Can you feel the excitement? We can. USB 3.0 is inching closer and closer to reality, which means your current PC is inching closer and closer to being a token of yesteryear. USB 2.0 has been around for years now, and by and large, it has been sufficient. Transfer rates are fairly quick, and industry support couldn’t be higher.But hey, this industry is all about progress, and we aren’t about to complain about newfound speed. The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) today announced the availability of the USB 3.0

When a company calls its next product the “ultimate networking machine,” we take notice. Coming from Netgear, the RangeMax Dual Band Wireless-N Gigabit Router (model number WNDR3700), is now shipping across the globe. The device not only routes Internet traffic, but it’s also equipped with ReadyShare in order to place any USB hard drive on one’s network.There’s also broadband usage metering as well as Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) support, and inside it’s equipped with a 680MHz processor. Netgear promises

WD LAUNCHES HIGH-PERFORMANCE, 7200 RPM 2 TB HARD DRIVES FOR DESKTOP AND ENTERPRISE SYSTEMSWD Caviar Black and WD RE4 Four-platter Hard Drives Set New Benchmarks in High-Feature, High Performance Storage LAKE FOREST, Calif. – Sept. 1, 2009 – WD (NYSE: WDC) today announced that it is now shipping desktop 7200 RPM 2 TB hard drives and is qualifying with OEMs enterprise-class hard drives based on WD’s 500 gigabytes-per-platter technology. The popular family of WD Caviar Black drives, now led by the new 2 TB capacity,

Google’s Chrome exited beta last December, well ahead of when you might normally expect a Google product to do so. It wasn’t, however, because the browser was necessarily ready for prime time; it was because OEMs would not pre-install a beta product on their computers, and Google longed for those deals. It’s finally managed to ink such a deal, with Sony. Google spokesperson Eitan Bencuya said the deal went into effect his summer. No details were given, such as financial terms (which we wouldn’t have expected),

Today we look at the second generation Mugen, or Infinity, cooler from Scythe. In a nearly 1-year development period, the concept of Mugen was completely revised and further developed. Mugen 2 is based on the latest cooling technology and was produced using highest Japanese quality standards. Let’s see how the new and improved Mugen 2 handles our Intel Core i7 test system.

Canon just announced the new EOS 7D DSLR with a fast burst rate of eight fps continuous shooting, 18-megapixel resolution, and Full HD video recording with variable frame rates and manual exposure controls. Other enhancements to the EOS 7D include a completely new 19-point Autofocus system, a new Canon iFCL Metering System (Intelligent Focus, Color, Luminance), and a new Intelligent Viewfinder. Canon’s CMOS sensor and the Dual DIGIC 4 Imaging Processors in the EOS 7D make it possible for the camera to capture

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We knew it was coming, and probably in September.  But today, Sprint took all the fun out of guessing by unveiling its version of the HTC Touch Pro2 Windows Mobile Smartphone (Windows Phone).

The press release names September 8 as the day the new smartphone will go on sale via its web site and phone sales department, with in-store availability to follow.

The Sprint HTC Touch Pro2 will sell for $449 with a $100 mail-in rebate, bringing the final price to a whopping $349; fortunately, like the T-Mobile version of the Touch Pro2 (which also sells for $350) third-party retailers are likely to offer this new Windows Phone for much less within a couple of weeks of its release.

Learn More: Full Details, Specs on the Sprint HTC Touch Pro2

Source: Sprint Press Release

Legit Reviews just found out that Keith Suppe, who was one of our writers back in 2005, recently passed away due to some health issues. Keith wrote a number of reviews for LR back in 2005 and he passed away before 50, which is way too young. Keith often told me about his crazy life when he worked at Studio 54 in New York at it's peak and how it changed his life forever. He was a good guy and his mark on the hardware industry will live on.

I started life late, as I left school at a young age, due to some family problems, and I guess wanting to rebel against my family's belief money meant everything. Being young and wild I loved the NYC nightlife, and ended up working lighting systems, and sound systems at various dance-clubs. I awoke at 24-years old, from what was really 10-years of addiction, and trauma associated with it. I guess hanging out in NYC after-hour night clubs, i was living in a surreal world. A lot of Artists, and people with money, all wanting to escape in music, drugs, and drinking. It took it's toll, and I knew I was getting old, and feeling very bad about myself. I got into some very intense therapy, and immediately pursued my education.

On Monday, Rockstar Games, the developers behind the Grand Theft Auto series, announced that Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars will be coming to the iPhone and iPod Touch this fall. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is currently available on the Nintendo DS. It’s coming to the Sony PlayStation Portable in October. Price for the iPhone version? Currently unknown, and of course the app will have to make it past the App Store’s approval process. While it’s unclear if Rockstar has gotten pre-approval for the game,