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IT News HeadLines (techPowerUp) 29/01/2009
(PR) Toshiba Adds Elegant StorE Steel and StorE Art to its External Hard Disk Drive Family
Toshiba Europe expands its external hard disk drive family with the addition of two new devices that have a strong focus on design. StorE steel has a minimalist and elegant design that comes in three glossy metallic colours. StorE art brings personalisation to the market with a range of different colours and patterns. The new products in the StorE family will be available during the first quarter of 2009 throughout Europe, Middle East and Africa.
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Water-Cooled GTX 295 in Works by EVGA, Zotac
January 8 saw NVIDIA reclaim the performance crown from arch-rival AMD/ATI with the introduction of its dual-GPU GeForce GTX 295 graphics accelerator. The company used two of its 55nm G200 graphics cores is building this accelerator. Maintaining a dual-slot construction with its reference design, the card provides a fair bit of overclocking on its stock cooler. EVGA and Zotac, two of NVIDIA's largest add-in card partners, are reportedly planning water-cooled versions of this accelerator.
It is not clear at this point if the accelerators come in the form of merely cards with factory-fitted water-blocks, or if they come equipped with dedicated water-cooling loops. The two manufacturers will take advantage of the superior cooling system to provide high, non-reference clock-speeds to the cards' GPUs and memory. The new SKUs are likely to surface at the upcoming CeBIT event held in Hannover, Germany.
Source: Softpedia
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(PR) Mushkin Launches New 1866 MHz DDR3 Triple-Channel Kit: 998686
Mushkin Enhanced, one of the leading manufacturers for High Performance Computer Parts announced today the release of its XP3-15000 DDR3 modules. Rated for 933MHz (1866MT/s data rate) and 8-9-8-24 latencies, the XP3-15000 modules provide astonishing performance on Intel X58 platforms while using a safe 1.65V supply voltage.
"Following our tradition of innovation in the high performance memory market, the new XP3-15000 brings Core i7 triple-channel kits to an elevated standard", said Brian Flood, Mushkin's director of product development. "Enthusiasts and gamers alike will enjoy the flexibility and stability of this new product while overclocking their machines."
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(PR) Samsung Doubles Memory Capacity Using 4Gb DDR3 Chips
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, announced today that it has made a significant advancement in the push for higher volume memory chips by developing the world's first four gigabit (Gb) DDR3 DRAM chip, using 50 nanometer (nm) process technology.
With more and more data centers seeking a reduction in the number of servers they use, the development of low-power 4Gb DDR3 has become critical in reducing data center costs, improving server time management and increasing overall efficiency.
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(PR) NVIDIA Names Stanford's Bill Dally Chief Scientist, VP of Research
NVIDIA Corporation today announced that Bill Dally, the chairman of Stanford University's computer science department, will join the company as Chief Scientist and Vice President of NVIDIA Research. The company also announced that longtime Chief Scientist David Kirk has been appointed "NVIDIA Fellow."
"I am thrilled to welcome Bill to NVIDIA at such a pivotal time for our company," said Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO, NVIDIA. "His pioneering work in stream processors at Stanford greatly influenced the work we are doing at NVIDIA today. As one of the world's founding visionaries in parallel computing, he shares our passion for the GPU's evolution into a general purpose parallel processor and how it is increasingly becoming the soul of the new PC. His reputation as an innovator in our industry is unrivaled. It is truly an honor to have a legend like Bill in our company."
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NVIDIA Likely to Start 40nm GPU Conquest with GT218
As the industry moves closer to implementation of the 40nm silicon technology on graphics processors, some of the most complex electronic devices, both AMD and NVIDIA have their offerings in the works. While AMD already has prototypes taped out, NVIDIA seems to be taking its time, perhaps to perfect its products.
