Friday, February 18, 2011

IT News HeadLines (Rage3D) 17/02/2011



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Analysis: 'Rogue' design win hurts ARM
Could other companies like Vivante Corp, and now ST-Ericsson leapfrog an ever content and pacified ARM group? LONDON – ST-Ericsson's announcement of a design win for a PowerVR Series 6 graphic processor core from Imagination Technologies Group plc in the Nova A9600 applications processor is...
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NVIDIA Reports Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2011
This will also include the link to a recent "CORRECTION" they made. SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/16/2011 -- NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) Revenue increased 5.0 percent to $886.4 million from the third quarter. We believe some analyst estimates may have recorded the Intel settlement as revenue,...
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DoD Talks Up Plans to Deploy Cybercommandos
Cyber 3.0" is the name of the new strategy described by U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn at the RSA security conference Tuesday. It's a five-part plan that will involve equipping military networks with active defenses, ensuring civilian networks are adequately protected, and marshaling...
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Xperia Play Phone May Not Have the Juice for Serious Gaming
Sony Ericsson has released details on the Xperia Play, the so-called PlayStation phone the company's been hinting about for weeks. "With a 1 GHz processor, the Play won't be any more powerful than any other phone on the market right now. That means it's up to Sony to bring content that will...
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IBM Watson: Watson After Jeopardy!
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Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Airs to TechNet, MSDN Subscribers
Developers, developers, developers... here's a service pack If you happen to be a developer with MSDN or TechNet privileges, you can now go out and snag the release version of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. The pack brings a lot of compiled minor bug fixes, security...
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What NVIDIA's Linux Customers Want
Bigger Linux team, and listening to customers is what NVIDIA is about now. Last week when talking about NVIDIA looking to expand its Linux team (hire more engineers), I asked what else NVIDIA Linux customers wanted that already wasn't offered by the proprietary driver for Linux / BSD / Solaris...
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Sony releases statement on PS3 hacking, surprisingly comes out against it
Harsh punishment in store for pirates! In the wake of recent developments in Sony's war on Geohot, the company has released an "Official Statement Regarding PS3 Circumvention Devices and Pirated Software," which reads, in part: Consumers using circumvention devices or running unauthorized or...
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Google details some of the Honeycomb features coming to Ice Cream: action bar
Ice Cream! Everyone loves ice cream, right? Google has already confirmed that its Honeycomb and Gingerbread iterations of Android would be combined in the next version of OS -- dubbed Ice Cream by all accounts -- and it's now also providing a few more details about what Honeycomb features will be...
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Some Rational Thought on the AMD Buyout Rumors
It all seems so simple. At chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices, a sudden and unexpected sweeping away of management–starting with CEO Dirk Meyer, followed within weeks by COO Robert Rivet and Marty Seyer, senior VP for corporate strategy–has left the company looking disorganized and vulnerable, the...
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EVGA Posts new ForceWare 266.77 WHQL drivers; Outs the Geforce 550, 590
EVGA Product Manager Jacob Freeman posted download links for Forceware 266.77 WHQL drivers, early this afternoon. VR-Zone (http://vr-zone.com/articles/geforce-gtx-590-and-gtx-550-ti-surfaced-in-beta-drivers/11215.html#ixzz1E9X0bPlf)driver snoopers spotted the existence of new GeForce products in...
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