Sunday, October 6, 2013

IT News Head Lines (TechSpot) 10/7/2013

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Former Apple engineer reveals secrets behind Jobs' first iPhone presentation
It’s been exactly two years to the day since Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died. He was many things to many people at many different places but to most, he is known for creating the iPhone and jumpstarting a smartphone revolution that has forever changed how we communicate on the go. ...

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T-Mobile to reveal Uncarrier 3.0 strategy on October 9
The next phase in T-Mobile’s uncarrier strategy – an ongoing plan to shake up the wireless industry – is set to debut at a special media event in New York’s Bryant Park on October 9. To generate additional publicity for the event, T-Mobile has invited mainstream pop star Shakira to...

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NSA has had little success in cracking Tor network, documents reveal
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has released classified documents that reveal the government agency, along with its British counterpart GCHQ, have had little success in trying to crack the Tor anonymizing protocol. It’s all a bit ironic when you consider Tor software is partially funded and promoted by the US government...

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Prototype Steam Machine hardware revealed
Last week, Valve made three announcements geared towards bringing Steam into the living room, one of which was Steam Machines: a series of gaming machines running SteamOS, produce by hardware partners in conjunction with Valve. In the Steam Universe group today, Valve's Greg Coomer revealed the specifications for their prototype...

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Weekend Open Forum: Does Grand Theft Auto V live up to the hype for you personally?
I have always had a love-hate relationship with the Grand Theft Auto franchise, on one hand the beautiful open world and sense of freedom has always intrigued me--on the other its the game that always failed to live up to my expectations. The stiff character control, boring side missions and...

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Found: Here is what a city looks like without any people
There ‘s been no shortage of post-apocalyptic films thus far this year but what would it really look like if the human race came to an abrupt halt? To help answer that question, the crew at Menilmonde took to the streets of one of the loveliest cities in the world...

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Mini ARM-powered Utilite PC available to order starting at $99
Specialized embedded computing company Compulabs has now made it's mini-PC Utilite available to order. The $99 system boasts a Freescale i.MX6 processor within a small 5.3" x 3.9" x 0.8" footprint.

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Microsoft board of directors recommend Gates, Ballmer for re-election
Microsoft co-founder and Chairman Bill Gates and outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer are both up for re-election to the company’s board of directors according to a recent proxy filing. It’s a situation that normally wouldn’t be newsworthy but the stakes have changed in recent months as activist investors have been calling...

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Weekend game deals: Borderlands 2 $10, Baldur's Gate $5, Crysis 3 $15
Along with some of the best discounts we've seen on Crysis 3 and Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition, several digital distributors are running 2K promotions with solid deals on XCOM, Borderlands, Civilization and other franchises. Meanwhile, GameStop has cut prices on...

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Mozilla's Flash Player replacement 'Shumway' arrives in Firefox Nightly
Flash was instrumental in delivering audio, video and animations to the Internet in the late 90s but it has since evolved into one of the most frowned upon pieces of software in the modern era. Most mobile browsers no longer support Flash due to a number of issues including security,...

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OS X 10.9 Mavericks going Golden, now seeding to developers
Apple is almost ready to drop OSX Mavericks on the public, so much so that it is already beginning development on a follow up release.

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GTA Online for PS3 gets patched, Xbox update still pending
Grand Theft Auto Online launched earlier this week and as we’ve seen with virtually every major “online” launch in the past few years, there were server problems. Rockstar Games has been hard at work to get things resolved before the weekend (and a likely influx of online players) and has...

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Twitter's IPO filing reveals data on ad revenue, user base and more
Twitter’s initial public offering filing with the Securities and Exchange commission went public last night, offering a glimpse at a number of key figures for the seven-year-old microblogging service. From ad revenue to active users to the company’s valuation and future outlook. Here are the most interesting tidbits from the...

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Apple acquires personal assistant app maker Cue for at least $50M
Apple has acquired personal assistant app startup Cue for between $50 to $60 million, shoring up rumors from last month that the two companies were in talks. Cupertino confirmed the acquisition on Thursday but declined to offer any specifics related to the deal according to reports.

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Microsoft dreams of HTC handsets dual-booting Windows Phone and Android
Despite purchasing Nokia's Devices and Services unit last month, effectively making themselves the biggest Windows Phone manufacturer, Microsoft still wants other OEMs to produce Windows Phone handsets. According to a report from Bloomberg, the company has asked HTC to produce a device, potentially based on current hardware, that dual-boots Android...

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The voice behind Siri steps out from the shadows
The true voice of Siri has remained a mystery for years but a recent in-depth article dissecting machine language and how Siri “found its voice” prompted the actress behind Apple’s iconic personal assistant to finally come forward. Her name is Susan Bennett and she is a voiceover actor living in...

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Instagram ads are coming in the next couple months
Things have been relatively quietly for Instagram since Facebook scooped up the company in April of 2012. The social network has been content with growing Instagram’s user base over the past year and a half and now with more than 150 million people on board, it’s time to cash in...

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Pre-orders begin for AMD Radeon R9 290X, likely priced at $699
At last week's GPU14 Tech Day event in Hawaii, AMD revealed a new flagship graphics card: the Radeon R9 290X. With over six billion transistors on the GPU die, 4 GB of memory with 300 GB/s of bandwidth, and 5 TFLOPS of computing performance, the card is certainly going to...

