Saturday, November 21, 2009

IT News HeadLines (bit-tech.net) 21/11/2009


bit-tech.net
Lenovo responds to laptop reliability study
Lenovo has responded to a SquareTrade study into brand reliability, questioning both the methodology and the motives.
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Dragon Age: Origins DLC announced
Bioware has announced the first piece of DLC for Dragon Age: Origins, Return to Ostagar.
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Leaving Live Mesh and the mess Microsoft is in
It’s not often PC Pro gets the drop on us in terms of new technology (unless you’re into laser printers), but they were well ahead when it came to Microsoft’s Live Mesh, and prompted by their enthusiastic praise, I gave it a try.

Live Mesh really is pretty nifty; sign up for an account, add your computer to 'the Mesh' (your own of group of machines) and any folders you select are uploaded to the servers. You can then access these folders and files via a web browser, or – and this is the brilliant bit – set them to by synced across multiple computers. Make a change to a file on one PC, and it’ll be uploaded to the servers, then downloaded when the other machines turn on so they all mirror each other.

For a while, in fact, it was so good, I wondered if it was the start of a turnaround for Microsoft.

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MW2 writer discusses airport level
Jesse Stern, Modern Warfare 2's scriptwriter, has talked about That Level.
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Google's Chrome OS gets official launch
Google's netbook-oriented operating system, Chrome OS, has enjoyed an official launch event - and while it won't be shipping until next year, the code is already available.
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League of Legends Review
League of Legends, the new strategy game from the makers of the original DotA Allstars, has finally arrived and promises some awesome multiplayer RTS action. Is that a promise the game can really deliver on though? We find out in our review of League of Legends.
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