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

Thursday, March 3, 2011

IT News HeadLines (TechSpot) 02/03/2011

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Battlefield 3 gameplay trailer rolls out, looks impressive

Following last week's short teaser trailer of Battlefield 3, Electronic Arts and DICE have released a brand-new gameplay trailer and screenshots for its highly anticipated shooter. The game is being developed with the new Frostbite 2.0 engine and is focused foremost on the PC platform to showcase what current hardware...

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Sony wants two copies of GeoHot's data in PS3 hacking lawsuit
When US District Judge Susan Illston ordered PlayStation 3 jailbreaker George Hotz, also known as GeoHot, to hand over his computer's hard drive to Sony last month, there was no talk of cloning the two HDDs in question. TIG, the third-party responsible for isolating the information related to hacking the...

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AMD: Llano is better at multi-tasking than Sandy Bridge

AMD is gaining a few backers just above the netbook segment with the E and C-series APUs, bringing solid performance and graphics to small laptops without having to sacrifice too much battery life. Soon, these chips will be joined by the A-series, codenamed "Llano", which is aimed squarely at mainstream...

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How to Backup your Gmail Account - Unclouding the Cloud

This past weekend over 150,000 Internet users woke up to find their Gmail inboxes, contacts and chat conversations gone. The issue, according to Google, was caused by a storage software update that introduced an unexpected bug. But while the company has since begun restoring data from tape backups and will...

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Zotac intros Brazos-powered barebones Zbox AD02

With various manufacturers shipping Brazos-based Mini-ITX HTPC motherboards, AMD's new platform was bound to be offered in a more complete package. It seems Zotac has done the honors, announcing one of the first compact barebones systems powered by AMD's E-series Accelerated Processing Unit (APU). The new Zbox AD02 comes in...

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Gmail messages being restored after bug
Google has issued an update on the recent Gmail snafu saying that it has successfully begun restoring data from offline tape backups and promising to get everyone back to normal soon. The company explained in a blog post that while it maintains several electronic copies of every email sent through...

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Tobii and Lenovo show eye-controlled laptop prototype

Lenovo and Tobii Technology have unveiled a laptop prototype that can be controlled by the user's eye movements. In addition to the familiar keyboard and touchpad input hardware, Lenovo's prototype packs Tobii's eye-tracking technology that lets users point, select or scroll with only their eyes. People with disabilities already use...

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VIA announces dual-core Eden X2 embedded processor

VIA has announced what it claims is the world's most power-efficient dual-core processor. The Eden X2 is optimized for commercial and industrial embedded systems and is light enough on power consumption to rely solely on passive cooling. To express its confidence in the Eden X2's fanless operation, VIA backs the...

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AMD Radeon HD 6990 specs leaked, rumored for March 8

We first saw the upcoming Radeon HD 6990's specifications last November when an internal slide leaked online, but many details remained unknown -- until now. More slides have appeared on DonanimHaber, revealing nearly everything eager shoppers might want to know, except pricing.

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Tuesday tech deals: Slingbox Solo for $150 and free shipping

Slingbox Solo TV Broadcaster for $150 + free shipping

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US says China's Baidu search engine is great for pirates
The US Trade Representative (USTR) has accused the Chinese search engine Baidu for steering consumers to third-party websites hosting pirated material. The information comes from USTR's latest report, titled "Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets" (PDF). The search engine was the only website named under a section called Linking:

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Google erects Android 3.0 mascot on campus
Google has made a tradition of erecting Android mascots at its headquarters. The Android 3.0 (codenamed Honeycomb) mascot recently arrived at the Building 44 on the company's Mountain View, California campus.

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One third of adults are mobile phone gamers

The mobile games sector is growing quickly, according to a 2010 survey conducted by Information Solutions Group and released by PopCap Games. 33.6 percent of the 2,425 respondents (in the US and the UK) said they have played a game on a mobile phone in the last month. This qualifies...

