IT-Code-News: IT News HeadLines (TechSpot) 07/04/2011

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IT News HeadLines (TechSpot) 07/04/2011

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Dj vu: Android first, Windows Phone second, iOS third in 2015

Worldwide smartphone sales will reach 468 million units in 2011, a 57.7 percent increase from 2010. By the end of 2011, Android will move to become the most popular operating system worldwide. Furthermore, in 2015, Windows Phone will push past iOS to take second place, according to Gartner.

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Mozilla: Firefox 5 coming on June 21, Firefox 6 on August 18

Mozilla has further detailed its new development model for Firefox. The current draft says Firefox 5 will arrive on June 21, 2011 and Firefox 6 will be released on August 18, 2011. These dates may change, but they're what the company is currently aiming for.

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SFW or NSFW? Software firm hiring only naked web coders
Nude House, a computer software company in Buckinghamshire, UK is looking to recruit female web coders who are prepared to work in a "warm and private" naturist office environment. The company is also looking for naked sales people tempting customers to buy, as well as nudists to provide free technical...

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Google to spend $100 million on original content for YouTube

Google is reportedly looking to spend as much as $100 million to fund professionally produced video content exclusively for YouTube. The move would come as part of a major overhaul this year designed to get more people to watch YouTube just as they watch TV, with the introduction of around...

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Google building a tablet version of Chrome OS
Details in the source code reveal that Google is building a tablet version of Chrome OS. The search giant confirmed the news, but it wouldn't discuss timing details, saying simply that tablets are not a priority for the browser-based operating system.

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Toshiba unveils SmartNAND memory with embedded ECC

Toshiba has introduced a new family of NAND Flash memory products based on a 24nm manufacturing process that integrates a control chip with error correction code (ECC). Dubbed SmartNAND, they will come in five capacity points, going from 4GB up to 64GB, and boast a faster controller and internal interface...

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AMD launches sub-$60 Radeon HD 6450 graphics card

Not long after launching the Radeon HD 6790 for the mainstream market, AMD is ready with a new offering, this time aimed at users looking to upgrade from integrated graphics solutions or build a HTPC with a sub-$60 card. The new Radeon HD 6450 shares many of the same features...

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Apple reportedly ordered 12 petabytes of video storage for iTunes cloud

Apple has ordered as much as 12 petabytes worth of data storage from EMC unit Isilon Systems, according to an inside source cited by StorageNewsletter. The order supposedly coincides with the upcoming release of a new product that Isilon is expected to announce next week.

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HTC passes Nokia in market cap, now at $33.9 billion

Taiwan-based HTC Corporation has a market capitalization of $33.9 billion. A very impressive figure, but it becomes even more so when you compare this number to two companies that were many times larger than HTC just a few years ago, as pointed out by All Things Digital.

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ESET dissects the anatomy of a phishing attack

Late last week, hackers gained access to millions of names and email addresses by breaching the security of a marketing giant called Epsilon. If that name doesn't ring a bell (it didn't for us), the company apparently provides an email marketing service to major financial institutions and retailers -- or...

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Acer launches new Timeline X notebooks with Sandy Bridge

Acer has unveiled its third-generation Timeline X notebooks in Taiwan today, including 13.3 (3830TG), 14.4 (4830TG) and 15.6-inch (5830TG) iterations. According to Engadget, all of the notebooks on display are equipped with a 2.3GHz dual-core Intel Core i5-2410M processor, an Nvidia GT540M with 2GB of DDR3 VRAM, 2GB of DDR3...

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iPhone 4 drops more calls on AT&T than on Verizon

A new study published by ChangeWave Research indicates that iPhone 4 users are more than twice as likely to experience dropped calls on AT&T's network than Verizon's. According to data submitted by 4,068 iPhone 4 owners over the last 90 days, Apple's handset has a 4.8% chance of dropping a...

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Twitter improves search: three times faster

Last week, Twitter launched a replacement for its Ruby-on-Rails front-end: a Java server named Blender. Blender has produced a three-fold drop in search latencies. Performance aside, it will also allow Twitter to rapidly iterate on search features in the coming months.

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HWiNFO32 3.72-1207 Beta
A powerful system information tool for Windows.

ZipGenius 6.3.2.3000
Free and easy to use, plus it supports more than 20 formats of compressed archives

Skype 5.3.32.108
Skype is free and simple software that will enable you to make free calls anywhere in the world in minutes.

DarkWave Studio 3.3.5
DarkWave Studio is a free, open source, Digital Audio Workstation for Windows.

WinMPG Video Convert 9.2.3
WinMPG Video Convert is a Video Converter to convert avi mpeg mov.

Total Privacy 5.90
Total Privacy protects your privacy by cleaning up all the tracks of your Internet and system activities.

Undelete Plus 3.0.2.406
Undelete Plus is a quick and effective way to retrieve accidentally deleted files.

AVG LinkScanner 2011 10.0.1321a3540 64-bit
Verifies the safety of web pages you visit, and of links.

Online Armor Free 5.0.0.1097
Provides awesome protection from inbound threats and complete control of data leaving your computer for the internet.

AVG LinkScanner 2011 10.0.1321a3540 32-bit
Verifies the safety of web pages you visit, and of links.

HP System Diagnostics Utility 1.5
The HP system diagnostics utility gathers and displays information about your Windows based system.

AVG Antivirus Free Edition 2011 10.0.1321a3540 64-bit
The free version of the AVG Antivirus protection tool.

HP Backup and Recovery Manager 5.5.2124
Help your company protect against potentially disastrous data loss.

AVG Antivirus Free Edition 2011 10.0.1321a3540
The free version of the AVG Antivirus protection tool.

HP Setup Utility for Notebooks 1.00
This package contains the HP Setup Utility for the listed notebook models and operating systems.

AVG Internet Security 2011 10.0.1321a3540 64-bit
Protection against all of the most serious Internet threats, including viruses, worms, trojans, spyware, adware, hackers and spam.

Joyfax Server 5.82.331
Fax software allows you to send and receive faxes in a network environment.

AVG Internet Security 2011 10.0.1321a3540
Protection against all of the most serious Internet threats, including viruses, worms, trojans, spyware, adware, hackers and spam.

TweakNow WinSecret 2011 3.2.0
Explore the secret of Windows XP and Vista

GoodSync 8.6.7.7
GoodSync is an easy and reliable file backup and file synchronization software

Opera 11.10.2081 Beta for Mac OS X
Download Opera today to get the fastest and most powerful Web browser available and make the most of your time online.

iShowU 1.88 for Mac OS X
iShowU - software to capture and record video from your screen into a Quicktime movie, in realtime.

EMDB 1.27
EMDB is a small utility to keep track of your DVD collection.

PeaZip 3.7 64-bit
Popular Easy to use cross-platform file and archive manager.

PeaZip 3.7
Popular Easy to use cross-platform file and archive manager.

Norton Virus Definitions 2003-07 April 6, 2011
Keep your Norton Anti-Virus updated.

Norton Virus Definitions 2008-10 April 6, 2011
Keep your Norton Anti-Virus updated.

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