Friday, March 5, 2010

IT News HeadLines (TechSpot) 05/03/2010


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TechSpot Giveaway: Win an Acer Timeline 14" Laptop

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OCZ Vertex Limited Edition 100GB Review
Roughly a month ago we brought you an early preview of the OCZ Vertex 2 Pro SSD. This uber-fast product was supposed to be part of a new series of drives based on controllers from start-up SandForce. However, as we recently learned OCZ decided to scrap the Vertex 2 Pro altogether due to the high cost of its SF-1500 controller, and instead shift focus to the originally announced Vertex 2 and Vertex...
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Maingear ships $999 MX-L 15 multimedia laptop
Catering to its usual audience, Maingear has launched a new multimedia-friendly laptop. The MX-L 15 starts at $999 and is outfitted with a 15.6-inch 1366x768 display, an Intel Core i5-520M 2.4GHz processor, 2GB of DDR3 1333MHz RAM, an AMD Mobility Radeon 4570 512MB, a 160GB 7200RPM HDD, and a DVD burner.
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Asus intros first networked media player with USB 3.0
Asus has quietly introduced a third member to the O!Play family at CeBIT. Although its specifications are mostly unknown, the O!Play HD2 is billed as the first networked media player to carry SuperSpeed USB 3.0. The company promises a "wealth of cloud infotainment," including access to more than 20,000 digital radio and 100 Internet TV channels.
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Super Talent announces new USB 3.0 SuperCrypt drive, 16GB Express Drive to cost less than $70
Super Talent unveiled its third and latest USB 3.0 flash drive at CeBIT this week. Dubbed SuperCrypt Drive, the new series promises read speeds of up to 240MB/s and two different AES encryption options: 128-bit ECB on the regular SuperCrypt and 256-bit XTS encryption on the SuperCrypt Pro drive. Additionally, both units offer an STT encryption utility for password control.
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Optimus lets you yank a GPU out of a live system (video)
Nvidia may be feeling some heat in the graphics segment, and despite being battered by AMD on many fronts, the company has revealed at least one interesting technology this quarter: Optimus. Nvidia has posted a video on the nTersect Blog, showing Optimus' ability to immediately power on and off a discrete GPU as needed -- and when it's off, it's really off.
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Opera: Microsoft's browser ballot has tripled our downloads
Opera has reportedly witnessed an influx of downloads since the introduction of Microsoft's browser ballot to Europe two days ago. After the rollout, Opera downloads more than tripled in major European countries, such as Belgium, France, Spain, Poland, and the UK, according to Rolf Assev, Opera's chief strategy officer.
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USB-IF certifies 50 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 products
The floodgates are officially open, folks. Companies around the globe have introduced a range USB 3.0 products, and more are on the way. The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) has certified 50 SuperSpeed USB products, including motherboards, notebooks, external storage devices, storage controllers, PCI Express and ExpressCard add-in cards, hard disk drives, and device-enabling silicon.
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Mozilla announces winner of Firefox 4 home tab contest
Mozilla has announced the winner of a competition in which participants were asked to design a new home tab for Firefox 4.0. After two rounds of voting and nearly 3,000 votes, Mozilla has crowned Yatrik Solanki the victor.
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News around the web: A more democratic Internet
A more democratic Internet @ MIT News
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Logitech announces two sub-$100 Harmony remotes
Logitech's Harmony line of remote controls has been praised by many over the years, but it'is also known for being rather pricey -- except for the aging Harmony 500 series remotes. Looking to shake off that stigma the company has introduced two new sub-$100 models to its lineup, the Harmony 600 and Harmony 650, which will go on sale later this month for $79.99 and $99.99, respectively.
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OCZ Vertex Limited Edition 100GB Review
Roughly a month ago we brought you an early preview of the OCZ Vertex 2 Pro SSD. This uber-fast product was supposed to be part of a new series of drives based on controllers from start-up SandForce. However, as we recently learned OCZ decided to scrap the Vertex 2 Pro altogether due to the high cost of its SF-1500 controller, and instead shift focus to the originally announced Vertex 2 and Vertex 2 EX.

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IObit Security 360 Offline Database Update March 4, 2010
Update IObit Security 360 offline.
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Norton Virus Definitions 2003-07 March 3, 2010
Keep your Norton Anti-Virus updated.
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McAfee SuperDAT Update 5909
Update your Mcafee based virus scanner.
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Norton Virus Definitions 2008-10 March 3, 2010
Keep your Norton Anti-Virus updated.
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LimeWire X 5.4.7 for Mac OS X
Search for videos, images, and program applications.
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LimeWire X 5.5.4 Beta for Mac OS X
LimeWire is a file sharing program running on the Gnutella Network.
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cFosSpeed 5.01.1612
Internet-Accelerator + Traffic Shaping + ping optimizer + packet prioritization
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cFosSpeed 5.01.1612 64-bit
Internet-Accelerator + Traffic Shaping + ping optimizer + packet prioritization
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Notepad2 4.1.24
Light-weight, free and open source Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting for a few commonly used languages.
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Process Lasso 3.82
Process Lasso is a software that will improve system responsiveness and stability.
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Process Lasso 3.80 64-bit
Process Lasso is a software that will improve system responsiveness and stability.
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Yahoo! Messenger 10.0.0.1241
Yahoo! Messenger is fun messenger with a lot of cool features.
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PerfectDisk 10.129
Fast and thorough disk defragmentation, optimization and free space consolidation - All controlled from the Command Center
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Wise Registry Cleaner 5.05
Wise Registry Cleaner is one of the safest Registry cleaning tools available in the market today.
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Backup4all 4.4 build 194
Highly configurable backup software with intuitive interface.
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Wise Disk Cleaner 5.0.1
Free up disk space by deleting junk files that are no longer used.
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Becky! Internet Mail 2.54.00
Internet Mail is the software specifically designed for the Internet e-mail.
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VideoCacheView 1.55
Extract Web site video files from the cache of your Web browser.
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ECS A890GXM-A(U)(V1.0) ATI Display Driver v 8.700
Driver Date: 3/3/2010 OS Support: Windows XP/Vista/7

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Nvidia Forceware WHQL Driver v 196.75 for Windows XP
Driver Date: 3/2/2010 OS Support: Windows XP

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Nvidia Forceware WHQL Driver v 196.75 for Windows XP/2003 64-bit
Driver Date: 3/2/2010 OS Support: Windows XP 64-bit/2003

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Asus M4N98TD EVO Nvidia MCP82XE/MCP72 AHCI/RAID Driver v 0301
Driver Date: 3/1/2010 OS Support: Windows XP/Vista

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Asus P5G41C-M Bios v 0401
Driver Date: 3/1/2010 OS Support: Windows (all)

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Asus P5K-E/WiFi-AP RTL8187L Driver v 6.1316.1209.2009
Driver Date: 3/1/2010 OS Support: Windows 7

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