Friday, February 5, 2010

IT News HeadLines (bit-tech.net) 05/02/2010


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Gaming Podcast 10 - Mass Effect 2 and AvP
It's another Custom PC and bit-tech gaming podcast - and this time it is (hopefully) loud enough!

This week Richard, Harry and Joe sit down to talk about Mass Effect 2, Direct2Drive, Mass Effect 2, Aliens vs Predator and Mass Effect 2.

Also, we talk about Mass Effect 2 - but without any spoilers!

There's the usual competitions and giveaways and reader mail too, so tune in to the latest gaming podcast to hear what we have to say about the past fortnight in games!

Don't forget that you can drop us a line at Podcast [at] CustomPC.co.uk, as well as leaving comments below or following us on twitter.

...Mass Effect 2.
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iPhone patch fixes security holes
All iPhone and iPod Touch users are advised to apply Apple's latest update - 3.1.3 - as soon as possible, as it addresses three remotely-exploitable security flaws.
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Bioware: "Mass Effect not coming to PS3"
Bioware has confirmed that Mass Effect is not coming to the PS3, ever.
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Aliens vs Predator demo now on Steam
Sega and Rebellion have released a multiplayer demo of Aliens vs Predator.
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Sony considering PSN subscriptions
Sony says it is considering making PSN a paid-for service in the future.
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STALKER: Call of Pripyat Review
Does the latest STALKER. game tackle some of the critical flaws with the survivalist franchise, such as stability issues and indulgent acronyms? What exactly does DirectX 11 bring to the table? The only way to find the answers to these questions is to check our review!
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Why Software Companies Should Slash Their Prices
Value. It’s a funny word, and never more so when applied to the IT industry. In fact it’s so tricky to place in this fast-moving online world that it’s usually only spoken of as “perceivedâ€‌ value and that’s about as accurate as we can get. Saying a piece of software - be it a game or operating system - is good value is even more of a convoluted statement.

How do you compare one piece of software to another? Features? Price? The space it takes up on your hard drive? How would you predict how well a product might sell and factor that into the pricing?

For most of us it comes down to cold hard cash and whether we can find something that’s as good or better, for less, or even for free. However, only a handful of companies have grasped the fact that if you lower the price of software enough, sales will skyrocket so high, they’ll make many times more profit than if they priced it twice as much, however popular the software may be.
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Rumour: Amazon buys Touchco
The word on the street is that Amazon has bought New York-based Touchco, a small start-up specialising in multi-touch display technology - possibly indicating future Kindle features.
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Why You Need TRIM For Your SSD
SSDs promise blazing fast access times and data transfer speeds - but many SSDs suffer from horrendous performance degradation over time. The answer is TRIM: we take a look at SSD performance to find out why the latest, TRIM-enabled drive firmwares are crucial updates.
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SilverStone Announces Hybrid SSD-Hard Disk Device
SilverStone's newly announced HDDBoost pairs an SSD with a hard disk, delivering SSD speed for TBs of storage.
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