Next time your college professor glances at his phone or stops to type something on his laptop, check your Twitter stream.A survey of about 1,958 higher education professionals – professors, instructors, deans and others – across the nation found that nearly a third are using Twitter in some way, shape or form. Even so, more than half said they had never used Twitter in any way, shape or form.Some highlights of the 20-page study, “Twitter in Higher Education: Usage Habits and Trends of Today’s College Faculty”:30.7

ASUS today announced the limited edition Republic of Gamers (ROG) MARS/2DI/4GD3 custom-built graphics cards as first showcased at Computex 2009 will soon be sold in North America on a first come, first served basis. Each graphics card will be assigned a unique serial number. With only 1000 units slated for production, the ASUS ROG MARS is a masterpiece of power and performance for the hardcore gamer and overclocker.

Breaking away from the standard GTX 295 reference design, ROG engineers implemented dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 GPUs, awe-inspiring 4GB onboard memory and the worlds first 1024-bit memory bandwidth to spawn the ROG MARS graphics card. 23% more powerful than conventional GTX 295 graphics cards, the ROG MARS graphics card also features an improved thermal design that boasts a 65% increase in heatpipe coverage and a 20% heat dissipation ratethus delivering extreme cooling, even during graphically intensive operations. With this exceptional innovation and design, gamers can realize ultra high resolution gaming with all graphics features maxed out – making every gamers dream a reality.

Enthusiast level hardware is exciting, especially if you can make use of its full potential. When Intel released the monster 3.33GHz Core i7 975 processor, they laid claim to the highest performing desktop CPU on the market. Interestingly enough, they were competing with themselves as the 3.2GHz 965 held the pole position up to that point. But the new model was welcome as it brought with it the new D0 stepping which lowered operating voltage requirements, tightened up memory timings and brought slightly cooler

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“A quick once-over of the basics of the Slayer Elemental gives us a pretty good first impression in all honesty. While AMD's Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition is no longer the CPU manufacturer's flagship processor it still isn't far off, while also holding plenty of overclocking headroom if that side of things floats your boat. 4GB of fast memory and a good quality ASUS motherboard both check their respective boxes, while the inclusion of a Radeon HD 4890 graphics board guarantees top-notch gaming performance on the 22″, 1920×1080 resolution provided with the system as standard.

The respective cherries on the top of this configuration are the use of CoolIT's great little Domino CPU water cooling system, and the inclusion of an SSD for the Elemental's system drive (more on that aspect of things later). Throw in a copy of Windows Vista Home Premium in its 64-bit flavour and a one year return to base warranty, and you're all set!”

Move over 5800, you’ve got company. Announced today, Nokia has issued yet another candybar-styled smartphone in its expanding touch phone range: the 5230. We have all ideas that Nokia would rename this should it ever be subsidized by a US carrier, but the four-number model name is a staple of its touch phones when released internationally and in unlocked form. What really makes this unit different than the 5800 before it is the price and intended market. For the first time, Nokia is hoping to tempt lower-end

The new ASUS EeeTop PC ET20/22 Series is a range of touch-enabled, all-in-one PCs that provides users with the fundamentals of everyday computing and multimedia entertainment in an elegant space-saving design. Its forte lies in its ability to provide users with the ultimate home entertainment experience. The EeeTop PC ET22 and EeeTop PC ET20 feature a flushed 22-inch and 20-inch touch-enabled display respectively that provides high definition images through the use of state-of-the-art graphics processors.

The ASUS EeeTop ET20/22 Series delivers high definition multimedia entertainment at a touch. Users can choose between a 20-inch or 22-inch flushed high definition display with a 16:9 aspect ratio. The ASUS EeeTop ET20/22 Series features a dedicated ATI Radeon HD4570 or NVIDIA ION graphics processor to deliver clear and vibrant true-to-life images, while a pair of embedded Hi-Fi speakers with SRS Premium Sound delivers an immersive virtual surround sound experience. Users can watch high definition movies on Blu-ray via a Blu-ray disc drive.

EVGA released its 16th iteration of the SLI Enhancement Patch, a piece of software that adds new SLI profiles of recently launched games to the NVIDIA GeForce driver. You only need this enhancement if you run SLI, and are playing one of the above games. SLI profiles are application-specific bits of software that let the application take advantage of two or more NVIDIA GPUs in SLI, or on dual-GPU cards.

EVGA SLI Enhancement Patch v16 (08.25.09) is based on GeForce 190.62 drivers, and enables SLI support for Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood Demo, apart from the numerous new game titles the driver brings in support for, including Wolfenstien Multiplayer, Allods: Online, Battlefield 1943, BioShock 2: Sea of Dreams, Cities XL, Death to Spies: Moment of Truth, Empire: Time of Troubles, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Mini Ninjas, Risen, Saboteur, Star Wars Clone Wars: Republic Heroes, and Tales of Monkey Island.

A new report again brings up the oft-asked question, “is there a link between cell phone use and brain tumors,” also known as “do cell phones cause brain cancer?” What’s most interesting is that the report additionally details eleven design flaws of the 13-country, Telecom-funded Interphone study, which was intended to determine the risks of brain tumors with cell phone use, though its full publication has been held up for years. Similar to just about anything (think of the dueling experts usually brought in

Delivering on its promise to give consumers a variety of choices, Sony today announced the third member of its new Reader family the Reader Daily Edition, a highly-anticipated wireless model with 3G connectivity. The Daily Edition caps its new line of Reader products, joining the Reader Pocket Edition and the Reader Touch Edition which were announced earlier this month. The Reader Touch Edition features a responsive, menu-driven six-inch touch screen panel that enables quick, intuitive navigation, page turning, highlighting and note taking with the swipe of a finger or by using the included stylus pen. It comes in red, black or silver and retails for about $299.

The Reader Daily Edition gives consumers wireless access via AT&Ts 3G mobile broadband network to Sonys eBook store from just about anywhere in the U.S. Book lovers will be able to browse, purchase and download books as well as select newspapers and magazines when and where they want. There are no monthly fees or transaction charges for the basic wireless connectivity and users still have the option to side load personal documents or content from other compatible sites via USB.

QNAP Systems, Inc. today announced a hardware specification change to the popular 8-bay TS-809 Pro Turbo NAS server. QNAP has adopted the Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8 GHz CPU which will significantly improve the performance of the TS-809 Pro for data intensive corporate and entry-level enterprise and data center customers.

QNAP TS-809 Pro Turbo NAS is the world's first 8-bay network attached storage server which incorporates vertically mounted hot-swappable SATA hard drives, with up to 16TB storage capacity, RAID 0/1/5/6/5+spare, Online RAID Capacity Expansion, Online RAID Level Migration, and other advanced features such as built-in iSCSI target with Thin Provisioning, AES 256-bit volume-based encryption, automatic policy-based IP blocking, volume status report, syslog server, schedule on and off, Wake on LAN, instant SMS alert, and 4 IP cameras for network surveillance etc.