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Sony readies 17.7MP phone camera
Remember Sony's 16.41MP phone camera from five months ago? Don't bother, as the electronics giant has already announced it has developed a small 17.7MP camera sensor that is harder, better, faster, stronger than earlier technology, according to Nikkei.

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Panasonic kills Jungle portable gaming console

Panasonic has dropped development of the Jungle; the handheld video game console designed for MMORPGs is no more. "Panasonic decided to suspend further development due to changes in the market and in our own strategic direction," the company said in a statement to Reuters.

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Rumor: Microsoft to demo Windows 8 tablet UI in June
A new rumor suggests that Microsoft is planning to show off a Windows 8 tablet UI by the end of the company's fiscal year. Microsoft's fiscal year runs from July 1 to June 30, meaning that we may see the demos in question sometime in the next three months. The...

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Intel completes McAfee acquisition for $7.68 billion
Intel has announced its $7.68 billion purchase of security vendor McAfee is now complete, marking the largest business acquisition in the company's history and a landmark merger between the world's largest CPU manufacturer and the second largest computer security vendor. Under the terms of the agreement, McAfee will become a...

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Valve teases 'Big Picture' mode for Steam

Valve is looking to expand its popular digital distribution platform beyond PCs or Macs and is set to disclose its plans at the Game Design Conference (GDC) this week in San Francisco. In a pre-conference statement, the company teased a new "big picture" mode for Steam that will bring the...

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Europe seizes PS3 shipments as LG fights Sony in court
European customs officers are seizing shipments of Sony's PlayStation 3 after LG won a preliminary injunction against Sony, which imports around 100,000 of the consoles a week into the continent.

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Crysis 2 PC multiplayer demo now available

Update: In an interesting bit of related news, Sweclockers reports that Nvidia disclosed in a press event today that Crysis 2 will only ship with a DirectX 9 renderer later this month, and that DX11 support would be added to the game later down the road via a patch.

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AT&T to send location-based advertisements

AT&T has announced a new location-based marketing service that delivers ads to mobile subscribers when they are near a participating brand or store. "ShopAlerts" is opt-in only, so you shouldn't receive any annoying messages unless you request them. The service is currently available to customers in New York, Los...

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Wikipedia wants 1 billion users, 200,000 editors by 2015

The Wikimedia Foundation (parent organization of Wikipedia) has shared a five-year strategic plan that outlines the group's key priorities and intended milestones. The plan was developed through a collaborative effort that began in 2009 and involved more than 1,000 participants worldwide.

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Motorola sued over Xoom name

When Motorola first introduced its Xoom tablet, some folks were worried the handset maker might find itself in a trademark feud with the San Francisco-based money transfer company Xoom Corporation. Those concerns were well founded, as Xoom Corp. has apparently sued Motorola over the name of its new slate.

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Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti listed at European e-tailers

Nvidia's upcoming GeForce GTX 550 Ti has appeared in several EU retail listings, shedding light on the card's specifications and pricing. Although the following numbers aren't exactly conclusive, they seem to be consistent across several store pages for a PNY card (GMGX55TN2H1IZPB).

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HP launches dv6t, dv7t quad-core Sandy Bridge notebooks

HP's refreshed dv6 and dv7 series notebooks first appeared in stores overseas last December, and with Intel's chipset issues nearly resolved, the systems are finally available stateside. Both machines are powered by Intel's latest quad-core Core i7 processors, with 2.0GHz (i7-2630QM), 2.2GHz (i7-2720QM) and 2.3GHz (i7-2820QM) chips available. ...

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SoftKinetic releases free 3D gesture SDK, before Microsoft
Less than a week ago, Microsoft announced plans for a Kinect SDK sometime in Spring 2011. Today, Belgian 3D interface company SoftKinetic has launched version 2.8 of its own free SDK. It's not just for the Kinect, and it comes with the following features:

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Serious Sam 3: BFE gets some official details

Serious Sam 3: BFE has finally received some official details. Serving as a prequel to the original Serious Sam: The First Encounter, Serious Sam 3: BFE takes place during the Earth's final struggle against Mental's invading legions of beasts and mercenaries, set against the collapsing temples of an ancient civilization...