The green camp, as Hardware-Infos finds out, is likely to start its 40nm lineup with the GT218 graphics processor. With NVIDIA's internal coding scheme, the GT218 is an entry-level GPU. In its generation hierarchy, would be the GT215, GT216 (mainstream) and GT212 (high-end). The GT218 will succeed the G98 GPU that went into making the GeForce 9300 series. It will have 32 stream processors, 8 texture memory units, and 4 raster operations pipelines. It will continue to have a 64-bit wide memory bus. Despite the increase in transistor counts, the GPU ends up with a lower TDP, expected to be around 22W, as against the roughly 30W for the G98. The GT218 is slated for April, later this year.
Source: Hardware-Infos
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I-O Data Out With New Netbook-Friendly DVD Burner
Specialists with external data storage, I-O Data has come up with a new ultra-slim external DVD-burner it claims to be netbook friendly, given that most netbooks rely on external optical drives. The new drive (model: DVRP-U8XLE2) is 21mm thick and comes with a square profile. The drive roughly measures up to be the size of a portable CD player. It burns dual-layer DVDs at 6X speeds, DVD-R, DVD+R at 8X speeds. It sports a standard USB 2.0 interface. Interestingly, its makers claim this drive to perform identically, an in at its full operational write speeds on any netbook.
Source: Akihabara News
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Samsung EcoGreen F2 1.5TB HDD Tested
Korean silicon giant Samsung is ready with its 1.5TB high-capacity desktop hard drive, under the EcoGreen F2 series. The drive is labeled HD154UI. With this drive Samsung looks to focus on storage rather than performance, giving this drive a spindle speed of 5400 rpm, aided by a 32MB cache. This is where the company gets to brandish energy-efficiency, thus living up to its EcoGreen brand name.
Despite these specifications, the drive manages a decent set of scores on the HD Tune benchmark, churning out read/write speeds of around 105 MB/s sequential, and around 48/72 MB/s random access. It has a rated average seek-time of 8.9ms. This Samsung drive comes in the standard 3.5" form-factor. It uses the standard SATA II interface. The drive features some proprietary acoustic management features such as SilentSeek and NoiseGuard. It will be available in Japan later this week at a price of آ¥11,580 (around US $130).
Source: Akiba PC Hotline
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XFX Preparing GeForce 9400 GT Fatal1ty Edition
The GeForce 9400 GT graphics processor was originally conceived by the company to serve as an upgrade over the IGP, to provide multi-head HD video connectivity, video acceleration and a reasonable bit of GPU acceleration for CUDA-driven applications. It facilitates only some very casual gaming at low settings. XFX however, is looking to give it a gamer feel with a new Fatal1ty-branded SKU. Brand Fatal1ty represents a range of gamer-oriented hardware carrying the brand-marks of one of the most successful and popular professional gamers of our time: Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel.
The XFX GeForce 9400 GT Fatal1ty takes on the same XFX-design and adds Fatal1ty branding. Featuring 512 MB of DDR2 memory, this card uses clock speeds of 550 MHz core and 800 MHz memory. The features are pretty standard: 16 stream processors, a 128-bit wide DDR2 memory bus, DVI and D-Sub connectors for output, and a low-profile PCB design that makes it slim form-factor friendly. The product will be announced shortly, so we could know its price.
Source: Donanim Haber
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Antec Intros NSK 4480 II Mini Tower Case
After releasing the gamer-oriented Nine Hundred Two earlier this month, Antec made the NSK 4480 II official. This case serves as a standards-compliant mini-tower case that uses a simple, professional outlook. It includes the Antec EarthWatts 380W 80-Plus certified PSU. Measuring 420 (H) x 195 (W) x 420 (D) mm, this case provides three 5.25" and two 3.5" drive bays. Internally there are three additional bays for hard drives. The side-panel of this case has three rectangular ventilators. A single rear 120mm Tri-Cool fan provides active ventilation. Along with the PSU, the case weighs around 9 kgs (around 19.8 lbs) and is mostly composed of SECC steel. Backed by a 3-year warranty, the NSK 4480 II comes at a recommended price of US $109.95.
