Saturday, November 27, 2010

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWorld) 26/11/2010

Apple's 'Black Friday' deals discount Macs, iPad up to 8%
Apple cut prices for selected models of the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and iMac up to 8% in a repeat of last year's "Black Friday" sale, although some authorized resellers again beat Apple's discounts.
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Swedish judge confirms Pirate Bay convictions on appeal
Three men found guilty of being accessories to crimes against copyright law for their part in running The Pirate Bay have lost their appeal, while a fourth man still awaits trial.
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CIO Blast from the Past: 60 years of Hamming codes
In 1950 Bell Labs researcher, Richard W Hamming, made a discovery that would lay an important foundation for the entire modern computing and communications industries. He had invented a code for correcting errors in communication and the Hamming code was born. CIO Blast from the Past takes a journey through 60 years of information theory and discovers how the Hamming code legacy lives on today.
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Consumers vote Mac for laptop buying plans
More than a third of American consumers planning to purchase a laptop in the next 90 days will buy from Apple, a market research company said this week.
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Mike Elgan: Why you'll buy a two-screen laptop
I predicted more than two years ago that dual-screen laptops would dominate the category within five years. Halfway to the deadline, Acer this week unveiled a workable and exciting two-screen laptop.
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Report says Apple iPad 2 to have 2 cameras, USB port
A reliable Taiwanese newspaper says Apple's next generation iPad will be out in the first quarter of 2011, complete with video calling, two cameras, new display and touch technology, and a USB port to connect easily to other devices.
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Windows Live Writer Makes Beautiful Blogs
Windows Live Writer 11 (free) fills a product niche I didn't know existed: Offline blog post production tool. The program is, in essence, a light word processor and design app you can use to write the contents of blog posts and make them pretty. Live Writer 11 comes bundled with the free Windows Live Essentials suite (though you can install Live Writer 11 by itself, skipping the seven other bundled apps and browser toolbar, if this is the only thing you want).
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