Thursday, April 1, 2010

IT News HeadLines (VR-Zone) 01/04/2010


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Gigabyte H55N-USB3 Mini-ITX Sneak Peek

Gigabyte is about to unleash a new mainboard based on the Intel H55 Express chipset. Look inside to see more.

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Arctic Unleashes C3/C4 Car Chargers


Swiss based Arctic Cooling has unveiled the ARCTIC C3 and C4, expanding its product portfolio.

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Microsoft Readies 64Gb Zune HD


An inactive link to a 64Gb model added on the official Zune website indicates Microsoft is preparing its new 64Gb Zune HD for release, adding on to its existing Zune series of portable media device.

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Toshiba Unveils Canvio Portable HDD


Tokyo-based Toshiba, diversified manufacturer and marketer of advanced electronic and electrical products, has announced its Canvio series of portable HDD.

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[Rumour] Microsoft planning an Xbox 360 Slim for real?

The Wii may be the smallest and sleekest game console in the market, but that did not stop Sony from coming out with a 'slim' version of its Playstation 3. Will Microsoft follow suit with an Xbox 360 Slim?

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AMD, Intel Announce New Server Chips (Opteron 6000 and Xeon 7500)

AMD have officially announced in a recent press release of their Opteron 6000 series processors. The lineup consist of 12-core processors at the top end with claims of higher performance with a affordable cost

Intel, however brings up the fight with its recent announcement of the 8 core Xeon 7500 series.

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Elan Microelectronics Corp files patent infringement complaint against Apple

Taiwan-based Elan Microelectronics has lodged a complaint to the ITC against Apple, claiming patent infringements for various multitouch-related patents found in the latter's devices.

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Microsoft addresses security vulnerability in Internet Explorer

Microsoft has just issued an update to address the security vulnerability found in Internet Explorer 6 and 7 web browsers which allow hackers to do remote code execution. Read on for more info.


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[Rumour] ATI's next generation - Southern Islands
ATI's next generation was revealed to be N. Islands on an official roadmap back in 2009. It was meant to be a 32nm process, with release sometime between Q4 2010 and Q1 2011. Unfortunately, thanks to TSMC's 40nm botch-up, they lost confidence in the 32nm half-node, and canceled it completely - seeking to put their focus on 28nm.

This meant ATI's N. Islands had to be moved to 28nm, with a delay. TSMC kept slipping 28nm as well, and soon, it was quite apparent 28nm would not be ready in time for the delayed release of NI in Q1 2011.

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Google bundles Flash into Chrome browser

In spite of the progress HTML5 has made in trying to wean the internet off proprietary standards, it seems that Flash is not going to disappear anytime soon. At least, not when Google has started integrating the Adobe Flash plugin with its Chrome browser.

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Hacker promises to circumvent Playstation 3 firmware update

A couple of days back, we posted an article about the Playstation 3's upcoming update which claims to disable the OtherOS feature on the console for "security concerns". Today, a hacker has announced plans to work on custom firmware that will restore the removed feature.

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COMPUTEX 2010 Pre-Show Updates

VR-Zone.com is over in Taipei for the COMPUTEX 2010 Pre-show International Press Conference. The annual COMPUTEX tradeshow is the de-facto Information Communications Technology (ICT) tradeshow attended by global businesses and media. We arrived at Taipei International COnvention Center (TICC) to find out more about the latest trends driving ICT development in Taiwan.

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(Gizmodo) 90 Preorders for JooJoo Tablets, 15 Cancelled

Joo Joo

Ever since Fusion Garage announced the launch of the Joo Joo tablets and taking preorders in December last year (and taking 8 to 11 weeks before you receive it), there were no news how well it did.

Well, this morning, according to Gizmodo, the company has received 90 preorders for the Joo Joo tablets (priced at US$500 each), though there were 15 order cancellations.


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WD Announces 750GB 2.5-inch Scorpio Blue HDD

Western Digital have announced the availability of its new 750GB (model WD7500BPVT) 2.5 inch standard height Scorpio Blue HDD.

These lovely drives are shipping now through select distributors and resellers.

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iTunes 9.1 Available

Apple's iTunes 9.1 is now available, bringing support for iPad syncing and also the ability to "organize and sync books" you've downloaded.

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