IT-Code-News: IT News HeadLines (TechSpot) 16/10/2009

Rumor Control: Nvidia Tegra to power next-gen Nintendo DS, AMD scores new Xbox contract?
Bright Side of News is reporting that Nvidia has landed a contract with Nintendo to power the company's next-generation DS handheld console. If true, it certainly adds substance to a bold claim made over the summer by Nvidia's CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, when he declared that Tegra would account for as much as 50% of Nvidia's revenue in the next few years.
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OCZ Agility EX 60GB SLC SSD Review
OCZ is showing strong commitment to be at the forefront of SSD technology. Over the past year the company has released nearly a dozen different series targeting every possible market, from affordable netbook oriented products to enterprise-grade solid state drives for servers and data warehouses.
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Update: T-Mobile halts all sales of Sidekick, most data recovered
Update #2 (10/15): Microsoft has announced they have been able to recover almost all user data from the Sidekick cloud servers. It had been suggested this data could have been destroyed and thus become unrecoverable, but apparently the potential disaster has been contained to cause a minimal damage, besides the service interruptions Sidekick users have been suffering in the last couple of weeks. H...
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Google is the largest source of Internet traffic
It probably won't come as a surprise that Google is attributed with being the single greatest source of Internet traffic on Earth. The company reportedly accounts for a whopping 6% of all Internet traffic -- much of which comes from its popular video sharing site YouTube. What is surprising, however, is how consolidated the Web's traffic has become.
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Apple curbs jailbreaking with iBoot update
Apple has made the next move in their continued struggle against modders and other iPhone enthusiasts, by increasing the iPhone 3GS's resistance to jailbreaking. It's well known that each iteration of iPhone OS (and often the various updates in between) incorporate new measures to stop jailbreaking, and the most recent update is no exception. New iPhones are making their way into the wild with an ...
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HP to launch 18.4" Core i7-equipped desktop replacement, Pavilion dv8
HP has officially unveiled the new Pavilion dv8 Core i7-based desktop replacement. The notebook carries a massive 18.4" 1080p HD display, a 1.6GHz Intel Core i7, 4GB of DDR3 RAM (supports up to 8GB), an Nvidia GeForce GT 230M with 1GB of dedicated VRAM, dual 320GB 7200RPM HDDs, and a Lightscribe Blu-ray drive.
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Wolfenstein demo available, full game 50% off until tomorrow
Among the few decent games released this year was Wolfenstein -- a sequel to Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Co-developed by Raven Software, id Software, Pi Studios and Endrant Studios, most review sites scored the title with about 8 out of 10 marks -- a decent reception. If you're not completely sold on the title, you can take it for a test drive by downloading the demo here.
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New Wi-Fi Direct protocol to offer Bluetooth-like connectivity between devices
The Wi-Fi Alliance has announced it is close to finalizing a new wireless standard that will let devices discover and connect to one another without the need for a router. Dubbed Wi-Fi Direct, the technology seems to compete directly with Bluetooth by allowing peer-to-peer connections between wireless devices but at higher speeds and greater distances than the latter.
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AMD OpenCL drivers reveal new Radeon HD 5900 series?
As you've undoubtedly heard, AMD recently launched its Radeon HD 5000 GPUs -- all of which have been 5700 or 5800 series cards. Yesterday, the company released a new Open CL-compliant driver for present Radeon HD 4000 and 5000 video cards that Fudzilla says reveals an undisclosed Radeon HD 5000 offering.
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Apple working on FM radio for iPhone/iPod touch?
Apple is reportedly on the verge of releasing an FM radio application for the iPhone and iPod touch. Citing anonymous sources, rumor site 9to5mac.com claims the app will be allowed to operate in the background and should offer similar functionality to that of the new iPod nano models, which includes the ability to pause live FM transmissions and fast-forward when you resume playing.
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Acer intros multi-touch Aspire, new 11.6-inch Timeline
Acer has announced two new notebooks and updated several existing models as it prepares for the retail debut of Windows 7 next week. Among them are the company's first notebook with a multi-touch screen, the 15.6-inch Aspire 5738PG, and a new 11.6-inch Timeline model weighing just over three pounds.
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Friday, October 16, 2009

IT News HeadLines (TechSpot) 16/10/2009

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