Sunday, May 4, 2014

IT News Head Lines (TechSpot) 05/05/2014

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Jury awards Apple nearly $120 million in latest patent case against Samsung
Despite getting the nod from the jury, it was Apple that ultimately came up short in its latest patent dispute with rival Samsung. After hearing evidence from both sides for nearly a month and deliberating for three days, the four man and four woman jury found Samsung infringed on two...

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For the first time ever, Bill Gates is no longer Microsoft's largest shareholder
For the first time in the nearly 40-year history of Microsoft, co-founder Bill Gates isn’t the company’s largest shareholder. That title now belongs to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer thanks to a Gates stock sale that was made public on Friday.

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Apple, Facebook and Google set to expand transparency on government data requests
Google, Apple and other big tech companies have been waiting for the US government to give them full permission to publish data requests since last year, and now reports suggest the companies are tired of waiting. The Washington Post reports that Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Apple are all about to...

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Weekend Open Forum: What are your essential mobile apps?
Although TechSpot regulars are mostly about desktops -- and all the tinkering, tweaking, customizing, and performance-squeezing that comes with it -- there’s no denying that for most of us mobile devices are increasingly becoming must have items in our tech repertoire, whether for work or play.

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Comcast, EA reportedly close to signing streaming game agreement
Comcast and Electronic Arts are reportedly close to signing an agreement that would allow cable customers to stream games over the company’s X1 set-top box directly from the cloud. The two have been working on such an offering for the past two years according to nearly half a dozen sources...

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Nvidia, Falcon Northwest auction off one-of-a-kind gaming PC for charity
Nvidia and Falcon Northwest recently joined forces to create a one-of-a-kind gaming PC that’s currently being auctioned off on eBay. All proceeds from the auction will benefit the Philip Scholz Memorial Foundation which provides needs-based scholarships and promotes physical activities among today’s youth.

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Groupon launches Basics with bulk deals on household items and essentials
Groupon has been a popular destination to get deals on everything from electronics to local restaurants and apparel items for a while, and now the site has launched a new Basics category offering bulk deals on daily essentials.

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LG G3 specifications and photos hit the web
LG’s next flagship smartphone is coming later this month but until the official reveal, it’s open season for rumors and leaks. The latest to come down the pipeline includes both photos and specifications of the G3 – what more could one ask for?

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Weekend game deals: Shadowrun Returns $5, GTA Bundle $10, CoD: Ghosts free multiplayer weekend
As part of its Activision sale, Steam has cut up to 75% off the publisher's releases as well as offering free multiplayer access to Call of Duty: Ghosts until Sunday afternoon. Valve's store also offers 75% off a pack of EA racing titles and a Serious Sam Pack, Amazon has...

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PaperFold smartphone prototype gives a glimpse of where the industry is heading
The idea of a foldable, multi-screen smartphone or tablet has been around for ages. One shining example of this is the Microsoft Courier, the dual-screen tablet that first made headlines nearly half a decade ago. It never made it past the concept stage but that doesn’t mean interest in the...

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Beats Music 2.0 for iOS brings native iPad support
Just a little less than a day after the company teased a new iPad app on Twitter, Beats Music added the app in an update that rolled out to users yesterday. "The iPad is the gateway to streaming music inside the home", the company said in a blog post. ...

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Twitter is testing a mute function to silence annoying people you can't unfollow
It’s a common occurrence in the social networking realm – you follow / friend a relative, co-worker or someone you just met at a bar but soon after, you’re regretting the decision. Perhaps they ramble too much or don’t share the same views on certain topics as you do. ...

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Vhoto: A new iPhone app that scans your videos to extract amazing still photos
Ever thought there may be some awesome photos hidden in all of the those videos you’ve shot on your mobile phone over the past few years? Well, that's exactly what a new startup is betting on with the Vhoto app for iOS.

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'Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare' trailer hits the web three days early
The reveal trailer for the next entry in the Call of Duty franchise wasn’t scheduled to drop until Sunday but a flood of leaks forced Activision to publish the clip early. As many speculated leading up to the reveal, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare will take place in the future...

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Apple still dominates tablet market despite losing share to Samsung
Even with a decline in iPad sales Apple is still the king of the tablet market, according to market research firm IDC, which yesterday published its tablet shipments preliminary results for the first quarter of the year.

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Samsung sends out invites for a "new conversation around health" on May 28 event
Looks like health is the new battleground for tech companies. Samsung, which recently released two smart watches and an activity tracker, has sent out invitations for a health-related event scheduled to take place in San Francisco on May 28.

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Despite end of support, Microsoft has patched Windows XP's browser
Following the discovery of a critical, 0-day vulnerability affecting all versions of Internet Explorer, Microsoft has decided to release an emergency update that addresses the security issue. The patch has been issued for all of Microsoft's recent operating systems including Windows XP, despite the fact all support for the 13-year-old...

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Vine redesigns website to look and feel like YouTube
Vine has totally reworked its website with the addition of multiple new features that transform the site into what many are calling a six-second version of YouTube. In a time when most outfits are moving away from the web and toward mobile, Vine is seemingly doing the opposite.

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Amazon expands same-day delivery service to Dallas and San Francisco
Amazon has expanded its same-day delivery service in two markets. Customers in Dallas and San Francisco join the dozen or so cities that already quality for Local Express Delivery, the company announced on Thursday.

