Sunday, February 13, 2011

IT News HeadLines (TechSpot) 12/02/2011



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Weekend Open Forum: Are you using a dedicated sound card?
A decade ago, most hardware buffs could agree that sound cards played a significant role in performance-oriented computers. In addition to circumventing board-level interference, discrete cards offered more driver functionality and I/O options. Sound cards also reduced load on your main CPU, potentially translating to higher FPS in video games. ...

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AMD to abandon its processor brand names?
According to a document spotted by X-bit labs, AMD plans to abandon its established Sempron, Athlon and Phenom processor brand names with upcoming products. The company will divide new processors into different categories of Vision platforms and stamp them with basic model classifications and numerical identifiers, but no brand name.

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Khan Academy offers educational videos via BitTorrent
BitTorrent has released a new video catalogue app developed in partnership with the Khan Academy, a not-for-profit educational organization created with the stated mission "of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere." The app offer over 2,000 educational videos that cover high school and college level curriculum. All of...

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Night Dragon: Chinese hackers attacked global energy firms
Since November 2009, hackers likely from China have been targeting networks of at least a dozen multinational oil, gas, and petrochemical companies as well as individuals and executives in Kazakhstan, Taiwan, Greece, and the US. Five firms confirmed the attacks. The details come from a report titled Global Energy Cyberattacks:...

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Weekend game deals: 50% off H.A.W.X. 2, Street Fighter IV
Game sales have been pretty uneventful the last few weeks, but digital distributors are serving up a little something for everyone this weekend. Steam has reduced Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2 and a massive Railworks DLC pack, Impulse has discounted Dead Rising 2 and The Sims 3, and GamersGate has deals...

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GeoHot must give Sony his hardware in PS3 hacking lawsuit
US District Judge Susan Illston has ruled that PlayStation 3 jailbreaker George Hotz, also known as GeoHot, must hand over his computer's hard drive to Sony. GeoHot's attorney, Stewart Kellar, objected since Sony would be able to see the contents of all his client's files, but Illston merely informed Kellar...

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Nokia to cut thousands of jobs, Google reminds it is hiring
Part of the announcement that Nokia has switched its primary smartphone platform to Windows Phone is that the Symbian mobile operating system is being slowly phased out. As a result, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop confirmed the company will be cutting jobs. In Finland, the numbers may be quite significant.

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ZipGenius 6.3.1.2640
Free and easy to use, plus it supports more than 20 formats of compressed archives

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JAlbum 9.1
Web photo gallery generator.

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Anti Trojan Elite 5.3.3
Malware remover, it can detect and clean malware in disk or memory.

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Fresh Diagnose 8.50
Analyze and benchmark your computer system.

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McAfee SuperDAT Update 6254
Update your Mcafee based virus scanner.

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Norton Virus Definitions 2003-07 February 11, 2011
Keep your Norton Anti-Virus updated.

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AVIRA Antivirus Desktop Update Package 02/11/11
Update AVIRA Desktop for Windows with latest virus definitions and scan engine.

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Norton Virus Definitions 2008-10 February 11, 2011
Keep your Norton Anti-Virus updated.

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