Wednesday, November 18, 2009

IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 18/11/2009



Borderlands zombie expansion shown on video
Completed Gearbox Entertainment's Borderlands? Sick of the multiplayer mode? Don't uninstall the game just yet. Shacknews reported last week that an expansion pack entitled The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned was on its way for consoles on November 24, with a PC version to follow some time later. Well,...
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Microsoft warns of Windows 7 zero-day flaw
Is this the first zero-day security vulnerability in Microsoft's new operating system? According to ComputerWorld, Microsoft has confirmed the presence of a flaw through which attackers could crash Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 machines. Reportedly, exploiting the flaw can bog down those operating systems "so thoroughly that the...
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Upcoming Lenovo netbook has Pine Trail, buttonless touchpad
Pine Trail approaches. We first saw netbooks based on the system-on-a-chip successor to Intel's Atom processor at Computex in June, and today, the folks at SlashGear have dug up some FCC documents that reveal an upcoming Pine Trail system from Lenovo. One of the labels photographed details the system's...
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Asus' upcoming Clarkdale motherboard revealed
If we can trust the latest wave of stories from the rumor mill, Intel's 32-nm Clarkdale processors will launch just a month and a half from now. Meanwhile, motherboard makers are putting the finishing touches on motherboards designed to accommodate those processors. One of those boards is the Asus P7H57D-V...
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Core i7-900 users get 12GB DDR3-1600 kit, thanks to Kingston
With the release of its LGA1156 Core i5 and i7-800 processors, Intel has clearly relegated the Core i7-900 series to the high end. So, it stands to reason that you'd want to trick out a Core i7-900 system as much as possible—perhaps, say, with Kingston's latest HyperX memory kit,...
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AMD claims spots in top supercomputers
The new Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers is now out. Who came out on top this month? AMD believes it did, and it has a pretty strong case. Jaguar, a Cray XT5 system situated the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, has become the world's number-one supercomputer thanks...
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Could Asus purchase Toshiba's laptop business?
In a recent report about the laptop market, market research firm DisplaySearch noted that Asus was "steadily losing share" to first-tier vendors like Acer, HP, Dell, Lenovo, and Toshiba. Could Asus eat up one of the top five to increase its footprint? Asus is certainly considering it, according...
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