Source: TechConnect Magazine
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ASUS M4A79T Deluxe Pictured
Keeping up with the standards, ASUS is introducing its fleet of motherboards for the AMD AM3 socket. Following the introduction of the M4A79 Deluxe, the company has topped up the M4A series with a new DDR3-supportive model: the M4A79T Deluxe. The "T" in the model name indicates DDR3, and is the only pointer on the product package indicating DDR3 support. It is based on the AMD 790FX + SB750 chipset. It supports the upcoming AM3 socket processors.
The board itself has an identical layout to the M4A79 Deluxe, except for the four DDR3 DIMM slots colour-coded in orange and black, to keep up with the coding scheme used by ASUS in several of its motherboards with DDR3 support. It supports up to 16 GB of DDR3-1333 MHz memory (DDR3-1600 by overclocking). Featuring as many as four PCI-Express x16 (electrically x8 with all slots populated), it supports 4-way ATI CrossFireX. The SB750 provides six SATAII internal ports and an eSATA port. Other features are standard issues for this motherboard: 8-channel audio with optical and co-axial SPDIF connectivity, gigabit Ethernet, and Firewire. With the M4A79 Deluxe selling for US $199 in the US, one can expect this motherboard to be priced in that range, with a little premium charged for its DDR3 support.
Source: Legit Reviews
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(PR) Super Talent Releases SSD Upgrade for Asus S101 Eee PC
Super Talent Technology, a leading manufacturer of Flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules, today launched an SSD, offered in capacities up to 64GB, that was specially designed as an upgrade for the Asus S101 Eee PC.
The Windows model of the S101 includes only 16GB of local storage, so Super Talent's upgrade SSD offers the S101 user the opportunity to double or quadruple the storage capacity in his netbook.
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(PR) Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II Multiplayer Beta Open To All
The Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II multiplayer beta is now open to all gamers via Steam. To join the beta and/or pre-purchase the full title, please visit steamgames.com
Source: Steam
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(PR) EVGA Announces the EVGA GTX 285 FTW
EVGA Corporation, the leading-edge 3D processor graphics cards and motherboard manufacturer, announces the fastest single GPU graphics card on the market today, the EVGA GeForce GTX 285 FTW. The powerful 3D processor features the NVIDIA GeForce 285 GPU and 1GB of the fastest 0.8ns DDR 3 memory. Running at an impressive 720MHz core clock, 2,772MHz memory clock and 1620MHz shader clock, the EVGA GeForce GTX 285 FTW outperforms all other competitive products in all the three clock setting resulting in impressive performance advantages. The EVGA GeForce GTX 285 FTW will be immediately available in e-tail and retail at a recommended end user price of $449.99.
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Apple NVIDIA Graphics Update 2009 Released
Apple on Monday released a software update that addresses issues when using the Apple Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI adapter on MacBook Air, MacBook and MacBook Pro. More concrete, this update improves cursor movement and playback of HD videos running on systems with NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT or GeForce 9600M graphics. Mac OS X 10.5.6 or later is required to apply the update.
DOWNLOAD: Apple NVIDIA Graphics Update 2009
Source: Apple
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IT News HeadLines (TechWeb) 29/01/2009
Assurant Specialty Property Issues Chase Visa-branded Debit Cards for Claims Settlements
Renters insurance customers can receive advanced claims payments in a Chase Visa-branded debit card, issued by J.P. Morgan.
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SAP Weathers The Downturn
Fourth quarter sales jump 8% on strength of services revenues.
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Satyam Taps Goldman To Explore Sale
Outsourcer looks for a buyer in effort to emerge from cooked books scandal.
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SEPA Kicks Off in EU—With Unintended Fraud Risk
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Cindy Cole Named CIO of Alliance Bank
Cole will assume responsibility for the overall operations of the bank.
