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Google rebrands US Android market as 'Google Play'

...Google could have held on to "Market" but this has a somewhat downmarket feel, so that went as well. Play is dull but does the... Read more

6 March, 2012

What Chromebooks really mean for Windows

For businesses, Chromebooks aren't about what you get - they're about what's left out. The knee jerk response is 'the... Read more

17 May, 2011

Manufacturers want masses to swallow tablet PC

The tablet PC is going downmarket, with consumer versions set to go on sale worldwide Read more

17 July, 2003 by Michael Kanellos

Intel takes Deerfield downmarket

Chipmaker Intel will release a cut-price Itanium 2 processor in a bid to boost sales Read more

10 July, 2003 by Kai Schmerer and Michael Kanellos

IBM moves iSeries backup downmarket

24/7 protection will now be available to customers using smaller iSeries machines Read more

10 August, 2006 by Colin Barker
iPass chief shares plans for the cloud

iPass chief shares plans for the cloud

...longer term. Improving the iPass management platform will allow us to move downmarket, and partner to deliver to small businesses. Most of our customers are... Read more

27 March, 2009 by Tom Espiner

Android lays low at Mobile World Congress

...mainstream phones next year. "The vision, long-term, is to take this downmarket, but this is the first version and we wanted it to be... Read more

20 February, 2009 by Stephen Shankland

Symbian will smart over mid-market phones

Going downmarket can be a smart move. Take Burberry -- once the clothing of choice... Read more

6 October, 2004 by Leader

BlackBerry firm keeps arms together

...time looking at design and the challenge for us is to go downmarket and compete with some of the other players," he said, referring to... Read more

3 October, 2003 by John Lui

Surfing the Show Floor

...listening to a thousand enthusiastic Silicon Valley start-up CEOs in cramped downmarket hotel suites and pacing the deep pile, high traffic carpets of the... Read more

17 November, 1999 by Tony Westbrook

Inbox: Worried about pink slips? Here's some advice

...a "Diary of a retired computer executive", and flogged it to a downmarket computer paper. Go freelance. I still make a modest crust 27 years... Read more

3 November, 2008 by silicon.com staff

EAI - everything you wanted to know...

...but were afraid to ask. At least about the last few years of application 'gluing' and an impending shake out Read more

4 June, 2003 by Ovum

'Merciless' Dell prepares for staff cull

...PC maker by analyst house IDC, has recently made an aggressive move downmarket to increase market share and boost sales. Yesterday it announced further price... Read more

1 May, 2001 by Joey Gardiner

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

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Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

7 hours ago by Thomas Gellhaus via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

14 hours ago by knapper on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

15 hours ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
Iain Sutherland

I received the notification of Mageia 2 being released on Saturday, was already running Mageia 1. After running the installation X came back up...

16 hours ago by Iain Sutherland via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
SoapyTablet

If ZTE have been selling below cost with the ZTE Blade / Orange San Francisco then given the current high street price of the Nokia Lumia 710, you...

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Burn-IT

Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

20 hours ago by Burn-IT on 6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT
pjc158

So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

20 hours ago by pjc158 on RIM to lay off 2,000 on 1 June, says report
Jake Rayson

@191706> *their* own Mac Thank you for picking up the errant spelling :) @apexwm > Mac OS X for Intel machines is supposed to run in VirtualBox...

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archerthom

I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

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unlockworldwide

May I quote Horace Dediu, who runs the consultancy Asmyco who has repeatedly observed that mobile phone companies that fall into loss – even once...

23 hours ago by unlockworldwide on RIM to lay off 2,000 on 1 June, says report
NarayanaIyyappan

It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.

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DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

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Jack Strain

Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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Sungwoo

do You know that? it can install 4G Ram. So i buy 4g and install It work! I can run call of duty 4,6,7 [Modern war... 1,2,3] Call of duty 1 was...

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itsajob

2. Bad idea. Making up patch cables loses you your commission from the cable supplier. 3. If you tidy up, other people can understand where the...

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Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

3 days ago by Paul Smyth via Facebook on Firefox rapid release improves Fedora Linux
UnderINK

I agree with the previous commenter wholeheartedly. I couldn't say it better myself. This is very 'Big Brother'. And while I agree with protecting...

3 days ago by UnderINK on European e-identity plan to be unveiled this month
Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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