Wednesday, March 12, 2014

IT News Head Lines (VR-Zone) 13/03/2014

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All New HTC One hardware specs leaked in detail
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Detailed hardware info of HTC’s All New One, aka One (2014), has leaked online, along with a sales guide that reveals how the Taiwanese manufacturer intends to sell the device to consumers. Details on the All New One, HTC’s upcoming flagship, continue to be spilled out ahead of its official unveil on March 25th, and [...]
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Valve releases Direct 3D-to-OpenGL translation layer ‘ToGL’
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With a conversion layer to OpenGL, ports to Valve’s Linux-based SteamOS just got a lot easier. If Valve’s Linux-based SteamOS is going to take off, Valve needs to convince developers that porting to that platform won’t be an arduous challenge. With the public release of ToGL, a translation layer that allows some Direct3D 9.0c calls [...]
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Next version of Android will include a ‘performance boosting thing’
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A user’s bug request in which he asks for better memory optimization on Android gets approved for a future release. A user from India by the name of Amit decided to take matters into his own hands after facing issues with performance on Android. He filed a bug on the Android Open Source Project page [...]
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New Office for Mac coming later this year
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Microsoft’s productivity suite will get a much needed major update as it has been almost four years since the last release. Office:mac 2011, released in 2010, has not been followed up with a revamped version. Incremental updates came, but the most any one of those updates did was make it usable as part of an Office [...]
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How a $66 in-app purchase can potentially cost Google millions
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Are freemium or free-to-play apps a misleading practice among app developers, or a fair strategy in attracting users? Games targeted toward young children might hardly be considered profit-generating, especially with the low purchasing power of this particular demographic (they would have to ask mom or dad to buy stuff for them). But with mobile apps [...]
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Microsoft plans to bolster Games With Gold initiative with more favorable titles
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Microsoft's Phil Spencer reveals that the company is working on offering more higher-profile and desirable titles to the Games with Gold program in an effort to make it "more true" to gamers expectations.
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Xbox LIVE sign-ins disrupted, Microsoft affirms this isn’t a ‘Titanfall issue’
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The highly acclaimed mech shooter Titanfall has released today, but some gamers are having trouble signing into Xbox LIVE in order to play it--Microsoft affirms that this isn't a game issue, and that they are on the case.
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‘The Witcher 3′ delayed until February 2015
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CD Projekt Red's high profile sequel to the Witcher series will be pushed back to February 2015 for Xbox One and PlayStation 4.
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Apple working on major Maps revamp for iOS 8
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The company is reportedly focusing less on cosmetic changes and more on the underlying infrastructure. Introduced with iOS 6, Apple Maps had a disastrous start that tainted its reputation. Some even said that the company made a mistake replacing Google Maps with its nascent service. While it still doesn’t offer all the features that its [...]
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Talk of an ‘AMD recovery’ is hedge fund hype
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Major holes exist in AMD’s comeback and diversification strategy. The financial blogosphere has been abuzz recently over an apparently stellar (or reassuring to investors) interview AMD’s Rory Read gave to CNBC on Friday. On-air Read highlighted some of his company’s wins over the last year, saying that he’s managed to get AMD’s non-PC revenue up [...]
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Samsung starts production of 20nm 4Gb DDR3 DRAM DIMMs
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Commercial mass production of Samsung’s next generation 20nm processing technology DDR3 DRAMs are now underway. Samsung announced today that it has started production of their new 20-nanometer 4-Gigabit DDR3 DRAMs. The announcement was part of a follow-up update of their first announcement when the new chips were unveiled just about a year ago. From a [...]
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Latest All New HTC One leak details ‘Duo Camera’, reveals pricing
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Not as substantial from a graphic standpoint as recent spills of information, the newest All New HTC One-centric rumor focuses on the so far mysterious dual rear camera setup, also divulging the phone’s possible price structure in Australia. Oh, HTC, you avoided February’s Mobile World Congress like the plague and instead slated the big “M8” [...]
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Nvidia GeForce 335.23 WHQL drivers bring ‘Titanfall’ optimization, higher overclocking on GTX 750 cards
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Nvidia’s latest WHQL GeForce drivers come with optimization for the newly released Titanfall and introduce higher overclocking limits on the GeForce GTX 750/750 Ti GPUs.  Nvidia has released WHQL driver version 335.23, a “game ready” driver that is recommended for optimal performance and stability on Respawn’s multiplayer shooter Titanfall. 335.23 also brings good news for those looking to [...]
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Synology’s DiskStation Manager 5.0 is now available for download
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Synology’s latest operating system comes with new cloud-based utilities and a retooled user interface. Synology announced today DiskStation Manager 5.0 is now available for download. DSM 5.0 is Synology’s latest operating system that is used in its line of NAS machines. DSM 5.0 comes with a laundry list of changes, one of which is a new [...]
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Intel announces super-fast 1.6 Tbit/sec optical cable for data centers
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Fiber-based MXC cable allows 800Gbps bi-directional transfer with a maximum length of 300-meters. Suddenly Thunderbolt looks like it’s stuck in the slow lane. That’s because Intel and a few of its partners have announced a cable that’s much much faster, but is geared towards data centers and not consumers. Intel’s new “MXC” cable, co-developed with [...]
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