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Oracle Financial Services Software Launches New Oracle Reveleus Market Risk Release
Release adds new modeling, analysis and reporting capabilities.
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National Bank of Kuwait Goes Live With Level Four Software
Implementation aims to drive ATM innovation.
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Fidelity National Information Services, CUNA Mutual Team for Solution for Credit Unions
New technology aims to help credit unions manage plastic card fraud.
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Visual Studio Developers Get PHP IDE Upgrade
Jcx.Software has released VS.Php 2.6, an integrated development environment for Microsoft Visual Studio developers who want to work in PHP.
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CIG Kozep-Europai Biztosito Zrt. Goes Live with TCS BaNCS Insurance
Insurer will launch unit-linked life insurance business.
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Overcoming Barriers to Integrated Risk Management
Effectively managing multiple risk types requires the ability to marshal diverse information assets and deliver them to decision makers as actionable intelligence.
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Nokia Fixes 'Curse Of Silence' Exploit
The vulnerability could crash millions of Nokia handsets' SMS system with a single malformed text message.
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Web Malware Infects Fast, Dies Young
The number of new infected Web sites grew by 66%, from 100,000 to 200,000 per day to 200,000 to 300,000 per day in the past three months, according to AVG Technologies.
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Salesforce.com Sets Right Vision In Customer Service, Analyst Says
Among the most important achievements in the recently launched Service Cloud is the recognition that Google and other search engines may well be "the most prominent customer service channel in existence," Datamonitor says
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Oracle Audit Vault Monitors Competing Systems, Including DB2
The software now supports monitoring of Sybase versions 12.5 and 15 as well as IBM's DB2 version 8.2 or 9.5 running on Linux, Unix, and Windows.
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Google Aims To Expose Network Meddling
Vint Cerf puts out the word that Google's Measurement Lab will make it more difficult for telecoms to degrade or block apps such as BitTorrent or Skype.
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8 Mobile Technologies To Watch
Many of the improvements expected to make an impact in the next two years will soon be integrated into smartphones, research firm Gartner reports.
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DTV Delay Bill Torpedoed By Congress
House Republicans marshaled sufficient opposition to legislation to postpone the switch to digital TV to June.
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Kaplan Compliance Solutions Unveils Client Concierge
The Concierge interacts with the relevant departments within KCS, monitoring activities related to the client, as well as ensuring the client is kept informed about regulatory changes affecting their business.
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Financial IT Budgets Dip for the First Time, By 3.7%, But Will Quickly Rebound
Large-scale SOA projects are out, risk management and self-service technology initiatives are in, says TowerGroup's latest report.
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Amazon Kindle E-Book Reader To Get Facelift
Tech enthusiasts are taking their best guesses as to what the online retailer has planned for the 2.0 version of the popular gadget.
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Microsoft: Explorer 8 'Complete And Done'
The software maker says its latest browser is close to final form, but users would like some improvements.
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Opera Finalizes Browser For Android
The release version of Opera Mini for Android includes the ability to save files on an SD card, resources for video playback, and other improvements.
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IT News HeadLines (Yahoo News) 29/01/2009
Swiss police spy marijuana field with Google Earth (AP)
AP - Swiss police said Thursday they stumbled across a large marijuana plantation while using Google Earth, the search engine company's satellite mapping software.
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Businesses risk $1 trillion losses from data theft: study (Reuters)
Reuters - Businesses risk losing over $1 trillion from loss or theft of data and other cybercrime, according to a study released on Thursday by security technology firm McAfee Inc.
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Nintendo DS Software Device Back on Sale in Akihabara (PC World)
PC World - The R4 Revolution device that allows users to play cloned Nintendo DS software is openly back on sale in Tokyo's Akihabara electronics district, several months after legal action by Nintendo threatened to halt sales.
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Lenovo Buys Mystery Startup Company (PC World)
PC World - Lenovo has acquired a secretive startup called Switchbox Labs that was cofounded by a former Microsoft Windows executive, the PC maker announced Wednesday.
