Wednesday, April 4, 2012

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

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IBM to build low-power, exascale computer for largest-ever radio telescope
For the next five years, IBM will be working with the Netherland's National Institute of Radio Astronomy (ASTRON) in hopes of developing a low-powered, exascale supercomputer. According to IBM, such a computer would be millions of times faster than today's high-end desktop PCs and possibly thousands of times faster than...

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Visa drops Global Payments amidst data breach, 1.5 million affected
Visa has announced that they are dropping Global Payments as a service provider following a data breach that was publically reported last week. It is now believed that as many as 1.5 million Visa and MasterCard accounts in North America were compromised in an attack that took place between January...

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Apple, Samsung account for 95% of all handset profits
A new study from Canaccord Genuity claims at Apple and Samsung accounted for a combined 95 percent of all handset profits in the fourth quarter. Cupertino alone was responsible for 80 of profits, leaving only 15 percent for Samsung and 5 percent for all other manufacturers.

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French piracy cut by roughly half, entertainment revenue still falling
A year and a half after implementing its controversial graduated response program, France's anti-piracy authority claims to have drastically dented illegal filesharing. The report contains peer-to-peer usage data from multiple researchers, with each producing different figures.

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Xbox 360 hard drive retains credit card information after factory reset
A group of researchers from Drexel University claim that data left behind on an old Xbox 360 hard drive is susceptible to theft, even after the drive has been reset to factory defaults.

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HTC One X Review: Quad-Core Power, Looks to Spare
Many in the industry believe that HTC, which was once most beloved among Android fans, has fallen from grace. That the company has lost its way, its edge. I am here to tell you that those people are wrong. I offer as evidence the new HTC One X.

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Dell buys Wyse, strengthens enterprise arm with cloud, virtualization
Possibly in attempt to expand up on its "we're not really a PC company" strategy, Dell has acquired Wyse for an undisclosed amount. Based in San Jose, Wyse has long specialized in thin-clients, offering vertically integrated, centralized computing solutions for organizations of all sizes. Dell, who is narrowing its focus...

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Intel SSD 330 Series pricing leaked, arriving April 13?
Although an official announcement isn't expected until sometime around May -- according to recent rumors -- the Intel 330 SSD was spotted on various online web retailers over the weekend, revealing some additional details about the upcoming drive. These include the arrival of the SATAIII 6Gbps interface to Intel's budget...

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Qualcomm to ship Snapdragon S4-based Windows 8 notebooks this year
Qualcomm is planning to launch Windows 8 notebooks with quad-core Snapdragon S4 chips later this year. The offerings are said to be lighter and thinner than Apple’s MacBook Air and will rival second generation ultrabooks, says Rob Chandhok, senior vice president of Qualcomm.

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Ashton Kutcher to portray Steve Jobs in upcoming indie film
Ashton Kutcher will portray Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in an upcoming film titled “Jobs.” The movie will begin filming in May during a break from Kutcher’s role in “Two and a Half Men” following Charlie Sheen’s public departure last year.

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Pastebin looking to hire staff to police posted content
The owner of Pastebin.com has announced plans to boost their current abuse report system by hiring more staff in a bid to help with policing sensitive information continually posted on the site, which now experiences in excess of 17 million unique visitors a month.

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Sony details ICS upgrades for Xperia smartphones, warns about stability
Sony revealed the timeline for upcoming Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) updates to their Xperia range of smartphones on their blog Friday, as well as suggesting that they are set to receive the update prior to their tablet models.

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Samsung officially launches display unit spin off
As planned, Samsung Electronics on Monday announced that it has officially spun off its display business into a separate entity named Samsung Display Co. The South Korean electronics giant said in February that it would separate its LCD business from the rest in a bid to respond to changing market...

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HTC One X Review
The One X, the company's new flagship Android smartphone, is the kind of phone that just leaves you breathless. Its single-piece polycarbonate body is unique in the Android world, and it is as comfortable to hold as it is drop dead gorgeous.

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Windows 8 Transformation Pack 4.0
Vista transformation pack allows anybody to tranform your current XP look to Microsoft's Windows Vista.





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Adobe Malware Classifier Tool
Perform quick, easy classification of binaries for malware analysis.





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K-Lite Codec Pack Update 8.6.4
This is a cumulative update for the latest version of the K-Lite (Mega) Codec Pack.





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Joomla! 2.5.4
Popular powerful content management system.





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Driver Magician Lite 3.94
Device driver backup tool for Windows.





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VirtualBox 4.1.12 for Linux
VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware, targeted at server, desktop and embedded use.





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Kaspersky TDSSKiller 2.7.24.0
A rootkit is a program or a program kit that hides the presence of malware in the system, TDSSKiller eliminates them.





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VirtualBox 4.1.12 for Mac
VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware, targeted at server, desktop and embedded use.





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VirtualBox 4.1.12
VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware, targeted at server, desktop and embedded use.





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Total Uninstall 6.0
Uninstall any program with the most advanced uninstaller software.





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Dexster 3.7
Record, edit, add audio effects and mix your digital audio files





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CDBurnerXP 4.4.0.3018
With this free software you can burn CD-R, CD-RW DVD+R/RW DVD-R/RW discs.





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WinISO 6.1.0.44572
CD-ROM image file utility that can convert BIN to ISO, extract/edit/create ISO files directly, tec.





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TweakVI 1.0 build 1170 for Windows Vista
Optimize and tweak Windows Vista with TweakVI





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LameXP 4.0.5
LameXP is a GUI for the LAME mp3-encoder





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DVDFab HD Decrypter 8.1.7.3
Copies entire DVD movie to hard disk, and removes all the protections while copying.





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RegVac Registry Cleaner 5.02.08
Far exceeding other registry cleaners, RegVac has 6 cleaners, 3 editors, and 7 tools that repair problems, tidy up Windows, and get your PC running faster and more efficient.





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Wise Disk Cleaner 7.16
Free up disk space by deleting junk files that are no longer used.





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Fresh View 8.37
Organize and view multimedia files (images, audio, video).





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WinRescue XP 1.08.49
Four tools in one to protect against crashes and data loss.





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Windows 7 Manager 4.0.3
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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Windows 8 UX Pack 4.0
Windows 8 UX Pack offer some of Windows' 8 UI improvements.





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uTorrent 3.2..2.26986 (utorrent) Beta
uTorrent is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint.





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AVG Anti-Virus Updates April 2, 2012
Keep your AVG Anti-Virus updated.





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Realtek HD ALC 880 Audio CODECs v R2.68 for Windows Vista/7 64-bit
Driver Date: 4/2/2012 OS Support: Windows Vista / 7 64-bit




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Realtek HD ALC 880 Audio CODECs v R2.68 for Windows Vista/7 32-bit
Driver Date: 4/2/2012 OS Support: Windows Vista / 7




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Realtek HD ALC 880 Audio CODECs v R2.68 for Windows 2000/XP (32/64 bits)
Driver Date: 4/2/2012 OS Support: Windows 2000/XP




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