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Charles Arthur

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/ 23 August 2011

HP TouchPad sale will cost it millions

HP faces losses of millions of dollars by refunding retailers who are slashing prices of its TouchPad tablet.

By Charles Arthur
How Google, Facebook and Hotmail aim to stop hacking
Article
/ 6 August 2011

How Google, Facebook and Hotmail aim to stop hacking

How secure is your password for email and various social networks? Not very, which is why Google, Hotmail and Facebook have implemented a new system.

By Charles Arthur
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Article
/ 8 July 2011

iPhone 5 ‘now in production’

It has a target of up to 25-million phones produced by the end of the year, according to Taiwanese suppliers — and it may use wireless charging.

By Charles Arthur
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Article
/ 30 June 2011

Google+ hands on: Laboured stuff

Can you get your profile set up in less than a minute? Can you get your picture on your profile in seconds, edited, and move on?

By Charles Arthur
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Article
/ 25 June 2011

Chatroom logs shine a light on hackers

Leaked IRC logs identify LulzSec members and show a disorganised group obsessed with its media coverage and suspicious of other hackers.

By Ryan Gallagher and Charles Arthur
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Article
/ 23 June 2011

iPhone 5 ‘to launch in September’

The upgraded Apple handset will look like iPhone 4 but feature an A5 processor and 8MP camera, according to reports.

By Charles Arthur
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Article
/ 18 June 2011

Cyberwar heats up with Pentagon’s virtual firing range

The US defence agency that invented the forerunner to the internet is working on a "virtual firing range" intended as a replica of the real internet.

By Charles Arthur
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Article
/ 14 June 2011

Facebook growth slows for second month in a row

The number of people using Facebook during May fell in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Norway and Russia, according to new data.

By Charles Arthur
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Article
/ 14 May 2011

iPhone app developers hit by patent claims

At least five developers were contacted by Lodsys, which says it has four patents relating to Apple’s in-app purchase system.

By Charles Arthur
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Article
/ 13 May 2011

Microsoft takes a gamble on Skype

Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype, its biggest, is an $8.5-billion gamble to try to catch up with Apple and Google.

By Charles Arthur
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Article
/ 29 April 2011

TomTom satnav data used to set police speed traps

New privacy row as satnav maker TomTom admits selling data to Dutch police – who then used it to target speeders.

By Charles Arthur
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Article
/ 21 April 2011

iPhone keeps record of everywhere you go

Security researchers have discovered that Apple’s iPhone keeps track of where you go – and saves every detail of it to a secret file.

By Charles Arthur
Where will Larry Page lead Google?
Article
/ 5 April 2011

Where will Larry Page lead Google?

In the 10 years since the last time Larry Page was Google’s chief executive, the company has changed a bit.

By Charles Arthur
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Article
/ 27 March 2011

How the iPad revolution has transformed working lives

A friend recently went to a business meeting. He prepared by pulling his laptop out of his bag. The clients responded by taking out their iPads.

By Charles Arthur
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Article
/ 23 March 2011

BlackBerry PlayBook price and specs revealed

Rim is to release the tablet in United States and Canada on April 19. The PlayBook will start at $499 and some features put it ahead of the iPad.

By Charles Arthur
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Article
/ 4 March 2011

PC sales growth to be ‘hit by Apple’s iPad 2’

The overall growth in PC sales will be cut dramatically over the next two years as people in the US and Europe choose tablets.

By Charles Arthur
How Google is getting its focus back
Article
/ 2 February 2011

How Google is getting its focus back

With its chief executive stepping down, the internet giant is on the right track.

By Charles Arthur
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Article
/ 22 January 2011

Google shuffle: Why Eric Schmidt had to be pushed

After slip-ups with search, Street View and Android, it’s clear that Google needs control at the top — and Eris Schmidt is not the man for the job.

By Charles Arthur
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Article
/ 17 November 2010

Emailing by Facebook? Good luck

Did you go "uh?" when Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook’s new email system isn’t email? Don’t worry — so did everyone else.

By Charles Arthur
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Article
/ 10 November 2010

Billions at stake in the smartphone patent wars

When a dauntingly technical lawsuit thumped on to the tables of a court in Wisconsin on Tuesday, the global cellphone industry sat up an took notice.

By Charles Arthur
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Article
/ 30 July 2010

Where are the new social networks?

The technology scene has echoes of the
post-dotcom exhaustion of 2002 as we wait for mobiles to catch up.

By Charles Arthur
Apple sells 300 000 iPads — but is that good or bad?
Article
/ 6 April 2010

Apple sells 300 000 iPads — but is that good or bad?

It’s only when you compare the weekend sales to the full-year predictions for Apple that you know if it’s significant — or a flop.

By Charles Arthur
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Article
/ 13 March 2010

Facebook calls on ex-detective to name social networking site

Source of <i>Daily Maily</i> story refuses to divulge "well-known social network" where he posed as girl of 14 and received sexual approaches.

By Charles Arthur
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Article
/ 6 February 2010

Top five Twitter gaffes

The past year has seen been a string of slip-ups on the micro-blogging service, from cricketers to Vodafone staff.

By Charles Arthur
Media in a straitjacket
Article
/ 22 January 2010

Media in a straitjacket

Google’s China experience shows that even powerful companies have to accept the consequences of tight state control.

By Charles Arthur
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Article
/ 20 January 2010

Can Apple’s tablet do it again?

Apple’s latest product is the eagerly awaited ‘tablet’ electronic reader. But no one knows exactly what it will do. So what might we expect?

By Charles Arthur
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Article
/ 16 January 2009

Steve Jobs takes six months off

As news broke that Steve Jobs would be taking at least six months’ medical leave, the internet was abuzz with the question: what is Apple without him?

By Charles Arthur
What will the Large Hadron Collider do for us?
Article
/ 24 September 2008

What will the Large Hadron Collider do for us?

After all, lots of people know that the world wide web came out of Cern, which is home once again to a particle collider project.

By Charles Arthur
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/ 5 July 2008

Just how fast do you want your computer to be?

The end of the ever-faster computer has been announced many times in the past decade, amd fllmakers will always need more poke from their machines.

By Charles Arthur
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