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Thursday 21 June 2012
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Balmier days: Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop greets Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to announce the Windows Phone tieup in London, January 2011,. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images
Charles Arthur and Josh Halliday: Plus what Apple Stores get right, Frog reimagines the Android UI, bad forecasts from 2009 and more
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Wednesday 20 June 2012
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South African big wave surfer Andy Marr surfs a huge wave at the Dungeon off Cape Town, South Africa. Now read on. Photograph: Nic Bothma/EPA
Matthew Baxter-Reynolds: Some people think it's not worth learning the different techniques involved in developing for Metro because they can't see a big future in mobile. But Microsoft sees it as the future. Shouldn't you?
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Recognise anyone in this photo? Please indicate. Photograph: Robert Galbraith/REUTERS
Charles Arthur and Josh Halliday: Plus how the computing value chain has evolved, can you disable Facebook face recognition, Google+ and growth, and more
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Tuesday 19 June 2012
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The new Microsoft Surface tablet with a 10.6-inch (27cm) screen which was introduced at an event in Hollywood, California Photograph: MICROSOFT / HANDOUT/EPA
Charles Arthur and Josh Halliday: Plus mobile users fall in Spain, hacking back at the hackers, Windows Phone sees new starts and more
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Monday 18 June 2012
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The eye of Asa at the FBI's get-together in San Francisco. Photograph: Rachael Turner
The lively team from the Northern Quarter have just been in California for a conference designed to help the Feds keep up with 'DIY biologists' across the world. Asa Calow was one of them
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Customers queue to buy the new Samsung Galaxy S3 during a late night sale event in Berlin. Wait for the Q2 figures... Photograph: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters
Charles Arthur and Josh Halliday: Plus RIM chiefs' payoffs, the fundamentalists of gaming, what Microsoft needs to do next and more
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The Cuadrilla site near Preston, possible precursor of many more. Photograph: Matthew Lloyd/Getty Images
Demonstrators lock themselves to gates of drilling rig depot early this morning
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Sunday 17 June 2012
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Nokia's Lumia smartphone on sale in New York. US carriers determine prices. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Benedict Evans of Enders Analysis explains the market distortions that make smartphones so expensive in the US - and other data explains whether they go to new or existing buyers. By Charles Arthur
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Friday 15 June 2012
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Nokia says it plans to cut another 10,000 jobs worldwide. Photograph: Seppo Sirkka/EPA
Plus Nook tops Kindle Fire in new US tablet traffic stats, and can Apple take Intel's Thunderbolt mainstream?
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This week enjoy Joel and Ethan Coen's take on global cinema, a trip down memory lane and some Super Mario disasters
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Thursday 14 June 2012
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Will she get the northern indie music message in the era of Promoted Posts? Photograph: Alamy
Does the latest loudhailer in the online clamour for attention risk drowning small players out? Dan Carson from Sunderland and the Abacus Post thinks so
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Microsoft is reported to be close to buying messaging service Yammer. Photograph: Tobias Schwarz/Reuters
Plus Propublica's investigation into Microsoft and Yahoo, and Reuters digs into Apple's key problem: delay
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Wednesday 13 June 2012
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iTunes: Ping is set for a death sentence, reports say. Photograph: Oliver Stratmann/AFP/Getty Images
Charles Arthur and Josh Halliday: Plus those Microsoft lyrics explained, Verizon whacks moderate data users in the US and more
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Tuesday 12 June 2012
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Tim Cook spelled out Apple's secret weapon at its WWDC summit on Monday Photograph: Handout/Reuters
Plus how Google and Microsoft taught search to "understand" the web, and don't hold the Samsung Galaxy S III wrong
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How cloud computing is driving success for Europe's small businesses
It's no secret that these are tough economic times, but on-demand software is helping lift SMEs out of the doldrums, says Daniel Saks
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Marketing in social media and the complex art of measurement
Don't trust in magic numbers, only established methodologies will establish the effectiveness of your activities, says James Devon
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The first BlackBerry device running Research In Motion Ltd.âs new operating software will not have a physical keyboard, only a touch-screen one.
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Metrics firms bicker over which browser, IE or Chrome, is No. 1 >> Computerworld
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