Friday, May 8, 2015

IT News Head Lines (TechSpot) 5/9/2015

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Flickr renovation includes new upload tool and powerful search algorithm

Flickr has undergone a major renovation, its third in as many years. The Yahoo-owned image and video hosting site on Thursday rolled out a bevy of new features for both desktop and mobile users.



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Today is World Password Day, go change your passwords

Three “holidays” in a single week’s time? Yep, it must be May! Having already observed both Star Wars Day and Cinco de Mayo, today we turn out attention to World Password Day.



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A new black market site is helping users fence stolen accounts and software licenses via Paypal

While we are starting to see newer payment options surfacing like Apple Pay, Paypal is still a popular way to pay for things online. Whether its electronics on eBay, or flights and hotels on Travelocity, Paypal is there for anyone who would rather use it over a credit card. And...


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Spotify courting media companies, YouTubers for web video initiative

Spotify is no longer content with simply providing music. The popular streaming service is interested in joining the booming web video bandwagon according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.



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Gates Foundation pledges $75M to fund network of disease surveillance centers in developing nations

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is funding the development of a disease surveillance network in Africa and Asia with an initial contribution of up to $75 million.



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WordPress quickly patches critical vulnerability that made it easy to hijack websites with a comment

WordPress has rushed out a patch today after news emerged of a critical cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw, found in the default installation of its widely used content managing system, was affecting millions of websites. The flaw, disclosed by Finland-based security research firm Klikki Oy, makes it possible for an attacker...


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AMD Radeon R9 390X variant will come water-cooled with High Bandwidth Memory

Many in the PC gaming world are turning their attention to AMD’s upcoming Radeon R9 300 series launch and specifically, the R9 390X. According to the latest scuttlebutt, this card will ship with two different SKUs – an air-cooled version and a water-cooled variant.



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Nintendo finally returns to profitability

For the first time since 2011, gaming giant Nintendo is a profitable company. In the company's financial report for the fiscal year that ended on March 31, 2015, Nintendo posted net sales of 550 billion yen (around US$4.61 billion), which led to a welcome operating income of 24.8 billion yen (US$207.8 million).



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ZTE launches bezel-free, ultra-powerful flagship Android smartphone

ZTE isn't a company you hear about all that often, and that's mostly because the company targets their home country of China with many of their releases. But occasionally you hear about a very cool product from the company, and their latest flagship Android smartphone, the Nubia Z9, is just...


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Tesla has already sold enough Powerwalls to push production back to mid-2016

Elon Musk announced Tesla’s home and business battery systems less than a week ago. With pricing starting at $3,000 (which doesn’t include installation), many questioned whether or not the platform would be a success. Based on Musk’s comments during the company’s recent earnings call, it’s probably fair to say that...


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Google to showcase Android M at annual I/O conference later this month

With Microsoft’s developer conference in the history books, the tech industry is turning its attention to the next major conference: Google I/O. The search giant’s annual two-day gathering gets started on May 28 in San Francisco and as it has done in years past, one of the things we can expect...


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AMD launches Radeon 300 series rebrands for OEMs

AMD has quietly launched a new range of graphics cards designed for OEMs and system builders that fall under Radeon 300 series branding. Like with the HD 8000 series a couple of years ago, these cards are essentially all rebrands of existing Radeon 200 series products, and won't be available...


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WordPress 4.2.2
State-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.


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WhatsApp Messenger for Android 2.12.73
WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform mobile messaging app which allows you to exchange messages without having to pay for SMS.


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Camfrog Video Chat 6.11.470
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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FrostWire 6.1.0
BitTorrent/Cloud client with a full featured media player.


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FileZilla Server 0.9.51
FileZilla is a fast FTP and SFTP server for Windows with a lot of features.


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Adobe AIR for Android 17.0.0.144
Adobe AIR application enables you to have your favorite games and web apps with you all the time. AIR Runtime technology powers some of the best-selling and award-winning mobile apps and games on Google Play store.


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pdfFactory 5.28
Create PDF files without Acrobat and combine documents into a single PDF.


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WinZip 19.5
WinZip is bar none, the most popular and useful file compression utility out there.


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Baidu PC Faster 5.1.3.125079
Baidu PC Faster is a full set of system utilities designed to speed up your PC and keep it clean, healthy, and running at peak performance. It also helps users recover available space on hard drives, improves boot time, and protects user privacy.


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PirateBrowser 1.0b
PirateBrowser is a bundle package of the Tor client (Vidalia), FireFox Portable browser (with foxyproxy addon) and some custom configs that allows you to circumvent censorship that certain countries such as Iran, North Korea, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Denmark, Italy and Ireland impose onto their citizens.


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XMedia Recode 3.2.2.9
XMedia Recode is a free video and audio converter. XMedia Recode supports nearly all audio and video codecs.


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TSR Watermark Image 3.4.3.4
Professional photo watermarking software - Easy, fast and fully featured batch photo watermarking.


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Earth Alerts 2015.1.42
Earth Alerts is a Windows-based application that allows you to monitor in near real-time a variety of natural hazard events that are occurring anywhere around the world.


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Hitman Pro 3.7.9.241
Unlimited free scanning and free 30-day version to remove detected malware.


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Skitch 2.3.2
Get your point across with fewer words using annotation, shapes and sketches, so that your ideas become reality faster.


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LibreOffice Productivity Suite 4.4.3
LibreOffice was developed to be a productivity suite that is compatible with other major office suites, and available on a variety of platforms.


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Q-Dir 6.11
Q-Dir (the Quad Explorer) makes your files and folders easy to manage.


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Tixati 2.12
Tixati is a peer-to-peer file sharing program that uses the popular BitTorrent protocol.


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Opera Developer 31.0.1857.0
This version is the bleeding edge development from Opera; features will be piloted, and may be shelved, taken back to the drawing board, or taken forward to the Opera Next stream - feature complete, but potentially buggy.


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Lansweeper 5.3.0.5
Lansweeper helps you with your Network Inventory and Asset Management and pro-actively alerts you of non-compliance issues before they become a problem.


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Shotcut 15.05.06
Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor.


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AIDA64 Extreme Edition Beta 5.20.3430
System information, system diagnostics and benchmarking solution for enthusiasts users.


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ISO Workshop 5.9
ISO Workshop is a free application specifically designed to facilitate disc image management, conversion and burning operations.


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Cloud System Booster 3.6
Clean & optimize your PC with a Cloud-based approach.


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J. River Media Center 20.0.106
Organize and experience all your media: Music, photos and video YOUR way -- all from a single software program.


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LibreOffice Productivity Suite for Mac 4.4.3
LibreOffice was developed to be a productivity suite that is compatible with other major office suites, and available on a variety of platforms.


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Anvil Studio 2015.05.01
With this free version, you can create an unlimited number of MIDI tracks, and two one-minute audio tracks.


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Safari Browser for Mac 8.0.6
Experience the web, Apple style, with Safari: the fastest, easiest-to-use web browser in the world.


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Dashlane 3.2.5.84510
Instant logins. Instant checkouts. Instant gratification.


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