IT-Code-News: IT News HeadLines (TechConnect Magazine) 22/05/2010

Saturday, May 22, 2010

IT News HeadLines (TechConnect Magazine) 22/05/2010

Google celebrates Pac-Man's 30th birthday with a game doodle
Tomorrow, the uber-famous yellow ghost muncher Pac-Man is turning 30 and to properly celebrate this milestone, web search chief Google has made a very special doodle for its home page, an interactive window that lets you play Pac-Man (sounds are included).

PhysX FluidMark 1.2.0 released
Until Mafia 2 comes out to show its PhysX implementation, GeForce owners can test out the physics capabilities of their graphics cards in a less Godfather-y way, by firing up the newest version of FluidMark which is a fluid simulation benchmark from oZone3D and Geeks3D founder JeGX.

AMD and Renesas/NEC team up to push for USB 3.0 adoption
Renesas Electronics, the company formerly known as NEC Electronics, has entered a partnership with AMD which is aimed at promoting the use of the former's USB 3.0 xHCI host controller on motherboards powered by AMD chipsets.

Prolimatech's Samuel 17 low-profile CPU cooler pictured and priced
Wondering what cooler manufacturer Prolimatech has been doing lately? Well wonder no more because the company's latest creation, the low(er)-profile CPU cooler named Samuel 17 (name after the Old Testament chapter with the David and Goliath story) has been exposed, measured, and even priced.

HP adds Asia Pacific Microsystems as defendant in cartridge patent case
Printer and PC heavyweight HP has yesterday re-filed its Federal District court complaint regarding the sale of patent-infringing cartridges and products featuring stolen components, the move being made so as to add a new name to the defendant list - Asia Pacific Microsystems (APM).

GPU-Z 0.4.3 comes with more hardware, language support
Just as the weekend closes in PC users are given the option to treat themselves to a new version of the GPU-Z tool which provides detailed information about graphics cards as well as real-time voltage, fan speed and temperature monitoring.

MSI SketchBook concept is good for typing and drawing too
In addition to showing off its Atom N455-powered Wind U160DX, MSI has presented at a pre-Computex event this week the SketchBook, a new mobile device that looks like a netbook but has an integrated graphics tablet which can be used by flipping the keyboard.

Oracle to acquire database firewall supplier Secerno
Although spending over $7 billion on Sun, the second-best known Oracle in the world, Oracle Corp. still has some cash stashed and some of that will soon be used to acquire Secerno, a UK-based provider of database firewall solutions.

Puget rolls out the Echo III small form factor gaming PC
Puget Systems has this week sent a shout out to PC gamers to tell them about its newest Echo-series release, the Echo III high performance small form factor system which is powered by Intel processors and can be equipped with DirectX 11 graphics.

Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD9 motherboard goes on sale
Gigabyte's mightiest X58 motherboard ever, the GA-X58A-UD9, has begun shipping this week and can be found on stock in several markets (not Europe yet apparently) by overclockers and enthusiasts with reasonably-large wallets.

Xilence readies new high-end tower CPU cooler
German-Chinese manufacturer Xilence is preparing to counter the hot summer sun with the M606, a new cooler that unfortunately can't be used on bipedal mammals but fortunately, can handle the CPUs inside out PCs.

PQI reveals the i512 credit card-sized flash drive
PQI (Power Quotient International) has this week announced its newest NAND-based storage solution, the i512 flash drive which is the size of a credit card and features a pullout flexible USB connector.

EVGA adds backplate, high-flow bracket to overclocked GeForce GTX 470
Aiming to tame the relatively wild but definitely hot 'temper' of the GeForce GTX 470 EVGA has constructed a new version of its GTX 470 SuperClocked card that comes with a couple of cool extras, a backplate and a high-flow bracket.

Cisco buying DSP maker CoreOptics for $99 million
Big-spending star of the networking world Cisco has announced that its latest shopping run is set to end with it paying about $99 million in cash for one CoreOptics Inc., a San Jose-based firm that designs digital signal processing (DSP) solutions for optical networking applications.

Chrome 6.0.408.1 out and ready for testing
Chrome, the browser of choice for the upcoming Google TV platform, has reached the infamous Dev channel in an updated form known as version 6.0.408.1 and is awaiting use and abuse from both developers and enthusiasts.

Infineon and Elpida bury the hatchet, end patent disputes
German semiconductor company Infineon and Japanese memory manufacturer Elpida have reached a settlement which will end the three legal battles regarding alleged patent violations they are involved in.

Buffalo readies 1TB MiniStation HD-PXT portable HDD
Buffalo has just announced that its MiniStation HD-PXT family of portable hard drives will be expanded later this month through the introduction of a model providing 1TB of storage space and all the features seen on current offering, including 256-bit AES hardware encryption.

Lexar re-releases 0002 firmware for RealSSD C300 drives
After being benched for two weeks following reports of bricked drives, the 0002 firmware for the RealSSD C300 line has been made available once again, with a new update tool that should be less troublesome and prevent any foreseen consequences.

Tranquil PC announce WHS cloud add-in tease
The Windows Home Server community is being teased by Tranquil PC once again this week, as the company made a brief announcement with information that points toward a new WHS cloud backup service dubbed 'HomeServerSync', set to come courtesy of the British manufacturer.

Amazon upgrade S3 reduced redundancy
Amazon announced yesterday that they will now be offering reduced redundancy storage class for its S3 service customers, which will now provide a cheaper "four nines reliability" rating for applications and content.

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Google TV unveiled, coming this fall
Unsurprisingly, the second major announcement made today at Google I/O was that of Google TV, a hardware and software combo that is aimed at truly bringing the internet into your living room and making it easily accessible via your TV.

The Smartest Android Phones
Nowdays everyone has heard of Android, the unique mobile phone operating system, Google developed. It's unique, because despite the fact that Google is actively developing the platform, it gives it away for free to any hardware manufacturer or phone carrier who wants to run Android on their devices.

Google takes the veil off Android 2.2 'Froyo'
Day two of the Google I/O developer conference has kicked off and the first star of the keynote is none other than Froyo aka Android 2.2, which comes with a heap of new features and also some significant speed improvements over its predecessor.

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