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AMD Catalyst 11.1 Drivers Now Available for Download

January 28, 2011
AMD Catalyst 11.1 Drivers Now Available for Download

AMD’s latest Catalyst 11.1 driver suite introduces a handful of big performance gains, including up to 17 percent in Left 4 Dead 2 on Radeon HD 6800 series cards in both single and CrossFire configurations with AF and AA disabled, and up to 12 percent …

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Amazon Launches Kindle Singles for a Five Spot (or Less)

January 28, 2011
Amazon Launches Kindle Singles for a Five Spot (or Less)

Amazon’s “Kindle Singles” sounds like an online meeting place for like-minded romantics to hook up and talk about their favorite books, but it’s not a Match.com clone. So what is it? Amazon describes it as a new kind of “well researched, well argued, a…

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Conficker Worm Now Running Harmlessly Amok

January 26, 2011
Conficker Worm Now Running Harmlessly Amok

The now infamous Conficker worm created quite the scare for security researchers, and in some ways, it still does. In a new report (PDF), the Conficker Working Group — a coalition of cybersecurity experts and industry heavyweights including Microsoft,…

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Gartner: Mobile App Store on Pace to Surpass $15 Billion in 2011

January 26, 2011
Gartner: Mobile App Store on Pace to Surpass $15 Billion in 2011

Disney just let go of 200 employees, most of which had been dedicated to the company’s console gaming business, in an effort to put more focus on the mobile market and it’s easy to see why. According to market research firm Gartner, mobile app store re…

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Facebook Founder’s Fan Page Hacked

January 26, 2011
Facebook Founder’s Fan Page Hacked

An odd message on Mark Zuckerberg’s fan page racked up over 1,800 likes and over 400 comments before the hacked post was removed, TechCrunch reports. Here’s what it said:
“Let the hacking begin: i facebook needs money, instead of going to the banks, wh…

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Firefox 4 Beta 10 Now Available for Download

January 26, 2011
Firefox 4 Beta 10 Now Available for Download

Mozilla continues to iron out bugs and tweak the underlying code of its upcoming Firefox 4 browser, and if you want to see where things are at, you can now download Firefox 4 beta 10. This 10th beta focuses mainly on stability and includes the followin…

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Disney Restructures Videogame Division, Lays Off 200 Employees

January 26, 2011
Disney Restructures Videogame Division, Lays Off 200 Employees

Disney, home of the self-described happiest place on Earth, has laid off close to 200 employees as it tries to revamp its interactive media division, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Most of those pink slips ended up in the hands of employees working f…

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Ubuntu Selects LibreOffice to Replace OpenOffice

January 26, 2011
Ubuntu Selects LibreOffice to Replace OpenOffice

Going forward, Ubuntu’s developers decided it is in the best interest of the open source OS to ship with LibreOffice for its productivity suite, replacing the Oracle-owned OpenOffice that previously came pre-installed. That includes Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty…

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