Friday, May 18, 2012

IT News Head Lines (THE INQUIRER) 18/05/2012





HP certifies Hypercloud DDR3 memory modules for Proliant servers

MEMORY VENDOR Netlist has announced its Hypercloud memory has been qualified for use in HP's Proliant Generation 8 rack servers.





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Nvidia VGX to accelerate smartphone and tablet remote desktops

CHIP DESIGNER Nvidia has announced its VGX service that allows firms to virtualise GPUs on mobile devices.





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Nvidia announces Kepler-based Tesla K10 GPGPU board

CHIP DESIGNER Nvidia has released the Kepler-based Tesla K10 GPGPU accelerator board.





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Researchers hit 3Gbit/s in the Terahertz band

JAPANESE BOFFINS have demonstrated 3Gbit/s WiFi data transmission at 542GHz, part of what is called the Terahertz band.





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LG updates the user interface for its Android smartphones

KOREAN PHONE MAKER LG has updated the user interface (UI) for its smartphones running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich today, named Optimus UI 3.0.





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Nokia loses pole position in mobile phone sales

BEAN COUNTERS AT ANALYST HOUSE Gartner have found that Samsung has overtaken Nokia to take the lead in mobile phones sales.





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Talk Talk is told off by the ASA for misleading customers

BROADBAND PROVIDER Talk Talk has had its wrists slapped by the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) because its internet speed checking tool was misleading customers.





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Apple granted soft keyboard patent in US

MAKER OF SHINY TOYS Apple has been granted a patent for its multi-tiered IOS virtual keyboard on Iphone and Ipad devices.





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Nvidia announces Kepler based cloud rendering service

CHIP DESIGNER Nvidia has introduced its Geforce Grid cloud rendering service to stream games to devices.





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HTC One X held at US Customs due to Apple patent spat

TAIWANESE PHONE MAKER HTC has seen its flagship One X handset held at US Customs over "unresolved patent infringement issues" with Apple.





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Greenpeace takes protests to Apple’s doorstep

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTESTERS for Greenpeace have taken their campaign against hardware firm Apple to its Cupertino campus.





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Samsung Galaxy S III to go on sale early in the UK

ELECTRONICS GIANT Samsung has announced that its latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S III, will go on sale in the UK one day early.





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EC will 'remain vigilant' over Microsoft Windows RT browser commitments

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION (EC) communication department will keep its eye on Microsoft following moans by web browser developers that its upcoming Windows RT operating system will only support Internet Explorer (IE).





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Facebook buys Android photo sharing app Lightbox

SOCIAL NETWORKING OUTFIT Facebook has bought Lightbox, a business that looks a lot like Instagram, the photo sharing startup on which it recently spent $1bn.



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Facebook buys Lightbox

SOCIAL NETWORKING OUTFIT Facebook has bought Lightbox, a business that looks a lot like Instagram, the photo sharing startup on which it recently spent $1bn.





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Blizzard fixes Diablo III server problems

GAMES DEVELOPER AND PUBLISHER Blizzard says that it has fixed the server problems that plagued some users on the day that it launched its long awaited roleplaying game Diablo III.





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Android 5.0 Jelly Bean could launch on multiple Nexus devices

A REPORT IS CLAIMING that Google will launch its next version of the Android mobile operating system (OS), Android 5.0 Jelly Bean, on multiple Nexus branded devices, in a bid to tackle fragmentation.





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Apple patches 17 security vulnerabilities in Quicktime for Windows

SOFTWARE DESIGNER Apple has patched 17 security vulnerabilities in an update for the Windows version of its Quicktime media player.





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One in four UK citizens are ‘pirates’

ONE IN FOUR PEOPLE in the UK admit to using 'pirated' software, according to the Business Software Alliance (BSA).





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Mozilla updates Firefox for Android Beta with Adobe Flash support

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER Mozilla has launched a radical update for the beta version of its popular Firefox web browser for Android that adds Adobe Flash support.





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