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• The week that…

  February 4, 2011 @ 11:48 am | by Ciara O'Brien

  …Facebook Places became active for Irish users. Another way to stalk and be stalked by your nearest and dearest (3,000+) social network ‘friends’. As if there weren’t enough.

  …Google opened a web store for its Android market. It’s still not quite there yet though, is it?

  …a row broke out between Google and Microsoft over search results on Bing. If you can’t play nicely, kids, don’t play at all.

  …Intel found a flaw in its new chips that could cost it up to $1 billion in missed sales and costs to put it right.

• Intel unveils 48-core processor

  December 5, 2009 @ 4:27 pm | by Ciara O'Brien

  Remember the days before Windows, cheap desktops and increasingly fast microprocessors? Back then, we had an Amstrad CPC 6128k, complete with a green screen and a floppy disk drive.

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