Thursday, May 3, 2012

IT News Head Lines (TechSpot) 03/05/2012

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AMD chip owners to get 20% off GameFly's digital downloads
AMD and GameFly have announced a deal that promises discounted games for folks using AMD processors. Gamers with machines powered by "select" Athlon II, Phenom II, FX series and A series chips will receive a free 30-day GameFly membership as well as a 20% discount on new PC games through...

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Facebook encouraging members to share organ donor status
Facebook is hoping to use their massive member pool for something besides keeping in touch with friends. The social network has announced a plan that will encourage users to share organ donor status on their Facebook page in an effort to spread awareness.

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Study: 91% of mobile game revenue comes from microtransactions
With titles like Angry Birds Space being downloaded by the tens of millions, it's no secret that mobile gaming is on the rise, so researcher Newzoo set out to gather specific figures in a study that included the top 200 grossing mobile games and survey results from 17,000 respondents. The...

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Samsung Series 7 Gamer laptop hits US shelves for $1,900
First unveiled at CES 2012, Samsung's mobile powerhouse is now available in the US with a starting price of $1,900. Designed with feedback from PC gamers, the Series 7 Gamer notebook has all the ingredients required for playing Skyrim on the road, including an Ivy Bridge 2.3GHz Core i7-3610QM (four...

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Physicist predicts Moore's Law will collapse in about 10 years
Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku has posted a video discussing the collapse of Moore’s Law in about 10 years or so. Physicists have been predicting the end of Moore’s Law for quite some time but Kaku’s reasoning and the slowing down of processing power that we already see today lends some...

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Acer releases 24-inch IPS display for $329, adjustable height, swivel, tilt
Acer has just released a brand-new IPS display that not only sports some decent features, but with an MSRP of $329, sports a great price as well. The 24-inch LCD is being marketed as a commercial offering and as such, bucks the long-held view that business equipment is always more expensive.

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Tuesday tech deals: 128GB Crucial m4 $110, Ivy Bridge is available
Crucial 128GB M4 2.5" SATA 6Gbps SSD for $110 + free shipping

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Digg is almost dead, tech team hired by The Washington Post
Multiple sources are reporting that the Washington Post has hired Digg’s technology team from the once-thriving social news site. The new staffers will be tasked with maintaining the publisher’s Personal Post project and Social Reader app on Facebook while the Digg brand is seemingly being left for dead. ...

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Chrome, IE market share creeps upward, Firefox losing ground
According to data from analytics firm Net Applications, Internet Explorer may be making a slow come back after years of being on the decline. Although IE's market share only ticked upward from 53.83 to 54.09 percent, this is compounded by previous gains in recent months. In February, IE accounted for...

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UK's ASA probes Apple over the new iPad's 4G data claims
Apple's new iPad is facing yet more scrutiny for being advertised as a 4G device, this time by the UK's Advertising Standards Agency (ASA). According to the BBC, ASA has widened their inquiry into the Cupertino-based firm's product advertising after receiving further complaints from British consumers.

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Neowin: HTC One X review, 'One' phone to rule them all
In 2011 it felt a bit like HTC was playing catch-up with Samsung. They failed to release the HTC Sensation before the Samsung Galaxy S II was launched, and while the device was a solid dual-core performer it never reached the heights and success of the Galaxy. They followed up...

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Quasar lets you run windowed apps on your jailbroken iPad
A new app from Pedro Franceschi called Quasar allows iPad users to run windowed versions of applications on the iPad. Quasar allows for greater multitasking by shying away from Apple’s focus on full-screen apps and judging from the video below, it appears to work seamlessly.

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Quasar lets your run windowed apps on your jailbroken iPad
A new app from Pedro Franceschi called Quasar allows iPad users to run windowed versions of applications on the iPad. Quasar allows for greater multitasking by shying away from Apple’s focus on full-screen apps and judging from the video below, it appears to work seamlessly.

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Angry Birds Space becomes the fastest-growing mobile game of all time
Proving that its early success wasn’t just a fluke, Rovio has announced that Angry Birds Space has surpassed the 50 million download mark. It took only three days for the title to reach 10 million downloads and just over one calendar month (32 days to be exact) to amass another...

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Over $175 million pledged with Kickstarter in just three years
Kickstarter, a crowd funding website where individuals pitch their ideas to the masses and ask for funding, just celebrated its three year anniversary. The site opened on April 28, 2009 and since then, nearly 50,000 projects have sought financing with about half reaching their fund-raising goals.

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Man files lawsuit against Apple alleging Smart Cover patent infringement
An Aspen, Colorado resident has filed a lawsuit against Apple and retailer Target that claims the company’s Smart Cover infringes on a patent he owns. Jerald Bovino filed for the “portable computer case” patent in mid-2003 which was later issued in late 2005, roughly six years before Cupertino released the...

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Claiming the Crown: Gainward GeForce GTX 680 Phantom Review
On March 22, Nvidia unveiled its first "Kepler"-based graphics card. Branded as the GeForce GTX 680, the card is powered by a 28nm GPU codenamed GK104 that crams 3540 million transistors into a 294mm2 die. That's an improvement from the 40nm GTX 580, which has 540 million fewer transistors yet...

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New Nvidia service will auto-generate optimized game settings
Nvidia announced an initiative that should make it easier for PC gamers to find ideal graphics settings. Unless you're fortunate enough to have a powerhouse like the company's new dual-GPU GTX 690, you probably have to put some thought into your game's detail settings. Running everything maxed likely isn't an...

