Friday, February 18, 2011

IT News HeadLines (TechSpot) 17/02/2011



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Sony: if you crack your PS3, you'll get banned
Sony Computer Entertainment has released a statement regarding PlayStation 3 circumvention devices and pirated software. It's what everyone expected it to be: if Sony finds out that you have cracked your PS3, you'll get banned from the PlayStation Network and will not longer have access to Qriocity services. The only...

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US government mistakenly shuts down 84,000 websites
The US Government once again seized several domain names this week, but this time it made a mistake. The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement branch (ICE) took down websites related to counterfeit goods and child pornography. As with previous seizures, ICE convinced a District...

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Rumor: Sony working on PlayStation tablet
Sony is working on a tablet that will be PlayStation Certified, just like Sony Ericsson's Xperia Play smartphone. The talented engineering team working on the device spans employees from Sony's VAIO, Reader, PlayStation, and Ericsson product groups. The team is led by the VAIO group but will probably not launch...

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Crysis 2 Performance Preview
This year looks to be packed with highly anticipated titles that will arrive to the PC. Crysis 2 is no doubt one of those games, and one in particular that has lived in our minds considering that the original game to this very day can put a mid-range machine to crawl.

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Warner Bros. starts selling movies in Apple's App Store
Warner Bros. has begun delivering video content to countries without access to Apple's iTunes movie store, such as China and Brazil. The studio has launched a new service that will sell films as applications through the App Store, starting with the immediate availability of The Dark Knight and Inception.

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Radio breakthrough could double wireless performance
Stanford scientists have discovered a breakthrough that could double the speed of wireless networks. The technology reportedly allows radios to simultaneously send and receive signals over the same frequency -- something previously thought to be impossible. "Textbooks say you can't do it," said Philip Levis, Stanford's assistant professor of computer...

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Valve: we're more profitable per employee than Google, Apple
Speaking with Forbes, Valve co-founder Gabe Newell revealed that Steam represents between 50 and 70% of digital PC game sales. IHS Screen Digest analyst Ed Barton suggests that the wildly popular platform saw revenues in the high hundreds of millions of dollars last year -- an estimate recently mirrored by FADE.

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Motorola Xoom priced: $800 on Verizon, $600 for WiFi-only
Official pricing for the Motorola Xoom tablet, which debuted at CES 2011 last month, has been released. The unsubsidized price for the tablet will be $800 on Verizon Wireless, and a Wi-Fi only version will be approximately $600, according to Reuters.

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Internet Explorer 9 RC passes 2 million downloads
Microsoft pushed out Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate in 40 languages less than a week ago. The company has just announced that the build has already been downloaded 2 million times.

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Glenn Beck: don't do a Google search
Glenn Edward Lee Beck, an American conservative radio and television host, author, and political commentator, has told his viewers not to use Google when doing research. He points to the fact that Google is having some problems overseas, and that some of its employees have played active roles in revolutions...

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Crysis 2 Performance Preview


Crysis 2 is one of the year's most anticipated PC games. Considering that the original game to this very day can put a mid-range machine to crawl we were keen to preview how the game runs on current generation graphics cards.

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DarkWave Studio 3.2.8
DarkWave Studio is a free, open source, Digital Audio Workstation for Windows.

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EverNote 4.2.2.3900
EverNote is a free note-taking application.

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Google Chrome 10.0.648.82 Dev for Windows
This version is intended for only for developers and early testers.

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The Cleaner 2012 8.0.0.1053
Keep your computer and data safe from Trojans, Worms, Keyloggers, Spyware and many other types of malware.

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Aloaha PDF Suite 5.0.7
Create vector based, high resolution PDF Documents.

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NetSetMan 3.2.2
Network Settings Manager with 5 profiles for IP, Subnet Mask, Gateway, DNS, ...

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Maxthon 3.0.20.4000
Maxthon Internet Browser software is a powerful tabbed browser with a highly customizable interface.

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Slim Browser 5.01.012
Tabbed multiple-site browser with built-in popup killer, skinned window frame, form filler, etc.

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Google Chrome 10.0.648.82 Dev for Mac OS X
This version is intended for only for developers and early testers.

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Google Chrome 10.0.648.82 Dev for Linux
This version is intended for only for developers and early testers.

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Unison 2.1.4 for Mac OS X
Unison is a carefully-crafted, genuinely revolutionary Mac OS X Usenet newsreader.

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iGlasses 2.1.5 for Mac OS X
iGlasses is an iSight video camera controller. It allows older G3 Macintosh computers running below 600MHz to use an iSight.

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Witch 3.6.1 for Mac OS X
Shortcut for aligning and selecting windows

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Torrent 2.2.2.24683 (utorrent)
Torrent is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint.

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ATI Tray Tools 1.7.9.1541
Free tweaker utility for Radeon cards that runs in the system tray.

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EF Commander Lite 7.70
EF Commander is a file manager for the Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and Window XP desktop.

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VueMinder 8.1.2
VueMinder is a calendar program providing content-rich popup reminders, desktop alerts, and reminders that can be sent via email or SMS.

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doPDF 7.1.359
doPDF is a free PDF converter for both personal and commercial use.

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Norton Virus Definitions 2003-07 February 16, 2011
Keep your Norton Anti-Virus updated.

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Norton Virus Definitions 2008-10 February 16, 2011
Keep your Norton Anti-Virus updated.

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McAfee SuperDAT Update 6259
Update your Mcafee based virus scanner.

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Web Site Maestro X 8.4.1 for Mac OS X
Useful tool for those who update their web site(s) regularly, especially for professional web masters with large sites.

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FoxTrot Personal Search 3.1.773 for Mac OS X
FoxTrot Personal Search delivers a fast, focused and precise way to find data in the files on your Mac

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Asus Xonar Xense Driver v 7.12.8.1793 for Windows 7
Driver Date: 2/16/2011 OS Support: Windows 7

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Asus Xonar Xense Driver v 6.12.8.1793 for Windows Vista
Driver Date: 2/16/2011 OS Support: Windows Vista

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Asus Xonar Xense Driver v 5.12.8.1793 for Windows XP
Driver Date: 2/16/2011 OS Support: Windows XP

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Asus Xonar U1 Driver v 7.12.2140 for Windows 7
Driver Date: 2/16/2011 OS Support: Windows 7

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Asus Xonar U1 Driver v 6.12.2140 for Windows Vista
Driver Date: 2/16/2011 OS Support: Windows Vista

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Asus Xonar U1 Driver v 5.12.2140 for Windows XP
Driver Date: 2/16/2011 OS Support: Windows XP

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