IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (TechSpot) 4/8/2012

Weekend Open Forum: Your most outdated software?

Software developers have a knack for shooting themselves in the foot. In the name of progress, they introduce irrelevant features, clunky interfaces and shady monetization schemes. Before you know it, your favorite program is a warped husk of its former self, so you cling to the version you love --...

Samsung predicts record quarterly profits, to open stores in Canada

Samsung has released the latest projected figures for their first financial quarter (January-March), ahead of their April 27 earnings announcement. All told, Samsung estimates their operating profit will be nearly double the previous year at 5.8 trillion won ($5.1 billion) for the three-month period.

Wikipedia ditches Google Maps for OpenStreetMaps after price change

Citing synergistic principles with OpenStreetMaps and an end to Google's free ride for high-volume map users, Wikipedia has dropped Google Maps. The foundation has instead turned to OpenStreetMaps for its mapping needs, a UK-based, open source mapping website which has fittingly been billed as the "Wikipedia of maps". OSM is...

Weekend game deals: L.A. Noire $5, Crysis 2 $7.50, Fallout for free

Spring sales are underway with various digital distributors taking a hacksaw to prices. Amazon offers 50-83% off titles including The Darkness II, L.A. Noire, Crysis 2 and Saints Row: The Third, GameFly cuts 33-75% off both Rocksteady Batman games, Alan Wake, Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Modern Warfare titles, while...

Weekend game deals: L.A. Noire $5, Crysis 2 $7.50, Fallout (free)

NY purges sex offenders from online gaming with "Operation: Game Over"
New York state Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, announced that over 3,580 state registered sex offenders have been "purged" from various online gaming networks. The effort to keep sex offenders away from youthful gamers is part of a state initiative coined as "Operation: Game Over". Although the press release emphasizes "purge",...

US government reaffirms commitment to BlackBerry smartphones

It has been a troubling couple of years for smartphone maker Research in Motion, whose BlackBerry line of smartphones has been suffering with continually declining sales, executives leaving en-mass, and the recent loss of their number one position as the top smartphone supplier in their home country, Canada.

Neowin: Corsair Obsidian 550D "quiet" PC case review
I'm a huge fan of trying to make my desktop computer as silent as possible, mostly so that it doesn't disturb me in a silent room or disrupt whatever media I may be enjoying. Naturally, I was excited to hear of a case from Corsair that claimed to be made...

Twitter escalates anti-spam efforts, files lawsuit against spammers

Twitter has taken a stand against those spamming their popular micro-blogging service by filing a lawsuit in a federal court in San Francisco against five of the most prolific spam tool providers, and the people that use them to flood the service with junk messages.

11 arrested for selling Samsung AMOLED display technology to local rival

11 people have been arrested in Suwon, South Korea for allegedly stealing intellectual property from Samsung and selling it to a rival manufacturer in the region. The Yonhap News Agency reports that the theft pertained to information about next generation flat screen displays that could help the competitor bring similar...

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Sunday, April 8, 2012

IT News Head Lines (TechSpot) 4/8/2012

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