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

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IT News HeadLines (TechSpot) 24/12/2010

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Netflix working on HTML5 standard for streaming video
Netflix has officially embraced HTML5 video. The company doesn't just want to just push forward with its own flavor of HTML5 video, the way Apple did with its iOS devices, but it wants to build an industry-wide consensus on issues like video codecs and container formats used for browser-based video...

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EA: microtransactions are more profitable than in-game ads

In an interview with Edge, Electronic Arts revealed that in-game ads aren't as profitable as originally expected. Ben Cousins, EA's general manager of free-to-play operations, told the publication that the mega-publisher " getting much from ad revenue at all," and that the in-game advertising model hasn't grown as quickly as...

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Acer readies Aspire One 522 with AMD Fusion

Acer is reportedly among the manufacturers looking to utilize AMD's forthcoming Fusion chips, which incorporate a CPU and GPU into the same package. According to Macles, the Taiwanese system builder is preparing at least one mobile PC that is powered by AMD's C-50 Ontario APU, which features two 1Ghz Bobcat...

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DC Universe Online coming January 11, 2011
Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) has announced that DC Universe Online has reached gold master status and will be available at retail outlets worldwide for PC and PlayStation 3 on January 11, 2011. DC Universe Online, licensed by Warner Bros. on behalf of DC Entertainment, will be the first online game...

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Skype plans to compensate users for outage

Skype suffered a massive outage yesterday that knocked most users offline. In an update this morning, Skype CEO Tony Bates said service has been fully restored for users in Europe and the Eastern US. Around 16.5 million people were online at the time of the report, which Bates equated to...

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Microsoft denies Kinect improvement rumors

Microsoft has denied rumors that it is working on an update that would quadruple the accuracy of its Kinect motion controller. The dashboard update, which started as a rumor earlier this week, was supposed to significantly improve Kinect's performance; the device currently has a resolution limit of 320x240, but the...

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ECS, Asus, MSI to have tablets at CES, Android 3.0 in March?
Elitegroup Computer System (ECS), Asustek Computer, and Micro-Star International (MSI) are planning on showing off their latest tablet PCs at CES 2011. We already knew this about Asus, but the ECS and MSI parts are news. In addition to all this, DigiTimes also specifically says that Google will release Android...

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eBay tells late shoppers to go elsewhere
eBay is telling shoppers to go shop elsewhere. The San Jose-based website has introduced a new local shopping tool GiftsNearby, which, as its name implies, shows users where to find gifts at nearby stores. GiftsNearby shows local retail prices for each item, directions to the closest store with inventory availability,...

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Elliptic Labs brings Minority Report interface to the iPad

If you liked the Minority Report interface demonstrated on Microsoft's Kinect motion controller, you'll like this one for Apple's iPad. Norwegian company Elliptic Labs is going to demo its touchless user interface for iPads at CES 2011. For now, we'll have to make do with the video embedded below.

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Americans can't live without high-speed Internet, or e-mail
Adults agree that the expansion of high-speed Internet has had the greatest technological impact on society over the past decade. A Zogby International interactive survey polled 1,950 adults from December 8 to December 10, 2010 to ask them what technology they found to have made the biggest difference in their lives.

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Rumor: Microsoft to relaunch PC gaming with Windows 8
Those who claim PC gaming is dead mainly blame Microsoft. Ever since the company launched the Xbox, it has let the Windows PC gaming platform fall over the wayside. Since the software giant's number one product is Windows, the company's number one gaming platform is still the PC, no matter...

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Tech Tip: Preview Shortened URLs and Avoid Security Threats

Today's ubiquitous URL shorteners have seen a dramatic increase in popularity the last couple of years much of it driven by the rise in popularity of Twitter itself. They are great for keeping character count at a minimum or to make sharing easier. Some even bring a few unique...

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Craigslist closes all adult services worldwide
Just months after closing the "adult services" category on its US classified sites, Craigslist has removed adult services from all of its 700 international sites in 70 countries. The removal of the adult services section altogether is the culmination of an almost three-year legal battle with state attorneys generals, according to Wired.

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ViewSonic: G-Tablet isn't defective, just buggy

Many tech enthusiasts expressed an interest in ViewSonic's G-Tablet when it debuted as it marked one of the first slates available with Nvidia's Tegra 2 SoC. Unfortunately, the device kicked off to a rocky start after performance issues prompted a significant number of users to request a refund. In fact,...

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Google to give its employees free Nexus S devices

Every Google employee will be getting a free Nexus S handset running the company's latest Android operating system. The device went on sale in the US last week and in the UK this week. As a result, it's not completely clear whether employees from around the world will get the...

