Tuesday, August 7, 2012

IT News Head Lines (TechSpot) 07/08/2012

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Demonoid shut down by Ukrainian authorities following DDoS attack
Demonoid, the Internet's largest combined BitTorrent site and tracker, has been shutdown in one of the biggest BitTorrent-related busts in recent times, according to TorrentFreak. ColoCall, the Ukrainian datacenter who hosts Demonoid, was forced to relinquish Demonoid's data to local authorities and terminate service for the site.

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Best Buy founder wants to buy company for $8.5 billion
Best Buy founder Richard Schulze stepped down as chairman in June following the discovery that he was aware of an inappropriate relationship between former CEO Brian Dunn and a female employee. But the 71-year-old Schulze, who owns a 20.1 percent stake in the company, is itching to get back to...

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Samsung launches quad-core Galaxy Note 10.1, available this month
Samsung has released the Galaxy Note 10.1 after first showcasing the device at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February. Not to be confused with the smartphone that shares a similar name, the Note 10.1 is 100 percent tablet although the Korean giant is quick to point out that this...

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eBay launches same-day shipping service eBay Now
eBay has introduced a new service called eBay Now that promises same-day shipping on products that are sold locally. In most instances, buyers can expect to see their order arrive in as little as an hour so long as the store they purchased from remains open for at least half...

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Pentagon's MDA employees caught surfing porn sites, told to stop
The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) recently sent out a memo to employees telling them to stop engaging in behavior that was described as inappropriate use of the MDA network. The specific offenses, according to executive director John James, had to do with transmitting messages and accessing websites containing sexually...

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Tech Tip of the Week: Using IFTTT, Plus a Dozen Recipes to Get You Started
A relatively new web service, IFTTT (If This Then That) lets you automate tasks between other popular services such as Dropbox, Twitter, Evernote, Facebook, Instapaper, and many others. IFTTT works by telling it what task you want carried out, what will trigger this task, and it will put it into...

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Weekend tech reading: A love-hate relationship with Firefox
Why we love Firefox. and why we hate it Admit it. You are in a love-hate relationship with Firefox. Either Mozilla gets Firefox right and you are jumping up and down, or Mozilla screws up and you threaten to ditch the browser in favor of Chrome. Mozilla’s passionate user base keeps...

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Automate the Web Using IFTTT: Useful Recipes to Get You Started
A relatively new web service, IFTTT (If This Then That) lets you automate tasks between other popular services such as Dropbox, Twitter, Evernote, Facebook, Instapaper, and many others. IFTTT works by telling it what task you want carried out, what will trigger this task, and it will put it into action for you.

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SiSoftware Sandra Lite 2012.SP5 18.58
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