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Foursquare unbundles experiences, creates Swarm to manage check-ins
Foursquare has long claimed there’s more to its app than a simple social check-in service and to highlight that fact, they’ve decided to separate that feature from everything else and give it an entirely new name.

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Facebook unveils its own open source, cross-platform app linking program
Facebook is looking to get in on app linking standards with a new program it unveiled at F8 today. AppLinks is a multi-platform mobile deep linking standard that allows for direct linking from app to app, and has already caught the eye of a number of high profile developers.

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Sony follows Microsoft and Samsung, will open 'Experience' shops inside Best Buy retail stores
Following in the footsteps of Microsoft and Samsung, Sony has announced plans to install mini-stores inside 350 Best Buy retail locations starting this month. Known as the Sony Experience at Best Buy, the store-within-a-store concept will be staffed with Best Buy employees that have been trained to peddle Sony's goods.

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T-Mobile reports best quarter ever, adds 2.4 million new subscribers
T-Mobile may be facing an uncertain future but they’re killing it in the present in terms of subscriber count. The un-carrier on Thursday announced the addition of 2.4 million subscribers during the first quarter, up from just 579,000 new signups in the year-ago period.

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Movie Moments and Reading List apps land on Windows Phone 8.1
In the latest effort to bridge its desktop and phone apps together, Microsoft yesterday made available two of its Windows 8.1 apps for Windows Phone 8.1. These apps are Reading List and Movie Moments.

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John Carmack's former employer says he stole technology and used it in the Oculus Rift
Oculus VR and Facebook may soon find themselves in hot water if claims from ZeniMax are accurate. The former employer of gaming legend and Oculus VR CTO John Carmack claims he stole intellectual property that ultimately helped the Oculus Rift go from garage-based pipe dream into a working reality.

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Mionix Naos 7000 Review
What happens when Mionix get around to making a mouse that feels as good as it works? You get the Naos 7000, which is a great mouse. On the outside, it looks exactly the same as the company's last few flagship mice. Even feels mostly the same. A few tweaks have been but for the most part it's a case of ain't broke, don't fix.

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Running Linux From a USB Drive As a Virtual Machine or Bootable Disk
There are a number of uses for running Linux from a USB drive, from simply test driving Linux to troubleshooting a Windows PC, or working on the go from someone else's computer. There are basically two ways to go about it: from within Windows using virtualization software such as VirtualBox, or creating a boot disk. This quick guide details both methods in a few easy steps.

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Auslogics Disk Defrag 4.5.4.0
Defrag Your Drive - Avoid Fatal System Failures and Speed Up Your Computer









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ZD Soft Screen Recorder 6.4
ZD Soft Screen Recorder captures computer screen content with sound and saves as compressed video files in various formats.









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WhiteHat Aviator 33.0.1750.117
WhiteHat Aviator is the best and easiest way to bank, shop, browse, and use social networks while stopping viruses, advertisers, hackers, and cyber-crooks.









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X-Proxy 5.2.0.6
X-Proxy is free and allows you to surf the web anonymously, change your IP, avoid identity theft and hacker intrusiones.









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OpenVPN 2.3.4
OpenVPN is an open source VPN daemon.









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Notepad++ 6.6
Free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.









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Dropbox Experimental 2.7.54
Dropbox allows you to sync your files online and across your computers automatically.









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Anvil Studio 2014.05.01
With this free version, you can create an unlimited number of MIDI tracks, and two one-minute audio tracks.









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TSR Watermark Image 3.2.0.1
Professional photo watermarking software - Easy, fast and fully featured batch photo watermarking.









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VideoMach 5.10.3
VideoMach is a powerful multimedia converter useful for many everyday tasks.









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McAfee Rootkit Remover 0.8.9.173
McAfee Rootkit Remover is a stand-alone utility used to detect and remove complex rootkits and associated malware.









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Sysinternals Suite Mary 3, 2014
A bundling of dozens of selected troubleshooting Sysinternals Utilities.









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Calibre 1.35.0
calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books.









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SeaMonkey 2.26
Web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple.









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Comic Seer 2.51.3
Comic Seer is the fastest and most efficient application for viewing, reading, and managing your comics.









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Remote Desktop Manager 9.2.8.0
Introducing the new and improved Remote Desktop Manager 8.









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WinContig 1.30
Defragmentation tool that doesn't create any installation directories or Registry entries on your computer.









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Just Color Picker 3.5
Graphic designers, digital artists and web-designers tend to look at things differently. They see the arrangement and colour scheme of things that mere mortals would just take for granted. Anything can be a piece of art or an inspiration, but it takes a discerning eye to really see it sometimes.









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ChrisTV Online! Free 10.10
Watch more than 1800+ TV channels and 600+ radio stations from all over the globe without a TV card.









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DarkWave Studio 4.3.2
DarkWave Studio is a free, open source, Digital Audio Workstation for Windows.









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HTTPNetworkSniffer 1.40
HTTPNetworkSniffer is a packet sniffer tool that captures all HTTP requests/responses sent between the Web browser and the Web server and displays them in a simple table.









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PaperScan Free 2.0.19
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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Camfrog Video Chat 6.7.356
Camfrog Video Chat allows you to join real streaming video chat rooms where you can hear, see, and chat with many people at a time.









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Database .NET 11.2.5235
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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VideoCacheView 2.67
Extract Web site video files from the cache of your Web browser.









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