IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (TechSpot) 4/11/2012

Commodore founder, tech pioneer Jack Tramiel dies at 83

RIP, the Man who Helped Get me Into Video Games

AMD engineer pleads guilty to stealing sensitive Intel chip documents

Former Intel engineer and newly hired AMD employee, Biswamohan Pani, has plead guilty to five counts of fraud centered around the theft of sensitive Intel documents. The stolen information, valued at an approximate total of $1 billion, included chip-related design and manufacturing data. It is thought Pani intended to use...

AT&T allowing customers to unlock their iPhone for international use

AT&T is now allowing users to unlock their iPhones through iTunes. Those wanting to unlock their iPhone through a legitimate process must first meet a number of requirements from the service provider.

AT&T allowing customers to unlock their iPhone for internation use

AOL sells 800 patents to Microsoft in $1 billion deal

AOL announced it has reached an agreement with Microsoft to sell over 800 of its patents and a number of relevant patent applications for $1.056 billion in cash. According to the Wall Street Journal, the move was prompted by a letter sent to AOL's board from activist shareholder Starboard Value...

Apple could become world's first trillion dollar company

Apple could very well be on track to become the first $1 trillion company in the world, according to one Wall Street analyst. Brian White from Topeka Capital Markets recently predicted that Apple stock would top $1,000 per share in the next year which would put the company’s overall value...

NYC to replace pay phones with Skype-enabled, 32" touch screen kiosks
New York City intends to pilot a program that will replace the city's pay phones with "smart screens". The touch screen devices will measure 32 inches in size, connect to the Internet and provide local neighborhood information in multiple languages. There are plans to include Skype-based video conferencing, facilities to...

Facebook to acquire Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock

Social networking giant Facebook, which is in the process of going public with a record IPO that could value the company at about $100 billion, has just announced it is buying Instagram for about $1 billion in cash and stock. The popular photo-sharing application had one of the fastest growing...

Intel's Ivy Bridge mobile processor benchmarked

A reference notebook powered by Intel’s upcoming Ivy Bridge processor has been benchmarked by a Bulgarian website by the name of Laptop.bg and the findings look promising for mobile users. The system in question is reportedly running a quad-core i7-3610QM processor clocked at 2.3GHz and turned in results that were...

Lenovo introduces IdeaTab S2109 tablet with Android 4.0

Lenovo has officially announced its latest addition to the tablet market, the IdeaPad S2109. The new Ice Cream Sandwich slate measures 8.9mm thick and takes a page from the iPad with a 9.7-inch 4:3 aspect display, rather than the 10.1-inch (16:10) form factor most Android tablets in that size range....

Hotels using 'web experience manipulation' to serve ads over free WiFi

Hotel’s that offer free WiFi access generally get a thumbs-up from most travelers in that regard but it turns out that your destination could actually be making money from you while you are on their network.

Report: Sony to axe 10,000 jobs before end of 2012

Japan’s largest newspaper, the Nikkei, has revealed that Sony Corporation plans to axe around 10,000 jobs globally over the next year as part of a restructuring effort led by their newly appointed president Kazuo Hirai, who took over the role as CEO from Sir Howard Stringer on April 1.

Raspberry Pi passes quality control tests, cleared for delivery

The Raspberry Pi Foundation announced on Friday that their $35 educational computer intended to reignite computer programming in schools the world over has finished compliance testing, and has successfully gained the Conformite Europeenne (CE) quality-control mark without requiring any modifications to the existing design.

Samsung SSD Magician 3.1
The Samsung SSD Magician software facilitates easy maintenance and use of Samsung SSD products connected to a desktop or notebook computer.

AC3 Filter 2.0a
High quality freeware DirectShow audio decoder and processor filter used to decode audio tracks in movies.

HaoZip 2.7.8590
HaoZip will work-out the best compression algorithm for your computer.

Kindle for PC 1.9.3.38425
Read Kindle Books on Your Computer.

Advanced Host Monitor 9.16
A full-featured network monitor program.

WYSIWYG Web Builder 8.1
Web Builder 8.x is a WYSIWYG (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get) program used to create web pages.

Sumatra PDF 2.0.1
Sumatra PDF is a slim, free, open-source PDF viewer for Windows.

Light Image Resizer 4.3.0.0
Organizes your photos by shrinking their resolution or moving them within your hard drive.

Wise Disk Cleaner 7.19
Free up disk space by deleting junk files that are no longer used.

Throttle 6.4.9.2012
Optimize your internet connection by modifying your Dial-up, DSL, ADSL, Cable, ISDN, and Satellite modem settings.

SuperRam 6.4.9.2012
SuperRam 5 increases computer performance by freeing wasted memory.

GameBoost 1.4.9.2012
Boost your PC games by optimizing your computers' speed and internet performance.

PCMedik 6.4.9.2012
Enhance PC performance, it increases overall speed and squeezes out every last bit of performance.

PcBoost 3.4.9.2012
Boost the speed of your computer by making games and applications run faster.

GameGain 2.4.9.2012
Enhance gaming, it increases overall speed and squeezes out every last bit of performance from your computer.

AkelPad 4.7.4
AkelPad is an open source editor for plain text. It is designed to be a small and fast.

MemInfo 3.2
Display the current memory usage of Windows in the system tray

Norton 360 6.1.2.10
Norton 360 is a comprehensive consumer security solution that offers a full circle of protection.

BearShare 10.0.890.48078
File sharing program with intuitive design, millions of users, safety features and quick setup

ProgDVB 6.84.2
ProgDVB is the universal and very power software for watching digital TV and listening to radio channels.

AIDA64 Extreme Edition 2.30.1911 Beta
System information, system diagnostics and benchmarking solution for enthusiasts users.

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 1.61
Easy-to-use, simple, and effective anti-malware application.

SIW (System Info) 2011.10.29i
This tool gathers detailed information about your system.

Toolwiz Care 1.0.0.1700
Toolwiz Care is a free tool set designed to speed up your PC and give your system full care.

UltraDefrag 5.0.4
UltraDefrag is powerful Open Source defragmentation tool for Windows NT.

Cisco Linksys E2500 Firmware 1.0.04
Driver Date: 4/9/2012 OS Support: Windows (all)

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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

IT News Head Lines (TechSpot) 4/11/2012

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