Wednesday, April 23, 2014

IT News Head Lines (TechSpot) 24/04/2014

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Iconic Hardware: The Products that Made a Dent on the PC Industry
What makes a product iconic? Design, functionality, styling, and innovation will get you part of the way there, but the true tests are how these products distinguished themselves from their competitors, how widely those traits were imitated by those competitors, and how history remembers their status. Here are some products...

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New lighting technology uses nanoparticles to mimic daylight in any environment
A new breakthrough in lighting promises to deliver natural-looking artificial daylight for the first time. Where previous advancements have focused on things like color temperature, this new technology developed by Paolo di Trapani at the University of Insubria focuses on the delivery of light.

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Amazon's sales impacted as states introduce online tax
In some states across the US, Amazon holds a distinct competitive advantage over brick and mortar retailers, in that it's able to offer its goods without sales tax. Now that more states are beginning to require the company to charge tax, like Texas and California for example, researchers from Ohio...

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WhatsApp now has half a billion active monthly users
Just over four months ago, mobile messaging app WhatsApp reported having more than 400 million active monthly users following a successful four-month span that saw 100 million newcomers join the service.

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New Hangouts for Android update brings merged conversations
Google yesterday released a new version of Hangouts for Android that will finally allow users to merge SMS and Hangout conversations. Mike Dodd, an Android software developer made the announcement in a Google+ post.

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Fan TV support coming to Time Warner Cable this quarter for $99
The times, they are a-changin’. Fan TV has reached an agreement with Time Warner that will allow cable subscribers to forego the provider’s bulky set-top box in favor of Fan TV’s streaming solution. But before you gather up your Time Warner gear to drop it off at the local branch,...

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Upcoming Google Glass update to bring iPhone SMS notifications
Just a week after Google pushed out its Android KitKat update for Glass, the search giant announced yesterday that the computerized headgear will be getting a couple of new features later this week. One of the features that iPhone users will definitely appreciate is SMS support for their devices.

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AOL Mail service targeted by spammers
A number of AOL users claim their e-mail accounts have been hijacked and are being used to send spam. AOL is on the case although preliminary reports suggest some of the accounts are being spoofed, not hacked.

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Apple now offering free recycling on all used products and possible in-store credit
Apple will now offer free recycling for all of its used products via its retail locations. After recently launching a mini site outlining how the company maintains its green efforts and with a new progress video on its upcoming eco friendly "Spaceship" campus in Cupertino, now the company will take...

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More details on Amazon's 3D-enabled smartphone emerge
More details have emerged about Amazon’s oft-rumored smartphone. In addition to the hardware-assisted 3D effects we previously reported, the device will also feature a unique combination of cameras, sensors and software designed to radically change the way users interact with a smartphone.

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Leonardo DiCaprio rumored to play Steve Jobs in upcoming biopic, Danny Boyle to don director's hat
After The Social Network's David Fincher failed to reach a deal with Sony Pictures, the studio is now in talks with Oscar winning director Danny Boyle to direct the Aaron Sorkin-penned Steve Jobs biopic, and the latter is said to have approached Leonardo DiCaprio for the lead role.

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LG G Watch to feature always-on display, powered by Android Wear
Smart watches haven’t exactly set the technology world on fire just yet but that isn’t stopping company after company from trying to be the trendsetter. The latest entrant comes from LG in the form of the G Watch and while it’s not here just yet, a promotional website from LG...

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Lytro drastically improves the light-field camera with $1,599 Illum
It's hard to describe Lytro's first commercially available light-field camera a 'hit'. The technology packed into the strange rectangular prism piece of hardware, which allowed you to fully refocus photos after they're captured, was certainly cool, but the image quality and other quirks kept all but a few early adopters...

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20nm GPUs unlikely in 2014 due to TSMC issues
It's looking increasingly unlikely that either AMD or Nvidia will be able to release a new graphics card this year with a die manufactured using a 20nm process. Issues are aplenty at TSMC, the foundry that produces both AMD and Nvidia GPUs, with the company struggling to meet production demands...

