Friday, July 20, 2012

IT News Head Lines (VR-Zone) 20/07/2012

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QuakeCon Details Announced
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Details for QuakeCon, the largest North American LAN party and the largest free LAN party in the world, have been revealed for this year's event.


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Microsoft sets October 26 to launch Windows 8
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Whether or not you want to jump the gun and upgrade to Windows 8 once it’s released, you may want to know that Microsoft has announced that Windows 8 will launch October 26.


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Assassin's Creed: Forsaken available on Dec 4 for $9.99
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Assassin’s Creed: Forsaken, written by Oliver Bowden, will be available on December 4 for $9.99.  The book will depict another portion of Conner’s life—one in which readers will discover his “roots.”


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iPhone 5 cases availabe from an online supplier
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A release date for the iPhone 5 is still unknown, and yet a Chinese accessories supplier already has an iPhone 5 cases inventory.  TVC-Mall has the iPhone 5 cases in eight different colors—black, white, transparent, grey, red, rose, blue, and purple.


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Apple Ordered By UK Court to Apologize to Samsung
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A UK judge has ruled that Apple must run announcements in newspapers, magazines and on its website that Samsung did not, in fact, copy its device design with their Galaxy Tab line of tablets.


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iPhone 5 has not entered final production phase
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As the speculated fall launch date of the iPhone 5 draws near, the whirlwinds of rumors and speculations are becoming more and more specific.  A recent rumor has suggested that Apple’s sixth-gen iPhone development is currently in the third stage “engineering verification test."


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RIM Granted Patent For BlackBerry 10 Keyboard and Text Prediction
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RIM has been granted a major patent on the keyboard and text-input features of its upcoming BlackBerry 10 smartphones.


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Micron Technology makes 45nm PCM available in high volume
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Micron Technology has announced that it will begin distributing its 45nm Phase Change Memory (PCM) in high volume.  The availability of Micron’s 45nm PCM in high volume, Micron claims, is an industry’s first.


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Judge Steps Down From Megaupload Case Over Controversial Comment
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Judge Harvey has stepped down from the Megaupload extradition hearings after a comment in which he called the US "the enemy" had brought his impartiality into question.


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UK hosting online treasure hunt to hire cyber security experts
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The UK government is launching an online treasure hunt and lab-based challenges to help find talented computer users who can work on defending the country's infrastructure from cyber attacks.


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ASRock UEFI BIOS Gets Web-Update Feature
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ASRock's latest innovation is a web-based BIOS update feature within the UEFI Setup program. Say goodbye to USB flash drives and command-line based BIOS flashing.


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Motorola to avoid US sales ban
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Motorola Mobility is to avoid a US ban on the sale of its smartphones by altering them or signing a licensing deal so that they no longer infringe one of Microsoft's patents.


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McAfee warns of threat to energy grid security
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Security firm McAfee has released details of a report into the security of energy grids, highlighting significant vulnerabilities in older systems to attack.


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ADATA Outs XPG Gaming v2.0 Series DDR3-2400 8 GB Dual-Channel Kit
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ADATA Introduced a new high-performance 8 GB dual-channel DDR3-2400 MHz memory kit, under its XPG Gaming v2.0 series. The kit is optimized for Intel "Ivy Bridge" Core processors, and comes at an attractive price.


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Patriot Releases Gauntlet NODE Wireless HDD/SSD Enclosure
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Patriot Memory made an addition to its Gauntlet family of storage devices, with the Gauntlet NODE portable wireless HDD/SSD enclosure. Carry terabytes of data around without bothering about cables.


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Pico FPGA Hardware Beats GPGPU in Password Cracking
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There's no secret that graphics cards such as NVIDIA GeForce, Tesla as well as AMD Radeon are being used by security agencies worldwide. Their goal is to crack the passwords of suspects as much as 10-20x faster than the most expensive Intel processor is able to do. Today, another company is claiming its stake in lucrative security business.


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Judge orders Apple & Samsung to reveal more documents
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As the Apple vs. Samsung patent battles continue, and a recent order from Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, CA requires that Samsung and Apple reveal more business sensitive documents.


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Armed man scares off Internet cafe robbers
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People go to Internet cafes to surf the internet, chat, YouTube, play video games, and more often than not it’s a safe place to carry about any tasks requiring an Internet connection.  However, two armed gunmen recently attempted to a rob busy Palms Internet Café—not realizing that they were not the only one in the building with a firearm.


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Chinese consumers still unhappy with Apple's new customer service policies
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Apple’s second largest market is China, and according to various reports, Chinese consumers aren’t too happy with Apple’s customer support in China.  The China Consumer Association (CCA) recently declared that Apple was not providing enough customer support for Chinese consumers, and the CCA’s position may not change.


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Team Intros Xtreem UHS-I Compliant Micro SD Cards
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Team Group extended its Xtreem brand to its newest line of high-performance UHS-I compliant micro-SDHC/micro-SDXC cards. The Xtreem brand has been associated with some of Team's memory modules for overclockers.


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Microsoft Office 2013 tackles the cloud and hardware optimization
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Microsoft is taking its next Office platform into the clouds, and it’s making sure that the suite is optimized for nearly all hardware and devices.


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Sharkoon Intros X-Tatic S7 Gaming Headset
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Sharkoon released the X-Tatic S7 USB gaming headset, which is a revision of the X-Tatic SR, featuring 7.1-channel surround using the Dolby Pro Logic IIx and Dolby Headphone DSPs.


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