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T-Mobile, Verizon Android 4.0 upgrade schedules leaked
Some Verizon and T-Mobile device owners will be pleased to hear that Ice Cream Sandwich may be making its way to their subsidized smartphone or tablet. Please bear in mind these are rumors and haven't been officially confirmed. ICS, or Android 4.0, makes a great deal of changes to the...

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Microsoft invests $300M in Barnes & Noble's Nook business
Microsoft has announced it is making a $300 million investment in Barnes & Noble's Nook digital-book business and college-texts unit. The move will give the software giant a 17.6% stake in a new subsidiary temporarily known as Newco, with B&N getting the remanning 82.4%, while all pending litigation related to...

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Amazon to collect Texas sales tax in July, Nevada in 2014
Amazon has reached an agreement with the state of Texas which will allow them to continue doing business there but at a cost -- Amazon will begin collecting sales tax from Texas residents starting July 1, 2012. Texas is the seventh state thus far to make such a requirement. Just last week,...

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Amazon to collect sales tax in Texas in July, Nevada in 2014
Amazon has reached an agreement with the state of Texas which will allow them to continue doing business there but at a cost -- Amazon will begin collecting sales tax from Texas residents starting July 1, 2012. Texas is the seventh state thus far to make such a requirement. Just last week,...

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Amazon to collect sales tax in Texas, Nevada beginning 2014
Amazon has reached an agreement with the state of Texas which will allow them to continue doing business there but at a cost -- Amazon will begin collecting sales tax from Texas residents starting July 1, 2014. Texas is the seventh state thus far to make such a requirement. Just last week,...

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House approves CISPA cybersecurity bill, Microsoft backpedals support
Despite the administration's threat to veto the bill, the U.S. House of Representatives approved the controverisal cyber-survellience legislation late last week by a vote of 248 to 168. CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, encourages companies to freely share what would otherwise be private information about customers to government...

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RIM isn't unveiling new BlackBerry 10 hardware at BlackBerry World
The annual BlackBerry World conference is set to kick off tomorrow in Orlando, Florida. The three-day event is used to showcase the latest and greatest from RIM, but if you were expecting to see any new hardware this year, prepare to be disappointed.

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Gainward GeForce GTX 680 Phantom Review
On paper, the GTX 680 has almost 200% more shader performance than the GTX 580, roughly 250% more texture performance, 90% more ROP performance and 100% more memory bandwidth. With the Radeon HD 7970 only being ~9% faster than the GTX 580, AMD appears to have priced itself into a corner this time around.

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Picasa 3.9.136.01
Picasa is free photo editing software from Google that makes your pictures look great.




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KeePass 2.19
Free open source password manager.




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CDBurnerXP 4.4.1.3099
With this free software you can burn CD-R, CD-RW DVD+R/RW DVD-R/RW discs.




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DzSoft Perl Editor 5.8.9.3
Perl CGI scripts editor with debugging features and syntax highlighting.




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SeaMonkey 2.9.1
Web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple.




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uTorrent 1.7.1 Beta for Mac OS X (utorrent)
Now the lightweight power and performance of uTorrent available for your Mac.




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Norton AntiVirus X 9.x-10.x Defs 05/01/12 for Mac OS X
Keep your Norton Anti-Virus updated.




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DVDFab Virtual Drive 1.3.7.0
DVDFab Virtual Drive is a virtual DVD/Blu-ray emulator.




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BurnAware Free 4.9
BurnAware allows you to easily perform the most common disc burning operations.




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Mozilla Thunderbird 12.0.1
Enjoy safe, fast and easy email, Mozilla-style. The Thunderbird email client includes intelligent spam filters, powerful search and customizable views.




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System Ninja 2.3.3
Clean your computer of unwanted junk that constantly slows your entire system down.




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HWiNFO32 v3.95-1610 Beta
A powerful system information tool for Windows.




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DefenseWall 3.18
The easiest way to protect yourself when you surf the Internet




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




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HWiNFO64 v3.95-1610 Beta
Professional hardware information and diagnostic tools supporting latest components, industry technologies and standards.




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Google Chrome 18.0.1025.168 for Windows
Chrome combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.




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Google Chrome 18.0.1025.168 for Linux
Chrome combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.




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VueMinder Calendar Lite 9.1.0
VueMinder is a calendar program providing content-rich popup reminders, desktop alerts, and reminders that can be sent via email or SMS.




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Throttle 6.4.30.2012
Optimize your internet connection by modifying your Dial-up, DSL, ADSL, Cable, ISDN, and Satellite modem settings.




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SuperRam 6.4.30.2012
SuperRam 5 increases computer performance by freeing wasted memory.




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GameBoost 1.4.30.2012
Boost your PC games by optimizing your computers' speed and internet performance.




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PCMedik 6.4.30.2012
Enhance PC performance, it increases overall speed and squeezes out every last bit of performance.




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PcBoost 3.4.30.2012
Boost the speed of your computer by making games and applications run faster.




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GameGain 2.4.30.2012
Enhance gaming, it increases overall speed and squeezes out every last bit of performance from your computer.




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Snood 1.2 for Mac OS X
Snood is a fun puzzle game for Macintosh that will test your intellect rather than your reflexes.




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