Wednesday, March 3, 2010

IT News HeadLines (VR-Zone) 03/03/2010


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Verbatim Unveils New eSATA/USB 2.0 500Gb Combo Drive


Verbatim has launched the eSATA/USB 2.0 Combo HDD 500GB, adding on to its line-up of external storages.


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Team Group Readies Pocketbook TL and BS


Taipei based Team Group Inc is preparing the Pocketbook TL (TP1021) and BS (TP1022) for launch at CeBIT.


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Apple Sues HTC

Apple unleashes its lawsuit against HTC over patent infringement. It looks like the legal dept of HTC is gonna get very busy.

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Canon EOS 5D Mark II Gettng New Firmware This Month

Upcoming firmware v2.0.3 for Canon's EOS 5D Mark II will be hitting officially sometime this month.

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Asus Eee Keyboard Delayed...Again

Perhaps like many other reviewing sites and blogs who were anticipating the launch of Eee Keyboard by Asus. You might be disappointed in a way

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Team Group to display Sandforce-based Xtreem-S1 SSD at CeBIT 2010

We've seen some new solid state drives recently; the RealSSD C300 by Crucial, and the Vertex Limited Edition by OCZ. Team Group is joining in the party, and will be displaying their latest Xtreem-S1 solid state drive featuring the Sandforce controller at CeBIT 2010.

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Asus and Sapphire show off extreme HD 5970s
Following information on the quite insane HD 5970 Ares, Sapphire has joined the party with an extreme version of the HD 5970. Whilst the standard HD 5970 carries two Cypress GPUs clocked at 725 MHz for the core, and 1000 MHz for 2GB of GDDR5 memory, the Asus and Sapphire versions take it up all the way to HD 5870 clock speeds, or 850 MHz / 1.2 GHz.

Fudzilla have managed to capture both products - which were showed at Cebit 2010.


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No Atom-based System-on-a-chip (SoC) for now.
When Intel made an agreement sometime last year with TSMC in which Intel would open up its processor technology and allow the latter to manufacture Atom-based chips, it was thought that x86 might finally be able to make a legitimate challenge in the embedded device segment.

But with news that the collaboration is currently on hold, what does that mean for the future of x86-powered devices? Read on...


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Huge touchscreen laptops coming your way, courtesy of DELL.

Now that it is quite certain that the touchscreen is going to have a role to play in the next computing interface paradigm, it only makes sense that more OEMs should start experimenting with it for their latest products.

And with that being said, move over tablets and MIDs, Dell is here to put a whole new meaning in 'touchscreen computers'.

Curious about what they have in store? Read on.


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Geforce GTX 400 pictures and information from Cebit 2010
PCGamesHardware have shot a few candid pictures of a GTX 400 series sample during a Cebit 2010 demonstration. The product was a GF-100-375-A3, signifying this is part of the latest, and presumably final, GF100 stepping, A3. The card was tagged as a Geforce GTX 375, so, it must have been an engineering sample from before the final nomenclature of Geforce GTX 470 and GTX 480.

It is of course a dual slot card, powered by one 6-pin and one 8-pin PCI-e power connectors. The outputs consist of two DVI and one HDMI ports.

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AMD demonstates Phenom II X6
AMD has held a conference on its upcoming six-core Phenom II X6 CPUs at Hannover, ahead of CEBIT 2010. Rumoured for an April 26th release, the X6 CPUs are expected to launch in two variants. The working Phenom II X6 was demonstrated running on a Gigabyte 890GX motherboard. Of course, the upcoming 800 series chipset motherboards support Phenom II X6 off the box. However, older 700 series motherboards are also expected to be compatible, albeit with a BIOS update. This will open up a viable upgrade path for existing Athlon II / Phenom II owners.

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Transcend's New Shockproof JetFlash V70, StoreJet 18M and StoreJet 25M Portable Storage

Transcend

While portable storage ensures convenience of storing and carrying your data from places to places, most of them are not sturdy enough. An accidental drop or bump could damage the components within and result in data loss. Well, not if you're using Transcend's new portable storage solutions.


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Time bombs for the Release Candidate versions of Windows 7 will soon be activated.

It is always said that there's no such thing as a free lunch, and that would definitely apply to the release candidate of Microsoft's latest operating system, which is rigged to deactivate come June 2010 even as it is hailed as one of the better Windows OSes ever released.

In fact, according to some web sources, it seems that Microsoft had already started its efforts to get people off the Windows 7 RC. More on this after the break.


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Older Windows Mobile Phones Can't Upgrade to Windows Mobile 7

Windows Phone

Microsoft Windows operating systems (be it desktop or mobile versions) have always been upgradeable. Well, no longer for the upcoming Windows Mobile 7 OS.

At the recent Mobile World Congress, Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, has mentioned that the new Windows Mobile 7 Series phones will have certain minimum requirements. This means that current Windows Mobile 6.5 phone users will not be able to upgrade to the new mobile OS as the phone may not meet that requirements.


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Google Acquires Picnik Online Image Editing Website

Google acquires Picnik

In 2004, Picasa was bought over by Google. And now, its Picnik, an online image editing site. Looks like the search engine giant is really looking into providing the various services on the cloud. Will we see Picasa integration with Picnik? Its possible though Google aren't saying anything yet.


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Game Review: Darksiders (Xbox 360)

Darksiders

War, what is it good for? A really, really good action game from Virgil Games of course. And yes, when it comes to good versus evil, you have to take a look at this one - Darksiders.


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