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Free stuff is always good, and thanks to Check Point Software celebrating their 15th anniversary, as well as the anniversary of the ZoneAlarm firewall, they’ve decided to offer Check Point ZoneAlarm Pro 2009 FREE to consumers, thereby saving you a grand sum of US$19.95. It’s not much, but hey, every little bit counts in times of economic uncertainty. Besides, this saves you the trouble of downloading a copy the illegal way, not to mention the potential trouble any embedded trojans, viruses etc might throw your way.

The catch? It’s free for only 24 hours; beginning from Tuesday, Nov 18 at 6am PST and lasts until Wednesday, Nov 19, 6am PST.

To grab your free copy of ZoneAlarm Pro 2009, head on over to www.zonealarm.com/only24hours.

If you thought that 8 megapixels on your mobile phone is awesome, you’d better grab some tissues to clean your pants in 2009, ’cause Sony’s got some 12MP loving headed our way sometime in March 2009. On the other hand though, we might have to wait a while longer for those sensors to actually make their way into mobile phones that we can actually buy.

Megapixels aside, those really into photography will also argue that the sensor isn’t the only important part, as the lens you use also affects picture quality greatly. To that end, Sony also said they’d be commercializing a series of lens modules – IU060F and the IU046F-  that are thinner than ever, enabling even smaller and thinner camera phones than ever before.

Check out the full press release from Sony here.

So it seems that AMD does want a chunk of the Netbook pie after all, announcing a pair of ultraportable platforms, dubbed ‘Congo’ and ‘Yukon’ respectively. Some tidbits taken from their recent Financial Analyst Day summary release:

• “Congo” is based upon the dual-core “Conesus” CPU with the RS780M and SB710 chipset.  “Yukon” is based upon a single-core CPU with the RS690E and SB600 chipset. While targeted at the ultra-portable market, these platforms have been designed to address a portion of the mini-notebook market, specifically those people who are dissatisfied with the limited experience offered by mini-notebooks.  “Yukon” is planned to be available in 1H09 followed by “Congo” in 2H09.
• AMD also announced the 2010 ultraportable notebook platform code named “Nile”.  “Nile” will feature the dual-core “Geneva” CPU utilizing DDR3 memory technology.
• In 2011, AMD plans to introduce the dual-core “Ontario” APU for ultraportable and mini-notebook platforms.

My take on this particular bit of info? While this is all very nice and forward looking, AMD’s basically saying that they’re only planning to make things available somewhere in late 2009; that’s almost a year away. Even if you take away the fact that the economy’s in the toilet, we’d still be betting that AMD’ll eventually announce some more delays here and there, given their recent track record of much chest-pounding but not delivering. Also, this just gives Intel a nice bit of time to further stake their claim on the netbook market with their Atom lineup.

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