Friday, April 24, 2009

IT News HeadLines (Tom's Hardware) 24/04/2009



Apple Beats Recession With Its Best Q2 Ever
Apple Beats Recession With Its Best Q2 EverBest quarterly earnings yet for Apple, but it's not because of Macs
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Time Warner, Embarq Hopes to Kill Little ISP
Time Warner, Embarq Hopes to Kill Little ISPIt seems Time Warner Cable and Embarq are hell bent on taking down a small, local ISP that’s offering one community faster and cheaper internet access.
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Pirate Bay Judge Accused of Bias
Pirate Bay Judge Accused of BiasThe Legal team representing one of the men found guilty for his involvement in the Pirate Bay is seeking a retrial.
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White House May Step In for Cybersecurity
White House May Step In for CybersecurityExperts are today calling for the Whitehouse to take control of cybersecurity, a responsibility that currently falls under the Department of Homeland Security’s scope of duty.
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Dept. of Defense to Announce Cyber Command
Dept. of Defense to Announce Cyber CommandEarlier in the week, we published a report detailing a breach of Pentagon security that saw cyber-spies make off with terabytes of data from the Joint Strike Fighter program, the U.S. Department of Defense’s most expensive weapons program to date.
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Time Warner Holding Back Super-fast Broadband?
Time Warner Holding Back Super-fast Broadband?The saga continues.
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Run Ethernet Over Your Coax TV Cable
Run Ethernet Over Your Coax TV CableThis week D-Link announced a new product called the DXN-221, which allows users to run Ethernet over existing coax cabling throughout their homes.
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Pirate Bay: No Donations! We're Not Paying
Pirate Bay: No Donations! We're Not PayingThose found guilt in the Pirate Bay case last week have asked users to stop donating money to help them pay the heavy fines imposed by courts.
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Windows 7 Can Be Hacked, No Fix
Windows 7 Can Be Hacked, No FixEarlier today at the Hack In The box Security Conference, security researchers showed how easy it is to hack into Windows 7. Ouch.
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Windows 7 Build 7100 is RC, But Beware of Fakes
Windows 7 Build 7100 is RC, But Beware of Fakes7100 could be the RC build for Windows 7, but don't go downloading it just yet
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Opterons: 12-core in 2010, 16-core in 2011
Opterons: 12-core in 2010, 16-core in 2011Talk about KAPOW, Batman! AMD revealed that its plans a 12-core Opteron processor in 2010, and a 16-core Opteron in 2011
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Apple: Netbooks Don't Deserve Mac Brand
Apple: Netbooks Don't Deserve Mac BrandAs the rumors about the new iPhone due out in June really start to kick off, people are also talking about the possibility of an Apple netbook or tablet.
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Report: MSI to Unveil Android Netbook in June
Report: MSI to Unveil Android Netbook in JuneIt looks like MSI might be ready to join the Android party.
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Find Illegal Torrents Using Google
Find Illegal Torrents Using GoogleSomeone's made a Pirate Bay out of Google
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Nvidia Releases OpenCL Driver
Nvidia Releases OpenCL DriverNvidia released its OpenCL driver and SDK to developers, the company's new "heterogeneous" computing environment that runs on the CUDA architecture.
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Windows 7 Security Features Revealed
Windows 7 Security Features RevealedMicrosoft's Paul Cooke talks about the security features in the upcoming Windows 7 OS, covering subjects such as Multiple Active Firewall Policies, DirectAccess, and more.
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First Android Netbook Costs Just $100
Here it is, the first Android netbook.
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Duke Nukem Forever: Close to Completion?
Duke Nukem Forever: Close to Completion?According to 3D Realms CEO George Broussard, the Duke Nukem Forever development team hit another "milestone"
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AMD Launches Low-Power 40-Watt Opteron EE
AMD Launches Low-Power 40-Watt Opteron EEAMD celebrates Earth Day with low-powered Opteron chip.
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Bluetooth 3.0 is Fast Like Ricky Bobby
Bluetooth 3.0 is Fast Like Ricky BobbyShake and bake!
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Microsoft Posts Another Hiring for Windows 8
Microsoft Posts Another Hiring for Windows 8Microsoft's looking for more help in prep for the next-next Windows.
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Sharp Netbook Has Touch Screen Trackpad
Sharp Netbook Has Touch Screen TrackpadSharp's netbook is made super cool with a high-res LCD trackpad
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Seagate's Energy-friendly 5,900 RPM HDDs
Seagate's Energy-friendly 5,900 RPM HDDsWould Heart be proud of this version of Barracuda?
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Report: Intel SSD Price Cut on April 26
Report: Intel SSD Price Cut on April 26Cheaper, but will be they cheap enough?
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IBM New Memory: Faster, Better, than SSDs
IBM New Memory: Faster, Better, than SSDsIBM is developing a new memory technology called "Racetrack" that could replace all current forms of memory and storage solutions.
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QOTD: Have You Bought An SSD Yet?
QOTD: Have You Bought An SSD Yet?There's no doubt about it: one of the best ways to boost your computer's performance, is to upgrade your hard drive to a cutting edge solid state drive (SSD).
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Core i5 Cranks up to 3.6 GHz?
Core i5 Cranks up to 3.6 GHz?Hkpc.net is reporting that Intel has optimized the processor's Turbo Mode, cranking up the clock speed to 3.6 GHz
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Nvidia CEO Denies VIA Investment Rumors
Nvidia CEO Denies VIA Investment RumorsVIA shares are up for sale, but Nvidia says it's not buying
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AMD: 6-Core Istanbul Available in June
AMD: 6-Core Istanbul Available in JuneAMD plans to ship the six-core Opteron in May to boost profitability. Intel says that its processors are still better.
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Intel Cuts Prices of Core 2 Duo, Quad Chips
Intel Cuts Prices of Core 2 Duo, Quad ChipsLate last month rumors did the rounds about Intel cutting processor prices, with the first round slated to occur on April 19. Good news folks, the rumors were true!
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Intel Says 6-Cores Not Delayed
Intel Says 6-Cores Not DelayedIntel clarifies that 6-core 'Gulftown' processors not delayed from 2009 to 2010.
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More Nvidia Ion: Zotac's Mini ITX Mobos
More Nvidia Ion: Zotac's Mini ITX MobosZotac has two Nvidia Ion motherboards for the Japanese market
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