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Samsung Galaxy S4– All the rage

          The Galaxy only evolves slightly but it makes iPhone 5 look more and more out of date. Samsung launched the Galaxy S4 with much fanfare...

MWC 2013 Day 4 – Missing Persons

            At this year’s show, what was missing is actually much more interesting. It was all downhill from Monday, with very little news being announced...

Japan TV – A glimmer of hope

          I have been very damning on the outlook for Japanese Consumer Electronics, but have I been slightly too hasty? Japanese Consumer Electronics looks to be...

RFM 2013 Top 5 – Part 2 – Samsung bendable displays

          Samsung consolidates its handset gains with bendable and foldable displays. In a commoditising market where Samsung has no ecosystem with which to differentiate, this is...

ARM, MIPS and IMG – Reducing RISC

          With ARM becoming an ever more dominant force in the world of microprocessors, the fate of its erstwhile competitor MIPS has long been uncertain. That...

Apple and Intel – Birds and stones

          The result of the recent management shake-up at Apple seems to have opened up a series of new avenues that had previously been considered closed....

Japanese Consumer Electronics – Apocalypse Now!

          Things are so bad at Sharp that it may have to ask the Japanese state to bail it out when its $2.5bn of convertible bonds...

Windows 8– A sedate frenzy

          It has not been a mad rush nor a scrum down but there has been more interest in Windows 8 (especially the Surface) than the...

Storage – Obsolete? Me?

          Those predicting the demise of the HDD need to think again. The idea has long been that the superior performance of a solid state disk...

$100 Tablet – lose lose

          The notion of a tablet that costs $100 may sound exciting but those that rush out to purchase the device are likely to quickly discover...