IT-Code-News: IT News HeadLines (THE INQUIRER) 24/12/2010

Virgin gets a Window Phone 7 phone
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THE SAMSUNG OMNIA 7 with its Windows Phone 7 operating system has joined the ranks of handsets available at Virgin Media, along with a number of other familiar faces.

FTC is clearing a path for better web marketing
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EDWARD FELTEN, the incoming technology chief at the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), has said that Internet users should hand over their personal data to marketers.

FTC clearing path for better web marketing
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EDWARD FELTEN, the incoming technology chief at the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), has said that Internet users should hand over their personal data to marketers.

Microsoft wakes up to ARM chips
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LATE TO THE PARTY Microsoft is apparently just starting to wake up to the idea that its software should run on ARM chips.

DDoS attacks hurt human rights groups
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WHILE HACKTIVISTS' distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have hit the news lately, it seems that the method has more often been used by the bad guys to suppress websites belonging to human rights groups.

Toshiba and Samsung bury the hatchet
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HARDWARE MAKER Toshiba has decided to outsource fabrication of some types of chips to its rival Samsung.

Norwegian newspaper has all the Wikileaks cables
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A NORWEGIAN NEWSPAPER has claimed that it has all of the Wikileaks US State Department cables in unencrypted form and can print the lot of them without any censorship.

Megaupload dares the RIAA to sue it
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CYBERLOCKER Megaupload has dared the RIAA and MPAA entertainment cartels to sue it.

Megaupload dares the RIAA to sue
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CYBERLOCKER Megaupload has dared the RIAA and MPAA entertainment cartels to sue it.

Megaload dares the RIAA to sue
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CYBERLOCKER Megaupload has dared the RIAA and MPAA entertainment cartels to sue it.

Samsung will sell 10 million Galaxy S phones this year
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IT LOOKS LIKE Samsung is on track to shift more than ten million of its Android based Galaxy S smartphones this year.

Sony launches an Itunes rival
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THE INVENTOR of the Walkman, Sony has launched a subscription music service in the UK and Ireland.

Activision Blizzard wants to sue Electronic Arts
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ACTIVISION BLIZZARD is trying to add its archrival Electronic Arts (EA) to a $400 million lawsuit against two of its former employees.

Android Wikileaks apps are doing well
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ANDROID-BASED Wikileaks apps are doing rather well after Apple purged all mention of the website from its Apps Store.

Google polishes Chrome for Youtube
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AN ENGINEER at Youtube, Slave Jovanovski, has written a Google Chrome web browser extension that will automatically fetch your Youtube activity streams.

IBM looks into its crystal ball
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THE DIVINATION DIVISION of IBM has been examining the flights of swallows and has come up with five ideas that it thinks will be in the shops by 2015.

Skype comes up with 'leaves on the line' excuse
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VOICE OVER Internet Protocol outfit Skype has suffered one of the worst outages since, well, a long time.

Samsung will update Bada 1.2 firmware for Wave in 2011
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KOREAN PHONE MAKER Samsung has announced via Twitter that it will release its Bada 1.2 firmware update for European SIM-free Wave handsets early next year.

Android's Honeycomb will appear in March
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SOFTWARE DEVELOPER Google expects to release its long awaited tablet operating system Android 3.0, codenamed 'Honeycomb', in March.

Fresh IE bug discovered
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PART TIME software firm Microsoft has released a security advisory for a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer.

Saturday, December 25, 2010

IT News HeadLines (THE INQUIRER) 24/12/2010

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