Friday, March 19, 2010

IT News HeadLines (TechSpot) 19/03/2010


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Google working on Android-powered TV platform?
Google is reportedly joining a growing list of companies who are looking to bring Internet content to users' living rooms. According to the New York Times, the company has lined up some big partners -- including Intel and Sony -- to create an Android-based platform that will make browsing sites or using smartphone-like apps on TV sets as easy as changing the channel.
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New GeForce 197.13 beta drivers fix overheating issues
Nvidia has released a new set of drivers for GeForce card owners and offered an apology to anyone who experienced fan speed issues after installing the preceding version. If you recall, just two weeks ago the company's 196.75 driver was pulled from Nvidia's website following reports that it was causing fans to slow down or outright stop working while gaming, and in some cases even damaging the mot...
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Tech Tip of the Week: Customize Your Windows 7 Start Menu Button
Windows users have been customizing their desktops in a variety of ways for years. Whether by downloading themes and backgrounds, or using third party applications to change more obscure settings like the default logon screen, many people seem intent on personalizing every aspect of their operating system to something that fits their individual taste. And what better to alter than an icon that's a...
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News around the web: One pair of 3D glasses to rule
One pair of 3D glasses to rule them all @ CNet
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Catalyst 10.3 previewed, full release coming next week
AMD has announced a pre-release version of Catalyst 10.3, along with details about what to expect in the latest revision. The new driver brings a host of performance enhancements to over a dozen of today's most popular games, including Aliens vs. Predator, Call of Duty: World at War, Company of Heroes, Crysis, Crysis Warhead, Dirt 2, Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead 1 and 2, Resident Evil 5, World in Confli...
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EVGA Classified SR-2 fits twin six-core Xeon processors
EVGA has launched the "mother of all motherboards," a dual-socket PCB capable of housing two of Intel's six-core Xeon processors. Officially dubbed the Classified SR-2, the board uses Intel's 5220 chipset and has twin LGA1366 sockets, providing the foundation for a colossal 12-core, 24-threaded monster box. It's worth noting that Intel's Core i7-980X isn't supported.
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Study: Mobile app market to hit $17.5 billion by 2012
According to a study sanctioned by app company GetJar, the mobile application market will reach $17.5 billion by 2012, at which point there will be some 50 billion programs available, compared to 7 billion last year.
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Wednesday tech deals: $230 off 14" IdeaPad U450p
Lenovo IdeaPad U450p Core 2 Duo 1.3GHz 14" Laptop for $448 + free shipping
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Microsoft loses another patent suit, must pay $105 million
Microsoft has suffered another legal blow, yet again for patent infringement. A Texas court on Tuesday ordered the software giant to pay $105.75 million to VirnetX for violating two patents (6,502,135 and 7,188,180) pertaining to VPN technology, which has supposedly been used in products including Windows XP, Vista, Office, and Windows Messenger.
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Intel's Core i7-980X EE shows up in a slew of gaming rigs
Spending upwards of $999 on the latest and greatest Intel processor might be overkill in most people's book, especially for the marginal performance gains you get compared to the next model down. But that isn't stopping a deluge of system builders from announcing products based on the recently announced Core i7-980X EE. The six-core, twelve-threaded part has already made its way onto gaming rigs b...
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Western Digital intros new Mac-friendly external drives
Western Digital has added a pair of new external storage drives to its Mac product line. The company now offers 750GB and 1TB iterations of the My Passport SE. Aimed specifically at Apple computer users, the drive comes formatted for Mac systems, and Western Digital says it's compatible with Apple Time Machine software.
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News around the web: Hacker Disables Cars Remotely
Hacker Disables More Than 100 Cars Remotely @ Wired
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Customize Your Windows 7 Start Menu Button
Windows users have been customizing their desktops in a variety of ways for years. Whether by downloading themes and backgrounds, or using third party applications to change more obscure settings like the default logon screen, many people seem intent on personalizing every aspect of their operating system to something that fits their individual taste. And what better to alter than an icon that's always visible?

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Opera 10.51.3315 Beta
Opera introduces the looks and the performance of an exceptional Web browser.
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JAlbum 8.7.2
Web photo gallery generator
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CDBurnerXP 4.3.0.1977
With this free software you can burn CD-R, CD-RW DVD+R/RW DVD-R/RW discs.
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SmartFTP Client 4.0.1088.0
Transfer files through the internet.
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SmartFTP Client 4.0.1088.0 64-bit
Transfer files through the internet.
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Joy Image Printer 2.15
Virtual Image Printer converts any files to BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG and TIFF image
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Adit Testdesk 2.01
Replace paper exams with fully automated computer-based testing.
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Advanced Host Monitor 8.54
A full-featured network monitor program.
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AkelPad 4.4.2
AkelPad is an open source editor for plain text. It is designed to be a small and fast.
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save2pc 4.02
YouTube Downloader is a free tool that downloads videos from YouTube and saves it as Avi file to your local computer.
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CrossLoop 2.72
CrossLoop is a free secure screen sharing utility designed for people of all technical skill levels.
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Fresh Download 8.46
Easy-to-use and very fast download manager software that turbo charges downloading files.
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VSO PhotoDVD 3.1.0.2d
Creates DVD movie slideshows from your digital photos, viewable on any home DVD player.
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AVIRA Antivirus Desktop Update Package March 18, 2010
Update AVIRA Desktop for Windows with latest virus definitions and scan engine.
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Kaspersky Anti-Virus Update March 18, 2010
Virus definitions for Kaspersky Anti-Virus.
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Ad-aware 2008 Definitions File 0149.0178
Manually update Ad-aware 2007 with the latest definitions file.
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McAfee SuperDAT Update 5923
Update your Mcafee based virus scanner.
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MaxBulk Mailer 7.4 for Mac OS X
Program able to send commercial mailings to up to several hundreds of email addresses very easily.
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ImgBurn 2.5.1.0
ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application.
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Mozilla Firefox 3.7 Alpha 3
The second RC milestone of the next release of the Firefox browser.
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CyberLink PowerDVD 10.0.1516
The No.1 Movie Experience on the PC.
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Google Chrome 5.0.342.5 Beta
Google Chrome's development is high-paced and version numbers are not very significant, but here's Chrome 5.0.
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AnyDVD & AnyDVD HD 6.6.2.6
AnyDVD HD comes with same functionality as AnyDVD, but with additional features for full Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD support
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AnyDVD & AnyDVD HD 6.6.2.8 Beta
Automatically removes the copy protection of a DVD movie as soon as it's inserted into the drive.
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Spybot Search and Destroy Detection Update March 17, 2010
This updates the detection rules for Spybot Search and Destroy.
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avast! Virus Definitions March 17, 2010
Protect your system and valuable data against computer viruses.
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AVG Anti-Virus Updates March 17, 2010
Keep your AVG Anti-Virus updated.
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Trend Micro Pattern File for Windows 6.927.0
Trend Micro's latest compilation of patterns for virus identification.
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JetWay NC92-330-LF Bios v A06
Driver Date: 3/17/2010 OS Support: Windows XP/Vista/7

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Asus Azurewave Bluetooth Driver v 6.2.1.800
Driver Date: 3/15/2010 OS Support: Windows 7

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