Sunday, February 15, 2009

IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 15/02/2009

Saturday science subject: Mapping the cold virus genome
A team of researchers has published the genome sequences of the 100 most common cold viruses. As Nature reports, the work could help develop new therapies or figure out why some rhinovirus strains cause stronger symptoms than others. Think the cold virus is harmless? Think again, Nature says. Colds purportedly...
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The TR Podcast 35: Breaking the glass, surfing the music, and suing Apple
Join us this week as we discuss Intel's Westmere CPUs, PhysX in Mirror's Edge, Western Digital's new 2TB hard drive, the possibility of a $99 iPhone, and other exciting topics.
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Valentine's Day Shortbread
Valentine's Day Apple: iPhone jailbreaking violates our copyright Google to offer paid smartphone apps in Apple challenge Report: Microsoft separates Zune hardware and software teams Court denies cable bid to turn back privacy rules InfoWord reports hp, IBM push new KMIP encryption key standard Fudzilla reports Propus Athlon...
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Deal of the week: Cheap and cheerful $100 GPUs
You don't necessarily have to hold off on a graphics card upgrade just because the economy sucks. In fact, you can get surprisingly powerful cards from both AMD and Nvidia for around (or less than) $100—and I'm not talking about the Radeon HD 4670 and GeForce 9600 GSO we...
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