USB 3.0 is official as of today and it’s transfer speeds can reach up to 4.8Gbps, which means you can transfer 25GB of data in about 70 seconds. It’s all-new architecture makes it more efficient, both on data transfer and power charging for gadgets.The good news is it’s compatible with the old USB 2.0, but [...]

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ASUS today introduced the ASUS P565, a business PDA phone that boasts an 800 MHz processor—the fastest in the world at the time of this announcement. Featuring ASUS’ latest touch-driven user interface—Glide—the stylish, leather-accented P565 delivers graphics and system performance beyond anything else on the market at present, posting Vsbenchmark scores almost two times that [...]

NETGEAR today announced the general availability of its latest powerline adapters for turning electrical power outlets into high-speed Internet and home network connections. Fast enough to stream high-definition video, the award-winning Powerline HD Plus Ethernet Adapter Kit (HDXB111) and Powerline AV Ethernet Adapter Kit (XAVB101) provide reliable, high-speed network connections up to 200 Mbps to [...]

The Guitammer Company announces the release of the all new wireless ButtKicker® Kit for home theater, gaming and music. The new ButtKicker Kit is a complete, consumer-friendly, do-it-yourself product for home theater and gaming that quickly and easily transforms any type of furniture to become part of an affordable “4-D” theater, allowing viewers to literally [...]

Apple just released a software update for QuickTime. The update titled “H.264 Compatibility Update” claims to improve QuickTime compatibility with iChat.You can download this update by opening Software Update (Apple menu > Software Update), or by downloading the installer package directly from the Apple website (it should appear there shortly)
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Memoir from Skyla will definitely stand out in the crowd since it features a built-in photo scanner that makes it easy for anyone to convert an old print into a digital photo. Because of the size of the frame the scanner is limited to handling 4×6 prints or smaller, but the 1GB of internal [...]

Olidata S.p.A., Italy’s leading manufacturer of personal computers and peripherals, today announced that Olidata is launching to retail chains in Europe a Wireless USB adapter set based on Wisair’s WSR601 single chip. The adapter set, to be sold in retail centers in Italy, France, Germany, Spain, and the U.K, under the Olidata brand, allows users [...]

LaCie announced today the LaCinema Rugged, the latest generation in multimedia products to provide high quality movie viewing with the compact and acclaimed reliability of LaCie’s trusted mobile enclosure. Bus-powered and durable, the LaCinema Rugged allows users to enjoy their collections on the go or at home. Designed by Neil Poulton, the Rugged features a [...]

Under its “Give a Laptop, Get a Laptop” scheme on European Amazon outlets (www.amazon.com/xo), consumers will pay  £268, and receive one XO model, while another will be donated to a school child in a developing nation.OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte revealed the plan to extend the scheme, run in America [...]

The Cray XT, called Jaguar, has a peak performance of 1.64 petaflops, (quadrillion floating point operations, or calculations) per second, incorporating a 1.382 petaflops XT5 and 266 teraflops XT4 systems. Each component of the Jaguar system is separately ranked second and eighth on the current list of Top500 supercomputers in the world.
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Apple has issued a Software Update for users of the new aluminum/glass MacBooks and MacBook Pros. The update is somewhat minor, but still important to a small (but growing?) segment of users: those who are having problems registering clicks on the new, buttonless trackpad. The one-line Software Update description from Apple says it all: “This [...]