The first HTC Touch Pro2 running Windows Mobile 6.5 is now available for purchase in the United States.  The AT&T Tilt 2 has a retail price of $299 after a $50 mail-in rebate and a two-year service agreement.

Now each of the four major U.S. wireless carriers has an HTC Touch Pro2 in their smartphone lineup.  However, neither the Sprint, Verizon nor T-Mobile versions have yet received WM6.5 upgrades.

Retail Links:

AT&T Tilt 2 @ Amazon.com ($149)

AT&T Tilt 2 @ AT&T Wireless Store ($299)

Prices above are after applicable rebates and a two-year service agreement.

Hitachi GST is taking on Seagate by launching a fast and small hard drive that matches the Savvio's capacity and SAS 2 interface but has four times the cache. In the enterprise 2.5-inch drive market Seagate has a 15,000rpm Savvio 15K.2 drive – two meaning second generation – that offers 73GB and 146GB capacity points and has a 16MB cache. HGST's target is Seagate's equivalent product, the Cheetah 15K.7. It offers 600GB from its 15,000rpm platters, has a 4gig FC interface and a 16MB cache. So what HGST is bringing as extras to the table are the 6gig SAS interface and a much larger cache.

Hitachi GST, the ambitious number three in the hard drive industry, has launched its Ultrastar C15K147, also spinning at 15,000rpm. You get 147GB, 1 more than Seagate, and a 64MB cache with the SAS 2 (6Gbit/s) interface. There's an encryption option and the usual stuff about efficient power management and vibration cancelling and so forth, but the gist of it is that HGST has got a drive that matches Savvio 15K.2 speed and capacity and quadruples its cache.

Danger Den has announced that its Radeon HD 5870 waterblock is ready and should be available in next few days for a cool $99.95 before shipping. The water cooled block uses a pure copper 110 base with a high flow design and fits any reference design ATI Radeon HD 5870 video card. It is said to reduce temperatures by more than 20-30+C and even looks good with a smoked acrylic cover.

Benefits:

• Significantly reduces Load and Idle temperatures on the video card 20-30C+
• Capable of massive overclocks – card/silicon dependent
• Completely Anti-Corrosive. No Aluminum used
• Prepped for Crossfire
• Smoked acrylic top!
• All hardware is included to mount one block to one card…including thermal pads and Ceramique thermal paste.

Valve has finally taken all the wraps off of the Left 4 Dead 2 demo. The demo itself will contain a section of the “Parish” (the 5th of 5 campaigns apparently) which can be played by up to 4 players at once. When will you get to play the demo? f you pre-ordered the game on Steam you will be able to play the demo starting on October 27. If you didn't pre-order the game you will have to wait till November 3rd.

Left 4 Dead 2, the sequel to the best-selling and critically-acclaimed co-operative multiplayer thriller, promises to set a new benchmark for co-operative action games and become one of 2009's marquee titles. Set for release on November 17, the title adds melee combat to enable deeper co-operative gameplay, with items such as a chainsaw, frying pan, axe, baseball bat, and more. Featuring new Survivors, boss zombies, weapons, and items, Left 4 Dead 2 offers a much larger game than the original with more co-operative campaigns, more Versus campaigns, and maps for Survival mode available at launch. Left 4 Dead 2 is targeted for release on Xbox 360 and the PC on November 17, 2009.

The worlds first 'true' gaming chassis just got better. Developed in cooperation with the very best eSports professionals, the CM Storm Sniper offers an unprecedented focus on the unique needs of gamers, and comes packed with innovative solutions for the gamer lifestyle. Now, the Sniper returns fully loaded with Storm Tactics to provide more strength, security and control than ever before.

The new and improved Sniper Black Edition includes all the features and functionality of the original Sniper, and raises the bar by including an all-black interior coating, full 2.5 SSD support and three huge Storm Force 200mm 142CFM fans! Coupled with the features that gamers have learned to love, such as reinforced carrying handles, fan and light controls, and the patented StormGuard security solution, the Sniper Black Edition is better than ever.

Federal prosecutors have charged a prominent hedge-fund manager and five others with securities fraud resulting from insider trading involving some of the tech industry's best-known companies, including Intel, Google, and IBM.

Raj Rajaratnam of Galleon Group was arrested Friday in New York according to various reports and charged with 13 counts of securities fraud and conspiracy following a FBI investigation into Galleon Group's trading patterns. Also charged in the complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, were co-conspirators Rajiv Goel of Intel and Anil Kumar of McKinsey, which provided consulting services to AMD.

The Eagle Arion ET-AR504LR-BK 2.1 Speakers with Subwoofer are a sleek looking, solid set of speakers that look to deliver good sound in a small package. This article aims to see if the $49.99 speakers sound as good as they look.

Thecus Technology is always pushing the boundaries of what NAS devices are capable of. Today, Thecus is proud to introduce the N7700PRO, the follow up to the award winning N7700. While the original N7700 made its mark by being the worlds first seven-bay NAS device, the N7700PRO raises the stakes with breathtaking performance, unmatched reliability, and maximum flexibility. The N7700PRO is clearly one of the most powerful NAS devices in the Thecus arsenal!

With the N7700PRO, blistering performance is the name of the game. At its core is an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU and a whopping 4GB of high-speed DDR2 800 memory, making it the most powerful NAS unit available. In fact, with its PCI-e slot, the N7700PRO can reach data transfer speeds of over 300MB/s by adding a PCI-e 10Gb Ethernet adapter! All of this raw power easily manipulates large amounts of data perfect for the N7700PROs seven 3.5 SATA drive bays that can accommodate up to 14TB of storage. Need even more storage at your disposal? With its stackable feature, you can connect up to five N7700PROs together and easily manage them all via a master unit. The N7700PRO is even compatible with iSCSI initiators and supports iSCSI thin provisioning for added performance and flexibility.

The PC industry performed better than expected as worldwide PC shipments totaled 80.9 million units in the third quarter of 2009, a 0.5% increase from the third quarter of 2008, according to Gartner. Gartner had expected PC shipments to decline 5.6% in the quarter.

“These are good results especially given that PC shipments for the third quarter of 2009 are being compared to a very strong third quarter from 2008,” said Mikako Kitagawa, principal analyst at Gartner. “Sequentially, third quarter shipments grew 18%, which is higher than the historical seasonal growth from the second to third quarter.”

Every year, millions of sensitive data records are exposed due to hackers or stolen hardware, just having confidential information on a computer screen can be risky. Business professionals who frequently travel or work outside the office and manage confidential information must constantly be on-guard against data thieves and over-the-shoulder snoops, especially since 49 percent of people admit to glancing at strangers' computer screens. Now, 3M Specialty Display Products, pioneers in privacy protection, is introducing 3M Gold Privacy Filters — the most advanced privacy screen for laptops with increased visual clarity. 3M Gold Privacy Filters are widely available at Shop3M.com and other online retailers and range in price from $50 to $100 depending on screen size.

“As the first line of defense against 'wandering eyes' and over the shoulder snoops, 3M's privacy products for laptops, desktops and smartphones have consistently delivered exceptional privacy protection for hospitals, banks, government agencies, and any other businesses that handle confidential or sensitive information,” said Danielle Amsahr, marketing manager for 3M Privacy Filters. “The new 3M Gold offers businesses and individuals enhanced data protection with even more visual clarity for an enhanced user experience.”