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Organisers have released short-listed nominations for the Channel Expo Awards 2007, which will take place on March 28th.

Fujitsu Siemens predicts ‘virtualised client environments’ will seriously change the way we use PCs, while Devolo has developed technology which can pipe TV signals through the mains.

The ultra mobile PC takes another bow on the first day of CeBIT 2007, while the Commodore brand is finally resurrected.

For the first time in the show's ten year history, Apple is to have a presence at Channel Expo.

Ahead of its unveiling at CeBit tomorrow, Commodore Gaming has given PC Retail specifications of its high end gaming PC. 

Realtime Distribution today announced the launch of a competition giving customers the chance to win a collector’s edition ATI Radeon X1950 XTX Uber graphics card kit.

Blu-ray has taken an early lead in the high definition disk format race, after continually strong disk sales since the beginning of the year.

Giant computer firm Acer has gone on the record saying it wants to takeover a rival this year and is currently looking at some potential targets.

Online payment system Paypal is the chief target for phishing scams, according to a report by McAfee.

Samsung has announced the launch of the world's first notebook hybrid hard disk drive.

Veteran computing firm Commodore looks set to launch a gaming product, following recent forays into portable media players.

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