Friday, February 18, 2011

IT News HeadLines (THE INQUIRER) 17/02/2011




Jen-Hsun Huang expects Kal-el to be a chip of steel for tablets
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KAL-EL and Tegra 2 will give Nvidia the advantage to win in the all-conquering tablet sector that is to come, according to its CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, despite a drop in fourth quarter revenues year-on-year.





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Walled gardens, open systems and people on the agenda at RSA
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THE RSA EXPO security conference might not have been as exhaustively hellish as the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, but it did see its share of interesting news.





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HBGary quails in the face of Anonymous
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SHADOWY SECURITY OUTFIT HBGary Federal, the firm that claimed to have been close to identifying members of Anonymous, attracted rather closer attention from the hacktivist group than it would have liked, and, as a result, bailed out on one of its public appearances.





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US Homeland Security mistakenly takes down 84,000 websites
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US AUTHORITIES mistakenly took down 84,000 websites as part of its Operation Save the Children campaign.





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Xoom tablet will be sold by Best Buy, Carphone Warehouse and Dixons
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MOTOROLA MOBILITY'S Android 3.0 Honeycomb Xoom tablet will go on sale at Best Buy, Carphone Warehouse and Dixons retail outlets in the second quarter.





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Dual screen Kno tablet gets a release date
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THE HEAVILY HYPED TABLET Kno has finally got a release date, though only pre-order customers need apply.





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HP Veer first impressions
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DECEPTIVELY SMALL is the impression we were left with after playing around with HP's Veer handset.





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Motorola plays '4G' card to justify Xoom tablet price
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OWN THROAT SLASHING mobile phone maker Motorola has defended the sky-high price of its Xoom tablet by playing the '4G' card.





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Nokia Windows Phone will come out DOA in 2012
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A WEEK is a long time in politics and it seems it is even longer in the new world of Nokia Microsoft Windows Phones as the first handsets are now expected to crash land not in 2011 but sometime in 2012.





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Dell Windows 8 tablet could appear in early 2012
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A ROADMAP LEAKED from Dell suggests that a tablet running Windows 8 could appear early next year.





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Orange gets the exclusive black Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc, plus Neo and Play
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MOBILE OPERATOR Orange has excitedly announced that it will be selling an exclusive black edition Sony Ericsson Experia Arc, as well as the firm's Neo and Play handsets.





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MWC: Acer Iconia A500 10.1 tablet video demo
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PC HARDWARE OUTFIT Acer announced its 10.1-inch tablet, the Iconia A500 at Mobile World Congress yesterday, showing a desktop PC-like approach to flogging tablet devices.



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Microsoft claims 2 million downloads of IE9 RC
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SOFTWARE COBBLER Microsoft claims that its Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) Release Candidate (RC) has been downloaded two million times.





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And the best Android apps are...
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MOBILE APPS are all the rage, and we've got a list of what our colleagues think are the best ones that run under Google's Android OS.





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The sights at RSA Expo
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THE RSA EXPO began as a conference for sharing ideas, but there's also an exhibition these days, which generates enough funds to cover the actual speeches. Here are some pictures.





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Sony will ban Playstation 3 hackers for life
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CONTROL FREAK gaming console maker Sony has given a final ultimatum to Playstation 3 hackers - stop doing it or we'll ban you from online game playing for life.





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