IT-Code-News: IT News HeadLines (THE INQUIRER) 01/02/2011

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

IT News HeadLines (THE INQUIRER) 01/02/2011

Intel admits $700 million hit for Sandy Bridge chipset problems
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SANDY BRIDGE processors are going to take longer to reach market because Intel has to replace thousands of the faulty Intel 6 series Cougar Point support chips it has shipped.

Photonic chips to outperform conventional computers in five years
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WITHIN FIVE YEARS quantum processors could be capable of simulations more complex than any that can be performed by the most powerful conventional computer today, according to the co-ordinator of a €2.2 million European project researching them.

ARM unveils a pair of multi-core chips
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CHIP DESIGN OUTFIT ARM has announced its Cortex R5 MPcore and Cortex R7 MPcore processors.

Police local crime maps are knocked offline
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THE COPPERS local crime stats websites have fallen over under the strain of people checking to see how bad their neighbourhood is.

Send Mubarak a message with Google's phone-a-tweet
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NEVER LET the opportunity of a crisis pass you by and so Google is using the Egyptian revolution to promote the Saynow phone service it bought last month.

Porn industry goes after filesharers
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DOWNLOADING pornography over Bittorrent looks to be the easiest way of finding yourself fingered by lawyers for filesharing.

Premier League takes on ISPs over Digital Economy Act
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THE BATTLE LINES are being drawn between ISPs and right holders over the Digital Economy Act (DEA), with a group of rights holders ready to defend it against a judicial review sought by Internet service providers (ISPs) and others opposed to the legislation.

Apple waters down Ipod liquid indicator policy
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THERE ARE SIGNS that Apple might be softening its position on the controversial liquid contact indicators (LCI) found in Ipods and Iphones.

Apple waters down Ipod liquid indicator policy
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THERE ARE SIGNS that Apple might be softening its position on the controversial liquid contact indicators (LCI) found in Ipods and Iphones.

Samsung launches Wave ll
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KOREAN HARDWARE GIANT Samsung has announced the Blighty launch of its Bada bling Wave II smartphone today.

Netgear CEO apologises for saying Jobs' departure is neigh
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THE CEO of consumer networking firm Netgear was forced to apologise after comments he made regarding Apple's CEO Steve Jobs generated outrage.

Netgear CEO apologises for saying Jobs' departure is nigh
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THE CEO of consumer networking firm Netgear was forced to apologise after comments he made regarding Apple's CEO Steve Jobs generated outrage.

RIM shows off Playbook tablet tethering video
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LG Optimus 3D smartphone set for big MWC reveal
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ELECTRONICS MAKER LG will show off its first ever 3D smartphone at this month's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Intel's chipset screwup forces Samsung to offer refunds
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KOREAN HARDWARE MAKER Samsung will offer refunds or exchanges on its PCs built with Intel's faulty chipset inside.

Intel Sandy Bridge platform and Core i7 2600K first impressions
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AFTER A LONG WAIT, the first members of Intel's Sandy Bridge processor generation entered the market earlier this month. The initial mainstream Intel Core i5 and Core i7 launch, topped by the 3.4GHz Core i7 2600K CPU, was an incremental performance upgrade over the Nehalem-based Core i5 and Core i7 700 and 800 series. However, the socket change from LGA1156 to LGA1155 precludes mainboard upgradeability, partly to accomodate the faster south bridge connection.

RIM claims it's number one in the UK with Blackberrys
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BLACKBERRY MAKER Research in Motion (RIM) has claimed its smartphones were the biggest selling in the UK in 2010.

Qnap queues up home NAS servers
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LIVENING UP your home or small office is the aim of Qnap Systems with a burst of its high performance Turbo NAS servers, which it said throb with Marvell 1.2GHz processors and include 256MB of DDR2 memory.

Android captures 22 per cent of tablet market
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THE OPEN SOURCE Android operating system from Google was loaded onto 22 per cent of tablet devices sold in the last quarter of 2010.

Android captures 22 per cent of the tablet market
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THE OPEN SOURCE Android operating system from Google was loaded onto 22 per cent of tablet devices sold in the last quarter of 2010.

Dell Venue Pro will ship to the UK this week
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BY WEDNESDAY Dell's Windows Phone 7 handset, the Venue Pro will be shipping to customers in the UK, according to various resellers.

AMD launches Firepro 2270 and ATI Firepro V5800 DVI cards
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PROFESSIONAL GRAPHICS cards are AMD's latest announcement with the AMD Firepro 2270 and ATI Firepro V5800 DVI products.

Microsoft blames Yahoo for Windows Phone 7 data leak
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SMARTPHONE DEVELOPER Microsoft has blamed its close friend Yahoo for secretly using data connectivity on Windows Phone 7 (WP7) devices.

Facebook deals mobile users location based hard sell
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THE WORLD'S BIGGEST marketing database, Facebook is now offering companies location based services to fire adverts at the social notworking company's users.

Facebook deals mobile users a location based hard sell
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THE WORLD'S BIGGEST marketing database, Facebook is now offering companies location based services to fire adverts at the social notworking company's users.

Baltsoft debuts free online storage
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SOFTWARE COMPANY Baltsoft has launched a free online storage service with unlimited download and no registration.

RealVNC readies Viewer for Android
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SOFTWARE FIRM RealVNC will soon be showing off the features and capabilities of its Viewer application for the Android mobile operating system, which it hopes will mirror its success on all manner of Ithings.

Apple boots Sony off Iphone App Store
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FRUIT THEMED TOY MAKER Apple is putting the squeeze on content providers by tightening controls on its App Store.

Crafty Russian sells copyrighted films as Iphone apps
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A RUSSIAN wheeler and dealer has breached Apple's walled garden by selling copyrighted films as apps in the App Store.

Google's Android 3.0 Honeycomb is upon us
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SURELY SOME REVELATION is at hand, for Google is sending out invitations to an Android event in which it promises to show off the release of Android 3.0, Honeycomb, its tablet specific mobile operating system (OS).

Google's Android 3.0, Honeycomb is upon us
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SURELY SOME REVELATION is at hand, for Google is sending out invitations to an Android event in which it promises to show off the release of Android 3.0, Honeycomb, its tablet specific mobile operating system (OS).

Sony sends a DMCA takedown notice to Github
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AFTER FILING a lawsuit against popular hacker George Hotz, Sony decided to turn to the social coding website Github and slap it with a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice.

Microsoft warns of a zero-day bug in every version of Windows
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SERIAL BUG CODER Microsoft has raised a critical warning about a zero-day vulnerability that affects every version of Windows it currently supports.

Google goes to war with Apple over mobile apps
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THE INFLUENCE of Larry Page stepping in as CEO of Google is already being felt with an influx of software developers ready to create Google apps for smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices.

Android 2.3 security vulnerability allows remote viewing of files
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RESEARCHERS at North Carolina State University (NC State) have discovered a security vulnerability in Android 2.3 that allows unauthorised access to files on a device's storage card.

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