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Amazon game download store arrives in October
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Amazon is to take on the likes of Steam by launching its own online games store in the UK. Amazon has been trialling a games download service in the US but progress has been slow. A full store will be launching on this side of the pond some time in October.
You can already buy games from Amazon, in much the same way as you can buy everything else from books (obviously) to Live Insects and of course Wolf Urine. What this usually means is that you get a boxed copy of the game delivered to your door in a few days.
Once Amazon complete the trials of its new games store you should get the option to wait for a physical copy or just download it there and then. This will only apply to certain PC ga...
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Apple contributes to Nokia’s €430m patent settlement income
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With Nokia’s Q2 2011 financial results painting a picture of a company weeping money while it desperately retools, there was one glimmer of hope amid the misery. Having beaten Apple in the courts back in June over patent licensing issues, and secured not only a one-time payment but ongoing fees, Nokia declared approximately €430m ($611m) in IPR royalty income, something CEO Stephen Elop described as having “validated” the company’s legal strength.
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Hackers Hacked the Hackers' AnonPlus Social Network
Like UnlikeMy brain hurts trying to keep all the different factions of hackers in line. After being booted off Google+, Anonymous started building their own site, AnonPlus—which has now been hacked by a group calling themselves "TURKIYE."
While it could be some elaborate joke played out on us ordinary non-hackin' folk, to grab more headlines and attention to their mission, AnonPlus' website apparently did show the following message late yesterday:
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Google:Two Million PCs Infected by Search Hijacking Malware
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There has been an alarming increase in scareware over the last couple of years. Google, which in 2010 ascertained 15% of all malware to be of the scareware variety, has begun notifying search users about a new strain of malware, which is thought to have been delivered to around a couple million PCs hidden inside fake antivirus software. According to the company, the said malware “causes infected computers to send traffic to Google through a small number of intermediary servers called ‘proxies’”. Hit the jump for more.
The web giant started warning search users affected by this as-yet-unnamed malware on Tuesday, and has already used this notification mechanism to “successfully warn hundreds o...
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ARM to Challenge Intel's Dominance in Notebooks
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By 2015, ARM will have captured a notebook share of 23%, IHS predicts.
“Starting in 1981, when IBM first created its original PC based on Intel’s 8088 microprocessor, the X86 architecture has dominated the PC market,” said Matthew Wilkins, principal analyst of compute platforms for IHS. “Over the next generation, billions of PCs were shipped based on X86 microprocessors supplied by Intel and assorted rivals - mainly AMD. However, the days of X86’s unchallenged domination are coming to an end as Windows 8 opens the door for the use of the ARM processor, which already has achieved enormous popularity in the mobile phone and tablet worlds.”
By 2015, ARM notebook shipments will hit 74 million un...
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Another Foxconn Worker Leaps to His Death
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One of the ongoing stories last year was how Foxconn workers in China were committing suicide amid reports of poor working conditions and low pay. Foxconn vowed to improve its operations, and it's been relatively quiet ever since, at least until now. According to an AFP report, a 21-year-old employee who only started working for Foxconn on June 27, jumped out of his on-site dormitory and died as a result.
No other company in the world makes more computer components than Foxconn. One of Foxconn's bigger clients is Apple, and workers are under intense pressure to keep up with demand for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad devices, as well as products from Sony, Dell, and others. Activists blamed poor...
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Mozilla Tells Rapid Release Worry Warts to Chillax, Announces Enterprise User Working Group
Like UnlikeSeveral months ago you could have criticized Mozilla for dragging its feet with new Firefox releases while one of its main rivals -- Google Chrome -- was kicking out new builds nearly as fast as you could download them. Mozilla responded by implementing a rapid release schedule of its own, and now that it has, some IT users are concerned things are developing a little too quickly. To put those fears to rest, Mozilla this week unveiled its Enterprise User Working Group.
"Recently there’s been a lot of discussion about enterprises and rapid releases. Online life is evolving faster than ever and it’s imperative that Mozilla deliver improvements to the Web and to Firefox more quickly to reflect ...
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Leaks back HTC, LG, Samsung 42Mbps smartphones for T-Mobile
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Taiwanese industry sources have revealed that HTC, LG and Samsung are expected to deliver HSPA+ 42Mbps-enabled smartphones compatible with T-Mobile’s network. The new high-speed devices will launch in the second half of this year and will mark the first time handsets with this capability have been released. To date, devices that are compatible with the 4G technology have been limited to mobile data cards or mobile routers.
