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Wednesday, 21-December-2011 03:02:19 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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WD and Seagate are shortening the warranty period on some hard drives. In some cases warranty lengths have been reduced from five years to just 12 months, with the biggest drop in budget or low-power drives. With many enthusiasts undoubtedly worried about this drastic restructuring of warranty terms, it's important to remember this is reflecting a business alignment in warranty lengths and not a reduction in drive quality.
Here's some photos from inside the insides of Atlantis, probably the last chance before the Shuttles are stripped for display. Its insides being pulled out to ensure it is safe for exhibit, as well as significantly lighten it for its planned steep-angled display, Atlantis is scheduled to be powered down this week for the final time.
The smartphone patent wars continue, with Apple scoring against HTC in the USA. Apple just won a big court victory against HTC that could force HTC to stop selling its Android phones in the United States. The United States International Trade Commission ruled that HTC was infringing on a system level patent that effects HTC Android devices running Android 1.6 to 2.2. More here.
Meanwhile Sabretooth noticed that some Samsung Galaxy users can score some free apps as Xmas approaches, and more importantly, Android v4 aka Ice Cream Sandwich is officially coming to the S2 next year. Discussion continues here.
As usual on the Internet, if something seems too good to be true, it probably is. Australian eBay customers lured by ultra-bargain priced TV sets and other electronics have shelled out thousands of dollars only to receive empty boxes in the mail. Police are investigating after receiving reports from reputable eBay sellers who were tricked into carrying out the scam by bogus job ads.
Dutch airline KLM are letting customers pick their seat-mates via Facebook. It is developing an internet service known as “meet and seat” which will give fliers access to to their fellow travellers’ Facebook and LinkedIn profiles. The scheme will be launched next year and KLM admitted that many details still have to be worked out.
PC Perspective report on a driver fix from nVIDIA. Late last night NVIDIA passed over a driver that finally fixes the issue we discussed last Friday with the EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 2Win dual-GPU graphics card and the new X79 chipset. The issue arose from the inability to actually enable SLI on the card thus leaving one of your GTX 560 Ti's on the board sitting there limp.
EA's new game Syndicate has been refused classification in Oz. Submitted to the board under its real name, Syndicate has been officially Refused Classification, meaning it is effectively banned from sale, distribution or display in Australia. We have contacted both Electronic Arts and the Board to find out just what part of the game was so distressing.
The Chinese Government says it will make it rain more to help industry and the environment. China is starting four regional programs to artificially increase precipitation across the country by 10 per cent before 2015, under a newly released 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015), according to the state-run China Daily. "Weather intervention" could bring an additional 230 billion cubic meters of precipitation per year - that's on top of the 50 billion China already artificially creates annually, China Daily says.
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