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Sept 2010 |
The world's biggest chip maker, Intel, has unveiled the chipset it is banking its immediate future on and one it hopes will shake up the market.
The product, code-named Sandy Bridge, is Intel's first architecture to merge a microprocessor and graphics processor onto a single chip.
It is designed to cut the time it takes to produce images.
The company is betting the new technology will win over both PC vendors and consumers.
It recently cut sales forecasts because of weaker than expected PC deman... |
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Sept 2010 |
Apple Inc. confirmed it will end its offer to give away free cases to iPhone 4 owners, which the company instituted in July after a barrage of complaints about dropped calls as a result of the phone's unique antenna design.
The company also said that iPhone 4s purchased after Sept. 30 would be subject to its normal return policy, whereby the customer can return the phone within 30 days for a full refund.
"We now know that the iPhone 4 antenna attenuation issue is even smaller than we originally though... |
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Sept 2010 |
Domain-name registrar and Web-hosting service GoDaddy.com is putting itself on the auction block and could sell to a private equity firm for more than US$1 billion, according to a report.
Citing unnamed sources, The Wall Street Journal said Frank Quattrone's Qatalyst Partners has been hired to shop around the Go Daddy Group, parent company of GoDaddy, which has long been known to the general public for its racy Super Bowl commercials.
GoDaddy is attractive to private equity firms because of the money ... |
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Sept 2010 |
Scientists have shown off a system they say could "substantially" improve the data capacity of fibre optic networks.
The team says the growth in bandwidth-hungry applications such as YouTube and iPlayer will eventually stretch the limits of long-distance fibre links.
Their improved system would eliminate most of the interference caused by other signals and amplifiers, in an analogue of "auto-tune" software.
Developers say the device can plug directly into existing networks.
Data is sent as a seq... |
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Sept 2010 |
Police targeted 48 sites in countries including Britain, the Netherlands, Czech Republic and Hungary.
The suspects were the alleged leaders of four illegal file-sharing networks and were charged with hacking, piracy and computer fraud.
Five of the arrests were in Belgium and the others were made in Norway and Sweden.
By Wednesday evening, all of the suspects arrested in Sweden had been released, following the raid of seven premises were raided including PRQ, a web hosting firm with links to the fil... |
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Sept 2010 |
Intel is aiming for a slice of the smartphone market with a new chip with built-in graphics.
The move would put it in direct competition with ARM, who design the majority of smartphone chips.
Intel will unveil its new chipset at its Developer Forum conference in San Francisco next week.
ARM has also launched a new chip that could potentially be five times faster than its current model.
Intel's new chip - code named Moorestown - would result in smart phone visuals and remove the need for a separa... |
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Sept 2010 |
Almost two-thirds of people in the world have been hit by cyber crime in some capacity, be it from viruses, credit card fraud or identity theft, a report has shown.
The most serious threat by far is malware, which was responsible for 51 per cent of cyber crimes affecting victims surveyed by Norton.
Just 10 per cent of those hit by cyber crime said they had been duped by an online scam, while phishing hit nine per cent and social network profile hacking seven per cent.
As for resolving cyber crimes,... |
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Sept 2010 |
Googles search engine now displays results before users finish typing.
The new technology, dubbed Google Instant, can shave two seconds to five seconds off every internet search, Google said yesterday, and could entice users to search more on its website.
With competition increasing from internet rivals such as Microsoft, Yahoo and Facebook, the technology also gives Google new ammunition to tout its advantages to web surfers and online advertisers.
"To our knowledge no one has provided search-as-y... |
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Sept 2010 |
Sweden's Frederick Ingblad is a specialized intellectual property prosecutor, and this morning he made a very specialized announcement: at the request of Belgian authorities, Ingbland and Swedish police had just made a series of coordinated raids on ISPs and universities. Their target: "The Scene."
For two years, Belgium has been looking into the online operations that obtain, crack, and distribute software, games, and media, operations collectively referred to as The Scene. Ingblad targeted several ISPs... |
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Sept 2010 |
Samsung announced a whole lot of new gizmos today, ranging from the new SF, RF, QX and NF series of note- and netbooks, a new Wave smartphone running on Samsung's open Bada OS to a 4G netbook.
The new SF notebooks will come with 13.3", 14" and 15.6" size screens, run on Intel i3 and i5 dual-core CPUs and apparently will run for 7.5 hours, while recharging fully in two to three hours.
Samsung also says the SF series will use the company's fast start technology, to get the notebook up, running and conn... |
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Sept 2010 |
Google said Sept. 1 Gmail users made more than 10 million calls through its new Call Phones from Gmail feature since it launched a week ago.
Launched Aug. 25, Call Phones from Gmail lets users place calls to contacts directly from Gmail. Calls placed from Gmail in the United States and Canada are free and start at 2 cents per minute outside those countries.
The tool, which requires Google's voice and video plug-in, lets users click a Call Phone link. This opens a window with a dialer keypad. Users may... |
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Aug 2010 |
Google could be ready to turn Gmail into a communications hub by adding the ability to make phone calls from the Google Chat interface.
CNET has learned that Google is testing a Web-based service within Gmail that will allow users to place phone calls from their in-boxes. It's launched from the Google Chat window on the lower left-hand side of a Gmail page and allows users to place and receive calls from within their contacts through a user interface that strongly resembles the one used in Google Voice.
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Aug 2010 |
Whether Google is liable for damages for secretly intercepting data on open WiFi routers across the United States is to be aired out in a Silicon Valley federal court.
Eight proposed class-actions from across the country that seek unspecified monetary damages from Google were consolidated this week and transferred to US District Judge James Ware in San Jose, California. Another five cases are likely to join.
The lawsuits allege Google violated federal and state privacy laws in collecting fragments of ... |
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Aug 2010 |
While LTE starts rolling out from major U.S. carriers in 2011, the WiMAX Forum is hoping to have the so-called WiMAX 2 standard up and ready to go by the start of 2012.
Declan Byrne, the marketing director for the WiMAX Forum industry group, says the WiMAX 2 standard, formally known as 802.16m, will be finalized by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) this November, with an eye toward certifying devices based on the standard throughout 2011. From there, he expects ISPs to start d... |
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Aug 2010 |
Despite signing up its 500 millionth member last month, the average amount of time spent on Facebook by a Briton has decreased from 30 minutes in December 2009, to 27.36 minutes during June and July 2010.
The figures, collated by web-analytics firm Hitwise, show that Facebook is still the second most visited site in the UK, after Google, and that it accounts for one in every six web pages accessed in Britain. However, Robin Goad, Hitwises research director, believes that the figures show that Facebook i... |
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