IT-Code-News: IT News HeadLines (THE INQUIRER) 19/01/2011

Nuetrinos, paint, walls and human bodies interest ARM
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ARM HAS BEEN providing chip designs for neutrino detection and is working on ideas for processors that can be embedded in walls or even in the human body.

Fabs wil have to become non-proprietary
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CHIPS ARE GETTING so expensive to design and make that the industry's leaders are coming to the conclusion that they need to join forces.

AMD launches embedded Fusion chips
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CHIP DESIGNER AMD has released its G-series of embedded processors, the first based on its Fusion technology.

Symantec warns of toolkit threat
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INSECURITY EXPERTS at Symantec have dredged up the horror of malware toolkits and warned that any old Tom, Dick or Harry can use simple software to wreak some IT havoc.

Sandisk beats Kingston in SDHC card race
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MEMORY MANUFACTURER Sandisk has announced that its latest secure digital high capacity (SDHC) cards can hit transfer rates of 45MB/sec.

Intel invests $2.7 billion to update Israeli fab for 22nm chips
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CHIPMAKER Intel will invest heavily in its Israeli chip plant in order to produce 22nm chips.

Kingston Digital introduces speedy SDHC cards
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PHOTO ALBUM ENABLER for the modern age, Kingston Digital is bragging about its latest SDHC memory cards, which it says are the highest speed class available.

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.

Stuxnet worm is full of embarrassing errors
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THE AUTHORS of the Stuxnet worm aren't all they're cracked up to be and could be two separate groups.

Sophos says Facebook should vet applications
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INSECURITY FIRM Sophos has suggested that Facebook should change the way it approves apps to be hosted on its website and require some sort of vetting process before they go live.

Yahoo accepts Google and Facebook account logins
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WEB PORTAL Yahoo will allow users to login to its services using Google and Facebook accounts.

Google is released from Italian antitrust probe
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ADVERTISING BROKER Google has been let off the hook by Italy's antitrust watchdog after it agreed to let online publishers remove content from its Google News service.

Iphone and Android hacks can turn them into spying devices
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IPHONE AND ANDROID DEVICES will be hacked at next week's Black Hat conference in a demo to show that they can be turned into spy machines.

Facebook temporarily halts its latest privacy blunder
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FOLLOWING COMPLAINTS, Facebook has decided to suspend developers' ability to tap into its users' addresses and phone numbers.

Facebook's phone directory signals worrying direction for users
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Opinion
A BRIDGE TOO FAR should be the outcome of Facebook's latest attempt to flog personal data but in all likelihood, few of Facebook's users will even bat an eye.

Facebook's phone directory is a worrying direction for users
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A BRIDGE TOO FAR should be the outcome of Facebook's latest attempt to flog personal data but in all likelihood, few of Facebook's users will even bat an eye.

Facebook offers developers access to user's address and phone number
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PRIVACY SHREDDER Facebook has revealed that it will make users' addresses and mobile phone numbers available to application developers.

Facebook offers developers access to users' addresses and phone numbers
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PRIVACY SHREDDER Facebook has revealed that it will make users' addresses and mobile phone numbers available to applications developers.

Google Nexus S review
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Product Google Nexus S
Website Google
Specifications Android 2.3, 4-inch Super Amoled 480x800 contour display, 1GHz Hummingbird processor, 5-megapixel rear camera with flash, front-facing VGA camera, 16GB internal memory, Flash 10.1 support, 1500mAh battery, built-in NFC chip, 127x63x10.88mm, 124g
Price £430 SIM-free or free on a £30 contract

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.

Apple takes tablet market to almost 17 million
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THE TABLET MARKET is huge according to IDC, and is led by the Apple Ipad.

Apple makes lots of money, Jobs is still ill
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THE CULT of Apple has got plenty of cash to splash on chapels around the world with fourth quarter revenues over 50 per cent higher than they were a year ago, thanks to its fanbois and converts buying lots of shiny toys, apps and tunes from the cappuccino company.

Eurocom releases a high end gaming laptop
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PRICEY HARDWARE FLOGGER Eurocom has launched a fully configurable and customisable high end 15-inch gaming laptop.

Microsoft sticks an Office application onto the Iphone
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SOFTWARE SCHEMER Microsoft has managed to get a Microsoft Office application onto its arch-rival Apple's Iphone.

Opera sings its way onto Sony TVs
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TELEVISION MAKER SONY has announced that it will put the Opera browser on Sony Bravia televisions and Blu-ray players

Amazon offers developers an elastic beanstalk
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THE WEB SERVICES ARM of Amazon (AWS) is offering a product called Elastic Beanstalk, which it claims will simplify the deployment and management of AWS cloud applications developed by third parties.

