Wednesday, March 16, 2011

IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 15/03/2011




Prey 2 primed for a 2012 release
Time to fend off yet another alien invasion. Bethesda announced yesterday that Prey 2 is set to arrive for the PC and consoles some time next year. The sequel is being worked on by Human Head Studios, developers of the original game. There are no screenshots...
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Internet Explorer 9 arrives for Vista, Win7
Almost a year to the day after the release of the first platform preview, Microsoft's new-and-improved web browser is out in completed form. You can grab Internet Explorer 9 now from both the IE website and beautyoftheweb.com, a site Microsoft put up to pimp the new...
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PLX bridges gap between USB 3.0 and PCIe 2.0
Add PLX to the growing list of companies developing USB 3.0 hardware. The company is bringing its expertise in bridge chips to the SuperSpeed spec with a pair of peripheral controllers that link PCI Express with USB 3.0. SemiAccurate has the skinny on the two chips, which...
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Nvidia's GeForce GTX 550 Ti graphics processor
At $149, is Nvidia's latest DirectX 11 GPU a compelling step up from cheaper solutions? And could it be a nearly-as-good step down from pricier ones like the GeForce GTX 460 1GB and Radeon HD 6850? TR investigates.
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Seagate revamps enterprise storage lineup
In what is being called the biggest enterprise launch in company history, Seagate is releasing details on four new storage products designed for the server crowd. The drives are part of a new approach to enterprise storage that segments models into tiers optimized for performance, capacity, and a balance...
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Ides of March Shortbread
Eight is Enough Report: Piracy a "global pricing problem" with only one solution - Ars Technica Apple iPad 2 sales seen clearing 1 million units DigiTimes reports memory prices soar on supply concerns Fudzilla reports Nvidia's GTX 590 detailed in slide and Nvidia downclocks the GTX 590 TC...
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OCZ buys Indilinx for $32 million
OCZ's original Vertex solid-state drive can probably be credited for popularizing Indilinx's controller design. Turns out, OCZ liked the controller so much, it bought the company. Well, maybe that's not exactly how things went down. The deal is official, though. For a cool $32 million...
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Calxeda details ARM chip designed for servers
An increasing number of chip makers and system builders are bringing small processors into the server market. Already, SeaMicro has shoehorned 256 Atom CPUs into a single sever. Dell is doing something similar with Via's Nano. The idea is that these smaller processors squeeze more cores into...
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Leaked slide teases AMD's mobile Radeon lineup
VR-Zone has stumbled upon a presentation slide showing what looks like AMD's mobile GPU roadmap for the next two years. The roadmap comes courtesy of Turkish site DonanimHaber and includes details on four new GPUs purportedly slated to be built using 28-nano fabrication tech. AMD's current...
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