Wednesday, June 13, 2012

IT News Head Lines (CNET) 13/06/2012





DirecTV sitting on TV commercial-skipping technology
Satellite provider's chief points out that the company bought technology similar to Dish's five years ago but says it hasn't seen a demand for it yet.
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Theft of 44K credit cards is tip of the iceberg, police say
A well-known international hacker was caught on the lam in Romania and brought to U.S. federal court for allegedly stealing 44,000 credit card numbers.
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Web ads hit first-quarter record with $8.4B
Internet advertising, mostly from text-based ads, reaches an all-time high for the first quarter.
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Seagate refines GoFlex drives into Backup Plus
Seagate announces its latest in external hard drives, the Seagate Backup Plus family of external hard drives that replaces the GoFlex lineup. We review one and find it to be a big improvement over the previous GoFlex lineup.
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Top DisplayPort monitors under $400
DisplayPort is a powerful display connection standard that unfortunately doesn't get taken advantage of nearly enough. Here's a list of some of the cheap few monitors that do.
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Facebook's U.S. growth eases on the brakes
New data shows the rate at which U.S. users frequent the social network has markedly decreased along with users spending less time on the site.
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Will cheaper MacBook Airs sap ultrabook momentum?
Apple's new MacBook lineup may not bode well for the skinny laptops being pushed by Intel, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, and Dell.
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Kodak files bidding plan to auction patent portfolio
Troubled photography company files motion for a confidential bankruptcy auction of its collection of 1,100 digital-imaging patents.
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Apple wins dismissal of HTC patents borrowed from Google
ITC judge tosses five patents, finding the Taiwan handset maker did not have proper standing to sue Apple with the patents.
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State Department offers Amazon up to $16.5M to hand out Kindles
The U.S. State Department disses the iPad and Nook in favor of the Kindle Touch -- offering the e-reader-maker a multi-million dollar no-bid contract to ship the device overseas.
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