IT-Code-News: IT News HeadLines (TweakTown) 11/04/2010

Sunday, April 11, 2010

IT News HeadLines (TweakTown) 11/04/2010

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Rumors of overheating iPads pop up on the net
During our review of the iPad we began to hear rumors that the new product was already having trouble. We heard of overheating issues, WiFi issues and a few other problems. While we were testing theآ…

Apple moves to ban the use of third party compilers and tools
The war between Steve Jobs and Adobe has heated up. Apple has now put wording into the SDK for iPhone OS 4.0 that prohibits the use of third party compilers or code translators. This means the new iPhoneآ…

Rumor points to Tuesday for MacBook update
The number of rumors that circulate at any given time about what Apple is doing or isnآ’t doing are staggering. No other company is as closely followed by fans than Apple. A new rumor has surfaced forآ…

BenQ bets on color eReader over tablet
I figured once the iPad launched and users started to buy the thing that the manufactures of computers and electronics would decide whether to move forward with their own tablets. I also think that makersآ…

Microsoft Research shows off "Manual Dexterity"
Microsoft Research works on all sorts of features and offerings that often never see the light of day. The company is showing off a new input method using pen and touch that it calls "Manual Dexterityآ…

Mophie adds new juice pack air for iPod touch to lineup
Mophie has now added a new juice pack air to its line for iPod touch users as well that is available now for $79.99. The touch version looks just like the iPhone version and wraps around the iPod to protectآ…

Mitsubishi unveils 2010 3D DLP TV line
Mitsubishi has been in the home theater market for a long time with a wide range of TVs and other gear. The company has announced its new line of DLP 3D TVs for 2010 in large screen sizes and offeringآ…

F.E.A.R. 3 on the way - John Carpenter gets in on the action
Fans of the horror FPS series F.E.A.R. will be excited to know that Day 1 Studios has decided to take on the next instalment, F.E.A.R. 3 with the previous developer, Monolith handballing the franchiseآ…

Thermaltake lists Armor A90 mid-tower gaming case
Thermaltake has just listed yet another mid-tower chassis on its website (we're still waiting on the company's PR) which in typical Thermaltake fashion boasts a radical change in aesthetics and will beآ…

Creative refreshes its ZEN line-up of portable media players
The ZEN X-Fi Style uses a 2.4-inch sized LCD with a resolution of 320x240. As well as giving audio and video playback functions, it has an FM radio feature, built-in speakers, USB connectivity, videoآ…

Sharkoon makes available QuickPort 2.5/3.5-inch SATA/IDE HDD Dock
Sharkoon has extended its popular QuickPort ranga of hard drive docks with the release of its QuickPort Combo eSATA HDD dock that allows for both 2.5 and 3.5-inch sized drives to be dropped into it forآ…

Qualcomm MEMS mirasol reflective light screen demonstration
Today we hooked up with the Taiwan PR people for Qualcomm in Taipei City and got a look an upcoming prototype device from Qualcomm MEMS Technologies, a subsidiary of Qualcomm, that uses its impressiveآ…

OCZ introduce SandForce powered Vertex 2 and Agility 2 SSDs
We've learned in recent reviews from Chris where he checks out two of the latest and greatest SSD controllers about in the SandForce SF-1500 and SF-1200; these are seriously quick controllers that donآ…

Super Talent intros new line of entry level SSDs from 8 to 64GB

Koolance readies up a pair of GTX 400 series waterblocks
These VID-NX480 and VID-NX470 waterblocks are made from nickel plated copper with an acrylic top section and give full coverage to all the important areas including the GPU, memory chips and VRM. Bothآ…

NVIDIA to release another high-end GTX 400 card soon
With the new top dogs released in their latest generation of cards, NVIDIA shifts its attention to the mid and lower market segments and we await DX11 models in these lower market segments. But the latestآ…

Download of the Day: TightVNC 2.0 Beta 2
TightVNC is a free remote control software package derived from the popular VNC software. With TightVNC, you can see the desktop of a remote machine and control it with your local mouse and keyboard,آ…

Deal of the Day: 10% Off ThinkPad Edge Notebook eCoupon with FREE Shipping!
Offer: Thanks to this 10% off coupon, you can pick up one of the Edge 13 laptops with the 13.3" HD LED display from just $521.10 with FREE shipping! Use ecoupon: USPEDGE13A2 (expires after 500 usesآ…

First Multitasking Video on the iPhone OS 4.0
We told you that Apple is trying to put Multitasking into the iPhone/iPod Touch and also into the iPad. All of this is more than likely in response to Microsoftآ’s Windows Phone 7 and the Palm Preآ’s WebOSآ…

No multi-tasking for iPhone 3G - hardware not good enough
Towards the end of the event, Jobs announced that OS 4.0 will be released to developers today and to consumers sometime in summer. The sad news is that not all features of OS 4.0 will be supported byآ…

First-gen iPod nano owners finally get their due
The wide spread issue eventually lead to a class action suit against Apple. Five years after those first iPod nano units were revealed, Apple has started sending out the checks to those who were partآ…

Karvt wooden skins for MacBooks
Skins that you can put over laptops and other gadgets are nothing new. Typically they are made from some sort of vinyl or other material a like a sticker. A company called Karvt has a new line of skinsآ…

Just Cause 2 Xbox 360 Review

Super Talent Introduces Value SSD Product Line
San Jose, California آ– April 8, 2010 -- Super Talent Technology, a leading manufacturer of Flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules, today announced a new value solid state drive (SSD) productآ…

Seagate To Report Fiscal Third Quarter Financial Results On April 20, 2010
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. آ– April 8, 2010 آ– Seagate Technology (Nasdaq: STX) today announced it will report fiscal third quarter 2010 financial results on Tuesday, April 20, 2010, after the close of the marketآ…

OCZ TECHNOLOGY ANNOUNCES VERTEX 2 AND AGILITY 2 SOLID STATE DRIVES
SAN JOSE, CAآ—April 8, 2010آ—OCZ Technology Group, Inc. (OTCBB: OCZT), a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory and flash-based storage as an alternative to hardآ…

Apple Previews iPhone OS 4
CUPERTINO, Californiaآ—April 8, 2010آ—Appleآ® today previewed its iPhoneآ® OS 4 software and released a beta version of the software to iPhone Developer Program members. The iPhone OS 4 beta release includesآ…

CDSA Qualifies Kingston Technology as World's First Content Protection Certified Flash Memory Entertainment Provider
Fountain Valley, CA -- April 6, 2010 -- Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced the completion of the Content Delivery and Storage Associationآ…

Compro IP530/IP530W with Pan/Tilt and IR Technology to Day & Night Secure Your Home and Office
Compro IP530/IP530W supports full 340-degree horizontal and 100-degree vertical rotation monitoring. Accompanying with new version professional surveillance software آ– ComproView, IP530/IP530W is freeآ…

GIGABYTE Extends Ultimate Super Overclock Series with HD 5870 SOC Graphics Card
Taipei, Taiwan, 7th April, 2010 آ–آ– GIGABYTE, a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, introduces a powerful new addition to its Super Overclock Series: HD 5870 SOC. To qualify for Superآ…

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