IT News HeadLines (VR-Zone) 28/08/2010

ASUS unveils Xonar DG gaming sound card
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The ASUS Xonar DG sound card combines Dolby Headphone 5.1 high definition surround with ASUS' own GX 2.5 gaming audio engine and an onboard headset amplifier to provide accurate and deep audio for gamers.

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ESET Opens Asia Pacific Regional HQ in Singapore
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Today, ESET announced the launch of their Asia-Pacific regional headquarters in Singapore to expand global distribution and customer support network, and drive product development growth in Asia.

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Facebook will drop Chat support on Internet Explorer 6
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For most purposes, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 is as old as an antique sword which has lost more than just its sharp edge but simply refuses to die out for various reasons. However, Facebook has plans to drive its own nail in IE6's coffin, and it will do so by killing support for its Chat feature on the ancient browser.
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Alleged ATI Radeon HD 6870 3DMark Vantage Benchmark leaked
vr-zone.com - A forum member on Chinese website has leaked a 3D Mark Vantage Extreme benchmark, alongwith a GPU-Z screenshot, alleged to be from a next-gen ATI Radeon HD 6870. The important result is the 3D Mark Vantage score, which X11963. Considering the GTX 480 offers under X10000, and the HD 5870 is in the X9000 range, this is an impressive result for what is rumoured to be a minor intermediate generation on the same 40nm process.

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Xbox 360 Game Review: Crackdown 2
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Crackdown is a 2007 sandbox-style third-person shooter video game that received favorable reviews that year. And three years later, the game developer came up with the sequel to the game, and yes, if you enjoyed the first one, be sure to get your hands on Crackdown 2.

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MPEG-LA announces that H.264-encoded videos for online viewing will be royalty-free
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Apparently feeling the threat which Google's royalty-free WebM video format and VP8 codec could do to usher in an age of royalty-free video decoding, the MPEG-LA has thrown down the gauntlet. Instead of offering free H.264 decoding up till 2015 for online videos, the consortium has announced that encoding free-to-view online videos with the H.264 codec will be made royalty-free indefinitely. But is this enough to push the format for use in HTML5?
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Team Group launches 32GB Class2 microSDHC
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Are you one of those who much time selectively deleting games, movies, or even photos from your smartphone memory card? Team has launched its ultra-high capacity 32GB Class2 microSDHC memory card for mobile devices; now you can store all your applications, games, music, photos, videos and more without worrying about running out of space.

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[Rumour] ATI Radeon HD 6000 Series Release Schedule, first iteration in October
vr-zone.com - Popular Turkish website Donanimhaber has released an expected schedule for the release of ATI's Radeon HD 6000 series. The first HD 6000 GPU to be released will be the Radeon HD 6700 series, codenamed Barts. The HD 6700 is scheduled for a release as early as October. As suggested by the nomenclature, the HD 6700 will directly replace the HD 5700 series.

The HD 6700 release will be followed up by Cayman in November, expected to be branded as the ATI Radeon HD 6800 series, replacing the current HD 5800 series.

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