ESET to discontinue NOD32 Antivirus 2.7

ESET, the leader in proactive threat protection, announced today that it will begin phasing out ESET NOD32 Antivirus version 2.7. Read more…

Twitter, the popular micro-blogging service, was hacked early Friday morning by a group calling itself the “Iranian Cyber Army.”

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A host of chipmakers, including Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Freescale, and Nvidia, license ARM technology to create chips for handhelds, phones, and other mobile devices. ARM-based chips are valued because they consume less power than the x86-based chips, which are made by Intel and AMD and power most of the world’s computers and servers.

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Hot on the heels of Friendster’s recent face-lift, the onetime social-networking pioneer has found a buyer.

MOL Global, a Malaysian online payment company, has agreed to purchase Friendster, the companies announced late Wednesday. Terms of the deal were not revealed, but rumors last week said a likely asking price would start around $100 million.

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It feels like the whole world is holding its breath for the Apple tablet. But maybe we’ve all been dreaming about the wrong device. This is Courier, Microsoft’s astonishing take on the tablet.

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Sinofsky stated that IE 9 is currently 3 weeks into development, so there weren’t any major breakthroughs or amazing rendering engine/performance improvements as of yet, but he made it pretty clear that their ultimate goal was to improve the rendering engine and speed up your web browsing experience.

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ZiiLabs has reached another milestone by unveiling a next generation mobile processor targeted for media playback capability exceeding 1080p full HD (High Definition). Named as ZMS-08, it is based on ARM Cortex architecture clocking at 1GHz that is believed to be able to accelerate and display the High Profile H.264 format at 40Mbps equivalent to Blu-ray technology. More Info …

After an acquisition that most of us thought was fairly minor news, it turns out that John Carmack of Doom and id Software fame is a mobile games enthusiast! Not only is id Software still flogging the Doom horse, but we may be in for a little treat in the coming months. Gaming iPhone users are probably already aware that Wolfenstein is available and it’s really good. And on the back of its success they are now looking to release other classic titles, new franchises and even… role-playing titles.

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Finally, Ubuntu released its Final edition of Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala). I love this linux distribution very much and I think most of linux users do. Hope its development will become faster to be areal competitor to the commercial ones ( Windows, Mac, … ).

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Not tempted by Motorola’s DROID? Fear not, for the HTC Hero has just been confirmed to run Android 2.0.

TechTree reports that HTC is working on an Android 2.0 update for the Hero and cites the following statement from the company.

“Yes, we are working on an Eclair update for the HTC Hero. Because Eclair is a significantly enhanced release, it will require some time to update Sense for this new version of the Android OS. Please be patient while we work to provide you with a tightly integrated experience like the one you are already enjoying on your Hero.”

The news makes the HTC Hero the second device running Android 2.0. First is the Motorola DROID, which launches next week, on November 6. Any happy Hero owners in the house? Let us know what you think of 2.0 as soon as you can!