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iPhone 5S motion sensor issues could be hardware related
Apple’s latest flagship iPhone is selling at a record pace but widespread reports of problems with the phone’s internal motion sensors could spell trouble for Cupertino. Many are claiming the accelerometer, compass and gyroscope in the iPhone 5S are extremely error-prone but whether or not it’s a hardware issue or...

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Six Things Apple Got Right in iOS 7 and Six Still Missing
Despite how much people claim to like change, at the core we are creatures of habit. Described as the biggest change to iOS since the introduction of the iPhone, iOS 7 has been available to the general public for roughly two weeks at this point. That’s given everyone plenty of time...

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Cyber attack hits Adobe, 2.9 million accounts compromised
Adobe has revealed today that they've been hit with a cyber attack, with intruders stealing a range of information from 2.9 million Adobe customers. Adobe IDs and encrypted passwords were accessed, but far more worrying is the news that customer names, encrypted debit and credit card numbers, expiration dates, and...

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Intel reveals first Quark-based product in Galileo development board
Intel announced a new line of tiny chips at last month’s Intel Developer Forum designed to power the Internet of things and now, we’re seeing the first devices featuring the Quark SoC surface. At the Maker Faire Rome, Intel chief Brian Krzanich spoke of a new collaboration between open-source electronic...

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Rdio launches free music streaming intiative across the US, Canada and Australia
Following the launch of its Stations music service app, digital music company Rdio is now launching ad-free, on-demand mobile content via a new online radio initiative.

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Walmart launches Great Value line of low-cost LED light bulbs
Walmart is looking to push LED light bulb technology mainstream with the launch of their Great Value line of bulbs. The Bentonville, Arkansas, retailer will sell 26 different bulb types including a non-dimmable 60-watt equivalent LED unit that will retail for $8.88 and a dimmable model for $9.88.

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Google buys startup behind popular gesture control app Flutter
Gesture recognition startup Flutter isn’t a household name in the world of natural user interfaces, but the technology behind its Mac and Windows applications might soon become much more ubiquitous. Today, the company announced it has been acquired by Google, and will be continuing research under their wing. Terms of...

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iOS 7: Six Things Apple Got Right and Six That Are Still Missing
Described as the biggest change to iOS since the introduction of the iPhone, iOS 7 has been available to the general public for roughly two weeks at this point. Looking beyond the flat UI and the animated background, has that much really changed in Apple's mobile OS? Here are 6 things they got right and 6 still missing.

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eXtreme Movie Manager 8.0.7.5
It lets you catalog any video formats such as DivX DVD, VHS, SVHS, VCD or LaserDisc with detailed information.









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SmartGit/Hg 4.6.4
SmartGit/Hg is a client for Git and Mercurial. It runs on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.









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CopyTrans 4.854
CopyTrans is an easy solution to transfer music, videos, apps, playlists, etc from iPhone, iPad and iPod to PC or iTunes.









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cFosSpeed Beta 9.05.2076
cFosSpeed, faster Internet with Traffic Shaping.









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Hotspot Shield for Mac 3.15
Ensure you are private, secure, and anonymous online... 100% free.









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MediaCoder 0.8.26.5565
Free universal audio/video batch transcoder.









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TeamDrive 3.1.2.499
Sync your files easily and securely, using the TeamDrive cloud or your own server.









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Reaper 4.53
Record, edit, render and arrange multi-track waveform audio.









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Internet Download Manager 6.1.8
Tool to increase download speeds by up to 500 percent, resume and schedule downloads.









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Panda Cloud Cleaner 1.0.72
Scan your PC for FREE with Panda Cloud Cleaner









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uTorrent (utorrent) 3.3.2.30180
uTorrent is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint.









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Opera for Android 16.0
Opera. Made for Android. Download the fast and free alternative Android browser.









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Trillian 5.4.0.10 Beta
Trillian helps you organize your online life with its powerful and flexible interface for IM, social networks, content syndication, the Web, and email.









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Avira Free Mac Security 2.0.0.307
Protect your investment without sacrificing any of the performance you expect from your devices.









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Tango for Android 3.1.60751
Free video and voice calls, texts, photo sharing, games and more.









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Apple iTunes 11.1.1 for Windows 64-bit
iTunes is a free application for Mac and PC. It plays all your digital music and video. It syncs content to your iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV.









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Apple iTunes 11.1.1 for Windows XP, 7 and 8
iTunes is a free application for Mac and PC. It plays all your digital music and video. It syncs content to your iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV.









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DVDFab HD Decrypter 9.0.7.0
Copies entire DVD movie to hard disk, and removes all the protections while copying.









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BitTorrent 7.8.2.30182
The most popular P2P application of current times on its original form.









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Kindle for Android 4.2.0.54
Read more than 850,000 Kindle books and over 100 different newspapers and magazines with Amazon's free application for Android devices--no Kindle required.









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D7 10.1.35
D7 is a PC technicianÂ’s multi-tool designed for one click automation in all repair scenarios.









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Trojan Remover 6.8.8
Trojan Remover was written to aid in the removal of Trojan Horses and Internet Worms.









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FxMovieManager 6.4
FxMovieManager is a filemanager written to help managing movie files and video clips. It includes a twin-panel filemanager, a playlist and act as a simple front-end to MPlayer. Both filemanager and playlist can display thumbnails of movie files.









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UltraEdit 20.00.1052
The ideal text, HTML and HEX editor, and an advanced PHP, Perl, Java and JavaScript editor for programmers.









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Netflix for Android 2.4.1
Netflix is the worldÂ’s leading subscription service for watching TV episodes and movies on your phone. This Netflix mobile application delivers the best experience anywhere, anytime.









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