IT-Code-News: IT News HeadLines (TechSpot) 26/11/2010

Saturday, November 27, 2010

IT News HeadLines (TechSpot) 26/11/2010

US government seizes 77 piracy and counterfeit domains
The US government has seized at least 77 domains belonging to sites associated with P2P file sharing and counterfeit goods. It appears that their owners were not notified, and the court system was apparently skipped, according to TorrentFreak.

Chrome extension and Kinect control the browser with gestures
A group of students at the MIT Media Lab Fluid Interfaces Group, devoted to move UI design past the typical keyboard-and-mouse interface, has turned the Kinect motion controller into a tool for Web browsing. They wrote an extension for Google Chrome called DepthJS (yes, it uses Javascript) so that surfers...

Weekend game deals: Win your top 5 most desired games
There's no more pre-Black Friday, Black Friday preview or any other warm-up sales. Today's the real deal and the game dealers know it. Steam is discounting a new batch of titles every day through the weekend, including drastically reduced gift packs. It's also worth noting that every day during Steam's...

Boxee Box gets its first firmware update, instructions inside
Boxee has released its first firmware update for the Boxee Box, just a couple of weeks after the device's debut. The release includes 52 bug fixes and improvements split into the following five broad categories: Media Playback, Wireless Connectivity, Network Shares, Other, as well as Improvements and Additions.

Google: Chrome OS could replace 60% of Windows PCs
Linus Upson, Google's vice president for engineering in charge of Chrome, recently made some bold comments about his company's upcoming operating system. Google has apparently done some research and found that 60 percent of Windows PCs used in the corporate world are exclusively used for tasks that can be handled...

The Pirate Bay loses court appeal
The Svea Appeals Court in Sweden has upheld the copyright convictions of three men behind The Pirate Bay, according to Reuters. In April 2009, a lower court ruled that Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde, and Carl Lundstrom were guilty of helping users break Sweden's copyright law.

DRAM prices to keep falling in first half of 2011
The price of DRAM will likely keep falling throughout the first half of next year before a recovery takes hold, according to the latest report from DRAMeXchange. The wholesale price of a 2GB DDR3 module has dropped 46 percent since the start of the year, from $46.50 to around $25...

Leaked: pictures of Android 2.3 running on the Nexus S
Pictures of the next major version of Android, version 2.3 (codenamed Gingerbread), running on the Samsung Nexus S, have leaked to XDA Developers thanks to an anonymous source. The photos are quite blurry and don't really reveal many new features in Android 2.3, but it's still a significant leak. It...

Thursday tech deals: Black Friday bonanza
Sharp AQUOS 55" 120Hz 1080p LED LCD HDTV for $1,200 + free shipping

StatWin Pro 8.2.8
Monitoring and reporting suite, capable of reporting all the user actions!

Wise Disk Cleaner 5.73
Free up disk space by deleting junk files that are no longer used.

PeaZip 3.5
Popular Easy to use cross-platform file and archive manager.

Windows 7 Manager 2.0.3 64-bit
A powerful software tool to tweak, optimize, maintain and tune up your Windows 7, it bundles more than 30 different utilities in one.

Process Lasso 4.00.22 64-bit
Process Lasso is a software that will improve system responsiveness and stability.

Windows 7 Manager 2.0.3
A powerful software tool to tweak, optimize, maintain and tune up your Windows 7, it bundles more than 30 different utilities in one.

Process Lasso 4.00.22 32-bit
Process Lasso is a software that will improve system responsiveness and stability.

Blue Crab 4.9.50for Mac OS X
Blue Crab is a program that you use to copy the contents of a website to your computer, whole or in part.

DVDFab HD Decrypter 8.0.5.1 Beta
Copies entire DVD movie to hard disk, and removes all the protections while copying.

1by1 1.72
Small, fast and handy player with powerful tools to handle your files and listen to your tracks.

CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) Portable 3.01.1327
The normal CCleaner program, but it doesn't require installing

Maxthon 3.0.19.1000
Maxthon Internet Browser software is a powerful tabbed browser with a highly customizable interface.

Privatefirewall 7.0.22.5
Eliminates unauthorized access to your PC at home, the office, or on the road.

Vista Manager 4.0.8
All-in-One utility to optimize, tweak, tune up and clean up your Windows Vista.

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