Saturday, September 12, 2009

IT News HeadLines (TechSpot) 11/09/2009


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Mainstream Quad-Core CPU Performance Comparison
Looking back, quad-core processors have had quite the run already. Intel's first quad-core CPU, the Core 2 Extreme QX6700 was released almost three years ago, with the much more popular Q6600 following up months later at a rather steep $850. As you may recall it was quite the luxury then to have one of these at your disposal.
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AT&T rolls out Hulu-esque service
The push to bring mainstream broadcasting to the Internet continues, as AT&T rolls out a site that follows the lead of services like Hulu and Fancast. In fact, some of the bodies behind Hulu are providing content for the carrier's new endeavor, which it calls AT&T Entertainment.
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Download of the Week: Image Resizer
With the average point a shoot camera these days boasting anywhere from 8 to 12 megapixels, image resolution and file sizes have gotten considerably bigger -- that's not to say more megapixels equals higher quality but let's leave that topic for another day. The thing is, sharing these large files online can be quite the challenge for inexperienced users, and even those who know their way around a...
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Asus grows as other motherboard makers shrink
Asus, MSI, and Gigabyte have posted their revenue results for August. According to the figures, Asus has seen an on-month increase of 14%, while MSI experienced a drop of 1%, and Gigabyte a fall of 16.46%.
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Sprint rolls out new "Any Mobile, Anytime" plan
Sprint is offering a new plan that offers unlimited mobile-to-mobile calling from a Sprint handset to a wireless phone on any other US carrier's network.
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AMD intros two notebook platforms, Tigris and Congo
AMD has launched two new notebook platforms, Tigris and Congo. The Sunnyvale-based chipmaker is calling Tigris a mainstream notebook platform aimed at those interested in using multimedia applications or 3D gaming, and it has already been picked up by eight OEMs. Congo is AMD's second-generation ultrathin platform.
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News around the web: Morgan Stanley CEO Replaced
Morgan Stanley CEO Mack to be replaced by Gorman @ Reuters
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Dell may lose more ground to HP, Acer
The notebook market isn't being friendly to Dell this year, and most notably so in the last quarter. Recent figures show Dell slipping, and the computer giant is expected to lose even more ground to rivals HP and Acer -- particularly in the notebook segment. Sitting at number three for worldwide laptop sales, Dell expects to move around 5-6 million units in the third quarter of this year. This com...
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LG announces dual-drive, DVD-equipped NAS
Looking to grow its share of the NAS market, LG has unveiled a new device tailored to enhance media sharing and equipped to hold large amounts of data. Available this fall in 1TB and 2TB configurations, the new N2R1 features integrated Ethernet and 802.11g Wi-Fi connectivity (no 802.11n unfortunately), as well as a MyMedia feature allowing access to videos, photos and music through a DLNA-certifie...
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Microsoft "indoctrinating" Best Buy employees
Microsoft has confirmed reports that it is equipped to train Best Buy employees in the fine art of trashing Linux -- or rather, the "important differences between Linux computers and Windows computers." Less than a week ago news broke that the software giant was "indoctrinating" Best Buy workers in preparation for the launch of its much-anticipated Windows 7 operating system.
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Toshiba launches 1.8-inch 160GB hard drive
Following yesterday's iPod classic storage bump to 160GB, Toshiba has announced a new family of 1.8-inch hard drives which top at the same capacity. Designed for use in portable media players and other consumer electronics products, the new MKxx34GAL series will also be available in 60, 80 and 120GB sizes, equipped with a single platter spinning at 4,200 RPM and a PATA interface.
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Mozilla releases Flash-checking Firefox 3.5.3
Anyone making use of the Firefox 3.5.x branch will want to snag the latest update, which Mozilla has just pushed out. Firefox 3.5.3 is now available for download and is primarily focused on security and stability. A total of nine bugs marked as آ“Criticalآ” were taken care of, among a laundry list of 43 total, including some related to memory corruption problems.
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Mainstream Quad-Core CPU Performance Comparison
Looking back, quad-core processors have had quite the run already. Intel's first quad-core CPU, the Core 2 Extreme QX6700 was released almost three years ago, with the much more popular Q6600 following up months later at a rather steep $850. As you may recall it was quite the luxury then to have one of these at your disposal.

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Image Resizer 2.0
Image Resizer is a clone of the original Image Resizer Powertoy build for Windows XP, which supports to non-XP and 64-bit versions of Windows.
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Apple iTunes 9.0 for Windows XP / Vista
New Genius features and better ways to browse put music at the center of your entertainment world.
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SpeedBit Video Accelerator 3.0.9.9
Makes your videos stream faster and play smoother by reducing buffering problems and video interruptions or "hiccups".
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SIW (System Info) 2009.09.09
This tool gathers detailed information about your system.
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DirectX Redistributable August 2009
Get your system up to date with the latest DirectX version.
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novaPDF Lite 6.4 Build 309
novaPDF Lite is a software that allows you to produce PDF files from printable documents.
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Windows Vulnerability Scanner 1.38
Checks your system for vulnerabilities and guides you to update with the right patch to make your system more secure.
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Audio Hijack Pro 2.9.3 for Mac OS X
Use it to enhance the audio output of any Cocoa or Carbon application on your Mac.
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KaraTunes 3.2.2 for Mac OS X
KaraTunes puts all your lyrics data in one single database, letting you save, modify, and search lyrics
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JetWay M26GT4V2 Bios v A04
Driver Date: 9/10/2009 OS Support: Windows XP/Vista

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JetWay MI5-G41SGMD2 Bios v A02
Driver Date: 9/10/2009 OS Support: Windows XP/Vista

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JetWay M26GTCPV2 Bios v A02
Driver Date: 9/10/2009 OS Support: Windows XP/Vista

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Asus Yuan TV Tuner MC872-1D Driver v V2.3.3.31
Driver Date: 9/10/2009 OS Support: Windows Vista

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Asus Yuan TV Tuner MC770 Driver v V2.3.3.31
Driver Date: 9/10/2009 OS Support: Windows Vista

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Asus Yuan TV Tuner MC570 Driver v V2.3.3.31
Driver Date: 9/10/2009 OS Support: Windows Vista

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