Tuesday, February 16, 2010

IT News HeadLines (Overclockers Club) 16/02/2010


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Diamond XSTU21 Sound Tube & MSP100B Mini Rockers Mobile Speakers Review

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Flash Coming to Android

Adobe officially announced that its Flash Player 10.1 will be coming to the Android OS. This feature should be available in the first half of this year, and will only be available for Android at that time. Additionally, Adobe also announced that AIR will be coming to Android as well. AIR will allow applications to be developed once and be run on several different operating systems. My understanding is that it is essentially a program that runs on the OS that will allow you to run programs on it, sort of like a virtual machine. By developing for this platform, developers will be able to save on costs and get their products to more users. Research in Motion is also on board with AIR, and will be getting it sometime after Android.


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OpenOffice 3.2 Released

OpenOffice.org has released the latest version of its popular OpenOffice office suite: version 3.2. The new version promises faster start-up times in Writer and Calc, better support with Microsoft Office 2007 documents and the addition of comments in Impress to help improve collaboration, among others. As always, OpenOffice is an open-source project meaning it can be downloaded for free. You can download OpenOffice 3.2 here and view the full list of new features to version 3.2 here.


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Updates Come To FutureMark Software

Many enthusiasts use multiple software solutions from FutureMark to benchmark their systems and show off their hardware, or the lack of it in power savings solutions and budgets computers. The company has finally supplied the large community with some updates to all of its personal computer benchmarking software, which add better graphics clock speed detection, faster loading times, as well as more compatibility with the latest processors and chips. With the faster loading times, mainly 3DMark Vantage is affected, though 3DMark06 is also seeing some of the update as well addressing loading times. Overall, the new fixes and improvements made by FutureMark are certainly welcomed, but they have been long overdue with how many users there are that use the software for benchmarks on a regular basis.


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