OCZ Colossus 1TB Solid State Drive released

After a lengthy wait, Taiwan’s OCZ Technology has finally released its new Solid State Drive that is Colossus in name and certainly colossal in nature, being the first SSD to offer up to one terabyte of storage. Aimed primarily at the desktop user, the Colossus SSD promises extremely fast read and write speeds of 260MB/s [...]

First look: Nokia’s Booklet 3G

Recently at Nokia’s NokiaWorld 09 event, the company unveiled what appears to be the first in a line of netbook devices, the Booklet 3G. Dave Weinstein was there to get a first hand look at the device.
The Nokia Booklet 3G is sleek, thin, well designed, and generally feels like a high quality device. Key feel [...]

Microsoft Windows 7 released

After much anticipation and speculation, Microsoft has finally released its long awaited Windows 7 operating system. Aiming to make it easier for users to “do the things they want to do on a PC”, Microsoft’s successor to the largely ill-conceived Vista brings a host of new features to the table. Among the changes are a [...]

First look: Nokia’s Booklet 3G

Recently at Nokia’s NokiaWorld 09 event, the company unveiled what appears to be the first in a line of netbook devices, the Booklet 3G. Dave Weinstein was there to get a first hand look at the device.
The Nokia Booklet 3G is sleek, thin, well designed, and generally feels like a high quality device. Key feel [...]

New barcode system could see the end of ugly stripes

I remember encountering the ugly black-and-white stripes of a barcode for the first time – defacing the front of my favorite magazine. Of course, Mad found a way of dealing with the UPC code by making jokes at its expense. But now, some ground-breaking work at MIT could see the visual blight of barcodes replaced [...]

First Look: Microsoft Office 2010

The next version of Microsoft’s Office suite is due for availability in early 2010, as its name suggests, but the software giant recently made available a technical preview to a limited number of testers.
We looked at the preview and found that most of the common applications show few significant differences over their counterparts in the [...]

TecH: IBM unveils data-masking technology

Masking Gateway for Enterprises (Magen), unveiled last week, is designed to catch protected data before it reaches users’ screens, IBM said. The technology, which runs on a server installed alongside existing server and client applications, was developed at IBM’s Haifa research laboratory and takes its name from the Hebrew word for “protection” or “shield.”
Magen treats [...]

Optical transistor made from single molecule

Quantum computer closer: Optical transistor made from single molecule

Researchers from ETH Zurich have recently managed to create an optical transistor from a single molecule in what is yet another important achievement on the road to quantum computing.Quantum photonics is a particularly attractive field to scientists and engineers alike in that it could, once some core [...]

AMD Pushes Six-core Chips as Upgrade to China

Advanced Micro Devices on Monday announced six-core Opteron chips, which make them the fastest server chips the company has released to date.
Until now, AMD offered only quad-core server processors, with the fastest being Opteron chips code-named Shanghai. The six-core chips, code-named Istanbul, will offer 30 percent faster performance while drawing the same amount of power [...]

ComputeR: Windows 7 goes on public test…!!!

A release candidate of Windows 7, the next major release of the world’s most popular operating system, goes public in trial form in the next week

Microsoft is hoping it can avoid the negative press that surrounded the launch of Vista, the last major Windows release, almost three years ago. Windows 7 has been designed to [...]

TecH: Western Digital increases MyBook HDD’s capacity to 2TB

The new 2 TB My Book family is designed to keep everyone from creative power users on a Mac to home users on a PC happy with the range including the My Book Studio Edition, My Book Mac Edition, My Book Home Edition and My Book Essential Edition models.
The My Book Studio Edition and My [...]

TecH: Microsoft to let users turn off Internet Explorer

A single check box deep in the guts of the next version of Windows is giving Microsoft Corp. watchers a peek at how the software maker plans to keep European antitrust regulators from marring a crucial software launch.
 
Windows 7, the successor to the much-maligned Vista, isn’t expected to reach consumers until next year, but more [...]

TecH: Gmail Goes Offline

If you live in Gmail, but don’t always have a broadband connection available, today should be a happy day for you. Google is rolling out a new system for letting Gmail users access their accounts offline. Google will cache your messages on your system using Google Gears. You’ll be able to open your browser to [...]

AMD’s new Phenom II chips take on Intel

Micro Devices added new Phenom II desktop models on Monday, including triple-core processors, in its continued attempt to outdo Intel desktop price-performance.
The Phenom II “Dragon” line of desktop processors uses AMD’s new 45-nanometer technology and comprises both quad-core (X4) and triple-core (X3) parts.
 
The triple-core Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition processor is priced at $145, [...]

Green printer uses coffee dregs as ink

The paperless office is a great notion, but in reality there are still many scenarios where the printer needs to be switched on and fed with environmentally unfriendly consumables – paper and ink. Recycling and re-using paper for print jobs has become well entrenched, but the expensive and often frustrating process of replenishing the ink [...]

Google tool helps consumers reduce energy usage

Google Inc on Tuesday said it would use its software skills to help consumers track their home energy usage and thereby lower demand and the global warming emissions that come from producing electricity.
The move is part of Google’s effort to pump hundreds of millions of dollars into renewable energy, electricity-grid upgrades and other measures that [...]