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Jetty Web server flies to Eclipse (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - The wheels are in motion to make Jetty, an open source Java Web server, an Eclipse Foundation project, said Webtide, the main developer of Jetty. The software is used as a server for rich Internet and embedded applications.
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Symantec Results Top Estimates, Outlook in Line (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Symantec Corp, the largest maker of computer security and data backup software, issued quarterly results that beat forecasts, sending its shares up 6 percent.
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Cox Says It Will Delay P2P Traffic, Software Updates (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Cox Communications next month will implement a new traffic management method that prioritizes "time sensitive" Internet traffic but temporarily delays traffic like software updates and peer-to-peer transactions when the network is congested.
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SAP says profit down 2 pct in '08, axes 3,000 jobs (AP)
AP - Software maker SAP AG said Wednesday it would cut 3,000 jobs worldwide to cut costs as its 2008 net profit fell 2 percent, weighed by a difficult year-end when the financial crisis deepened.
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German software giant SAP to cut 3,000 jobs (AFP)
AFP - The world leader in professional software, Germany's SAP, said Wednesday it will cut more than 3,000 jobs this year to save up to 350 million euros (460 million dollars) as demand slumps.
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Sun loses $209M as downturn takes toll (AP)
AP - Sun Microsystems Inc.'s wobbly financial performance has done little to hearten investors over the past couple of quarters. But Wall Street found some joy in the server and software maker's latest results: sales weren't as bad as expected during the last three months of 2008.
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Sun Micro beats consensus, shares rally (Reuters)
Reuters - High-end computer and software company Sun Microsystems posted better-than-expected results as a strong software and open storage business cushioned declining overall sales, and its shares rose.
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Apple's iPhone 2.2.1 Update not Feeling the Love (PC World)
PC World - Apple released its iPhone 2.2.1 software update Tuesday -- but don't get too excited. The update includes mainly fixes and minor improvements, and no signs of any noteworthy new features. Can someone cue the collective sigh of disappointment?
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IBM to cut more than 2,800 jobs: union (AFP)
AFP - US computer and software giant IBM Corp. is planning to cut more than 2,800 jobs, a labor union representing the firm's employees said Monday.
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Apple Ready To Release iLife '09 with New Features (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Apple has made good on Vice President Philip Schiller's promise at Macworld to release iLife 'O9 this month. Beginning Tuesday, all new Macs will have an upgraded version of iLife '09 with iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand. The software suite is for Mac OS X 10.5.6 or later.
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Another Trojan Horse Stalks Mac Software Pirates (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - In less than a week, two different forms of Trojan horses have invaded Macs whose users downloaded pirated copies of first Apple iWork 09 and now Adobe Photoshop CS4.
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Intacct Cuts Entry-level Costs, Adds Global Consolidation (PC World)
PC World - Intacct, maker of on-demand accounting software, is accelerating its attempt to snare customers who are outgrowing Intuit's popular QuickBooks product by slashing entry-level pricing and adding advanced features.
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Windows 7 Beta Availability Extended (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft has extended the general availability of the Windows 7 beta until February 10 due to the software's popularity, the company said.
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Apple iLife '09 Ships Tuesday; Beware of Pirated Copy (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Apple announced Monday that iLife '09 will be available on Tuesday. In the meantime, a copy of the software with an embedded Trojan has been found on popular BitTorrent sites
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Senator asks Microsoft about job cuts, visas (Reuters)
Reuters - A U.S. senator has asked Microsoft Corp about its plans to slash up to 5,000 jobs, urging the world's biggest software company to preserve the jobs of Americans ahead of foreigners working on visas.
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Russia to Develop Linux-based Alternative to Windows? (PC World)
PC World - Details are scarce, unless Russian is your language of choice, but CNews is reporting that Russia plans to develop its own national operating system. The move is designed to reduce Russia's need to rely on foreign software and licensing agreements. And the alleged "open code" solution, likely a Linux/GNU derivative, will give Russia a greater degree of customization, as well as increased control over how the potentially free OS is used and accessed.
