Sunday, September 11, 2011

IT News Head Lines (TechSpot) 11/09/2011

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Weekend Open Forum: Mother Nature's fury
Every year, Mother Nature claims thousands of lives and causes billions in damage worldwide. In the US, nearly every month this year has brought a catastrophe costing $1 billion or more, according to the NOAA. A blizzard blanketed the Midwest and Northeast in late January early February while tornadoes ravaged...


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HP readies TopShot MFC printer with pseudo-3D scanner
HP unveiled over a dozen new printers for consumers and small businesses at its annual Imaging and Printing Conference in Shanghai this week, including one that purportedly scans in 3D. Along with conventional multifunction features, the TopShot LaserJet Pro M275 has an arm-like camera mounted to the scanning bed that...


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Apple security update addresses DigiNotar certificates
Apple has issued an update for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and 10.6 Snow Leopard systems that addresses the recent security breach involving DigiNotar's fake SSL certificates. The patch removes DigiNotar from the list of trusted root certificates, the list of Extended Validation certificate authorities and configures the default system...


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Weekend game deals: 75% off Civ V, 50% off Dungeon Siege 3
It seems we've entered a lull as digital game distributors prepare for the inevitable holiday bedlam. Games for Windows, Direct2Drive and Origin either have no sales or have overlapping discounts and worse prices than other vendors, so we've excluded them this week. Steam and Impulse seem focused on strategy and...


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Sprint to launch iPhone 5 with unlimited data next month
AppleÂ’s next-generation iPhone will launch on SprintÂ’s network next month alongside AT&T and Verizon Wireless. In an effort to distinguish themselves from the competition, the third largest US wireless provider will offer an unlimited data service plan with AppleÂ’s handset, says Bloomberg.



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Amazon avoids charging sales tax for another year
Amazon and the state of California have prepared legislation that would give the online retailer one more year to try and change federal tax policy. This means that Californians could buy online goods without being charged sales tax for another 12 months.



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Patent wars infographic: a new age of competition
It seems hardly a day goes by anymore without a story about a new lawsuit that has been filed claiming patent infringement. Although the whole idea behind the patent system is to protect innovations and their inventors, some argue that too many generic patents are granted, and that these are...


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Microsoft demos fast boot times in Windows 8
If you think your highly-optimized Windows 7 machine running multiple SSDs in RAID0 boots fast, think again. Microsoft has published a new write-up and video on their Building Windows 8 blog that is sure to put today’s fastest booting systems to shame.



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Xbox reference appears on Steam support page‎
Take this with a grain of salt but reports are emerging that Microsoft could be relaxing its stance on online content for the Xbox 360 by supporting Valve's Steamworks API on the console. Speculation started a few hours ago after Steam users discovered an 'Xbox support' option buried inside the...


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UltraEdit 17.20.1016
The ideal text, HTML and HEX editor, and an advanced PHP, Perl, Java and JavaScript editor for programmers


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System Explorer 3.1.0
System Explorer is free, awards winning software for exploration and management of System Internals.


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Free Disc Burner 3.0.6.815
Free Disc Burner writes any files, folders (data) to any disc as well as writes multisession discs (there is a possibility to write up files to the same disc), erases information from a disc, supports Blu-Ray.


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PDFCreator 1.2.3
Easily creates PDFs from any Windows program.


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Ideal Administration 12.0
Simplifies the administration of your Windows NT, XP, 2000 and 2003 network.


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Recover My Files 4.9.2.1240
Recovers deleted files emptied from the Windows Recycle Bin, or lost.


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Process Lasso 5.0.0.47 64-bit
Process Lasso is a software that will improve system responsiveness and stability.


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WYSIWYG Web Builder 7.6.4
Web Builder 7.x is a WYSIWYG (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get) program used to create web pages.


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Process Lasso 5.0.0.47 32-bit
Process Lasso is a software that will improve system responsiveness and stability.


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Windows 7 Manager 2.1.9 64-bit
A powerful software tool to tweak, optimize, maintain and tune up your Windows 7, it bundles more than 30 different utilities in one.


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PerfectDisk 12.290
Fast and thorough disk defragmentation, optimization and free space consolidation - All controlled from the Command Center


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Windows 7 Manager 2.1.9
A powerful software tool to tweak, optimize, maintain and tune up your Windows 7, it bundles more than 30 different utilities in one.


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avast! Virus Definitions September 9, 2011
Protect your system and valuable data against computer viruses.


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