IT-Code-News: IT News HeadLines (TweakTown) 16/12/2009

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

IT News HeadLines (TweakTown) 16/12/2009

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NEC unveils new NP510WS and NP610S short throw projectors
I am a big fan of projectors for several uses. I like to watch movies with a really big image size and I like to play games on a giant screen. I have some fond gaming memories of playing Need for Speedآ…

Age of Conan goes free forever
I saw the Age of Conan game way back at E3 is 2007 well before the game was launched to the public and it looked cool. I was all set to buy the game until I realized I would have to pay monthly to playآ…

Best Buy, Samsung, and Westinghouse named in copyright infringement case
Despite the fact that open source software is free, the software does have limitations on how it can be used. Best Buy, Samsung, and Westinghouse along with 11 other companies have been named as defendantsآ…

Addonics offers new eSATA and SATA flash reader
Memory card readers are a dime a dozen today and 99% of them are all the same. The things are almost exclusively USB readers and they tend to read the same formats. Users that read large CF or SDHC cardsآ…

Corsair go all out with 24GB triple channel kit
The kit comprises six 4GB modules which operate at a stock speed of 1333MHz with latencies of 9-9-9-27 (1.65v). Being a member of the Dominator family, the modules also sport Corsair's patented DHX+ heatsinksآ…

Intel to dish out a new LGA775 based Quad next month
Whilst Nehalem has well and truly taken over now in the performance/enthusiast market segments, LGA 775 (Core 2) is still a very capable and attractively priced platform that fairs well in todays marketآ…

ASUS mixes up the HD 5770 with CuCore model
CuCore refers to the type of GPU cooling used on this card which sports a full copper (Cu) core and base weighing 164.5g. The heatsink itself is also impressive with the use of extra large aluminum finsآ…

ASUS to spin off its motherboard and GPU lineups under 'Pegatron' brand
An interesting bit of news has surfaced in regards to ASUS' plans for its motherboard and GPu products in July of next year. ASUS feels it's a more beneficial business decision in the long term to spinآ…

Download of the Day: Google Desktop 5.9.911.3589
Google Desktop makes searching your computer as easy as searching the web with Google. It's a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, files, music, photos, chats, Gmailآ…

Deal of the Day: Logitech V220 Cordless Optical Notebook Mouse for $9.99

Vodafone to stop stocking HTC HD2
If you are a Vodafone customer in the UK who was hoping to get the HTC HD2 for Christmas this year, you are out of luck. The carrier has announced that it has depleted its stock and will no longer stockآ…

NXP unveils 3DTV coprocessor
Back during the summer, I went to see several 3D movies and they looked cool. I am waiting anxiously until I can get 3D content in my home. The price needs to come down before many of us will go 3D thoughآ…

Road Mice combine cool cars with computer peripherals
I have two major passions when it comes to hobbies, I like computers and I like performance cars. The guys at Road Mice have come up with a new rodent that combines both of those passions for me in aآ…

Nexus One Google phone poses for pics
With the roaring popularity of the Android OS for smartphones, it was only a matter of time until Google itself decided to make its own perfect Google Phone. The new phone is in the hands of testers nowآ…

Team PC3-12800 Xtreem LV 4GB Dual-Channel Memory Kit

SteelSeries Siberia V2 Pro Gaming Headset

VIA Nano Processor Readies VIA EPIA Boards for Next Generation Embedded Applications and Windows 7 Technologies
Taipei, Taiwan, 15 December 2009 - VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator of power efficient x86 processor platforms, today announced the latest VIA EPIA-M800 Mini-ITX and VIA EPIA-N800 Nano-ITX boardsآ…

Corsairآ® Launches 24GB Dominatorآ™ DDR3 Memory Kit for High-Performance Computing Applications
FREMONT, California, December 15, 2009 آ— Corsair, a worldwide leader in high-performance computer and flash memory products, today announced a 24GB Dominator triple-channel DDR3 memory kit designed forآ…

Silicon Power USB Flash Drives Now Come SP Widget
As one of the industry's leading manufacturer, Silicon Power announces the incorporation of SP Widget on all of their USB flash drives. The new SP Widget is a free download and is smarter and easierآ…

A-DATA and SandForce Team up to Offer Innovative SSD Solutions
Taipei, Taiwan آ– December 15th, 2009- A-DATA Technology Co., Ltd., the worldwide leader in DRAM modules and Flash application products, today announced a collaboration with SandForce Inc. on A-DATAآ’sآ…

Dolby 3D, Barco Projection Take Centre Stage at Avatar World Premiere
China, 14 December, 2009آ—Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: DLB), and Barco (Euronext Brussels: BAR) announced that the Empire Leicester Square has shown the World Premiere of James Cameronآ’s Avatar movieآ…

QNAP Expands Capabilities of Its Business-class Turbo NAS Servers with Upgraded NAS Management Software
New Version 3.2 of Embedded NAS Management Software Enhances iSCSI Capabilities, Supports Storage Server Deployment in Virtualized and Clustered Environment, Facilitates Appleآ® Time Machine Backups, andآ…

Microsoft Investigating Questions over MSN China joint ventureآ’s Juku feature
At Microsoft, we take intellectual property very seriously. We make our IP available for others to license, and we license other peopleآ’s intellectual property as appropriate when we use it in our productsآ…

Seagate Announces Momentus Thin Series Notebook Hard Disk Drives
Seagate Technology today announced the Momentus Thin drive, the world's thinnest 2.5-inch hard disk drive for ultra-portable and entry-level laptops, high-end netbooks, backup devices and consumer electronicsآ…

ADAPTEC NAMES JARED PETERS VICE PRESIDENT OF WORLDWIDE SALES
MILPITAS, Calif. آ– Dec. 14, 2009 آ– Adaptec, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADPT), the global leader in I/O innovation, today announced the appointment of Jared Peters to the position of Vice President of Worldwide Salesآ…

Solarflare Awarded Four New Patents That Enable Unique Hardware-Assisted, Scalable Virtualization
IRVINE, Calif. آ– December 7, 2009 آ– Solarflare Communications, the leader in 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE), today announced it has been granted four patents by the United States Patent and Trade Office (آ…

Solarflare, Cloudsoft, Citrix and Arista Partner to Enable Accelerated Cloud Networking
NEW YORK, NY آ– December 7, 2009 آ– Solarflare Communications, the leading provider of 10GbE silicon, and Cloudsoft Corporation a provider of cloud computing software and services that drive applicationآ…

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