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IT News HeadLines (NetworkComputing) 29/01/2009
TCS Signs $100 Million Deal with UK Telecom Company
The deal will see Tata Consultancy Services provide a full range of managed IT services to 4UGroup
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Ganesh Ayyar Named MphasiS CEO
MphasiS has recently announced the appointment of former Hewlett-Packard (HP) executive Ganesh Ayyar, as the companys chief executive officer and a member of the MphasiS Board of Directors
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Multi-Core Processors Outpacing Key Business Software
The relentless doubling of cores per microprocessor chip will result in servers with far more horsepower than software can use, says Gartner
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Google Claims Data Center Energy Savings
Google said its quarterly energy-weighted average Power Usage Effectiveness fell to 1.16 from 1.22 in the third quarter
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Cisco Unveils its Small Business Product Portfolio
The products are aimed at meeting the fundamental business needs of small businesses such as security, connectivity and productivity
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NAVTEQ to Extend its Entire Map Database to Microsoft
NAVTEQhas recently announced that Microsoft extended its agreement with the company to allow Microsoft to have access to all the 74 countries in the NAVTEQ map database
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Sun Unveils Green Data Center
Suns new energy-efficient data center in Colorado saves $1 million in energy bills, 11,000 tons of carbon dioxide and 670,000 gallons of water every year, the vendor says
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IT News HeadLines (TechConnect Magazine) 29/01/2009
Apacer to roll out the Handy Steno AH522 flash drives
Stealthy as a ninja carrying a lit torch, Apacer has introduced a new family of flash drives that are part of its Handy Steno series. Codenamed AH522 and confirmed as coming in at least 8 and 16GB capacities, the flash drive features a retractable USB connector, a shiny black casing with zinc inserts, and a blue activity LED.
Yet unpriced, the Handy Steno AH522 drives are Plug & Play compatible and will deliver read and write speeds of up to 30 MB/s and 12 MB/s respectively.
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Nvidia names Bill Dally Chief Scientist and VP of Research
Seeking some 'outside' guidance to face the tough road ahead, Nvidia has revealed that Bill Dally, the chairman of Stanford Universityأ¢آ€آ™s computer science department, will soon join its ranks as Chief Scientist and Vice President of Nvidia Research, taking the role of now 'Nvidia Fellow' and David Kirk. Taking the place of someone who's been with Nvidia since before the GeForce era is certainly no easy task so Nvidia's CEO Jen-Hsun Huang went on to praise Dally for his work. More specifically Huang said - "His pioneering work in stream processors at Stanford greatly influenced the work we are doing at Nvidia today. As one of the world's founding visionaries in parallel computing, he shares our passion for the GPU's evolution into a general purpose parallel processor and how it is increasingly becoming the soul of the new PC. His reputation as an innovator in our industry is unrivaled. It is truly an honor to have a legend like Bill in our company."
With Dally on board, Nvidia seems to be ready to shift more focus towards GPGPU (general purpose computing on graphics processing units), as a domain with great potential that has only been slightly tackled by the tech industry. Hopefully for the Santa Clara-based company, this will be a winning card.
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US ISP Cox to monitor traffic
Cox Communications one of the United States' largest Internet Service Providers announced recently that it was putting into testing an internet management platform that allows them to have much stricter bandwidth and monitoring capabilities.
The testing will be in place in Kansas and Arkansas, and will have the new system monitor and manage the bandwidth used on Cox's networks and control how much bandwidth is being utilized under certain categories of which the ISP has outlined two, time-sensitive, and nontime-sensitive.
