IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (FutureLooks) 1/28/2015

Windows 10 Will Not Be Subscription Based
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Aside from all the talk about Xbox One streaming, Cortana voice search, Continuum mode and Project Spartan, perhaps the biggest tidbit to come out of the Windows 10 event last week was that the new OS was going to be offered as a free upgrade. We like free, but then the exact wording got a little murky and we weren’t exactly sure how that was going to work out.
Microsoft said that Windows 10 would be available as a free upgrade to existing Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 users for the first year and then they would …
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The ASUS Strix GTX 960 is Hitting the Shelves Soon
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The ASUS Strix brand is a bit of an interesting bird, that is sandwiched between their regular channel products, and their top end Republic of Gamers (ROG) products. They’ve positioned it as sort of a non-tweakers performance gaming brand that gives best possible performance, while providing a “low noise” experience. With the launch of the NVIDIA GTX 960, ASUS has taken that brand DNA, and have applied it to this latest GPU, with the Strix GTX 960.

The ASUS Strix GTX 960 will feature a cooling system based on their Direct CU II cooling technology, which is boasted to be …
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ZOTAC GeForce GTX 960 GPUs Hit The Stores in Two Flavours
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ZOTAC was pretty tight lipped about their plans for the new GTX 960 during our CES 2015 meeting. But despite leaks from other companies trying to get a jump on the announcement (cough…MSI…cough), ZOTAC decided to wait it out, hoping you would wait it out for their GPUs too. Yesterday, NVIDIA announced the new GTX 960 GPU, and ZOTAC was ready with two models out of the gate: A vanilla GTX 960 with an “OMEGA-Like” cooler, and a GTX 960 AMP! Edition.
The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 960 AMP! Edition (shown above) will be the top model of the two …
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What You Need to Know from Today’s Windows 10 Event
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As predicted, Microsoft held a fairly substantial media event today to talk about a whole whack of new plans for the upcoming Windows 10 operating system. This is going to be the platform that unites the desktop with the laptop, tablet, convertible PC and smartphone all under one gigantic Microsoft-fueled umbrella. And perhaps the best news from the event is that Windows 10 will be free.
Well, sort of. Microsoft is being pretty murky on the details and the exact specifics could change. What we are being told is that for the first year of Windows 10’s release, it …
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COUGAR 200K Keyboard Takes Care of Budget-Minded Gamers
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COUGAR is at it again with their latest release. The German gaming peripherals company now has a keyboard to address every segment of the market with today’s release of the 200K gaming keyboard. As you can see from the picture above, this latest keyboard looks pretty basic, but its appearance (and price tag) is hiding some interesting features.
Rather than using a domed membrane like most inexpensive keyboards, the COUGAR 200k uses a scissor switch mechanism. It’s still not a mechanical keyboard, but it should produce good and quiet movement in the keys. COUGAR has also included anti-ghosting technology …
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CES 2015 Coverage – Seagate Shows Ultra-Thin SEVEN, LaCie Rugged RAID, and Mirror USB Hard Drives (Video)
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Seagate was once again showing off some new products for CES 2015. This year is a little special because 2015 marks the company’s 35th anniversary. In celebration of that, the company launched a new “evolution” of their branding (instead of calling it a re-branding), and launched a product that is a result of all the technology the company has accumulated over the last 35 years. The SEVEN is the thinnest USB external hard drive on the market, and we get to check that out, along with products from their LaCie division, which include their new Rugged RAID and Mirror products. …
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CES 2015 Coverage – GIGABYTE Shows X99 SOC Champion Motherboard, New BRIX S, and the Aorus X5 Gaming Notebook (Video)
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GIGABYTE continues to soldier on as the number one motherboard maker on occasion, with stiff competition from ASUS. And like ASUS, GIGABYTE has continued to branch out into different product categories. At CES 2015, we see their continued commitment to the PC enthusiasts and overclockers, but we also see great headway into product categories such at their BRIX mini PC systems, and their increasingly sexy, notebook line up, which includes their premium branded AORUS line up. Check out the video for all the goodies…

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The DEEPCOOL Tristellar Case Takes Case Design to Infinity and Beyond (CES 2015)
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One of the cases that was hiding out at CES 2015, that we didn’t get to see due to our rapid 2.5 day shooting schedule, was the DEEPCOOL Tristellar. If you’ve never heard of DEEPCOOL, at least on our pages, it’s because we don’t like bugging you folks with the generic and mundane. And for the longest time, it seemed like the company was just building stuff that looked like everyone else’s. Well, we’ve finally taken notice with this new case of theirs.
The DEEPCOOL Tristellar is sports three independent “lobes” that help separate the hottest components of the …
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CES 2015 Coverage – Kingston Shows New HyperX PCIe and SATA SSDs, Cloud II Gaming Headset and More (Video)
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Every year at COMPUTEX, we see what’s coming. And then at CES the following year, we see it all pretty much ready to go. That’s exactly what happened at the Kingston Technology suite this year at CES 2015. Last year at COMPUTEX 2014, we saw a further along version of their PCIe SSD, and a new SSD in the pipe, and this year, both products get branded under their HyperX brand for gamers and PC enthusiasts. There was also one more surprise which we didn’t get shown at a previous show, which we’ll see in the video below…

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CES 2015 Coverage – Thermaltake Shows New Core X Series Cases, New Custom Liquid Cooling Products, and More (Video)
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At COMPUTEX 2014 last year, Thermaltake alluded that they would be dumping a metric ton of new products on us very soon. In particular, products that reached out to the liquid cooling crowd. At CES 2015, that’s exactly what happened. In fact, there were almost too many products to cover, so these are the major highlights we were able to capture at their suite in Las Vegas, in our video coverage.

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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

IT News Head Lines (FutureLooks) 1/28/2015

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