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Dell CEO Michael Dell delivers a keynote address during the 2010 Oracle Open World conference.

Dell’s mobility division not gaining ground

Dell is looking like the sick man of the PC business, which is not looking too healthy itself.

Smartphone and tablet users will take to Windows 8 immediately

Windows makeover stays in familiar territory

That Windows 8 will be a huge hit in terms of sales is a given. What will be fascinating to watch is how it is received, writes Charles Arthur.

Microsoft and Google have become embroiled in a bitter dispute.

European Union lays into Google over privacy policy

Google’s changes to its privacy policies have been criticised by 30 European data-protection commissioners.

Emerging markets keep BlackBerry afloat – for now

Is BlackBerry manufacturer RIM out of the woods? If all you looked at was its after-hours share price and analysts’ forecasts, you might think so.

Apple Inc has acknowledged that personal data can be extracted from iPhones through previously unpublicised techniques by employees.

Samsung to add Apple’s iPhone 5 to its lawsuits

Samsung says it will add the iPhone 5 to a series of lawsuits over Apple equipment in the US, alleging that it infringes a series of patents.

The iPhone has become the benchmark for everything else in the smartphone industry.

Upgraded Siri takes iPhone 5 past all its rivals

The digerati mostly greeted the iPhone 5 last week with a collective yawn. They declared that it did not break any records amongst other things.

Samsung’s shares plunged after a ruling in the US last week that it had copied key elements of Apple’s technology.

Apple may widen its attack

Shares in Asian smartphone manufacturer Samsung plunged by 7.5% in the South Korean capital Seoul on Monday.

Apple has moved toward a debt issue

Samsung urges boycott of Apple products

Samsung has hit back at Apple after a $12-billion drop in its market value in the wake of its loss to the iPhone maker in a high-profile court battle.

A US judge has denied Apple’s request for a permanent injunction against Samsung’s smartphones.

Apple takes a swing at Samsung patents

Apple experts say Samsung abused its "monopoly power" over certain wireless patents and demanded an unreasonable royalty for their use in the iPhone.

Marissa Mayer

New chief must revive Yahoo’s yodel

Marissa Mayer is taking her talent for revenue enhancement from Google to the competition. Josh Halliday & Charles Arthur report.

South Africa’s Google Zeitgeist has been revealed.

Google ‘faces $22.5m fine over iPhone and iPad privacy breach’

Google is nearing a deal with authorities over its DoubleClick adverts, which were found to have bypassed privacy settings on iPads and iPhones.

Thorsten Heins has defended RIM less than a week after it revealed an operating loss of $643-million.

RIM chief denies Blackberry maker is in a ‘death spiral’

Thorsten Heins has defended RIM less than a week after it revealed an operating loss of $643-million.

Every year Google releases its retrospective, Year in Search, showing some of the most popular searches for the annum.

Google offers to settle EU antitrust case

Search giant Google says it could change the way it ranks other sites amid concerns that it has abused its dominant market position.

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer unveils Surface

Bromancing the tablet

Microsoft has succumbed to Apple envy and launched its version of the iPad. Charles Arthur reports.

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan at their wedding ceremony in Palo Alto on May 19.

Zuckerberg loses $2bn as Facebook share price plummets

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s fortune dwindled by $2-billion in minutes, as underwriters deserted the stock amid claims of Nasdaq incompetence.

A year ago

Facebook headed for fourth richest flotation in stock market history

Despite almost certain IPO success, Facebook has to start making money from mobile phone advertising if it hopes to continue its growth.

Google billionaires back asteroid-mining venture

Google billionaires back asteroid-mining venture

Backed by Google’s bosses — and director James Cameron — Planetary Resources plans to mine asteroids using unmanned rockets … and a moon base.

Google fined $25 000 for Street View data collection

Google fined $25 000 for Street View data collection

Google has been ordered to pay $25 000 for collecting personal information without permission and not cooperating with an investigation into it.

Apple set to release new streaming audio file format

Apple set to release new streaming audio file format

Computer corporation Apple is said to be working on a new adaptive streaming audio file format that will offer better streaming to its cloud users.

Apple faces ‘Nike moment’ over factory conditions

Apple faces ‘Nike moment’ over factory conditions

The spotlight on working conditions at the factories of its Chinese contractor has prompted Apple to brace for a run of damaging publicity.