- The time sensitive category includes:
- Web (Web surfing, including web-based e-mail and chat embedded in Web pages)
- VoIP (Voice over IP, telephone calls made over the Internet)
- IM (Instant messages, including related voice and Webcam traffic)
- Streaming (Web-based audio and video programs)
- Games (Online interactive games)
- Tunneling & Remote Connectivity (VPN-type services for telecommuting)
- Other (Any service not categorized into another area)
- The nontime-sensitive category includes:
- File Access (Bulk transfers of data such as FTP)
- Network Storage (Bulk transfers of data for storage)
- P2P (Peer to peer protocols)
- Software Updates (Managed updates, such as operating system updates)
- Usenet (Newsgroup related)
This essentially means that Cox will be limiting bandwidth more on the nontime-sensitive category than on the time-sensitive category, as well as monitoring them. This actually comes as a bad thing for net neutrality advocates as they feel the net should not be monitored by private companies or even the government.
More information on Cox's changes are at its web site.
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EC tells MS not just IE
Not long ago the European Commission (EC) started a new investigation of Microsoft's business practices, also providing a list of changes it feels the company should undergo for it to be considered a respectable corporation.
One thing Microsoft has actually outlined in its second-quarter 10Q filing was that it may bundle Windows with the option to install alternative web browsers.
This is part of a long history of legal litigation against Microsoft that has happened and occurred worldwide, a few years ago the US Supreme Court pointed out to Microsoft they had a monopoly and were required to split, which was seemingly ignored by the corporation and they were also told that IE should not be a required part of Windows to which Microsoft responded it could not be removed because of how intertwined the browser was with the operating system.
The most recent European based battle came from Opera Software, based in Oslo, Norway, as Opera felt that Microsoft blocked the expansion of Opera's product due to IE's intertwining into the Windows operating system.
Now, not only may Microsoft be required to bundle other browsers they may also be required to allow users to disable parts of the IE code.
Does this mean IE may just be "another browser"? Or, will Microsoft just weasel their way out of it again as they have so many times in the past? Only time will tell.
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IBM to keep an eye on new Apple Senior Vice President
Recently we reported former IBM executive Mark Papermaster was going to be starting his position at Apple though according to a report at Apple Insider the new Senior Vice President at Apple was required to sign a court-sanctioned document.
The document, signed by Papermaster as well as attorneys representing both IBM and Apple, states that Papermaster does not intend to, or will not disclose any IBM secrets to Apple, while working for Apple under risk of perjury.
Along with the agreement if Papermaster needs confirmation as to whether a certain piece of information is secret he must confirm it with current IBM Vice President and Assistant General Counsel Ron Lauderdale first. Also under the agreement the IBM Vice President has agreed to respond promptly, reasonably, and in good faith.
The document expires one (1) year after Papermaster left IBM, October 24th. On October 24th the lawsuit concerning the security of IBM and Apple's subsequent countersuit will be dropped. If either or both parties violate the consent order, they could be held in contempt.
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Net neutrality tools from Google and friends
A Google Partner site called Measurement Lab released a set of internet measurement tools to allow users administrators to measure their internet connection in a multitude of ways.
The tools are all open source and released under open source license ranging from Creative Commons to forms of GPL. Most of the tools are built on or for Linux based operating systems but they could still provide benefits to users on Windows as well if the developers decide to support the platform.
You may wonder how this is a "net neutrality matter" well, currently most diagnostic and testing software meant for internet users is managed and maintained by ISPs, while these tools, being released not only under an open source platform but for free, provide an alternative source for users to find out this information without the potential of being "slighted" from their internet service provider.
More information about the measurement systems are at MeasurementLab.net.
