Sunday, March 6, 2011

IT News HeadLines (TechSpot) 05/03/2011



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WOF: How often do you use your computer's optical drive?
When Apple announced the first iMac in 1998 many were taken aback by the lack of a floppy disk drive. But it soon became obvious that it had been the right decision and shortly thereafter other manufacturers began to follow suit. The archaic technology was replaced by optical discs because...

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Apple offers $100 back to recent iPad customers
When it comes to new gadgets, Apple generally leaves its customers in the dark until the very last minute. Cupertino doesn't unveil a product until days or weeks before it's on store shelves, and even then some ill-informed shoppers just don't get the memo, leaving them to unknowingly purchase "obsolete"...

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South Korean government websites hit by DDoS attack
It seems that Wordpress.com is not the only website experiencing distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Major South Korean websites have also been hit by a DDoS attack, twice today, according to South Korean antivirus developer AhnLab.

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WordPress suffers second DDoS attack
WordPress has been slammed by a second distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in two days. The popular blogging platform was hit by an "extremely large" DDoS yesterday that amounted to multiple Gigabits and tens of millions of packets per second bombarding their servers, resulting in connectivity issues for the...

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Leaked: Windows 8 build 7910 screenshots
A few new Windows 8 user interface screenshots have leaked. Windows 8 build 7910 is part of the Milestone 2 branch, so we're not seeing the latest, but it is rather interesting that it took just eight minutes to install, approximately 2.5 times faster than Windows 7. You have to...

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Weekend game deals: Four Ubisoft games for $12.99
Crysis 2 is still three weeks from debuting in the US and we hear the demo isn't working for many people, so here's a list of game deals to tide you over until March 22. Steam has bundled four Ubisoft hits (Assassin's Creed, Far Cry 2, Call of Juarez: Bound...

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Google: Libya has cut off the Internet completely
Libya has followed in the footsteps of Tunisia and Egypt. If you've been following the events in the Middle East, you'll realize that this means shutting down the Internet in the hope that it will stop protests against the government.

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