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AMD has blamed declining channel sales for short falling revenues in Q1.

Three of the biggest names in the technology world have finally confirmed they are to exhibit at this year’s channel event.

Vendor Lenovo has announced a battery recall which will affect 208,000 units, following reports that some notebooks caught fire.

The distributor has warned that the IT sector is set for more trying times.

Distributor ETC is offering PC Retail readers the chance to win a Nintendo Wii.

The latest flash drives match the capacity of HDDs, however the prices are still way above most consumer’s budgets.

The parent company of PC World has opened the door to collaboration with the independent sector by partnering with IT skills marketplace Orderwork.

The beleaguered PC giant has added its Latitude laptop range to its open source n-series offering.

Dedicated case and PSU minisite CaseWorld cements Target’s position as Foxconn’s number one UK case distributor.

The average speed of broadband downloads in the UK is now 2MB per second, up from 512 KB per second three years ago.

Less than a month after the launch of Microsoft Office 2007, Tesco has already begun dramatically undercutting the competition.

The two technology giants have launched simultaneous initiatives in the battle for Web 2.0 supremacy.