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Mobility

HP Announces ‘EliteBook Revolve’ Business Tablet

The hybrid EliteBook Revolve aims to work as tablet and ultrabook

Chromebooks

Report: Google Planning Branded Touch-Screen Chromebook

Google is to launch a 12.85-inch touch-screen-operated Chromebook by the end of this year, according to two reports

Open Source

Raspberry Pi Coding Contest Concludes As Hack Competition Commences

Raspberry Pi competition winners are announced as another contest is organised for next month

Mobility

Creative Sells GPU Technology And UK Resources To Intel

The 3DLabs legacy is part of the deal worth $50 million

Mac

Report: Super-Thin iMacs To Arrive On Time

Apple's newly redesigned iMacs are shipping on schedule, according to reports citing industry sources, in spite of earlier reports that the devices were facing delays

Networks

BT Engineers Adopt Windows 8 On Toughbook Convertibles

BT deploys 5,900 touch-enabled Panasonic Toughbooks for Openreach staff

Cloud

Dell Bets On Automation With Gale Technologies Acquisition

Dell looks to boost its growing enterprise business

mobile OS

Report: Microsoft Preparing Office For iOS, Android Debut

Microsoft will finally release Office for Android as well as Apple's iPhone and iPad devices early next year, according to a report

Mobility

Report: Microsoft Planning Mini Tablet

Microsoft is planning to match Apple's iPad Mini with its own 7-inch Xbox Surface tablet, according to a report

Networks

Euro Story: German ICT Sector Grows Faster Than Expected

GERMANY: The ICT market is doing a lot better than predicted in March, thanks to tablets and Olympics

Green-IT

Acer: We Are Aggressive About Touch

Acer’s Jerry Kao talks to TechWeekEurope about the future of touchscreen

Cloud

AMD Partners With ARM To Sell Efficient Server Chips

New partner to continue the struggle against Intel in the data centre

Mac

Apple’s Black iPad Mini Sells Out

Apple has apparently sold out of the black version of its recently introduced iPad Mini, raising further questions as to whether the company will be able to keep up with demand

Representation of Nanotubes. Credit - UMD

Workspace

IBM Increases Carbon Nanotube Chip Density

IBM researchers develop techniques that pack more than 10,000 working carbon nanotube transistors onto a single chip

Reports: First iPad Minis Sold Out In Minutes

The first batch of Apple's iPad Mini tablets appears to have sold out just a few minutes after going on sale, while a version with 4G LTE may be coming sooner than expected

Mobility

I’m In The Queue: Windows 8 Midnight Launch

Max Smolaks spent a cold night at the midnight Windows 8 launch in London

Mobility

TechWeekEurope Readers Plan To Shun Windows 8

TechWeekEurope readers are not enamoured with Microsoft's new OS

Regulation

UK Charity To Build Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine

Could there have been a steam-powered computer age?

Bill Gates Speaks On Surface, Windows 8 Opportunities

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates went in front of the camera to speak of the company's 'critical' upcoming products

Collaboration Suites

Windows 8 Gets ‘Truly Modern Skype’

The new Skype doesn't do much different, but it looks a little slicker

Mark Benioff Salesforce.com Dreamforce 2012

Benioff: Windows 8 Marks End Of Windows

Windows 8 will mark the point at which enterprises begin to move on from the Windows platform, according to Salesforce.com chief executive Marc Benioff