Wednesday, March 30, 2011

IT News HeadLines (TechSpot) 29/03/2011



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Rumor: WWDC 2011 will be software-only, iPhone 5 delayed
Yesterday, Apple announced its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) would take place this year from June 6, 2011 to June 10, 2011 at San Francisco's Moscone West. Cupertino also said it would "unveil the future of iOS and Mac OS."

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Report: AMD to release Radeon HD 6790 this Thursday
AMD is set to introduce a new mid-range graphics card based on the 40nm 'Barts LE' core before the end of the week, according to a report on NordicHardware. The Radeon HD 6970 would directly compete with Nvidia's GeForce GTX 550 Ti, offering a more powerful alternative to Radeon HD...

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Website to pay nearly $1 million for Beatles piracy
BlueBeat sold Beatles songs for 25 cents each before they went on sale legally through iTunes. The owners of Santa Cruz, California-based Media Rights Technologies, which managed the website, have agreed to pay the band's EMI Group label $950,000 to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit.

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News Corp. wants to sell Myspace, possibly to Vevo
It has been speculated that News Corp. wants to get rid of Myspace, previously called MySpace but now stylized as My_____, and now it looks like a sale is in order. News Corp. has reportedly hired investment bank Allen & Co. to evaluate offers for the social network. The parent...

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Crysis 2 GPU & CPU Performance Test
Crytek and EA unleashed the highly anticipated sequel to Crysis last week. While waiting for it to become available Down Under, I found myself reading numerous reviews about the game. Most were highly positive, while informal observations from bloggers and PC gamers noted that Crysis 2 has departed from some...

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Amazon unveils Cloud Drive: your music available anywhere
According to the latest tech rumors Google is preparing to challenge Apple's iTunes service with a digital music store of its own, while the latter is supposedly looking to expand its MobileMe service with some music-related features. But today Amazon got the jump on both companies with the launch of...

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Rogers accidentally throttling World of Warcraft players
Canada's second largest cable Internet provider has fessed up to throttling non-P2P traffic. Last month, Canadian gamer Teresa Murphy wrote to the country's telecom regulator (PDF) accusing Rogers of throttling games like World of Warcraft, rendering them unplayable.

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Microsoft wants US companies to pay for pirates overseas
Microsoft is lobbying for new state laws that would allow the software giant to sue US companies for doing business with foreign entities using pirated software. Instead of pursuing overseas suppliers for running unauthorized programs, Redmond wants to punish domestic firms with penalties including a sales injunction on the item...

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Netflix gets subscription TV rights to Paramount movies in Canada
Netflix has announced a new five-year licensing agreement with Paramount Pictures, which is owned by media conglomerate Viacom, in Canada. The deal means over 350 new movie titles, including the exclusive subscription television rights to all first-run films, will be added for Canadian Netflix members to watch instantly on their...

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Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E420s now available from $699
First unveiled at CES 2011, Lenovo has officially launched its new Edge series notebooks. The 14-inch ThinkPad Edge E420s is now available online with a starting price of $699, while the 12-inch E220s is slated to appear on Lenovo's website by April 8 for roughly $899 according to a company...

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Yahoo to Google: what you paid for YouTube is "still crazy"
Speaking on a panel at the Global Technology Symposium in Menlo Park on Friday, Steven Mitzenmacher, Senior Director of Corporate Development at Yahoo, took a swipe at Google while discussing acquisitions. First he said that his company went through a couple of years where acquisitions weren't on the agenda but...

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Warner Bros. offers five more movies on Facebook
Movie studio Warner Bros. has announced that it is serving up another five, high-profile film titles for rent on Facebook after launching the experiment with "The Dark Knight" earlier this month. For 30 or 40 Facebook credits -- which is equal to $3 or $4 -- people can watch "Yogi...

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Intel announces third-generation SSD: 320 Series
Intel has launched the much-anticipated follow up to its popular X25-M solid-state drive. The new 320 Series is the first of the company's drives to use 25nm MLC NAND chips, and the smaller process size has also enabled capacities up to 600GB. Performance is up as well: the 320's sequential...

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Crysis 2 GPU & CPU Performance Test


How demanding Crysis 2 is on PC hardware? Can it bring the most power hungry rigs to their knees as the original game did? Today we plan to find out as we run a wide range of processors and graphics cards through the gauntlet.

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StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty Patch 1.3.0
Patch 1.3.0 is considered a large content update, highly recommended for all StarCraft II players.

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AutoHotkey 1.0.97.00
Simple and powerful utility which customizes keyboards, joysticks and mice.

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Zortam Mp3 Media Studio 11.90
All-in-one Mp3 application and organizer.

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WYSIWYG Web Builder 7.6
Web Builder 7.x is a WYSIWYG (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get) program used to create web pages.

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BlueScreenView 1.32
View BSOD (blue screen) crash information.

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RemoveIT Pro XT - SE 03.28.2011
Remove many viruses that other popular antivirus software cannot discover.

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RemoveIT Pro v7 Enterprise 03.28.2011
Locates & Removes many new dangerous files that other popular AV programs do not find.

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Norton Virus Definitions 2003-07 March 28, 2011
Keep your Norton Anti-Virus updated.

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RemoveIT Pro v7 Ultra 03.28.2011
Locates & Removes many new dangerous files that other popular AV programs do not find.

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Norton Virus Definitions 2008-10 March 28, 2011
Keep your Norton Anti-Virus updated.

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Blender 2.57 for Mac OS X
Open source 3D modeling software.

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ASRock H61M-GE Bios v 1.10
Driver Date: 3/28/2011 OS Support: Windows XP/Vista/7

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JetWay JBC200C85-350-B / JBC200C85-35W-B Bios v A01_W
Driver Date: 3/28/2011 OS Support: Windows XP/Vista/7

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Asus ENGTX590 Series VGA Driver v 267.84 for Windows Vista/7
Driver Date: 3/28/2011 OS Support: Windows Vista / 7

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Asus ENGTX590 Series VGA Driver v 267.84 for Windows Vista/7 64-bit
Driver Date: 3/28/2011 OS Support: Windows Vista / 7 64-bit

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