IT-Code-News: IT News HeadLines (TechSpot) 03/02/2011

Samsung: actually, Galaxy Tab's return rate is below 2%

Samsung has responded to reports that the Galaxy Tab return rate is as high as 15 percent. The electronics giant has completely denied the number, saying that it is actually much lower, according to the Korean blog Samsung Tomorrow:

Reddit passes 1 billion monthly page views

Social news website Reddit passed the 1 billion page views milestone last month. The data comes from the website's monthly Google Analytics page, which now has a new comma for the third number.

Yahoo magically restores Flickr account with 4,000 pictures
Yahoo recently deleted Mirco Wilhelm's Flickr account by accident. After apologizing and saying the account would be restored, but the 4,000 pictures could not be recovered, the story received a lot of coverage (link to our original story). In a surprise turnaround, Flickr has managed to restore Wilhelm's account.

JPR: PC graphics shipments "disappointing" in 2010

GPU makers didn't have a very merry Christmas according to market stats gathered by Jon Peddie Research. The firm reports that PC graphics shipments were down 7.8% on-year in the fourth quarter of 2010, highlighting unusually low seasonal demand. Overall growth for 2010 was 4.3%, which JPR described as unimpressive...

AMD lowers prices on Phenom II X4 and X6 processors

AMD has finally added the Phenom II X4 840, 975 Black Edition, and X6 1065T to its price list. The processors were first introduced in January and although they've appeared in various hardware reviews, none have been available at the retail level. The 3.2GHz X4 840 serves as AMD's entry-level...

Company of Heroes Online shutting down March 31

Folks beta testing Company of Heroes Online have less than 60 days to enjoy the WWII RTS. Relic Entertainment has informed gamers that it's closing the open beta on March 31 to "evaluate the next steps for the Company of Heroes series." The developer's initial announcement didn't clearly state whether...

Mozilla releases new Firefox 4 beta for Android, Maemo
Mozilla has released a new Firefox 4 beta for Android and Maemo. You can get the new version from the Android Market to test on your Android device or go to Firefox.com/Mobile/Beta to get it in on your Nokia Maemo device.

US government seizes streaming sites Atdhe, Channelsurfing, more

In the last 24 hours, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement branch (ICE) have seized several domains belonging to major streaming websites, most of which focused on sports. The following 10 domains were taken down: atdhe.net, channelsurfing.net, firstrow.net, hq-streams.com, hq-streams.net, ilemi.com, iilemi.net, iilemii.com, rojadirecta.com...

Yahoo accidentally deletes Flickr account with 4,000 pictures
Update: After the story received plenty of coverage around the Web, and in a fortunate turnaround for German photographer Mirco Wilhelm, Flickr has managed to restore his account. The original story is below.

Samsung Galaxy Tab has a 15% return rate, iPad at only 2%

Update: Samsung has denied that the return rate is 15 percent, saying that it is actually below 2 percent. The original story is below.

SiSoftware Sandra Lite 2011 17.36
All around tool, benchmarking, system diagnostic and analyser.

VLC Media Player 1.1.7
Highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats.

EverNote 4.2.1.3716
EverNote is a free note-taking application.

Spyware Doctor 2010 8.0.0.624
Spyware removal utility that detects, removes and protects your PC from thousands of potential threats.

BurnAware Free 3.1.2
BurnAware allows you to easily perform the most common disc burning operations.

Norton Virus Definitions 2003-07 February 2, 2011
Keep your Norton Anti-Virus updated.

AVG Anti-Virus Updates February 2, 2011
Keep your AVG Anti-Virus updated.

Norton Virus Definitions 2008-10 February 2, 2011
Keep your Norton Anti-Virus updated.

VLC Media Player Portable 1.1.7
Highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats.

VisDoc 3.0.4 for Mac OS X
Generates html documentation from ActionScript 2.0 class files.

AIDA64 Extreme Edition 1.50.1241 Beta
System information, system diagnostics and benchmarking solution for enthusiasts users.

The Cleaner 2011 7.3.0.3611
Keep your computer and data safe from Trojans, Worms, Keyloggers, Spyware and many other types of malware.

Adobe Flash Player 10.2.152.21
Adobe Flash Player is a cross-platform browser-based application runtime that delivers uncompromised viewing of expressive applications, content, and videos across screens and browsers.

Aloaha PDF Suite 5.0.6
Create vector based, high resolution PDF Documents.

McAfee AVERT Stinger 10.1.0.1361
Detect and remove specific viruses.

Spybot Search and Destroy Detection Update February 2, 2011
This updates the detection rules for Spybot Search and Destroy.

Kaspersky Anti-Virus Update February 2, 2011
Virus definitions for Kaspersky Anti-Virus.

avast! Virus Definitions February 2, 2011
Protect your system and valuable data against computer viruses.

RemoveIT Pro XT - SE 02.02.2011
Remove many viruses that other popular antivirus software cannot discover.

Samsung TS-LB23D Firmware v SC01
Driver Date: 2/2/2011 OS Support: Windows XP/Vista/7

Shuttle SA76G2 V2 Bios v SA76GSHU.106
Driver Date: 2/1/2011 OS Support: Windows XP/Vista/7

Asus AMD Chipset Driver v 1.0.16.106
Driver Date: 1/31/2011 OS Support: Windows Vista / 7

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