IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (TechSpot) 12/4/2014

Roundup: 18 Student Tech Deals and Discounts

Getting the most out of each dollar is absolutely critical for many students working towards a four-year college degree, but what most don’t realize is that their college education can start paying dividends even before they step on campus. To help the millions of broke college students out, we’ve compiled a list of...

First conviction made in California's new 'revenge porn' law

California lawmakers vowed to crack down on “revenge porn” and now nearly a year and a half later, they’re keeping that promise by convicting the first of what’ll no doubt be multiple offenders under the new law.

Steam Broadcasting is Valve's answer to Twitch, available now in beta

Amazon certainly dealt Google a blow earlier this year when it swooped in and purchased Twitch out from under the search giant over the summer. There’s no denying that the live streaming video platform is immensely popular but could there be room for another major player? Valve is certainly hoping so.
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Russia is selling the Steve Jobs tribute it took down after Tim Cook proclaimed he was gay

Are you an obsessed Apple fan boy (or girl) with an extra $95,000 that you’re just itching to blow? If so, you may be interested to learn what Russia is doing with a piece of Apple history.

Here's how to see everything you've purchased online with one easy Google Search

While Google has consistently updated basic search results with new bits of information, it also has more personal options as well. Users can use traditional Google searches to check out all the different things they have purchased, along with handy search filters to keep it organized.

Sprint promises to charge half of what you currently pay with AT&T, Verizon if you switch

Sprint has unveiled an ambitious promotion to steal customers from rivals AT&T and Verizon. Starting this Friday, December 5, the wireless provider will be willing to create a custom plan that more or less mirrors what users currently have with their rivals and offer it at half price.

HP announces world's thinnest and lightest business-class notebooks

HP has unveiled its latest iteration of ultra portable notebooks based on Intel's Broadwell architecture and designed with business customers in mind. The new HP EliteBook Folio 1020 contains an Intel Core-M processor, has up to 9 hours battery life and reaches military-grade (MIL-STD 810G) standards to absorb the impact...

Researchers use ultrasound to create invisible 3D shapes that you can touch and feel

Haptic feedback is most often associated with smartphones; you know, that tiny yet reassuring vibration you feel as you type. The technology is also used in a number of other fields but perhaps the coolest implementation yet comes from researchers with the Bristol Interaction and Graphics group.

Asus announces factory overclocked GTX 970 for Mini-ITX gamers

Building your own desktop computer – whether for work or play – is a task in which you often have to make sacrifices. Budget constraints aside, you’ll need to decide on things like how much noise you’re willing to put up with, what the primary purpose of the system will...

Previously unseen Steve Jobs recording to appear as key evidence at Apple iPod trial

Three years after his death, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is expected to appear (via a videotaped statement) as a key witness in the trial of nearly a decade old class-action lawsuit accusing the Cupertino-based company of trying to monopolize online music distribution.

FBI warns US businesses of destructive malware in wake of Sony attack

Roughly a week after hackers breached Sony Picture Entertainment's computer network, the FBI has warned US businesses about a new hacking threat that appears to be coming from the same type of malicious software that affected the movie studio, according to Reuters.

Office replaces dated Clip Art with images curated through Bing Images

The next time you’re searching for clip art to spice up a presentation (or, let's be honest, take up space in a school project), you’ll have an updated set of images to choose from. That’s because Microsoft has retired its dated clip art gallery and is instead using Bing to supply...

Windows Phone market share to double by 2018, says IDC

The market share of Windows Phone will double in the next three years, according to the latest report from the market research firm IDC. While shipments of devices running Microsoft's mobile OS will hit the 35 million mark this year, accounting for just 2.7 percent of the market, that figure will...

Canadian credential manager PasswordBox joins Intel's Security Group

Intel has agreed to purchase Canadian credential manager PasswordBox. As a result of the acquisition, PasswordBox will become a part of the Safe Identity organization within Intel’s Security Group.

iPhone 6 and Facebook top Bing's tech searches for the year

The most searched tech device of the year is ... iPhone 6, according to Microsoft's Bing, which has released its annual list of top searches for 2014. After that, people searched for Xbox One, Fitbit, iPad, Surface Pro 3, and more.

