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title: Things Looking Up Much?
date: 2010-02-05T17:33:30Z
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I read the Financial Times most days. Over the last 18 months or so the news has been mostly bad, so I have to say today’s tech digest made for very pleasant reading. You don’t need a sophisticated sentiment analysis engine to see a trend here….



| [Lenovo profiting from recovery ](http://link.ft.com/r/73UJGG/IYITVU/UURK8/OJUHR6/3O6PFC/6C/h "http://link.ft.com/r/73UJGG/IYITVU/UURK8/OJUHR6/3O6PFC/6C/h") |
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| Chinese PC maker Lenovo reports net profit for its fiscal third quarter to December of $80m, significantly ahead of expectations, compared with a $97m net loss for the same quarter a year earlier [http://link.ft.com/r/73UJGG/IYITVU/UURK8/OJUHR6/3O6PFC/6C/h](http://link.ft.com/r/73UJGG/IYITVU/UURK8/OJUHR6/3O6PFC/6C/h "http://link.ft.com/r/73UJGG/IYITVU/UURK8/OJUHR6/3O6PFC/6C/h") |



| [Sony lifts outlook after strong quarter ](http://link.ft.com/r/73UJGG/IYITVU/UURK8/OJUHR6/72VTPZ/6C/h "http://link.ft.com/r/73UJGG/IYITVU/UURK8/OJUHR6/72VTPZ/6C/h") |
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| Japan’s leading electronics brand shows the benefits of its restructuring programme cutting its forecast net loss for the year to March 2010 after a strong Christmas quarter [http://link.ft.com/r/73UJGG/IYITVU/UURK8/OJUHR6/72VTPZ/6C/h](http://link.ft.com/r/73UJGG/IYITVU/UURK8/OJUHR6/72VTPZ/6C/h "http://link.ft.com/r/73UJGG/IYITVU/UURK8/OJUHR6/72VTPZ/6C/h") |



| [Samsung plans to treble smartphone sales ](http://link.ft.com/r/73UJGG/IYITVU/UURK8/OJUHR6/QFRK5O/6C/h "http://link.ft.com/r/73UJGG/IYITVU/UURK8/OJUHR6/QFRK5O/6C/h") |
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| Samsung Electronics says it aims to treble its smartphone shipments this year by expanding its line-up in a bid to close the gap on rivals such as Nokia and Apple in the fast-growing market [http://link.ft.com/r/73UJGG/IYITVU/UURK8/OJUHR6/QFRK5O/6C/h](http://link.ft.com/r/73UJGG/IYITVU/UURK8/OJUHR6/QFRK5O/6C/h "http://link.ft.com/r/73UJGG/IYITVU/UURK8/OJUHR6/QFRK5O/6C/h") |



| [Facebook dominates mobile internet ](http://link.ft.com/r/73UJGG/IYITVU/UURK8/OJUHR6/XTLSYZ/6C/h "http://link.ft.com/r/73UJGG/IYITVU/UURK8/OJUHR6/XTLSYZ/6C/h") |
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| Around 16m people in the UK accessed the web via mobile phone in December, with the social networking site accounting for nearly half of all the time people spent online [http://link.ft.com/r/73UJGG/IYITVU/UURK8/OJUHR6/XTLSYZ/6C/h](http://link.ft.com/r/73UJGG/IYITVU/UURK8/OJUHR6/XTLSYZ/6C/h "http://link.ft.com/r/73UJGG/IYITVU/UURK8/OJUHR6/XTLSYZ/6C/h") |



| [Tech spending ](http://link.ft.com/r/73UJGG/IYITVU/UURK8/OJUHR6/BM78HR/6C/h "http://link.ft.com/r/73UJGG/IYITVU/UURK8/OJUHR6/BM78HR/6C/h") |
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| Cisco has reported sales growth for the first time since October 2008, but the expected celebration did not take place [http://link.ft.com/r/73UJGG/IYITVU/UURK8/OJUHR6/BM78HR/6C/h](http://link.ft.com/r/73UJGG/IYITVU/UURK8/OJUHR6/BM78HR/6C/h "http://link.ft.com/r/73UJGG/IYITVU/UURK8/OJUHR6/BM78HR/6C/h") |