Thursday, December 17, 2009

IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 17/12/2009



National Chocolate Covered Anything Day Shortbread
National Chocolate Covered Anything Day Ars Technica reports healthy Mac sales growth fueled by 74% increase in desktops and rumor: Apple to include new i7-980X in upcoming Mac Pro AppleInsider: Details on Intel's potential Mac Pro...
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Firefox 3.6 supports drag-and-drop uploading
Despite all of the dynamic JavaScript and XML goodness that permeates the web these days, uploading photos and documents has remained a chore—unless you happen to love that "Browse..." dialog for some reason, of course. In the next version of Firefox, Mozilla has laid out the framework for a new...
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Etc. II
Dude, it's a double Etc. day! What the heck?? I've sent Cyril out on assignment, so news may be... nonexistent for the rest of the day. So here you have me. I mentioned a WorldBench problem in my earlier Etc. post. This doesn't look like an issue...
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Bethesda, not EA, will publish id Software's Rage
In June, id Software surprised everyone by announcing it had agreed to be purchased by Bethesda Softworks's parent firm, ZeniMax Media. id's John Carmack made it sound like a match made in heaven, pointing out that id and Bethesda didn't have any areas of overlap in their portfolios, and...
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Kaspersky speeds up virus screening with Tesla GPUs
Is this the dawn of client-side GPU-accelerated virus scanning? Not quite. However, anti-virus software firm Kaspersky Lab has begun to use Nvidia graphics processors to accelerate virus screening internally, and the firm expects the GPUs will enable a "quicker response to new threats." Here's the skinny, straight from Kaspersky's...
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Corsair releases 24GB DDR3 memory kit
Got $1,350 burning a hole in your pocket? Does leaving DIMM slots unpopulated in your motherboard make you strangely uncomfortable or keep you up at night? Then Corsair's new 24GB Dominator memory kit might be what you're looking for. The kit unites six 4GB DDR3 modules for use in...
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MSI X-Slim 350 fuses MacBook Air looks, nine-hour battery
Six months ago, we were poking and prodding at MSI's X-Slim X340, one of the very first laptops based on Intel's consumer ultra-low-voltage platform. MSI has now introduced a trendier, faster, and more mobile successor based on a similar formula: the X-Slim X350. The X350 has a 13.4" 1366x768...
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