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• August 03, 2012 03 Aug'12

  Sharp set to swing the axe on 5,000 staff

  Sharp has announced plans to axe staff for the first time in 60 years after announcing major losses for its first quarter

• August 03, 2012 03 Aug'12

  Microsoft tablet strategy dead on arrival, warns Canalys

  Microsoft has got its tablet strategy badly wrong and must act soon to repair its relationships with the PC vendor community, say Canalys analysts.

• August 02, 2012 02 Aug'12

  Tin's in at Insight

  Insight’s EMEA business has turned in a massive 31% increase in hardware sales, pushing the unit to Q2 sales of $459.7m, up 14% year-on-year.

• July 30, 2012 30 Jul'12

  Apple and Samsung take patent fight to California

  The patent dispute between Samsung and Apple will be put before a jury in a Californian court as the two vendor try to resolve the question of copyright infringement

• July 27, 2012 27 Jul'12

  Smart phones boost profits at Samsung

  Samsung has reported a decent set of numbers for its second quarter thanks to strong sales of its Galaxy smart phone and tablet products

• July 25, 2012 25 Jul'12

  Apple quarterly results disappoint Wall Street

  Apple's results showed growth but not quite as much as analysts had been expecting and as a result they are being widely seen as being disappointing

• July 20, 2012 20 Jul'12

  Tablet adoption set to soar

  Ofcom's insights into the attitudes of the public towards technology have revealed a growing passion for tablets

• July 20, 2012 20 Jul'12

  European PC shipments beat expectations in Q2

  The latest PC tracker figures for EMEA from IDC indicate that the market grew faster than forecasts and tablets continue to be products favoured by users

• July 12, 2012 12 Jul'12

  Size of Euro PC mountain worries Gartner

  A risk-averse approach to channel PC sales during the second quarter means inventory is stacking up, analysts say.

• July 08, 2012 08 Jul'12

  MicroScope's top stories, week ending 6 July 2012

  Our weekly round-up of the top 10 most read stories here on MicroScope.co.uk

• July 06, 2012 06 Jul'12

  European PC market continues to struggle

  European PC market continues to struggle as fragile economic conditions take their toll according to the latest market research from Context

• June 28, 2012 28 Jun'12

  Google takes wraps off Nexus 7 and targets Fire

  Google launches its own tablet Nexus 7 made by Asus which will be priced at a level to compete head on with Amazon's Kindle Fire

• June 27, 2012 27 Jun'12

  Google expected to join the tablet party

  Google is tipped to be launching its own Nexus 7 Android tablet at its developer conference in California

• June 25, 2012 25 Jun'12

  MicroScope's top stories, week ending 22 June 2012

  Our regular look back at the top 10 most read stories on MicroScope.co.uk from the past week.

• June 22, 2012 22 Jun'12

  Businesses struggling to keep up with BYOD trend

  More firms are encountering staff taking advantage of BYOD but not many have formulated a policy or have plans to use budget to help staff buy kit.

• June 21, 2012 21 Jun'12

  Toshiba talks up longevity in new channel growth push

  Toshiba has revealed it is planning to launch a refreshed reseller programme later in the summer, as it looks to make b2b growth of around 20%, a figure it claims it has already achieved comfortably in the first two months of the current financial ...

• June 19, 2012 19 Jun'12

  Microsoft enters tablet fray with Surface

  Microsoft is launching its own tablet PC in October called Surface which will use the Windows 8 operating system.

• June 19, 2012 19 Jun'12

  Motorola Solutions devours Psion in £129m deal

  Former personal organiser guru Psion has been swallowed up by Motorola Solutions for £129m, or around 88p per share by way of a recommended cash offer, effectively bringing to an end a 32 year industry pedigree.

• June 14, 2012 14 Jun'12

  Carphone Warehouse plans to broaden tech product range

  Carphone Warehouse has revealed plans to extend its non-cellular product line selling more IT technology to users.

• June 24, 2011 24 Jun'11

  Data is the new oil? That's just too much

  Judging by Google, there seem to be a lot of people around at the moment who are opening their presentations with the bold statement that "data is the new oil".

• April 18, 2011 18 Apr'11

  A planted question: 28 years of MicroScope funnies (14)

  A very sober roundtable discussion at Networks 95 was hijacked by a particularly earnest reseller only too keen to raise a number of topics close to his heart.

• January 11, 2011 11 Jan'11

  Tablet overload could hurt some vendors

  The Consumer Electronics Show was awash with tablets this year. According to some reports there were as many as 80 on show at the event.