Friday, February 11, 2011

IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 10/02/2011




Internet Explorer 9 release candidate available for download
A press release just hit my inbox proclaiming that an official release candidate for Internet Explorer 9 is now available for download. Microsoft's IE blog has a rundown of what users can expect from the RC build, which comes some five months after the IE9 beta
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Black Swan composer Clint Mansell to score Mass Effect 3
English composer and former Pop Will Eat Itself frontman Clint Mansell is working on the soundtrack for Mass Effect 3. Mansell is perhaps best known for his work in movies, where he's scored a number of films by director Darren Aronofsky, including Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler,...
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We take a closer look at Gigabyte's Mini-ITX Fusion mobo
Well, what do we have here? Gigabyte has sent us a preview sample of its upcoming E350N-USB3 motherboard, a slick little Mini-ITX design that features AMD's new Zacate accelerated processing unit. We actually caught a glimpse at this board during the Consumer Electronics Show last month, but this time,...
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Plimsoll Day Shortbread
Eight is Enough X-bit labs: Intel plans to update enthusiast-class desktop platform late in 2011 VR-Zone: MSI unveils X-Slim 370, Wind U270, and CR650 with AMD's new generation dual-core E-350 processor NordicHardware reports 25nm NAND forces SSD makers to limit storage Patently Apple: Multiple OLED display patents surface...
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Windows 7 Service Pack 1 coming on February 22
The first service pack for Windows 7 (and Windows Server 2008 R2) is now less than two weeks away. Microsoft has announced on the official Windows Blog that the final, release-to-manufacturing build of the service pack has already gone out to PC makers. SP1 will become available to MSDN...
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Zotac's new GTX 560 Ti runs at 950MHz
Graphics cards with higher-than-stock clock speeds are nothing new, but Zotac's latest entry in that field seems particularly noteworthy. The firm has taken Nvidia's new GeForce GTX 560 Ti GPU and pushed it to an eye-popping 950MHz, raising the memory speed to 4400MT/s for good measure. The stock GTX...
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WSJ: iPad 2 production is underway
You know rumors about an unannounced Apple product have reached critical mass when the Wall Street Journal chimes in. With the HP TouchPad now official, though, we're all curious to see what kind of competition Apple has in store. According to the Journal, which quotes anonymous sources familiar with the...
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HP announces its first webOS slate, the TouchPad
Attendees got more than they expected at HP's press conference today. Not only did the company unleash its long-awaited webOS slate; it also gave folks a glimpse of two upcoming phones, the diminutive Veer and a third revision of the Pre. Phones are all well and good,...
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Poll: Do you buy games via online services?
Valve is projected to have raked in a cool $1 billion via its Steam content delivery service last year. We're fans of Steam, and that got us wondering about how many folks are buying most of their games via it or similar services. That's the topic of...
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