Thursday, March 18, 2010

IT News HeadLines (CNET) 18/03/2010



Xbox 360 Slim coming?
A recent post on the A9VG forums has led many to believe that what you see above is the new "Valhalla" motherboard for the Xbox 360 console. Underneath that fan heatsink is supposedly a CPU/GPU combo chip that will allow for the overall size reduction of the board.
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Devo on the fate of the world--and Chatroulette (Q&A)
At SXSWi, two band members tell CNET that Chatroulette is a natural home for Devo and note that the Net is a lot cheaper than TV for promoting a big project.
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Devo 2.0, the Internet start-up--take it seriously
Devo's presentation at SXSWi was a no-doubt-about it business pitch, yet it was so silly that people were nearly falling out of their seats.
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Report: Mobile app demand to explode by 2012
Total value of the worldwide market for apps on the go could grow to $17.5 billion in the next three years, GetJar estimates.
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Start-up Tendril pursues 'TiVo of thermostats'
Tendril is designing a home energy system aimed at people who aren't tech-savvy or willing to work hard on energy efficiency.
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Behind Bing's blue links
It turns out there's a reason why Microsoft went with the shade of blue it did for links on its search engine--an $80 million reason.
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IT pros happy with enterprise software support
Overall, they're very satisfied with support services offered by enterprise software vendors, says IDC, with HP rated tops, followed by Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and IBM.
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Bing Maps adds a telescopic lens
Users of Microsoft's mapping service can now "look up" and see what the stars look like from any vantage point on the globe.
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Google making it easier to leave Exchange
Google's bid to get businesses on its cloud computing office productivity software has new weapon: a tool for making the Exchange migration easier.
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Microsoft says it decimated Waledac botnet
The company has said that thousands of bots are no longer receiving commands and attributed it to earlier legal action.
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Teen wins $100,000 Intel science award
An 18-year-old from Albuquerque gets top prize in Intel's Science Talent Search for designing software to help spacecraft travel through the solar system more easily.
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Green tech on St. Patty's
We have some disappointing news about the upcoming Windows Phones, Porsche launches a cell phone, and we're going to talk about green car tech since it's St. Patrick's Day after all!
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With IE9, Web video issue remains deadlocked
The preview version of the Microsoft browser shows that lots of new standards will be useful on the Web. But HTML5 video is caught between two formats.
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Xobni Mobile arrives on the BlackBerry
It's the first time that the contact manager has been available in any form other than a plug-in for Outlook, adding search, threading, and relevance functionality.
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Study: Businesses start to embrace Windows 7
A new study shows that, far more than with Windows Vista, businesses do plan to adopt Windows 7. A decent number plan to start this year.
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Intel powers its way inside the smart grid
Like Cisco and IBM, Intel shifts development toward the smart grid with home energy management systems, building automation, and high-end computing to model the electricity grid.
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TV broadcasters prepare for spectrum battle
They're not happy with the National Broadband Policy, which asks them to give up 40 percent of their spectrum holdings for wireless broadband.
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Firefox 3.0 reaching end of the line
Security and stability updates will finally come to an end with the release of Firefox 3.0.19, due out March 30.
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Chinese ad partners beg Google for information
Twenty-seven advertising partners in China also ask Google how they will be compensated if the company goes ahead with a threatened withdrawal.
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Social network's CEO documents flight nightmare live
David Martin, the CEO of visual update site Kontain, was on the 14-hour nightmare Virgin America flight from LA to NY. He documented the worst parts live using the airline's Wi-Fi.
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