IT-Code-News: IT News HeadLines (THE INQUIRER) 27/01/2011

Friday, January 28, 2011

IT News HeadLines (THE INQUIRER) 27/01/2011

Met police pull in Anonymous suspects
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INSPECTOR KNACKER of the Metropolitan Police has swooped on several people suspected in denial of service attacks by the shadowy online group calling itself Anonymous that took action in the wake of the Wikileaks scandal.

Facebook gets its VoIP network ready
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ONLINE PRIVACY SHREDDER Facebook is getting ready to go into the voice-over-IP (VoIP) telecommunications business, according to a leak on its website.

Motorola is worried about Apple's Iphone 4
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MOBILE PHONE MAKER Motorola Mobility posted a modest profit even though the firm missed its smartphone sales targets for the fourth quarter of 2010.

A personal base station for travellers tips up
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HARDWARE COMPANY Ubiquisys has used a big cash injection from Google to launch a personal base station for road warriors.

HTC Desire Z review
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Product HTC Desire Z
Website Vodafone
Specifications Android 2.2 with HTC Sense, 3.7-inch 480x800 WVGA display, physical Qwerty keyboard, 800MHz processor, 512MB RAM, 1.5GB internal storage, 8GB microSD card, 5MP camera with flash, WiFi, Bluetooth, 3G, USB tethering, DLNA connectivity, 180g
Price £400 SIM-free, or free from £35 per month at Vodafone

O2 rolls out free WiFi access
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UK MOBILE OPERATOR O2 has announced plans to expand its public WiFi service claiming it will deliver "seamless, fast and free Internet for all".

Amazon uses its cloud to deliver emails
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ONLINE BOOKSELLER Amazon has unveiled a cloud based email service giving users the chance to send out messages on a pay as you use basis.

People trust search engines says PR company
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ACCORDING TO THE LATEST Trust survey from Edelman, people trust search engines as their primary sources of information.

Sotiris Ioannidis of FORTH-ICS on using GPUs for intrusion detection
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Interview
EVERY TIME a new device reaches a certain level of computing power someone predicts that it will become a vector for malware. The most obvious candidate currently is mobile phones. But Sotiris Ioannidis, a principal researcher at the Foundation for Research and Technology at Hellas in Herakleon, Crete, looked at today's computing systems and saw another possibility.

ST-Ericsson boosts batteries
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WIRELESS HARDWARE and semiconductor developer ST-Ericsson has taken a leaf from a certain bunny's book and is offering to boost the battery life of mobile devices.

HTC and Facebook team up
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TAIWANESE SMARTPHONE MAKER HTC is working on Facebook branded hardware due to be launched at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2011.

Samsung Galaxy S2 and Galaxy Tab 2 leaked online
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KOREAN HARDWARE MAKER Samsung has had details of its not so secret Galaxy S2 smartphone and Galaxy Tab 2 tablet leaked online.

Facebook works out how to be more annoying
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SOCIAL NOTWORKING website Facebook has just come up with a cunning plan to be even more annoying to its users.

Microsoft ships 2 million Windows Phone 7 handsets
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SOFTWARE DEVELOPER Microsoft has revealed that it shipped more than two million Windows Phone 7 (WP7) handsets to mobile operators in the past three months.

Opera sings its way onto Broadcom's set-top boxes
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ALTERNATIVE WEB BROWSER OUTFIT Opera has announced that its newly released Opera Devices SDK 2.9 will have out-of-the-box support on Broadcom's BCM7420 set-top box.

Anti-Kinect hacking rant man told to calm down
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THE WORLD WIDE WEB was all abuzz when a senior Microsoft bloke waded into those people who hacked the Vole's latest money spinning gaming gadget, Kinect.

Qualcomm figures look good
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CHIP DESIGNER Qualcomm has raised its forecasts for the second quarter and fiscal 2011 revenue because sales of chips for wireless devices have been shooting through the roof.

Iphone supports China's TD-LTE
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THE WORLD'S most tightly controlled consumer technology company, Apple has made its over-controlled Iphone 4 conform to the world's most controlled market.

Phone hacking case takes off again
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AFTER HAVING BEEN ACCUSED of covering up phone hacking by Fleet Street because of its links to Downing Street, the police have launched another investigation into it.

Apple shoots itself in the foot with the Ipad
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Updated
THE MAKER OF SHINY TOYS, Apple is starting to see sales of its Macintosh computers stunted by the Ipad.

Plantronics turns fifty
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IT'S TIME to say Happy Birthday to Plantronics, as the firm has announced its fiftieth anniversary and some additions to its unified communications products portfolio.

Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 video demo
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BEHOLD the Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 demo in the video above. Launched last year, it comes with its own wacky watch-like thing that shows messages.

Samsung shares the joy of smartphones
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SOUTH KOREAN HARDWARE MAKER Samsung has added four Android smartphones to the already confusing array of competing handsets out there.

HTC Flyer details leaked
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WHILE GUESSING what the next Android mobile tablet will look like is not exactly rocket science, it is nice to see that occasionally someone bothers to leak the details.

HP goes tablet trademark mad
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THE MAKER of very expensive printer ink has trademarked more names for its upcoming tablets.

Google allows porting phone numbers to its Voice service
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SEARCH ENGINE GOOGLE is offering to port your phone number to its Google Voice service.

LG suffers a loss
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SOUTH KOREAN phone maker LG has reported a 2010 domestic operating loss.

Bartz might have to eat her shorts
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HIGHLY PAID CEO of Yahoo, Carol Bartz is trying to do her best to spray paint silver onto some really dark clouds today.

Intel dines on magic mushrooms
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THOSE OF US who follow Intel's Twitter account were flummoxed by a couple of tweets last night that looked like the outfit had been hitting the magic mushrooms.

Plastic substitute mouse squeeks dodgy eco benefits
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A GREENWASHING ATTEMPT by Fujitsu has turned into green spray back into its corporate face as the company has proven it doesn't know the difference between biodegradable and recyclable.

Nvidia gives away Parallel Nsight 1.51 Professional Edition
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PARALLEL NSIGHT professional edition is now available for all Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 developers, free of charge from Nvidia.

AMD updates its Accelerated Parallel Processing SDK to v2.3
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GRAPHICS CARD DESIGNER AMD has updated its Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) Software Development Kit (SDK) to v2.3 with full support for its first Fusion Accelerated Processing Units (APUs), OpenCL 1.1 and AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series graphics cards.

Facebook plans to extend credits to mobile devices
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Exclusive
MOBILE DEVICES will get access to Facebook's virtual currency system under plans revealed by the social notworking website's head of international business development.

Google releases Android 3.0 SDK preview
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SOFTWARE DEVELOPER Google has taken the wraps off the software development kit (SDK) for Android 3.0, codenamed 'Honeycomb'.

The first release of Libre Office hits the shelves
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THE OPEN SOURCE OFFICE PROJECT Libre Office has pushed its first production release out the door.

Oracle goes consumer with web for enterprise developers
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PART-TIME OPEN SOURCEROR Oracle has released a collection of social notworking mashups for its Webcenter punters.

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