Saturday, February 13, 2010

IT News HeadLines (bit-tech.net) 13/02/2010


bit-tech.net
Marvell announces new processor
Chip manufacturer Marvell has announced a new 1GHz ARM-based processor, aimed at the smartphone market, which it claims is significantly faster than Qualcomm's Snapdragon.
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Fable 3 has no experience, health bar
Peter Molyneux has revealed that Fable 3 has no XP system or health bar, though he still calls it an RPG.
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Left 4 Dead 2 add-on arrives in March
Valve has announced that Left 4 Dead 1 and 2 will both get new add-ons in the coming months.
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Alan Wake gets a Xbox 360 release date
Microsoft and Remedy have revealed that Alan Wake will finally get a release in May 2010, after five years of work.
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Google buys Aardvark social search
Google has confirmed its purchase of the Aardvark social search engine - founded by ex-Google employees - for $50 million, giving its Buzz service a boost.
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Why the iPad is Intel’s worst nightmare
Whereas most people were only too keen to talk and talk about the pros and cons of the iPad, I think there’s probably one set of people who, more than any other, wish the iPad would just go away: Intel’s senior executives.

The iPad is close to Intel’s worst nightmare because it’s a â€کproper’ computer - it’s certainly not a smartphone - that doesn’t use an Intel x86 CPU. It’s also a machine that doesn’t face any of the demand-killing limitations non Intel laptops have done before. It’s not from a no-name company that people won’t trust, or whose products you can’t actually find in the shops. It’s not running Linux or an OS that’s difficult to understand. It’s not unfamiliar – millions of people know how to use the iPhone – and once the Apple marketing juggernaut gets up and running, you’re not going to be unaware it exists.

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PowerColor ATI Radeon HD 5770 PCS+ Review
The Radeon HD 5770 is a surprisingly capable GPU that costs a wallet friendly آ£120 - PowerColor's PCS+ looks to build on it thanks to an overclock, a copy of Dirt 2 and a custom cooler.
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