IT News Head Lines (THE INQUIRER) 28/02/2013

AMD looks to software optimisations to drive chip performance

It's not just about churning out silicon

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AMD to sell a cut down version of Sony's Playstation 4 APU

Will show how much work Sony has done

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AMD becomes a chip designer for hire

Wants more work like Sony's Playstation 4

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Altera signs up to use Intel's upcoming 14nm process node

Hints at an exclusive deal

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Toshiba claims SRAM chip cuts power consumption by 85 percent

Cites MP3 decode on smartphones as a possible use

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ARM and Synopsys tape out a Mali T658 GPU at 20nm

Suggests 20nm SoCs are not far behind

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Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest users hit by Zendesk hack

Email addresses and personal data stolen

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Qualcomm talks up Quick Charge 2.0

Charges smartphones and tablets with a Snapdragon 800 CPU up to 75 percent faster

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Qualcomm announces a 'world band' 4G LTE baseband chip

A countermove to software defined radio

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Mad Catz demos Gamesmart gamepad powered by CSR chips [Video]

Uses Bluetooth 4.0 Smart technology so one set of batteries lasts one year

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Nvidia plans to build a headquarters campus

Says it needs more desks

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Sony announces the Playstation 4

Takes the lead on the Xbox in late night launch

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Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 200 and Snapdragon 400 chips

Sees quad-core chips in entry-level smartphones

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AMD announces Turbo Dock to overclock chips in hybrid tablets

More bang from the keyboard

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Canonical is working with a chip vendor to optimise Ubuntu for smartphones

Shuttleworth says other chip vendors will come along

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Oak Ridge is fixing interconnect bugs in Titan cluster

Hasn't passed acceptance testing

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Nvidia releases GK110 based Geforce GTX Titan graphics card

A Tesla board for the richest of gamers

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Tilera announces 72-core Tile-Gx chip

Gunning for high-end networking kit

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Nvidia announces its Tegra 4i system on chip

Sports the firm's first software defined radio

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Android takes the US smartphone market share lead for January

Android outsold Apple iOS by 3.5 percent

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US watchdog eyes billions in fines from Google
Wants a full figured fine

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Shatner helps Pluto get a moon named Vulcan

Shine strong and phosphor

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McAfee buys sandboxing technology to fight zero day attacks

Sandbox runs malware to learn what impact it will have

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American ISPs fire up six strikes copyright enforcement

Internet crackdown without due process

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The Pirate Bay moves from Sweden to less hostile waters

Anchors aweigh to The Hydra Bay

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Mozilla will block third party cookies in Firefox

Starting with Firefox 22

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Compromised admin account was the source of Apple, Facebook and Twitter exploits

Hackers used an admin account on iphonedevsdk.com to inject Javascript

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Blukii Notebook Protector video demo

Notebook anti-theft security product uses a webcam to capture thieves red handed

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Chinese military denies hacking allegations

Says not us, please go away

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The Pirate Bay in TPB: AFK (Away From Keyboard)

We review the story of the website and adventures of its three Swedish founders

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Apple employees and Mac software hacked

Systems were infiltrated

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4G auction winners are O2, EE, BT, Three and Vodafone

Auction falls short of government estimates

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China’s army linked to cyber spying by security report

Group allegedly stole hundreds of terabytes of data from 141 companies

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Pirate Bay files crime report against Finnish copyright cops

Making a stand against copyright theft

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Google’s data privacy policy is in European sights

French CNIL is not happy with changes

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EE struggles to sign up customers to its 4G network

Posts a loss of £249m

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Burger King says its Twitter account was hacked

Hijackers romped on fast food firm

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Kim Dotcom’s Mega is now accepting Bitcoins

Digital locker website gets more digital

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BT teams with Barclays to provide free WiFi at UK branches

Claims to be the first high street bank to offer such a service

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Facebook is hit with a 'sophisticated' attack

Engineers trapped on mobile developer website

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Adobe will issue Reader and Acrobat patches this week

Following Fireeye's findings last week of PDF files tainted with malicious software

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MWC: Asus Fonepad hands-on review

We get our mitts on Asus' plus-sized phone

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MWC: Nokia Lumia 520 hands-on review

We take a look at the Finnish phone firm's cheapest Windows Phone 8 handset

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MWC: Asus Fonepad video demo

We go hands-on with the 7in Asus 'phablet'

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MWC: LG Optimus L7 II video demo

We get a look at LG's latest affordable Android smartphone

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MWC: ZTE Grand Memo video demo

We attempt to get our mitts around ZTE's 5.7in Android phablet

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MWC: Huawei announces partnership with O2 for Windows Phone launch

Network will exclusively offer the Huawei Ascend W1

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MWC: Samsung Galaxy Xcover video demo

Samsung shows off its most durable smartphone yet

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MWC Monday roundup: Asus, ZTE and Nokia unveil latest smartphone innovations

Asus and ZTE bet big on phablets

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MWC: Alcatel One Touch Tab 7HD video demo

Budget smartphone maker eyes Google and HP with 7in Android tablet

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MWC: Firefox OS hands-on review

We go hands-on with the HTML5 based OS on ZTE's Open smartphone

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MWC: Ford shows off its in-car Spotify integration [Video]

We watch the voice controlled app work

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Apple might settle for $115m over in-app charges

Lucky iTunes users might get a $5 apology

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Microsoft backdates IE10 for Windows 7

Promises speed, privacy and HTML5 support

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HP offloads WebOS to LG for use in televisions

LG to lead Open WebOS and Enyo projects

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Twitter announces a native app for Mozilla's Firefox OS

Will be available from the Firefox OS marketplace when the devices ship

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Mageia Linux has fixed its kernel upgrade process

Now works for non-free graphics card drivers

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Mozilla enables WebRTC by default on Firefox Nightly releases

Getting ready for showtime

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LG's Optimus G gets upgraded to Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean ahead of UK release

Still no word on its release date though

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Paypal launches a chip and PIN service called Paypal Here

Allows small businesses to accept Paypal payments as well as card transactions

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Podifi video demo

We take a look at 2ergo's mobile loyalty application

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ARM, Freescale and Texas Instruments form Linux Networking Group

To push Linux in network infrastructure

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Xamarin releases Xamarin 2.0 with Visual Studio support

Allows C# developers to make Android and iOS apps

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Chinese Military denies hacking allegations

Says not us, please go away

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Kim Dotcom’s Mega has three million users

Builds up a digital locker of 125 million files in a month

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BBC's Sport app is now available on Android

No Windows Phone or Blackberry plans yet

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Microsoft claims Office 2013 licensing is no different than Office 2010

Says Office 2010 licences also cannot be transferred

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