Firefox 34 arrives with Yahoo as the default search engine in North America

Mozilla wasted little time in making the switch from Google to Yahoo as the default search engine in Firefox. Firefox 34 is now available for download and for the first time in several years, Google isn’t the go-to search provider.

Roundup: 12 Favorite PC Games

PC gamers have got a pretty great thing going. Interesting, experimental indie games? Yup. The shiniest, most visually impressive versions of big-budget games? Yeah, they get a lot of those, too. Let's say you've recently joined the ranks of the PC elite. What games should you install? Well, you can start out...

Microsoft confirms acquisition of mobile e-mail startup Acompli

Microsoft has confirmed its acquisition of mobile e-mail startup Acompli after accidentally letting it slip a week early. Neither party listed the value of the deal although some have heard Microsoft is paying more than $200 million for the startup.

Yahoo is selling Creative Commons Flickr images but isn't sharing profits with owners

Changes have been made over on Flickr some users aren’t too happy about. Yahoo has decided that it can sell canvas prints of creative commons images belonging to users without sharing any of the revenue.

Dreamhack Winter LAN party consisted of more than 22,000 computers

LAN parties were a major source of entertainment during my teenage years. The weekend-long events that took place once or twice a year would involve half a dozen or so close friends, mounds of junk food and hours upon hours of gaming.

Microsoft slashes price of Dell 4K 30Hz monitor to $300 in Cyber Monday Extravaganza

As part of Microsoft's Cyber Monday event, you can now purchase the Dell 28" Ultra HD 4K monitor, model P2815Q for only $299.99. This is a 40% saving off the original purchase price and significantly cheaper than Dell's official store which sells the monitor for $449.99.

Amazon deploys an army of robots to help fulfill Cyber Monday orders

Amazon’s Cyber Monday event is in full swing with thousands of deals lined up for the coming week. As you can imagine, pulling orders, packaging them and getting them out the door – often during the same day – is no easy feat but Amazon has a secret weapon up...

Cyber Monday deals: BlackWidow Ultimate $90, 40% off ThinkPad X1 Carbon, $70 off GoPro Hero3+

Following up on Black Friday's deals, Cyber Monday brings $40 off the Razer's 2014 BlackWidow mechanical keyboard, $50 off the KitKat-equipped HP 8 Android tablet, $70 off the GoPro Hero3+, $150 off Dell's 24" UltraSharp...

Chromebooks displace iPads in US classrooms for the first time

For the first time ever, Chromebooks have become the most popular new devices shipping to US schools, a market that has traditionally been dominated by Apple and Microsoft devices. According to a Financial Times report, which cites IDC statistics, a total of 715,500 Chromebooks were shipped to US schools in...

Steve Jobs has received nearly 150 patents posthumously

Steve Jobs has been described as a futurist, a visionary and a brilliant businessman. Many, however, would be surprised to learn that he was also an esteemed inventor with hundreds of patents under his belt.

Leak supposedly details Apple's plan for a 12.2" iPad Air Plus

There has been a number of rumors circulating about Apple’s renewed desire to manufacture a larger tablet given the success of the iPhone 6 Plus. Originally thought to be called the “iPad Plus”, this device may now find itself rebranded as "iPad Air Plus" and could incorporate a 12.2” screen...

Neowin: Your Christmas Gaming Guide

Christmas time is big for games. Not just software but the hardware side always sees huge sales at this time of the year. This year is no exception with some huge games released in the past week in the run up to the festive period across not just consoles, but PCs...

iOS users outspend their Android counterparts on Black Friday

Android might be the top smartphone platform in the US market, but it still couldn't beat iOS in this year's Black Friday mobile spending battle. According to stats from IBM, users of Apple's mobile operating system spent around 24.3 percent more than their Android counterparts on their Black Friday purchases,...

BitTorrent's first original web series 'Children of the Maching' coming next fall

Move over Amazon and Netflix, there’s a new original video content player in town. In what most will view as a way to shed the stigma of illegal behavior, peer-to-peer file sharing platform BitTorrent recently announced plans to distribute an original web series called Children of the Machine.

