Thursday, March 22, 2012

IT News Head Lines (Tech Report) 3/22/2012





The Walking Dead game trailer looks artsy
Sick of zombies in popular media and games yet? No? All right, then. Telltale Games has released a trailer for its upcoming episodic game series based on the Walking Dead comics. And I've gotta say, it doesn't look half bad:
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WD crams 2TB into 2.5-inch USB drive
Raise your hand if you have a portable hard drive. I thought so. There was a time when flash-based thumb drives were capacious enough to handle most folks' portable storage needs, but I'm seeing more and more of those USB sticks replaced by portable hard drives. Even mechanical drive makers seem to be shifting their focus from internal models to external products.
The latest external drive is Western Digital's next-generation My Passport , which features a USB 3.0 interface and capacities up to 2TB. Squeezing in two terabytes isn't all that impressive until you realize that the ...
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Opteron 3200 series plugs into AM3+ socket
AMD has unveiled a new processor family aimed at web hosting providers. The low-cost, Bulldozer-based Opteron 3200 series is designed to offer "enterprise-class reliability" at desktop prices—and for Socket AM3+ motherboards.
AMD hasn't updated its Opteron pricing chart with full specs and pricing for the new models. However, the footnotes of the press release reveal some details. Apparently, the Opteron ...
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Firefox to gain H.264 video support
Right now, Firefox is in a bit of an odd place when it comes to HTML5 video: it supports Ogg Theora and Google's WebM codecs, but not H.264, unlike other major browsers—Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Safari. That's about to change. In a recent blog post, Mozilla Foundation Chair Mitchell Baker writes the following:
Baker points to another blog post , this time by Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich, that details the reasoning behind the change. In a nutshell, Eich says Firefox needs H.264 if ...
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