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Techconnect Review Round-up 28/1/09
CPU & Motherboard
- Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550S @ AnandTech
- Gigabyte EP45-DQ6 @ Club OC
- MSI X58 Platinum @ Viperlair
- ASUS P6T @ FiringSquad
Memory
- CSX DIABLO DDR3-2000MHz 3GB Triple Channel Memory Kit @ TweakTown
- Patriot Viper DDR3-2000 @ PureOC
Storage
- OCZ Apex Series 250GB Solid State Drive @ PC Perspective
Graphics cards
- EVGA GeForce GTX 285 SSC Edition Videocard
@ HardwareLogic
@ Fudzilla
- Sapphire HD 4870 1GB Toxic Edition @ HardwareZone
- XFX GTX-285 XXX @ Bjorn3d
- BFG GeForce GTX 285 OCX @ Guru3D
- XFX 9800GT 512MB @ XSReviews
Enclosures & PSUs
- Scythe Fenris Wolf case @ bit-tech
- Thermaltake Toughpower Cable Management 750W PSU @ Modders-Inc
- OCZ ModXStream-Pro 600W PSU @ Overclockers Club
Displays
- Panasonic Viera TH-42PZ85 42in Plasma TV @ TrustedReviews
Cooling and modding
- LGA 1366 CPU Coolers: GlacialTech UFO V51 Vs Titan Fenrir @ CDRinfo
- NZXT Sentry LX fan controller @ Icrontic
- Thermaltake BigTyp 14 Pro CPU Cooler @ ThinkComputers
Peripherals
- Das Keyboard @ X-bit labs
- Microsoft Sidewinder X6 Keyboard @ Hi-Tech Reviews
PCs
- Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Netbook Computer @ TheTechLounge
- ASUS G71V @ InsideHW
Other
- Logitech Harmony 1100 universal remote control and RIM BlackBerry Curve 8900 @ RegHardware
- HTC Touch Viva Smartphone @ TrustedReviews
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XFX readies low profile Fatal1ty-branded GeForce 9400 GT
While not doing much gaming anymore (or at least, nothing high profile), Johnathan Wendel is still making money off the 'Fatal1ty' brand with XFX being just one of the companies using it on certain products, including a soon-to-be-available GeForce 9400 GT card. Pictured below, the new low profile card features a 128-bit memory interface, 512MB of DDR2 memory clocked at a standard 800 MHz, a GPU set to 550 MHz, and 16 Stream Processors @ about 1400 MHz.
Equipped with an active cooling system, the Fatal1ty 9400 GT has D-Sub and DVI connectivity, has DirectX 10 and PhysX support, and can be found on pre-order for 69 Euro.
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Samsung 1.5TB EcoGreen F2 drive pictured and priced
Catching up to at least one of its rivals, Samsung is almost ready to start shipping its first 1.5TB hard drives which are part of the EcoGreen F2 family and aim to combine low power consumption with high capacity, good performance and an attractive price. Seen below, the HD153UI is a 3.5-inch hard drive that features a working speed of 5400 RPM, a SATA 3.0 Gbps interface, a 32MB buffer and an average seek time of 8.9 ms.
Also boasting NoiseGuard and SilentSeek, the 1.5TB drive is said to go on sale in Japan this weekend and cost just about $130.
Photos courtesy of watch.impress.co.jp.
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Symantec ascends and battles into cloud computing
Symantec Corp. have now announced that they will be the next company to take off with cloud networking. The new service that it plans to introduce, GoEverywhere, is intended to host a user's whole workspace in one web-accessible environment.
Productivity suites like this have been coming out all over the place in the last 18 months, so with Google Docs and Microsoft Shared Spaces, will this newly puffed out cloud be able to compete? The system will allow users access to applications for document editing, creating slide shows, spread sheets, as well as web mail and others. It will all be stored as encrypted media surrounded by a single sign-on service.
"As the use of Web-based applications increase, there is a need for our desktop or computing environment to also adjust and become web-based,"said Don Kleinschnitz, vice president and general manager for GoEverywhere. "The GoEverywhere beta is incorporating next-generation cloud computing and web 2.0 concepts in innovative ways to enhance customersأ¢آ€آ™ choice of how and when they want to access information."
The service is currently being trailed as a beta in the United States, and you can sign up here for free at this time.
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