Thursday, February 3, 2011

IT News HeadLines (Overclockers Club) 02/02/2011



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Seagate FreeAgent Go 640GB & FreeAgent GoFlex Ultra 500GB Mobile Hard Drive Review

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LG G-Slate Outlined, to Feature 3D Playback and Recording
T-Mobile has released some new information regarding LG's upcoming G-Slate tablet, revealing the new tablet's specifications. The G-Slate will be powered by a 1GHz dual-core Tegra 2 CPU backed by 32GB of flash memory for storage, a gyroscope, and an accelerometer. Interestingly the tablet will support 3D video recording, thanks to two rear-mounted stereoscopic 1080p video cameras. Additionally, 3D playback will be possible on the tablet's 8.9" display with the use of 3D glasses or via HDMI to another display. One of the two rear cameras will also serve as a 5MP still camera. A front facing 2MP video camera enables easy video chatting. The G-Slate should be available "this spring," although the pricing of the tablet has not been announced.

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No DRM for Dragon Age II, Needs Online Verification Every Few Days
Dragon Age II is getting closer to release and today BioWare has discussed its DRM strategy for the much anticipated RPG. The Steam version of DA2 will have the usual Steam DRM, but the non-Steam version gets a little interesting. You don't need the disc in your PC to play and there is no limit to how many machines you can install it on, both of which are good features. Each install requires you to log into your EA account and you are only allowed to play the game on five machines inside of 24 hours. What's more is that the game requires online verification every few days, but the details of that are still being worked out. BioWare also pointed out that DA2 does not use SecuROM but has something called Release Control which prevents you from playing the game until it is released, a measure to stop it from being pirated it seems. Once that release date hits, then Release Control will no longer function.
Dragon Age II will release on March 8th for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.

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Choiix Launches New Additions to Power Fort Series
Choiix has just unveiled its newest addition to its line of products which are aimed at mobile devices. Choiix's new additions are portable power products, namely in the Power Fort series, which are aimed at providing extra power for your smartphone or media player while you are out and about. So long as your device has a micro or mini USB port, you can take advantage of the Choiix Power Fort series. Choiix already has the 10Whrs and 5.5Whrs Power Fort products, and now there are two new products aimed at iPhone/iPod users. The Power Fort Solar iPhone 4 Backpack attaches to your iPhone 4 and provides power via the solar cells on its back. The other new product is the iPower Fort which has aesthetics to match your iPhone or iPod with its aluminum casing. Both products are designed to provide clean power to the device's battery without damaging it upon disconnecting.
Both new Power Fort products are expected to launch before the first half of the year ends though no prices were announced.

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HighPoint Launches RocketHybrid HBAs
HighPoint, an industry leader in many hard drive technologies, has launched a new line of host bus adapters, or HBAs. The RocketHybrid HBA series is powered by Marvell HyperDuo technology and SATA 6Gb/s chips. This series of HBA combines solid state and traditional hard drives into a single PCI-E 2.0 card. This combination gives the benefits of both, speed for SSD, and capacity for mechanical drives. Users will be able to plug in one of each drive into the HBA in both internal and external SATA models.

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