Hackers face five years for mocking Ipad insecurity
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TWO BLOKES who made a mockery of Apple's faith-based Ipad security are getting the book thrown at them in a US court.

Iran gets Chrome
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ONLINE SEARCH OUTFIT Google has announced that now some export bans against Iran are down it is shipping its goods out there.

BBC's digital renaissance man quits
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THE BLOKE credited with the BBC's digital renaissance is leaving and going to Intel.

Samsung announces Star II
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IN THE WAKE of the Samsung Star mobile phone, the Korean electronics company has announced the imaginatively named Samsung Star II.

Acer ditches netbooks for tablets
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REVERSING ITS VIEW just three months after declaring that netbooks were here to stay, Acer will reduce its range of netbooks and limit the volumes it makes.

Apple shares tank on Nasdaq opening
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SHARES of the fruit themed toymaker Apple have fallen on the news that its leader Steve Jobs decided to take medical leave.

Ballmer wants Xbox for boys and Kinect for the laydeez
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TEALEAF READER and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the Xbox isn't a games console and, with Kinect, will be part of everyone's future.

IBM signs a deal with ARM
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CHIP OUTFITS IBM and ARM have announced that they are continuing their alliance into the 14nm manufacturing process size, which is minuscule compared to ARM chipmakers' current 40nm and 32nm offerings.

RIM agrees to block porn in Indonesia
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MOBILE PHONE OUTFIT Research in Motion (RIM) has said that it will obey an Indonesian government order to block access to pornographic websites from its devices.

Russians leap to the head of the Que
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IN WHAT HAS BEEN NOTED as one of the world's largest venture capital investments, a consortium of Russian investors is plowing $700 million into Plastic Logic.

EFF asks judge to quash gangbang filesharing lawsuits
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ELECTRONIC RIGHTS GROUP the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has asked an Illinois judge to quash subpoenas issued in some predatory lawsuits involving the alleged illegal downloading of pornography.

Microsoft dinosaurs get their own patch
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THOSE STILL RUNNING Windows XP have been told that they will have to either update Windows Live Essentials to something a little more 2011 or install a compulsary patch which has been sitting around since last May.

Is Apple messing with our heads?
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MAKER OF SHINY TOYS, Apple is a shining example of how to bury bad news.

Next soft-launches a second generation 10-inch tablet
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FOR £199 you can buy Next's second generation 10-inch Android tablet four months after its first Google powered tablet, which appears to have the same specifications and is £19 cheaper.

Toshiba updates its range to take aim at Apple
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JAPANESE COMPUTER MAKER Toshiba has released some machines including all-in-one desktop units and major updates to its laptop range.

Notion Ink announces its Adam tablet will ship this week
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TABLET DESIGN OUTFIT Notion Ink has finally revealed that its Adam tablet has cleared the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and will be shipping on Wednesday.

Android will lead the mobile devices market
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ACCORDING TO the beancounters at analyst house Ovum, the mobile device market is set to boom over the next four years.

OECD warns of cyber attacks
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THE ORGANISATION for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has warned in a report that attacks on computer systems now have the potential to cause global catastrophe, but only in combination with another disaster.

Firefox 4.0 beta release slights Linux
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THE LATEST Firefox 4.0 beta has been released but there is a gap forming between the Linux and Windows versions.

Apple's Apps Store nears ten billion downloads
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SHINY TOY MAKER Apple has managed to hit nearly ten billion downloads at the App Store.

Microsoft reveals some Windows Phone 7 update detail
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COPY AND PASTE is still the highlight of the highly promoted upcoming update to the Windows Phone 7 operating system, according to Microsoft.

HTML5 has a logo
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THE WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM (W3C) has given HTML5 its very own logo, and quite a nice little logo it is, too.

Apache announces Tomcat 7.0.6
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OPEN SOURCERORS at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) have added Java Enterprise Edition 6 web applications support to Tomcat 7.0.6.

Nokia drops free music downloads in UK
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FINNISH PHONE MAKER Nokia will stop offering its free music downloads in the UK and most of the rest of the planet.

Google explains why it's dropping H.264
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SOFTWARE DEVELOPER Google has explained its reasons for dumping the H.264 video codec in its Chrome oerating system.

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.

Red Hat has updated Enterprise Linux 5
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ENTERPRISE LINUX VENDOR Red Hat has refreshed its Enterprise Linux (RHEL) version 5, after having released its RHEL version 6 operating system near the end of last year.

Microsoft releases Windows 7 SP1 to OEMs
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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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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.

Thursday, January 20, 2011

IT News HeadLines (THE INQUIRER) 19/01/2011

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