Wednesday, October 14, 2009

IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 14/10/2009



Amazon starts selling Android-powered netbook
Android has come to netbooks. Well, it's on its way, at least. Amazon has started taking pre-orders for an Acer Aspire One D250 netbook that dual-boots Windows XP and Google's Android mobile platform. The $349.99 netbook doesn't look much different from cheaper variants already available today. It includes a...
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Apple readies fix for Snow Leopard data wiping bug
Fear not, Snow Leopard users. A patch is on its way for that user-account data wiping bug we were talking about yesterday. At least, the folks at CNet News have gotten Apple to comment on the subject, and that's what the Mac maker suggests: "We are aware of...
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Report: AMD preps Hecatoncheires GPUs for late 2010
The new Radeon HD 5800 graphics processors are barely out the door, yet already the rumor mill is grinding away about what's coming next. According to Fudzilla, AMD has settled on a code name for its next-gen GPU family: Hecatoncheires. A quick visit to Wikipedia shows the name...
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Columbus Day Shortbread
Columbus Day TechFlash reports Microsoft says it had Sidekick data backup, but it was hit, too Fudzilla reports Nvidia partners discontinued GTX 285 and 275 and AMD plans 3 next gen mobile chips ...
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Borderlands goes gold
Post-apocalyptic shooters set in a hostile wasteland seem to be the latest, er, rage these days. In the lull between the releases of Bethesda's Fallout 3 and id Software's Rage, Gearbox Software has announced that it's completed work on Borderlands, and that the title is on track to ship...
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Intel graphics drivers employ questionable 3DMark Vantage optimizations
Intel's latest graphics drivers for Windows 7 appear to violate Futuremark's optimization guidelines for 3DMark Vantage. We investigate, and make some interesting discoveries in the process.
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Users complain of data-wiping bug in OS X Snow Leopard
Apple's new Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system adds a nice layer of polish over the previous release. However, it may also introduce a new, potentially catastrophic bug. As iTWire reports, logging into the "Guest" account then back into a regular user account can wipe one's...
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