks, smartphone [...]

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We love our shiny new tech toys, but how about the old ones? Electronic gadget disposal is fast becoming a big environmental issue and now European Union has decided to tame the beast. According to a new plan recently approved by European Union, electronics retailers are now under legal obligation to accept electronic waste for [...]

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Google, who have had much success out of their mobile operating system Android, seem to be getting ready to launch a computer operating system – Chrome OS – later this month. The Chrome OS has been rumoured as far back as November last year, with little word on the computer operating system going round from [...]

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Prestigio is a name that you are going to be coming across more and more if our trip to London is anything to go by. We were invited to London for the UK launch of Prestigio, a new high-end electronics brand. Now, it’s not often in the tech world that we are shown a selection [...]

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For all you Windows XP lovers out there, I have bad news for you. Microsoft has informed its partners that no more computers can be sold with the operating system after October 22nd. The operating system may still be favored by some, in fact the computer I’m using right now is running on XP and [...]

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Back in the day, when I previously used the Norton Anti-Virus suite for my home computer, it gave me the hump. There were a few reasons I got narked with it, the main one being that the hit on system performance was pretty high for an AV suite, and for a chap who liked to play the odd online FPS, it was a bit of a pain. Secondly, once you installed it, it was installed. Every facet of your computers being was wormed into and monitored by Norton, and it felt stifling, and ominous. And if you wanted to get rid of it, you would have been lucky to remove all of its various components and registry entries without a team of Microsoft computer scientists, and a man with a hammer in reserve.

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We fast forward, 42 years into the future, a bleak vision for some of us, upon remembering the first “super-computer,” now, this was like your average PC – back when electric kettles were the rage – But people shrieked and fled in terror, almost convinced that the “super-Computer,” will dominate human life. But lets face it, it was the size of a small house and answered algebraic equation’s in minutes, just like the calculator can in seconds.

However, we have pondered, and paced the garden, thinking of what possible, catastrophes, can be applauded in 42 years? This is what we came up with [...]

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