Tuesday, March 22, 2011

IT News HeadLines (THE INQUIRER) 21/03/2011




AT&T buys T-Mobile’s US business
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US TELCO AT&T has invested a massive £24 billion ($39 billion) to buy Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile business in the US in a deal that sees it increase the scale of its operations and win back important Iphone business.




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Nokia expects disruption due to Japan disaster
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FINNISH PHONE MAKER Nokia has announced that it expects some disruption to its supply of a number of products due to the recent events in Japan.




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Paypal gets hit with a sophisticated phishing attack
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ONLINE PAYMENT SERVICE Paypal has been the victim of a sophisticated phishing attack, according to the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT).




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XXX domain gets green light
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THE INTERNET CORPORATION FOR ASSIGNED NAMES AND NUMBERS (ICANN) has approved the controversial .xxx top level domain for pornographic websites.




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Nintendo 3DS hands-on review
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THE NINTENDO 3DS is a great little gaming console when you get used to it, but you can forget about using the 3D on the move.




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Intel wanted to hire HPs PC leader
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A REPORT at the Wall Street Journal claims that Intel was recently close to breaking a tradition of promoting from in-house, and had been courting HP's Todd Bradley for an executive role.




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AT&T buys T-Mobile’s US business
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US TELCO AT&T has invested a massive £24 billion ($39 billion) to buy Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile business in the US in a deal that sees it increase the scale of its operations and win back important Iphone business.




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Apple is silent about Macbook Pro hardware woes
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PROBLEMS HAVE TIPPED UP with the latest Macbook Pro notebooks, and Apple is keeping mum about why this might be happening.




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South Carolina county replaces paper with Ipad 2
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A SOUTH CAROLINA local government is going paperless by replacing dead trees with Apple's Ipad 2, which is probably dead something else.




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Futuremark announces its PCMark7 benchmarking suite
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SOFTWARE DEVELOPER Futuremark has announced its benchmarking software package, PCMark7, designed for Windows 7.




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Intel hears some noise for breakout bands
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SPANDEX and air guitars are probably not a part of Noisey.com but Intel's employees might get the chance to rock their office quad with the website.




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Windows Phone 7 application switching demonstrated
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TINKERING WITH Windows Phone 7 (WP7) has allowed one clever chap to enable an 'instant resume' feature on the operating system.




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And the top Blackberry apps are...
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BUSINESS USERS still buy a lot of Research in Motion (RIM) Blackberry smartphones, mostly because they like the secure messaging features. But there are software apps for Blackberry phones too, just not as many as there are for Apple's Iphones and smartphones running the Android OS.




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Adobe releases Flash Player 10.2 for Android
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SOFTWARE DEVELOPER Adobe has released Flash Player 10.2 for the Android operating system.




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Opera announces an updated TV browser
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INTERNET BROWSER FIRM Opera Software has announced the latest version of its embeddable web browser engine for TVs, Opera Devices 3.0.




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Japanese catastrophe forces Cisco to delay March security update
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NETWORK EQUIPMENT MAKER Cisco has delayed its planned March security advisories and notices update, blaming the recent Japanese catastrophe.




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