Miscellaneous Tech News worthy of mention
December 21, 2010
Season’s greetings, PC fans. In this week’s unseasonably-spooky episode of the No BS Podcast, the gang discusses the Nook, hacked Gawker accounts, Time’s Person of the Year award and, of course, ghosts.
Do you have a tech question? A comment? A …
Tags: gawker, julian assange, mark zuckerberg, No BS Podcast, nook color, time magazine
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December 21, 2010
The International Trade Commission in Washington is investigating a complaint by Motorola against Microsoft and will decide whether or not to ban imports of the Xbox 360 game console, Bloomberg reports.
We’d be shocked if the two sides didn’t come to s…
Tags: console, court, law, lawsuite, legal, microsoft, motorola, News Worthy, Patent Infringement, Xbox 360
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December 21, 2010
We just got word from Intel that it has new Rapid Storage Technology (RST) drivers available for download, and there’s a good reason why you might want to check them out. As we’ve been told, version 10.1 adds support for hard drives larger than 2TB in …
Tags: 2tb barrier, Drivers, HDD, HDD / SSD drives, Intel, News Worthy, rst, Software, Storage
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December 20, 2010
Google is offering a nice little holiday gift to Us users of Gmail today. You may remember a few months ago when Google rolled out voice calls in Gmail. At the time, they decided to make all Gmail calls to the US and Canada free through the end of 2010…
Tags: free, Gmail, Google, google voice, News Worthy, VOIP
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December 20, 2010
Microsoft said goodbye to its little friend, Office Genuine Advantage (OGA), and quietly shut down the program last Thursday.
What that means for Office users is they’re now able to download add-ins and templates without having to jump through any vali…
Tags: genuine advantage program, microsoft, News Worthy, office, piracy, Software
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December 20, 2010
Awake to the fact that malware authors are adept at gaining high search rankings for their malware-fraught sites, Google has been providing malware notifications in its search results for three years now. But what about legitimate sites compromised …
Tags: Google, hacking, Internet, malware, News Worthy, search, spam
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December 20, 2010
Futuremark originally delayed the release of its much anticipated 3DMark 11 benchmark in order to “fix a couple of difficult bugs rather than patching the benchmark immediately after launch.” Mission accomplished, as today’s update to version 1.01 does…
Tags: 3dmark 11, benchmark, directx 11, dx11, futuremark, GPU, graphics, News Worthy, Software, videocard
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December 20, 2010
Sprint today added a a few more markets to its 4G service umbrella, including Denver (as well as other cities along Colorado’s Front Range, such as Boulder, Fort Collins, and Greeley) and Bridgeport, Connecticut, the wireless telco announced.
“Sprint i…
Tags: 4G, broadband, Internet, lte, News Worthy, Smartphone, Sprint
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