Wednesday, December 15, 2010

IT News HeadLines (TechSpot) 14/12/2010

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Amazon MP3 goes into beta for BlackBerry smartphones
Research In Motion and Amazon have announced the beta launch of Amazon MP3 for BlackBerry smartphones in the US. The new app gives BlackBerry users (BlackBerry OS 5.0 or higher) access to Amazon's entire music catalog of over 14 million songs for easy purchase and download.

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Google launches YouTube Trends for tracking viral videos
Google has launched YouTube Trends, a new service that lets users watch as a YouTube video go viral. While Google Trends helps you figure out what users are currently searching for, YouTube Trends helps you figure out what users are currently watching.

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Samsung to sell luxury Galaxy Tab for $1,000
Samsung is planning to unveil a luxury Galaxy Tab model that comes with a leather case and Bluetooth headset, and will set you back 749 or about $1,000. First shown off at Millionaire Fair, a European expo that shows off expensive toys and gadgets, the luxury version will reportedly be...

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Apple to secure iPhone LCD sourcing with plant investment
Apple is reportedly making a move to ensure its iDevices keep rolling off production lines. According to Japanese newspaper Nikkei, the company is expected to share $1.2 billion in costs with Toshiba subsidiary Toshiba Mobile Display in order to build a new LCD production plant in Japans Ishikawa prefecture, which...

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Yahoo to announce layoff of up to 700 employees
Yahoo is reportedly on the verge of announcing a new round of job cuts that would affect around 5% of its current staff, or somewhere between 650 and 700 employees. A formal announcement is expected as early as today. This would mark the companys fourth mass layoff in the past...

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Light Peak to debut using copper instead of fiber optics
Intel has been touting Light Peak as the next big thing in connector technology and a way to reduce the proliferation of ports on modern computers, by using a single interface to handle everything from network connectivity to data transfers and transmitting high definition video to external displays. The interface...

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Americans spend as much time online as watching TV
According to Forrester Research, 2010 marked the first year Americans spent as much time on the Internet as they did watching TV. The outfit surveyed some 40,000 people to collect data for its latest Technographics report and found that the average American now spends about 13 hours each week using...

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Seagate announces first 1TB 2.5-inch enterprise hard drive
We've already seen the industry's first 2.5-inch 1TB consumer hard drive courtesy of Western Digital, but Seagate has announced what it claims to be the first enterprise-grade solution. The company today introduced its 1TB 2.5-inch Constellation.2 drive, which is designed for server applications in environments that range from small and...

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Paul Allen's suit against the Web dismissed
In August, Paul Allen and his legal team unleashed a broad spectrum patent suit against many of today's largest IT companies, including Google, Facebook, Yahoo, eBay, Netflix, Apple and others. The Microsoft cofounder sought payment for four patents his firm created in the 90s.

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Google and Microsoft tricked into serving malware ads
Two major online ad networks, Google's advertising subsidiary DoubleClick and Microsoft's MSN ads service, were found to be serving malware via drive-by download exploits over the last week. A group of attackers tricked the networks into displaying their ads by impersonating ADShuffle.com, an online advertising technology firm.

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World of Warcraft: Cataclysm breaks first-day PC sales record
Activision Blizzard has announced that World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, the third expansion for the most popular subscription-based MMORPG available, has become the fastest-selling PC game of all time in terms of first-day sales. Based on internal company records and reports from key distribution partners, the company sold more than 3.3...

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Verizon to kill Kin Studio on January 31
Verizon is planning to close Microsoft's KIN Studio, the backbone of the cloud services for the Kin device and really the only thing that made it truly interesting. Kin Studio will be killed off on January 31, 2011, according to a leaked image posted by WPCentral.

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Google Latitude app arrives for iOS
Google has released Latitude for Apple's iOS. The new app runs on iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad, and iPod touch (third and fourth generation). It takes advantage of the multitasking in iOS 4 to run in the background and continuously broadcast your location.

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Netflix adds more content in Canada
Netflix has announced licensing agreements with various content providers that add hundreds of new titles for Canadian Netflix members. Many of the new titles are available now while others will be made available over the next few weeks.

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Dell to acquire Compellent for $960 million
Dell has announced it is buying storage company Compellent Technologies for about $960 million in cash. Compellent will help Dell expand beyond PCs and catch up with rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM in technologies like cloud computing.

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ZipGenius 6.3.1.2617
Free and easy to use, plus it supports more than 20 formats of compressed archives

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Opera 11.1145 Beta
Opera introduces the looks and the performance of an exceptional Web browser.

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SIV (System Information Viewer) 4.15
General Windows utility for dumping lots of useful Windows, Network and hardware info

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Skype 5.0.0.156
Skype is free and simple software that will enable you to make free calls anywhere in the world in minutes.

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StatWin Pro 8.3
Monitoring and reporting suite, capable of reporting all the user actions!

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True Burner 1.2
Free CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc burning and copying software.

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Reg Organizer 5.12
Powerful manager of the system Registry and configuration files

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Any Video Converter 3.1.6
A professional video converter.

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Process Lasso 4.00.27 64-bit
Process Lasso is a software that will improve system responsiveness and stability.

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HWiNFO32 3.62-1049 Beta
A powerful system information tool for Windows.

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Process Lasso 4.00.27 32-bit
Process Lasso is a software that will improve system responsiveness and stability.

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DVDFab HD Decrypter 8.0.5.8 Beta
Copies entire DVD movie to hard disk, and removes all the protections while copying.

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Norman Malware Cleaner 2010.12.14
Norman Malware Cleaner is a free utility that may be used to detect and remove specific malicious software (malware).

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Google Chrome 9.0.597.19 Dev Beta for Windows
Google Chrome's development is high-paced and version numbers are not very significant, but here's Chrome 7.0.

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Google Chrome 9.0.597.19 Dev Beta for Mac OS X
Google Chrome runs web pages and applications with lightning speed.

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Google Chrome 9.0.597.19 Dev Beta for Linux
Google Chrome runs web pages and applications with lightning speed.

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EZ 7z 1.91 for Mac OS X
Free application that offers an easier way of using the command line archiver, p7zip.

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MaxBulk Mailer 8.1.0.3.0 for Mac OS X
Program able to send commercial mailings to up to several hundreds of email addresses very easily.

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A Better Finder Rename 8.71 for Mac OS X
A Better Finder Rename allows users to quickly rename multiple files.

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Opera 11.00.1145 Beta for Mac OS X
Secure, fast, and easy to use, the full-featured Opera browser comes in a compact 3.5 MB download.

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OpenOffice.org 3.3.0 RC8 for Mac OS X
OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project.

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PeaZip 3.5.1
Popular Easy to use cross-platform file and archive manager.

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Google Chrome 8.0.552.224 for Windows
Google Chrome runs web pages and applications with lightning speed.

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K-Lite Codec Pack Update 6.6.5
This is a cumulative update for the latest version of the K-Lite (Mega) Codec Pack.

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ImgBurn 2.5.4.0
ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application.

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Zortam Mp3 Center 2.50
Zortam Mp3 Center is an all-in-one Mp3 application.

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K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 6.6.6
K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs, DirectShow filters and tools.

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Stickies 7.1a
Stickies is a PC utility to try to cut down on the number of Post-It notes you leave stuck to your monitor.

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GoodSync 8.5.2.2
GoodSync is an easy and reliable file backup and file synchronization software

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IncrediMail 6.2.5 Build 4831
Make your email incredible.

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