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US Library of Congress saving 500 million tweets per day in archives

The government library is storing the messages as part of its efforts to archive all Twitter activity

Qualcomm aims Snapdragon 800 chips at ‘premium’ phones and tablets

Qualcomm says its new flagship Snapdragon processors will give a big performance leap over their predecessors

Cisco: TV, weather and Facebook could take over one of your walls

Cisco's new Videoscape Unity back-end platform is designed to help pay-TV carriers expand their offerings

AMD shows off Windows 8 tablet with upcoming Tamesh chip

Tablets with AMD's Tamesh chip will become available later this year

LaCie releases 20TB Thunderbolt RAID array

The 5big, unveiled at CES, sports I/O speeds of up to 785MB/s (see picture below)

Intel pledges $599 touchscreen ultrabooks later this year

Price has been a sticking point for ultrabook sales, but a $599 touchscreen system might be more appealing

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PC prices must rise, not fall, to solve Windows 8’s lousy start, analyst argues

OEMs to blame for poor Windows 8 sales over the holidays, says retail expert

HP tries to reverse past tablet failures with ElitePad 900

HP is putting the ElitePad 900 through extensive testing before shipping

Customer sues Salesforce.com over support service

An upgrade to Premier Support came with a higher price tag but not the expected benefits, one customer claims