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ADATA Increases Their UK Distribution System
ADATA makes some great memory and storage products, ranging from laptop and desktop memory over solid state drives to portable and rugged hard disk drives. Getting hold of their products in the UK could be tricky at times, but that is about to change now. ADATA entered a partnership with…
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Worldwide Gaming Market Now Worth $91 Billion
In their year-in-review for 2016, SuperData Research has crunched the numbers and revealed that the gaming industry is as big as it has ever been, generating $91 Billion in 2016. Of this whole $91 billion pie, the bulk was made up of mobile gaming market earning $40.6 billion this year…
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UK Physical Games Market Declines 52% Year-On-Year
The gaming industry is progressively moving towards digital distribution and it appears consumers are becoming less attached to physical media. This already happened aeons ago on the PC platform and retail PC games only exist to please a small niche. Even console players who prefer to collect physical copies have seen…
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Worldwide PC Shipments Fell by 5.7 Percent in Q3 2016
The demise of the traditional desktop PC has been predicted for a considerable amount of time and there appears to be a steady decline which shows no signs of slowing down. The advent of tablets, mobile phones and other devices which provide a more tactile user experience pose a threat…
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AMD’s Stock Hits Highest Point in Four Years
AMD’s long-term future has been questioned by critics due to ongoing poor financials and the declining market share in both the CPU and GPU segments. This worrying situation led to calls for a takeover or possibility of AMD selling their assets to another technology giant. Thankfully, it seems AMD is…
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Global PCI-E Market to Grow 33.24% by 2020
PCI-E storage devices offer astonishing performance and make the traditional SATA interface seem ancient in comparison. Of course, the vastly improved read/write speeds have a significant price premium which means PCI-E SSDs remain out of reach for most users. Being an early adopter of any advanced technology is expensive and…
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Motherboard Sales Are in Sharp Decline
Selecting a motherboard can be a tricky task due to the number of chipsets, aesthetic designs and power circuitry. In today’s market, motherboards are a good investment because enthusiast processors haven’t progressed at a significant enough pace to make users upgrade on a regular basis. Not only that, products are…
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AMD Makes Gains in Discrete Graphics Market
AMD’s market share in the discrete sector hasn’t been ideal for a considerable amount of time and raised some questions if they could turn this worrying trend around. Thankfully, the latest Mercury research paper makes for some positive reading and clearly shows a revival by AMD in this very important…
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Valve Found Guilty of Breaking Australian Consumer Law
Valve is known for creating the popular digital sales platform Steam, which does everything hardware to regular sales on video games. One thing they’ve been keen to improve on for a while has been their refund policy, something which saw the original policy replaced with one that could offer full refunds to people who…
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WhatsApp to End Support For Older Operating Systems
WhatsApp is a cross-platform messaging client which allows users to exchange text messages, images, video content, location details and audio files. As of February 2016, WhatsApp has a user base of up to one billion which makes it the most popular messaging application in the world! Back in February 2014,…
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BlackBerry Lays Off 200 Employees in Restructuring Programme
BlackBerry’s position in the global smartphone market has been extremely fragile due to the rise of iOS and Android devices. Additionally, the BlackBerry 10 operating system was a commercial failure and struggled to entice app developers to the platform. Personally, I quite like Blackberry 10 but it’s difficult to make…
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UK Market Gaming Stats Revealed For 2015
The games industry is the same as any other market when it comes to analysing the performance of titles, consoles and revenue with the aim of finding trends in consumer preferences and company performance. GfK Entertainment has made a wide range of information available concerning the shape of the UK…
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2015 Saw Biggest Ever Decline in PC Sales
PC sales in 2015 were the lowest since 2008 – shipping below 300 million units – and the on-year decline of 10.6% is the largest decline ever experienced, beating a previous drop of 9.8% in 2013, IDC Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker announced in a press release on DigiTimes. “The PC…
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Apple’s Stock Drops by Over $160 Billion
The smartphone market is expected to stagnate as sales grow at a slower pace in major western territories. Of course, there are exceptions to the rule such as India where the introduction of affordable handsets increases the ownership rate by a significant margin. However, it can be argued that smartphone…
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Amazon Accounts For 39.3 Percent of E-commerce Spending in The USA During November
Online retail giant, Amazon is a popular choice for consumers wanting to purchase goods at reasonable prices while relying on a proven track record in customer service. When compared to other stores, Amazon’s buying power is difficult to match and provides a huge array of items from electrical products to…
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