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Apple TV to pass 1 million sales mark this week
Apple has announced that it expects sales of its new Apple TV to top 1 million units later this week. The number isn't really that impressive given that the new device has been available for more than three months now: it launched on September 1, 2010. Cupertino also revealed that...

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Acer, Asustek, Lenovo to launch ultra-thin notebooks at CES?
Acer, Asus, and Lenovo are developing notebooks built around Intel's Sandy Bridge platform, which is hardly a surprise. What we didn't know, however, is that these companies will be launching 13.3- to 14-inch notebooks that feature ultra-thin designs, by the end of the first quarter next year, according to sources...

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Would you buy a Motorola Xoom?

Motorola has filed for a trademark of the name "Xoom" around the world, leading many to believe that it's the name for the first Android 3.0 tablet. The Droid maker has hit up various trademark organizations in order to grab the rights to the name in the US, Canada, Europe,...

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Skype outage affects millions of users

Popular VoIP service Skype appears to be suffering an outage this morning as many users complain of connection issues. The company hasn't released an estimated number of affected users, but ReadWriteWeb reports that usage numbers have fallen from 21 million to 10 million, which isn't isolated to any language or region.

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Avatar wins another award: Most Pirated Movie of 2010
Avatar broke various records at the box office, so it's not too surprising the title has been crowned as the most pirated movie in 2010. It's also worth noting that Avatar beat last year's record of total movie downloads in 12 months: Star Trek with 10,960,000 downloads.

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Gmail creator: Google just can't compete with Facebook
Google has been working on a Facebook killer for many months now. Many have criticized Google's approach, including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, saying the search giant simply does not understand social. Now, former Google employee, Gmail creator, and FriendFeed founder Paul Buchheit has come out and explained why it's so...

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Wednesday tech deals: GeForce GTX 460 768MB for $90

Galaxy GeForce GTX 460 PCIe Video Card for $90 after rebates + free shipping

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Preview Shortened URLs and Avoid Security Threats

Today's ubiquitous URL shorteners are great for keeping character count at a minimum or to make sharing easier, but as convenient as they are, they also introduce some issues. Here's a quick tutorial on how to avoid scams and security threats when using them.

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DVDFab HD Decrypter 8.0.6.2 Beta
Copies entire DVD movie to hard disk, and removes all the protections while copying.

CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) 3.02.1343
Freeware system optimization tool that removes unused and temporary files.

Crypt4Free 5.4.5
Uses two encryption algorithms to protect your files.

System Explorer 2.6.0
System Explorer is free, awards winning software for exploration and management of System Internals.

Download Accelerator Plus 9.5.0.4
Optimize your download performance, and recover interrupted downloads.

CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) Portable 3.02.1343
The normal CCleaner program, but it doesn't require installing

Belarc Advisor 8.1.16.6
Builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, including Microsoft Hotfixes.

ChrisTV Online! 5.50
Watch more than 1800+ TV channels and 600+ radio stations from all over the globe without a TV card.

Hard Drive Inspector 3.8.7
Monitors hard drives for possible problems using S.M.A.R.T. technology.

McAfee SuperDAT Update 6205
Update your Mcafee based virus scanner.

Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool 12.23.2010
The Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool application was designed to be another virus scanner and detection software from Kaspersky

AVIRA Antivirus Desktop Update Package 12/23/10
Update AVIRA Desktop for Windows with latest virus definitions and scan engine.

Trend Micro Pattern File for Windows 7.719.00
Trend Micro's latest compilation of patterns for virus identification.

Picasa 3.8.7.361 for Mac OS X
Automatically finds and organizes all of your pictures.

RealPlayer 12.0.0.1569 for Mac OS X
RealPlayer gives broadband users near-instant playback of RealVideo and RealAudio

SSD Tweak Utility 1.7
With this little app you can tweak Windows 2K/XP/Vista and 7 including x64 in seconds.

Master Voyager 2.72
Protecting DVD/CD/USB sticks by password for travel, backups, postal mail.

Free YouTube Downloader Converter 2.5
Download and convert video from YouTube to your computer with one mouse click.

Vista Smoker Pro 2.4
Vista Smoker Pro allows you to change various settings in the Windows Registry.

K-Lite Codec Pack Update 6.6.8
This is a cumulative update for the latest version of the K-Lite (Mega) Codec Pack.

VSO Image Resizer 4.0.3.2
Organizes your photos by shrinking their resolution or moving them within your hard drive.

Anti-keylogger 10.0.0
Real-time blocking of most types of keystroke monitoring programs.

avast! Virus Definitions December 22, 2010
Protect your system and valuable data against computer viruses.

