IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (THE INQUIRER) 20/05/2012

Intel pledges 25x power efficiency improvement in laptop chips by 2020

CHIPMAKER Intel has said it will increase the energy efficiency of its laptop and datacentre processors to 25 times higher than 2010 levels by 2020.

CPU and GPU chips account for half of $111bn chip market

ANALYST OUTFIT IMS Research claims that half of the processor market is made up of chips that have CPUs and GPUs integrated on the same die.

HP paid $88m in 2009 to keep Intel developing Itanium chips

MAKER OF EXPENSIVE PRINTER INK HP paid Intel $88m in 2009 to continue development of the Itanium processor.

Nvidia announces its Kepler-based Tesla K10 GPGPU board

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

Google will meet with French privacy watchdog

INTERNET SERVICES GIANT Google will be meeting with CNIL, the French data protection watchdog, about the changes it recently made to its users' privacy policy.

Facebook hacker jailed

A TWENTY ONE YEAR OLD MAN has been jailed for taking over a Facebook account.

Legal scholars lend weight to ACTA debate in the US

FIFTY LEGAL SCHOLARS have sent an open letter to the members of the US Senate Finance Committee and asked them to make sure that they pay very careful attention to the draconian Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).

Hacker claims credit for Pirate Bay attack

A LONE HACKER has taken credit for the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that has put The Pirate Bay out of commission for over 24 hours.

Sony Vaio S Series hands on [Video]

THE INQUIRER got a hands-on preview of Sony's latest Vaio range of laptops at the firm's product launch in London today.

EVGA recalls Geforce GTX 670 Superclock graphics cards

GRAPHICS CARD VENDOR EVGA has issued a partial recall of its Geforce GTX 670 Superclock boards claiming that some units did not go through its quality testing resulting in an 'isolated problem'.

Nvidia says Geforce Grid could hurt desktop GPU sales

CHIP DESIGNER Nvidia has acknowledged that its Geforce Grid cloud rendering technology could take sales away from its discrete graphics business.

Samsung Galaxy S III is up for pre-order at T-Mobile

FUSCHIA NETWORK T-Mobile has started taking pre-orders for the Samsung Galaxy S III ahead of its release in two weeks.

Samsung gets a below average customer service rating in the US

THE AMERICAN CUSTOMER SERVICE INDEX (ACSI) has revealed that Samsung scored a below average rating of 71, placing it below rivals LG, HTC and Motorola.

Pink Samsung Galaxy Note is coming to the UK next month

UK RETAILER Carphone Warehouse has let slip that a pink flavour Samsung Galaxy Note will tip up in the UK next month

ACTA rapporteur says ISPs have no legal obligation to police the internet

RAPPORTEUR David Martin MEP has said that one of his main concerns with the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is the role of internet service providers (ISPs) that's spelled out in the treaty, as they have no legal obligations to police their users.

Apple updates OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Developer Preview 3

SOFTWARE HOUSE Apple has issued an update to its OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Developer Preview 3, the pre-release build of its upcoming Mac operating system (OS) update.

Blottr wants to reinvent news

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NEWS REPORTING might never be the same. "I think we've tapped into the fact that millions of people on the street have the technology to be able to capture and record news instantly," says Adam Baker, founder and CEO of Blottr.

Google overhauls its search engine with Knowledge Graph

INTERNET SEARCH FIRM Google has overhauled its search engine with Knowledge Graph to provide direct answers in search results.

Chinese counterfeiter goes out of business

A CHINESE ENTREPRENEUR has fallen afoul of the authorities because the software that he has been selling is counterfeit.

Halo 4 is available for pre-order

ALIEN SHOOT 'EM UP Halo 4 is now available for pre-order in the UK in advance of its release on 6 November.

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Sunday, May 20, 2012

IT News Head Lines (THE INQUIRER) 20/05/2012

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