IT-Code-News: IT News HeadLines (THE INQUIRER) 15/01/2011

Saturday, January 15, 2011

IT News HeadLines (THE INQUIRER) 15/01/2011

Intel will ramp up 22nm wafer production in 2H 2011
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WAFERS MADE with the Ivy Bridge process will be mass produced later this year with products launched some time after, Intel's CEO Paul Otellini told his 13 January investor's conference that announced record revenues.

Talktalk announces a fibre optic upgrade
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BROADBAND PROVIDER Talktalk has opened the registration process for punters to upgrade to superfast broadband.

Ofcom will investigate T-Mobile data changes
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MOBILE OPERATOR T-Mobile's decision to turn its back on video data has earned the attention of the UK's telecoms regulator Ofcom.

Germany braces Google again over data privacy
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INTERNET GIANT Google has found itself on the wrong side of German data protection authorities once again, this time over its Google Analytics tool.

BT announces 41 towns getting fibre broadband
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SUPERFAST BROADBAND postcode lottery provider British Telecom (BT) has announced that 41 market towns will be seeing its superfast broadband rollouts.

Vtesse brings fibre broadband to Broughton
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UK BROADBAND PROVIDER Vtesse is bringing high speed fibre broadband Internet connections to the presumably sleepy village of Broughton in Cambridgeshire.

US dominates spam sending tables
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THE UNITED STATES leads insecurity firm Sophos' Dirty Dozen list of spam sending countries.

Alleged music price-fixing will be probed
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BIG MUSIC companies including Sony, Warner and EMI have failed in a bid to halt a civil antitrust lawsuit that accused them of price-fixing.

Samsung Googles web TV
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HEDGING ITS BETS, Samsung Electronics has signed up for the Google TV proposition and launched a Blu-ray player and companion box that supports it.

Safesync for Iphone and Android tips up
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INSECURITY OUTFIT Trend Micro has added a couple of features to its offerings, namely some secure syncing and retrieval software for Iphone and Android devices.

Fujitsu launches the world's first naked-eye 3D desktop PC
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COMPUTER BUILDER Fujitsu has announced it will be shipping the world's first desktop computer with a naked-eye 3D display.

US DoJ indicts Hannstar president for price fixing
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THE US DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (DoJ) is continuing its LCD price fixers fishing expedition that has already netted it some 22 executives.

Verizon's Iphone 4 will work as a phone
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FRUIT THEMED TOYMAKER Apple might have tweaked its Iphone 4 for its new customer Verizon, according to an analyst.

IBM computer beats human Jeopardy champs
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AN IBM SUPERCOMPUTER has whipped two Jeopardy game show champions in a face-off.

RIM will allow tethering Playbooks to Blackberrys
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ENTERPRISE TABLET DESIGNER Research In Motion (RIM) has revealed that its Playbook tablet will wirelessly tether to Blackberry smartphones.

Murdoch delays The Daily
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THE GLORIOUS ALLIANCE between Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch and Apple CEO Steve Jobs seems to have hit a snag.

Wikileaks gives Manning $15,000 for defence
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THE Bradley Manning Support Network has confirmed that after many delays WikiLeaks has stumped up $15,100 for the soldier's legal defence fund.

FBI wants would-be assassin's game records
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THE FBI has swooped on the online game Earth Empires after the Wall Street Journal revealed that Jared Loughner, who shot a US Representative, killed a US federal judge and five others and wounded 14, had made some revealing posts about himself on the website.

Singapore kids get free ipads
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ONE OF THE most controlled societies in the world, dubbed Disneyland with the death penalty, has decided to give its school kids a free shiny toy made by one of the most controlled companies in the world run by the bloke who has more shares in Disney than any other individual.

Android will dominate smartphones
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ANALYST OUTFIT Canalys claims that Android will continue to grow at more than twice the rate of its major smartphone competitors in 2011.

Bletchley Park to rebuild Edsac
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THE FIRST modern computer is about to be rebuilt at the UK's Bletchley Park.

Red Hat updates Enterprise Linux 5
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ENTERPRISE LINUX VENDOR Red Hat has refreshed its Enterprise Linux (RHEL) version 5 release, despite having released its RHEL version 6 operating system at the end of last year.

Microsoft releases Windows 7 SP1 to OEMs
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Updated
PERENNIAL SOFTWARE PATCHER Microsoft has finally released Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).

Microsoft releases an open source web development suite
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SOFTWARE DEVELOPER Microsoft has packaged up open source software to create a web development toolkit.

Asus may have its own app store for its Android tablets
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Exclusive
ASUS IS PLANNING to have its own app store because it can't guarantee its Eee tablets will ship with Android 3.0 Honeycomb and wants to ensure that its customers can download apps.

Murdoch's Times paywall went down
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RUPERT MURDOCH'S GRAND PAYWALL that he hopes will save his vast media empire from the onslaught of Internet competition went down again today for a few hours.

Microsoft patches critical Windows exploits
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SOFTWARE PATCHER Microsoft has released security updates for all Windows variants to plug remote code execution vulnerabilities.

Google removes closed H.264 codec from Chrome browser
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THE SOFTWARE OPERATION at Google has promised to remove the patent-laden H.264 video codec from its forthcoming Chrome browser releases because it is not open enough.

Team Applesoft offers Itunes on Window Phone 7
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IN A MARRIAGE OF INCONVENIENCE, Apple and Microsoft have teamed up to bring out Itunes support for Windows Phone 7 (WP7) mobiles.

Googleâ€™s Nexus S boots Meego and Ubuntu
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THE LINUX Meego and Ubuntu operating systems can run on Google's Android Nexus S smartphone.

Windows Phone 7 uses your data allowance
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WINDOWS PHONE 7 users have found that their network data allowance is disappearing and nobody knows why.

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