Kaspersky Anti-Virus Update December 22, 2010
Virus definitions for Kaspersky Anti-Virus.

AVG Anti-Virus Updates December 22, 2010
Keep your AVG Anti-Virus updated.

Spybot Search and Destroy Detection Update December 22, 2010
This updates the detection rules for Spybot Search and Destroy.

Windows Defender Latest Definition Updates 12/22/2010 64-bit
Download the latest Windows Defender Definition Updates.

Asus Eee PC 1001PX Graphics Driver v 6.14.10.5260 for Windows XP
Driver Date: 12/22/2010 OS Support: Windows XP

Asus Eee PC 1001PX Camera Driver v 6.1.7600.0077 for Windows XP
Driver Date: 12/20/2010 OS Support: Windows XP

Asus N53SV Bios v 203
Driver Date: 12/17/2010 OS Support: Windows XP/Vista/7

Asus K72JT Bios v 204
Driver Date: 12/17/2010 OS Support: Windows XP/Vista/7

Asus U43JC Bios v 216
Driver Date: 12/17/2010 OS Support: Windows XP/Vista/7

Asus Smart Doctor v 5.74
Driver Date: 12/16/2010 OS Support: Windows XP/Vista/7

Asus Eee PC 1001PX Graphics Driver v 8.14.10.2117 for Windows 7
Driver Date: 12/15/2010 OS Support: Windows 7

Samsung SN-S083N Firmware v SB02
Driver Date: 12/14/2010 OS Support: Windows XP/Vista/7

Samsung SN-S083C Firmware v SB02
Driver Date: 12/14/2010 OS Support: Windows XP/Vista/7

Samsung SE-S084C Firmware v TS02
Driver Date: 12/14/2010 OS Support: Windows XP/Vista/7

ATI Catalyst Display Drivers v 10.12 for Linux
Driver Date: 12/14/2010 OS Support: Linux

ATI Catalyst Display Drivers v 10.12 for XP 32-bit
Driver Date: 12/13/2010 OS Support: Windows XP

ATI Catalyst Display Drivers v 10.12 for XP 64-bit
Driver Date: 12/13/2010 OS Support: Windows XP 64-bit

ATI Catalyst Display Drivers v 10.12 for Vista/7 32-bit
Driver Date: 12/13/2010 OS Support: Windows Vista / 7

ATI Catalyst Display Drivers v 10.12 for Vista/7 64-bit
Driver Date: 12/13/2010 OS Support: Windows Vista / 7

ATI Mobility Catalyst Display Drivers v 10.12 for Vista/7 32-bit
Driver Date: 12/13/2010 OS Support: Windows Vista / 7

ATI Mobility Catalyst Display Drivers v 10.12 for Vista/7 64-bit
Driver Date: 12/13/2010 OS Support: Windows Vista / 7

SiS UniVGA3 Graphics Driver v 3.93 for Windows 7
Driver Date: 12/13/2010 OS Support: Windows 2000/XP

ASRock X58 Extreme6 Bios v 1.30
Driver Date: 12/13/2010 OS Support: Windows XP/Vista/7

ASRock X58 Extreme3 Bios v 2.40
Driver Date: 12/13/2010 OS Support: Windows XP/Vista/7

ASRock P55 Pro/USB3 Bios v 1.40
Driver Date: 12/13/2010 OS Support: Windows XP/Vista/7

ASRock P55 Extreme4 Bios v 1.70
Driver Date: 12/13/2010 OS Support: Windows XP/Vista/7

ASRock G41M-S3 Bios v 1.30
Driver Date: 12/13/2010 OS Support: Windows XP/Vista/7

ASRock G41M-GS3 Bios v 1.20
Driver Date: 12/13/2010 OS Support: Windows XP/Vista/7

Nvidia Display Drivers v 260.19.29 for Linux 32-bit
Driver Date: 12/13/2010 OS Support: Linux

Nvidia Display Drivers v 260.19.29 for Linux 64-bit
Driver Date: 12/13/2010 OS Support: Linux

Nvidia Display Drivers v 260.19.29 for FreeBSD 32-bit
Driver Date: 12/13/2010 OS Support: Linux

Nvidia Display Drivers v 260.19.29 for FreeBSD 64-bit
Driver Date: 12/13/2010 OS Support: Linux

Nvidia Display Drivers v 260.19.29 for Solaris
Driver Date: 12/13/2010 OS Support: Linux

Nvidia Quadro Graphics Driver v 265.90 for Windows Vista/7 64-bit
Driver Date: 12/10/2010 OS Support: Windows Vista / 7

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