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Intel announces SSD 510 series with 6Gbps SATA throughput

Intel has announced the its Solid-State Drive (SSD) 510 series. The new Intel SSD 510 features SATA 6Gbps performance to take full advantage of Intel's transition to higher speed SATA bus interfaces on the recently introduced 2nd generation Intel Core processors (also know as the Sandy Bridge platform).

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OnLive offers free MicroConsole with Homefront purchase

Don't worry, we won't have a new article every time OnLive adds a new game; this time is different. There's a deal you should know about: if you pre-order Homefront on the OnLive Game Service, you'll get the OnLive Game System for free (while supplies last).

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Motorola Xoom overclocked to 1.5GHz, video inside
A Motorola Xoom has been overclocked from 1GHZ to a blazing 1.504GHz. The result is an increase in Quadrant score from around 2,100 to 2,800 while Linpack sees a jump from 36MFLOPS to 47MFLOPS.

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How to Backup your Gmail Account

There are numerous ways to backup your Gmail data and deciding which way to go will largely depend on the level of effort you want to put into it.

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Bulletstorm GPU & CPU Performance In-depth

First-person shooter Bulletstorm has been out for a week and we must say the generally positive reviews and commentary from critics remind us of the simplistic and old-fashioned shooter Serious Sam. That, plus a generous amount of profanity that is meant to give a flashy spin to the genre.

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

Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool 03.02.2011
The Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool application was designed to be another virus scanner and detection software from Kaspersky

McAfee SuperDAT Update 6272
Update your Mcafee based virus scanner.

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

Bitdefender Virus Definitions March 2, 2011
Keep your Bitdefender Anti-Virus updated.

F-Secure Virus Definitions March 2, 2011
Keep your F-Secure products updated.

AVIRA Antivirus Desktop Update Package 03/02/11
Update AVIRA Desktop for Windows with latest virus definitions and scan engine.

Trend Micro Pattern File for Windows 7.867.00
Trend Micro's latest compilation of patterns for virus identification.

Ad-aware 2008 Definitions File 03/02/11
Manually update Ad-aware 2008 with the latest definitions file.

Windows Defender Latest Definition Updates 03/02/2011 64-bit
Download the latest Windows Defender Definition Updates.

SUPERAntiSpyware Database Update 03/02/11
Keep SUPERAntiSpyware up to date.

Windows Defender Latest Definition Updates 03/02/2011
Download the latest Windows Defender Definition Updates.

RemoveIT Pro XT - SE 03.02.2011
Remove many viruses that other popular antivirus software cannot discover.

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

RemoveIT Pro v7 Enterprise 03.02.2011
Locates & Removes many new dangerous files that other popular AV programs do not find.

Norman Malware Cleaner 2011.03.02
Norman Malware Cleaner is a free utility that may be used to detect and remove specific malicious software (malware).

RemoveIT Pro v7 Ultra 03.02.2011
Locates & Removes many new dangerous files that other popular AV programs do not find.

Adobe Flash Player 10.2.152.33 for Mac OS X
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.

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.8
Thunderbird is Mozilla's next generation e-mail client.

xp-AntiSpy 3.97.11
Utility that lets you disable some built-in update and authentication 'features' in WindowsXP.

SpeedBit Video Accelerator 3.2.2.2
Makes your videos stream faster and play smoother by reducing buffering problems and video interruptions or "hiccups".

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.14
Improve your browsing experience with Mozilla's open-source and highly acclaimed Firefox.

Speccy 1.09
Speccy is an advanced System Information tool for your PC.

EASEUS Partition Master 7.0.1
EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition is a FREE comprehensive hard disk partition management software with all the powerful functions.