To date, T-Mobile has launched ten handsets capable of achieving theoretical downstream speeds of 21Mbps, which include the HTC Sensation 4G and the HTC my Touch 4G slide. It has also released the Rocket mobile router that supports the 42Mbps network.
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EVGA Teases Community with Upcoming LGA2011 Motherboard Prototype
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EVGA teased its community with a picture of one of its first single-socket LGA2011 motherboards. The graphics card major was missed at this year's Computex event at the wall holding upcoming LGA2011 boards. The company then pacified its fans with news that it was working on a monstrous dual-LGA2011 motherboard along the lines of the SR-2. We can't tell very much about the board in the picture below, except that it has socket LGA2011 with a typical CPU area layout, makes smart use of the congested VRM area with high-C capacitors and driver-MOSFETs, and looks to have some innovations such as right-angled 24-pin ATX power connector. Power, reset, and clear CMOS buttons are found at a place acce...
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Intel gives discounts to get sped-up, Core-based Chromebooks
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Google Chromebooks will soon get a big speed upgrade in return for a slight discount, insiders claimed Wednesday. The Chrome OS hardware will reportedly go to Core i3 and beyond processors and, to make the price balance work, will get a 10 to 20 percent discount from Intel on the chips. Existing partners Acer and Samsung were reported by Digitimes as onboard and might be joined by ASUS and others as soon as early 2012.
The upgrade would come as a tacit admission that Chromebooks weren't necessarily working in their current price field. Although they cost $50 to $100 more than a netbook, they don't really have better performance, insiders said. The two systems out so far also supposedly have ...
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Today's Apple Product Releases
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OS X Lion is here and I am already typing this story on the new OS X update. It was not enough for Apple to just release the new OS X 10.7 though. Apple also released the highly anticipated new 2011 MacBook Air. The MacBook Air is twice as fast and features the Thunderbolt port. Mac mini fans also get treated to a new 2011 Mac mini with double the performance and Thunderbolt port.
Apple also released the world's first Thunderbolt Display. With the release of the new MacBook Air line Apple has killed the white MacBook. Apple apparently decided to not update the MacBook and have the basic MacBook Air priced at $999 take its place.
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TomTom HD Traffic boosted by capital injection
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TomTom has done a deal with Transport for London to get more detailed London traffic info into its HD Traffic service.
TFL will provide TomTom with its traffic data - so TomTomers will have access to information such as where road works are taking place, where accidents have happened, temporary road closures (handy come Olympic-time) and where traffic is likely to be disrupted.
They'll also get the severity of the delays thanks to TFL's 360 mile red route network in London and information fed into its control centre by London’s 7,500 buses, event organisers and road works contractors combined with speed data tracked from connected TomTom devices and Vodafone mobile phone handsets.
"It’s been...
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Google: We should have done a Facebook competitor sooner
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Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt has admitted that the search giant should have put more effort into a Facebook-alike social network earlier.
In an interview with CNN, former CEO Schmidt expressed his frustration that his company had not worked on a more personal approach to the internet earlier.
"Fundamentally, what Facebook has done is built a way to figure out who people are. That system is missing in the internet as a whole. Google should have worked on this earlier," said Schmidt.
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"I think that's the area where I would have put more resources, developing these identity services and ranking systems that go along with that. That would have made a big difference for the i...
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Chromium OS running on a MacBook Air: somewhere, a mad scientist cackles in the night
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Does it hurt your brain to look at the picture above? That'd be Chromium OS -- running on a MacBook Air! Pretty much the definition of "worlds colliding," this feat is brought to you by Hexxeh, whose most recent mind-warping project put Chrome on an iPad. The platform-mixing maestro says in this case everything works except Bluetooth, owing to a lack of support. But hearty souls who seek to follow in his footsteps, take heed: there's no dual-boot option, and you will lose OS X -- so perhaps this is a job for your now outdated model. Click the source link for 14 easy steps to turning your svelte laptop into Frankenstein's monster, but sadly, there's no mention of where to buy that hopelessly ...
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Anonymous Hacker Arrests Extend to UK, Netherlands
Like UnlikeThe far-reaching crackdown on Anonymous hackers throughout the U.S. yesterday extended across the pond, with officials in the UK and the Netherlands also making arrests.
The Metropolitan Police confirmed the arrest of a 16-year-old boy for suspected violations of the country's Computer Misuse Act. He was arrested in south London yesterday and is currently in custody at a central London police station. Officials did not release his identity, but FoxNews.com reported that the boy goes by TFlow, a name with links to the LulzSec collective. Officials also seized computer equipment from his home, police said.
Dutch police, meanwhile, arrested four suspects who are apparently part of Operation Ant...
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