GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and other computing hardware solutions today proudly announced Taiwanese overclocker, Nick Shih as the winner of the GIGABYTE H55 Mini-ITX contest hosted by HWBOT. Nick scored a total of 13 points using a GIGABYTE GA-H55N-USB3 motherboard. The GIGABYTE H55 Mini-ITX contest set a new milestone in the overclocking community as the first Mini-ITX motherboard only online overclocking contest. In addition, this ground-breaking competition was held for the love of overclocking and not for the love of prizes, so there is no prize for the winner. Instead, the winner will have the honor of being the world’s first Mini-ITX overclocking champion. The contest was split into 2 categories running the Super Pi 32m benchmark: Stage 1 had a CPU speed limit of 4,000 MHz, and Stage 2 had no CPU speed limit. At the end of August, Nick Shih led the competition with a blazing CPU speed of 6.4GHz reaching 6min 18sec 469ms in the Stage 2 category. A fantastic achievement! Comments

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All you Android smart phone owners should be on the lookout, Kaspersky Lab says there is a new malicious Trojan-SMS making the rounds. The new malicious program penetrates smartphones running Android in the guise of a harmless media player application. Users are prompted to install a file of just over 13 KB with the standard Android extension .APK. Once installed on the phone, the Trojan uses the system to begin sending SMSs to premium rate numbers without the owner’s knowledge or consent, resulting in money passing from a user’s account to that of the cybercriminals. Comments

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First SMS Trojan Detected for Android Smartphones

Google is implementing a new DRM program for the Android Marketplace which will use a licensing server to verify a user has purchased the app before it launches. Apps can be written to handle the interaction with the licensing server in any way the developer choose, but Google is providing two preconfigured implementations that will stop an app from running if the server doesn’t or can’t verify the app’s license. The second method will only allow the app to start if the server is available to verify the license. Comments

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Oh, those crazy Swedish. First it was the meatballs and now wearable computers. Martin Magnusson, a Swedish researcher and entrepreneur, has taken the first step and created a wearable computer that can be slung across the body. This redifines the word nerd…..and is quite the fashion statement A Beagleboard running Angstrom Linux and a Plexgear mini USB hub that drives the Bluetooth adapter and display forms the rest of this rather simple machine. Four 2700 mAh AA batteries are used to power the USB hub. Magnusson has used a foldable Nokia keyboard for input and is piping internet connectivity through Bluetooth tethering to an iPhone in his pocket.

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DIY Wearable Computer Turns You Into a Cyborg

AMD has just released the ATI Catalyst 10.7a beta driver for Windows 7, Vista and XP today for your downloading pleasure. According to the company, the beta drivers bring Anti-Aliasing support (which must be enabled through the ATI Catalyst Control Center) for StarCraft II, as well as performance enhancements for Eyefinity users running with Quad ATI CrossFireX configurations. Grab the drivers HERE.

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These things are popping up all over the place aren’t they? Last week it was the $35 tablet announcement, now this $150 tablet. Should Apple be worried? Running on version 2.1 of the Android OS (slightly behind Android 2.2, which is starting to roll out on the latest Android smartphones), the GenTouch sports a 7-inch, 800-by-480 TFT touch display, plus an 800MHz processor under the hood, 256MB of RAM, 2GB of internal storage, an SD/MMC memory card slot (good for expanding the tablet’s storage capacity by another 16GB), and — naturally — Wi-Fi support.

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7" $150 Android Tablet Set To Go on Sale

If you are ever accused of a crime (or planning on committing one), you should probably know that your video game console can testify for / against you. “For example, if someone is trying to prove that Suspect A was running an attack against a World of Warcraft server, there will be logs to indicate that fact within World of Warcraft,” he explained. “Or if someone wants to defend themselves, they can say, ‘whoa Mr. Investigator…check those logs, I was playing Team Fortress 2 at the time.’ Keep in mind too, that logs are just a small piece of a very large pie. If an investigator wants to get a good idea as to the activities conducted on a system, this information is very important.” Comments

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How Your Console Could Testify Against You

Is it possible to have a zombie be the star of a movie? I don’t really see how that would be possible, given how zombies are mindless and pretty shallow beings. Dialogue? Emotion? What would the movie have besides them running around? Honestly, if there can be vampires, werewolves, witches, wizards, and even giant apes that are portrayed as heroes, why are zombies the one group being left out? Comments

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Microsoft has just announced the beta for the next version of Microsoft Security Essentials. Grab it if you want it, try it if you haven’t. Today we are announcing the beta for the next version of Microsoft Security Essentials. Microsoft Security Essentials was first released in September 2009 and is our award-winning no-cost light weight anti-malware service. It’s designed to help address the ongoing security needs of PCs running genuine Windows – helping keep people protected from viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. Comments

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Let’s all be glad this guy isn’t running anything in the gaming industry. While many blame sagging game sales on a rough economy, Pachter believes the problem is gamers playing multiplayer games for free (which it seems they were also doing when game sales were more robust). He says all the time players spend on MW2, Halo, L4D, etc., “has sucked the available time away from what otherwise would be spent playing newly purchased games.” Comments

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