Tuesday, November 10, 2009

IT News HeadLines (bit-tech.net) 10/11/2009


bit-tech.net
YouTube gets (unofficial) HTML 5 support
NeoSmart Technologies has released a front end for YouTube which provides a way for users to watch videos without the need for Adobe's Flash Player, via HTML 5.
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Trials dev uploaded torrent of own game
RedLynx, the developer of Trials 2, has admitted it uploaded torrents of it's own game to the internet.
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Is Google Maps on your phone a TomTom killer?
I've written a couple of previous blog posts about using my phone as a sat nav, and while CoPilot's updates have turned it into a decent app, it's still not a serious rival for a dedicated GPS.

Google's recent announcement that phones running its Android 2.0 OS will all feature free turn-by-turn GPS navigation, however, is something that threatens to change the sat nav market completely.

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Blizzard keen on micro-transactions for WoW
Blizzard is apparently keen on introducing micro-transactions for World of Warcraft.
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Modern Warfare 2 street date broken
The street date for Modern Warfare 2 has been smashed by some retailers and a pricing war has broken out.
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Nvidia denies x86 chip plans
Nvidia's CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has denied rumours that his company is looking to challenge Intel's CPU dominance with the launch of its own range of x86 chips.
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Cosmos Dragon by Martin Blass
Forum regular thechoozen, otherwise known as Martin Blass, talks us through his awesome Cosmos Dragon mod which features copious amounts of green and black acrylic as well as custom made watercooling hardware!
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