Saturday, January 9, 2010

IT News HeadLines (bit-tech.net) 09/01/2010


bit-tech.net
Google sweetens On2 deal
Google has upped its offer for the acquisition of video compression specialist On2 Technologies by $0.15 a share, and will offer 0.001 of a share of its own in exchange.
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Nintendo still most eco-unfriendly console maker
Nintendo is still the most eco-unfriendly company, says Greenpeace.
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Infinity Ward may not develop Modern Warfare 3
Rumours are spinning that Modern Warfare 3 may not be developed by Infinity Ward or Treyarch.
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Valve publishes hardware survey results
Valve has posted the results of the December 2009 hardware survey.
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Apple patent reveals touch improvements
A newly published Apple patent - applied for in 2008 - reveals some interesting new technologies the company is looking to bring to touch devices.
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How to enable Windows 7 God Mode
Did you know Windows 7 has a God mode?

It sounds cooler than it is in reality - you're not invulnerable to BSODs, and the system doesn't play One of Us when it starts up.

That said, it's not completely useless either - it gives you a shortcut to all the options in Control Panel and allows you to easily get to usually buried controls.

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Intel Core i3 and i5 hit UK shops
We check out some of the prices of those latest Core i3 and i5 Clarkdale CPUs that launched earlier this week.
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Steve Ballmer's CES 2010 Keynote
Steve Ballmer kicked off the Consumer Electronics Show 2010 with a keynote on what Microsoft has planned for us all this year. There's some good news for Xbox 360 owners, some developments in car-tech and a range of new types of PC.
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MSI Big Bang-FUZION: Lucid Hydra arrives
With anticipation mounting higher than Everest, MSI and Lucid have big, bold performance statements to fill. With the ability to run a mix of different graphics cards together in multi-GPU setups, and promising performance better than what Nvidia and ATI offer - we put these claims to the test.
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