Skype is set to launch its iPhone application Tuesday bringing its much anticipated Net-based phone service to Apple’s mobile platform. With the Skype iPhone app users will be able to make free calls using Wi-Fi to other Skype users as well as use their Skype accounts to make reduced price calls to traditional landline phones. [...]

Playing action video games can boost an aspect of adult vision previously thought to be fixed, a US study shows. Researchers found playing the games improved the ability to notice even very small changes in shades of grey against a uniform background. “Contrast sensitivity” is important in situations such as driving at night, or in [...]

Verizon Wireless has confirmed earlier reports that it’s ready to enter the Netbook market. Spokeswoman Brenda Raney, who was quoted to a similar effect in an Internetnews.com story Friday, said Saturday that the plan is for the company to start selling 3G-enabled Netbooks by the end of the second quarter, or by June. Unfortunately, Raney [...]

Ars Technica is reporting an information leak from the otherwise solid gates surrounding Microsoft’s Fortress of Solitude in Redmond: Last night someone accidentally posted a page to TechNet with all the details on the forthcoming Release Candidate of Windows 7. According to Ars, “The RC testing program will be available at least through June 2009, [...]

Lenovo unveils new ThinkStation S20 and D20 desktops, which the company is billing as personal “supercomputers” that are built for performance in the face of unwieldy data sets. Both get a boost from Intel Xeon technology — like the new Apple Mac Pro — and are made of 50 percent recycled content. A ThinkStation is [...]

OnLive, a tech company that has been in self-described “stealth mode” development for seven years, has unveiled new technology that allows even the most complex PC games to be played on a television set or any PC. The ambitious venture, which hopes to revolutionize the gaming world by removing the need to continually upgrade PC [...]

The PC-C33 and PC-C34F enclosures look awfully similar at first glance, though the latter is a tad larger at 432mm x 168mm x427mm compared to 425 x 168 x 460mm of the former. Both units boast the company’s tried and true brushed black anodized aluminum  appearance, with the PC-C34F having a front mounted lockable HDD [...]

An aerial bi-axial tourbillon mechanism. A vertical power reserve. Individualist seconds. A stripped-down dial and spectacular volumes: the latest specimen from the C Lab Series defies all theories. Even better, it creates its own rules: emptiness is its core material, engineering its constancy; chemistry a dare and transparency a must.
Designed and developed by the C [...]

In a move that will leave home theater enthusiasts thrilled and everyone else asking what the big deal is, Logitech has confirmed plans to release an adapter that will let the PlayStation 3 play nice with its Harmony line of programmable universal remotes.Compatible with any Harmony remote, the adapter will enable owners to control movie [...]

HABEY announced its latest high performance full HD 1080p blu-ray capable Intel N270 Atom processor based platform, Model BIS-6540HD.  It has a built-in ultra low power HD AVC/VC-1/MPEG-2 hardware decoder, capable of full HD real-time decoding of H.264, VC-1 media contents at up to 40Mbps, MPEG-2 at up to 125Mbps.  The BIS-6540HD is capable to [...]