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Drone captures awe-inspiring footage from within fireworks display
It’s hard not to appreciate the awe-inspiring beauty of a well-produced fireworks show. Virtually any seat in the house is adequate to view an aerial display – or at least that’s what I thought before I saw what it looks like to be in the epicenter of the explosions. ...

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Google may tap HTC to build third-generation Nexus 8 tablet
Prospective Android tablet owners might want to hold on to their hard earned money a bit longer as another competitor looms on the horizon. According to a recent report from DigiTimes, Google has shunned Asus in favor of HTC for assistance in building an upcoming 8-inch Nexus tablet.

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PaperScan Free 2.0.18
PaperScan Scanner Software is a powerful TWAIN & WIA scanning application with an OCR engine centered on one idea: making document acquisition an unparalleled easy task for anyone.









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Automize 10.15
Automize is a task scheduler and automation program that can automate. Easy to use, No programming is required.









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Rufus 1.4.7
Create bootable USB drives the easy way. Rufus is a small utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc.









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Task Coach 1.3.38
Task Coach is a simple open source todo manager to keep track of personal tasks and todo lists. It is designed for composite tasks, and also offers effort tracking, categories, notes and more.









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Automize for Mac 10.15
This task scheduler and automation software can automate a variety of tasks.









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The Bat! Professional Edition 6.3.4
The Bat! is a powerful, highly configurable, yet easy to use email client.









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Alarm Clock Pro 9.6
Alarm Clock Pro offers itself as a modern replacement for your old alarm clock.









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Advanced Uninstaller Pro 11.37
Remove software and files that were left behind after you uninstalled software that you no longer use.









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StatWin Pro 9.0.8
Monitoring and reporting suite, capable of reporting all the user actions!









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CDBurnerXP 4.5.3.4746
With this free software you can burn CD-R, CD-RW DVD+R/RW DVD-R/RW discs.



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Praat 5.3.73
Speech analysis and manipulation software.









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LastPass 3.1.13
Online password manager and form filler. Store all your passwords and usernames in the cloud. Access them across multiple devices and platforms. LastPass now is available for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iPhone and iPad.









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Apple Security Update 2014-002
Improve the security of Mac OS X.









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Database .NET 11.1.5226
Database .NET is an innovative, powerful and intuitive multiple database management tool Browse objects, design tables, edit rows, export data and run queries with a consistent interface .









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AIDA64 Extreme Edition Beta 4.30.2925
System information, system diagnostics and benchmarking solution for enthusiasts users.









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YUMI 2.0.0.3
YUMI (Your Universal Multiboot Installer), is the successor to MultibootISOs.









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Google Hangout for Android 2.1
Hangouts brings one-on-one and group conversations to life with photos, emoji, and video calls for free. Connect with friends across computers, Android and Apple devices. Brought to you by Google. (Replaces Google Talk)









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Calligra 2.8.2
Calligra Suite is a set of applications written to help you to accomplish your work.









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BlueStacks App Player 0.8.8.8006
This app player works as an emulator allowing you to run Android apps on Windows or Mac OS.









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MediaCoder 0.8.29.5608
Free universal audio/video batch transcoder.









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StartIsBack 2.1.2
StartIsBack returns Windows 8 a real fully featured start menu and start button, behaving exactly like the ones in Windows 7.









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Baidu Antivirus 2014 4.6.2.66196
Baidu Antivirus is a ultra light weight, easy to use, extremely fast anti-virus program that protects your system from malware, viruses, spyware, adware and other malicious programs.









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UNetbootin 6.03
UNetbootin Universal Netboot Installer - allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux distributions without burning a CD.









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Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 2.0.2.1007 Beta
Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware is considered to be the next step in the detection and removal of malware.









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Sublight 4.0.5222
Sublight is popular Windows application for searching and downloading subtitles for movies and TV Series.









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