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Firstly, the Anti Virus Fight Club results are in. A rare AntiVirus accuracy competition was conducted at Linuxworld this week, and the results should come as a blow to the paid antivirus industry. Run by delegates from the untangle network gateway, the competition should provide ammunition to critics of the idea that good virus protection cannot be provided for nothing. The results (with pretty graphs) can be found here.
Agg has sent in this interesting piece of news, China's iClone. The little gadget was bootleg gold, a secret treasure I'd spent months tracking down. The miniOne looked just like Apple's iPhone, down to the slick no-button interface. But it was more. It ran popular mobile software that the iPhone wouldn't.
Bern has sent in an article from Groklaw, where the courts have ruled Novell owns the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights. "That's Aaaaall, Folks! The court also ruled that "SCO is obligated to recognize Novell's waiver of SCO's claims against IBM and Sequent". That's the ball game. There are a couple of loose ends, but the big picture is, SCO lost. Oh, and it owes Novell a lot of money from the Microsoft and Sun licenses."
XSReviews have posted a review about PhysX in GRAW 2. "Around a year and a half after their original release, PhysX cards still cause much controversy when discussion about them begins. They have the usual fanboys and skeptics and all those in between. No one can deny however, that there hasn't been many games that really utilize the PhysX PPU (Cell Factor is perhaps the only one) and shows off what the technology can really do. Now Ubisoft have released their second game to support PhysX, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 (GRAW 2). With a special level and extra effects for those with Ageia's cards, will this game make it worth buying one? Read on to find out.
Hardware Secrets have posted an article titled 'Everything You Need to Know About The Centrino Platform'. "Contrary to what a lot of people think, Centrino isn’t a laptop processor but a platform containing specific components set by Intel: a given processor, a given chipset and a given wireless network. A laptop can only be called Centrino if it has these three components. In this tutorial we will show you the several Centrino generations and the difference between them. Check it out."
PCI-SIG have announced the PCI Express 3.0 details. The PCI Special Interest Group, or PCI-SIG, this week announced the speeds of the latest evolution to the PCI Express specification – PCI Express 3.0, also known as PCIe 3.0. PCIe 3.0 doubles the transfer rate of PCIe 2.0, bringing overall throughput to 8 gigatransfers per second, or GT/s.
And lastly, Toshiba has issued a further recall on Sony laptop batteries. All had been quiet on the Sony laptop battery fiasco front,until Toshiba America Information Systems Inc., along with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) on Thursday announced a recall of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries containing Sony cells used in Toshiba notebook computers. The CPSC says that consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.
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