Hard Drive Inspector 3.8.8
Monitors hard drives for possible problems using S.M.A.R.T. technology.

iSpy 2.0.2.7
iSpy uses your webcams and microphones to detect and record movement or sound and provides security, surveillance, monitoring and alerting services.

Slim Browser 5.01.017
Tabbed multiple-site browser with built-in popup killer, skinned window frame, form filler, etc.

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.14 for Linux
Improve your browsing experience with Mozilla's open-source and highly acclaimed Firefox.

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.14 for Mac OS X
Perhaps the best Internet Explorer replacement you will ever find. Improve your browsing experience with Mozilla's open-source Firefox.

IntelliType Pro and IntelliPoint Keyboard and Mouse Software 8.0.1 for Mac OS
IntelliType Pro and IntelliPoint 6.0 Keyboard and Mouse Software for Mac OS 10.2.x to 10.4 (excluding 10.0 and 10.1).

Synaptics TouchPad Driver v 15.2.7 for Windows 64-bit
Driver Date: 3/1/2011 OS Support: Windows Vista / 7 64-bit

ASRock 880GM-LE Bios v 1.40
Driver Date: 3/1/2011 OS Support: Windows XP/Vista/7

Razer Naga Epic Mouse Driver v 1.00 for Mac OS X
Driver Date: 3/1/2011 OS Support: Mac OS X

Synaptics TouchPad Driver v 15.2.7 for Windows 32-bit
Driver Date: 3/1/2011 OS Support: Windows XP/Vista/7

Canon PIXMA MP480 Printer Driver v 10.26.0.0 for Mac OS X
Driver Date: 2/28/2011 OS Support: Mac OS X

Canon i320 Printer Driver v 4.8.3 for Mac OS X
Driver Date: 2/28/2011 OS Support: Mac OS X

HP Photosmart 2575xi All-in-One Driver v 10.3 for Mac OS X
Driver Date: 2/28/2011 OS Support: Mac OS X

HP Photosmart 2573 All-in-One Driver v 10.3 for Mac OS X
Driver Date: 2/28/2011 OS Support: Mac OS X

HP Photosmart 2575a All-in-One Driver v 10.3 for Mac OS X
Driver Date: 2/28/2011 OS Support: Mac OS X

HP Photosmart 2578 All-in-One Driver v 10.3 for Mac OS X
Driver Date: 2/28/2011 OS Support: Mac OS X

HP Photosmart 2573 Printer Driver v 10.3 for Mac OS X
Driver Date: 2/28/2011 OS Support: Mac OS X

Canon imagePROGRAF W8400 All-in-One Driver v 2.18 for Mac OS X
Driver Date: 2/25/2011 OS Support: Mac OS X

Canon PIXMA i560 Printer Driver v 10.30.2.0 for Mac OS X
Driver Date: 2/25/2011 OS Support: Mac OS X

Canon PIXMA MP130 All-in-One Driver v 12.13.1 for Mac OS X
Driver Date: 2/25/2011 OS Support: Mac OS X

Asus KGNH-D16 Bios v 0502
Driver Date: 2/25/2011 OS Support: Windows XP/Vista/7

HP Photosmart 2575v Printer Driver v 10.3 for Mac OS X
Driver Date: 2/25/2011 OS Support: Mac OS X

Canon PIXMA MP210 All-in-One Driver v 10.26.0.0 for Mac OS X
Driver Date: 2/25/2011 OS Support: Mac OS X

Canon PIXMA MP150 Printer Driver v 12.13.1 for Mac OS X
Driver Date: 2/25/2011 OS Support: Mac OS X

HP Photosmart 2575 Printer Driver v 10.3 for Mac OS X
Driver Date: 2/25/2011 OS Support: Mac OS X

Canon imagePROGRAF W8400D All-in-One Driver v 2.18 for Mac OS X
Driver Date: 2/25/2011 OS Support: Mac OS X

HP LaserJet Pro P1102w Printer Driver v 4.0 for Mac OS X
Driver Date: 2/25/2011 OS Support: Mac OS X

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