Intel might supply processors for the next version of Google Glass

The upcoming version of Google Glass, expected to arrive sometime next year, will be powered by an Intel processor, replacing the Texas Instruments chips currently used in the wearable device, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

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Sony Xperia Z3 Compact Review

The Sony Xperia Z3 Compact packs all the same goodness of its larger sibling in a more manageable body. That includes a powerful Snapdragon 801 SoC, a 20.7-megapixel Exmor RS camera, Category 4 LTE, NFC, and IP68 waterproofing. Paired with a 4.6-inch display, the Z3 Compact occupies an interesting position in the market with little, if any competition if you're not particularly fond of the recent trend of massive flagships.

Surf Anonymous Free 2.4.2.6
Surf Anonymous Free is an advanced and reliable software for Internet users who want to ensure that their sessions and all online activities are secure and private.

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AquaSnap 1.10.0
AquaSnap is a free software that greatly enhances the way you can arrange windows on your Desktop.

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WinRAR 5.20 for Mac OS X
WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files.

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MxNitro Alpha 1.0.0.900
If you want the fastest-starting, quickest page-loading, and most visually uncluttered web browser in the world, youÂ’ve come to the right place.

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Tweaking.com - Simple System Tweaker 2.1.0
Tweaking.com - Simple System Tweaker is designed to bring only the safest tweaks to your system to increase speed and stability.

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WinRAR 5.20
WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files.

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Google Chrome Dev for Windows 41.0.2236.0
This version is intended for only for developers and early testers.

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Pinterest for Android 3.6.2
Pinterest is a tool to find your inspiration and share it with others. Use it to collect things you love, organize and plan important projects, and more.

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Don't Sleep 3.64
Don't Sleep is a small portable program to prevent system shutdown, Standby, Hibernate, Turn Off and Restart.

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BitTorrent for Android 2.85
Find torrents and download them directly to your phone or tablet, with the official BitTorrent(R) App for Android.

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Foursquare for Mobile 2014.11.26
35 million people use Foursquare to find out where friends and locals love to go. DonÂ’t waste time reading long reviews from strangers.

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ChrisPC Free VideoTube Downloader 7.30
ChrisPC Free YouTube Downloader Converter is a powerful software with converter capabilities that allows you to download and store locally videos from your favorite online video websites.

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Google Chrome Dev for Mac 41.0.2236.0
This version is intended for only for developers and early testers.

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Advanced Codecs for Windows 8/7 4.9.5
Watch High Definition video playback without needing expensive players. Listen to bitstreamed TrueHD and DTS Master audio using HDMI to an AVR.

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NetworkLatencyView 1.31
NetworkLatencyView is a simple tool for Windows that listens to the TCP connections on your system and calculates the network latency (in milliseconds) for every new TCP connection detected on your system.

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HWMonitor 1.26
HWMonitor is a hardware monitoring program that reads PC systems main health sensors: voltages, temperatures, fans speed.

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Google Chrome Dev for Linux 41.0.2236.0
This version is intended for only for developers and early testers.

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Tweaking.com - Envelope Printer 1.7.1
The name says it all. This program makes it simple to print addresses and other information on envelopes.

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Yandex Browser 14.10.2062
Yandex.Browser is a simple and easy-to-use internet browser. It loads pages quickly, just shows you what you need and gives you plenty of space for viewing webpages.

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Firefox Portable 34.0.5
Run Firefox from your removable/USB drive.

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WinRAR 5.20 for Linux
WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files.

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Secunia PSI 3.0.0.10004
The Secunia PSI is a free security tool designed with the sole purpose of helping you secure your computer against vulnerabilities in programs.

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Ideal Administration 15.2
Simplifies the administration of your Windows NT, XP, 2000 and 2003 network.

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SynWrite 6.14.1855
SynWrite is a free source code editor and notepad replacement for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems.

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TV 5.0
Now you can watch hundreds (1300+) of LIVE worldwide channels on your PC, free of charge.

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Opera 26.0.1656.32
Opera introduces the looks and the performance of a total new and exceptional web browser.

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Bullzip PDF Printer 10.10.0.2307
The Bullzip PDF Printer works as a Microsoft Windows printer and allows you to write PDF documents from virtually any Microsoft Windows application.

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FreeCAD 0.14.3700
An Open Source parametric 3D CAD modeler.

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