In the latest Big Brother-ish story to hit, a developer has discovered that the Palm Pre and Palm webOS know way too much about him than he wants. Not only does it upload location-based information to Palm, it also uploads data about his application usage. webOS also reports back crash log information to Palm. Of course, many PCs and smartphones do this as well. It would surprise us if you have never seen a request to send crash data to Microsoft on Windows or Windows Mobile. Thing is, in those cases, you usually

Facebook is in the process of testing a simplified version of its social network service called Facebook Lite. The Lite version offers faster load times and a slimmed-down user interface with basic functionality including the ability to make comments, accept friend requests, write on walls, and view photos. Facebook Lite is similar to the mobile version of Facebook. From screen captures, we see that Facebook Lite has a single column display of Wall posts with three buttons at the top that let you write messages

Corsair Launches World’s Fastest High Capacity USB Flash Drive – 128GB Voyager GT performance limited only by speed of USB 2.0 bus – Fremont, CA. August 13th, 2009 – Corsair, a worldwide leader in high-performance computer memory, power supplies and flash memory products, including solid-state drives, today announced the 128GB Flash Voyager GT, the world’s fastest 128GB USB flash drive.The newest Flash Voyager GT is based upon a revolutionary design that employs a unique dual-controller architecture to

MSI US Launches Five New C-Series Notebooks CITY OF INDUSTRY, CA – August 13, 2009 – MSI Computer, a leading manufacturer of computer hardware products and solutions, is excited to announce the five newest editions to its Classic C Series Line of Notebooks – the CX600, CX700, CR600-013, CR600-017 and CR700. The 600 models are lightweight 16 inch notebooks that weigh in at just 5.4 pounds and are only 1.18 inches thick – 20 percent thinner than the average 16 inch notebook. The 700 models are 17.3 inches and

More than half of computer viruses last a mere 24 hours.Panda Security’s malware detection laboratory, PandaLabs, has been analyzing the nearly 37,000 samples of new viruses, worms, Trojans and other security threats that it receives each day and found that 52 percent of them work for just 24 hours. “After that timeframe, they become inactive and harmless as they are replaced by other, new variants that join the list of new specimens in circulation,” according to PandaLabs.Of course, that still means that about

Motherboard makers believe the desktop PC market is unlikely to see any dramatic comeback in the future despite Intel's recently held summit in China to discuss strategies to improve the market.

Motherboard makers had already expected the market to drop for awhile and so have been focusing on diversification into different markets for some time. However, motherboard makers believe Intel's effort may still slow down the decline of the desktop PC market.

Corsair today announced the 128GB Flash Voyager GT, the worlds fastest 128GB USB flash drive. The newest Flash Voyager GT is based upon a revolutionary design that employs a unique dual-controller architecture to achieve SLC-levels of performance using MLC NAND flash memory. The 128GB Flash Voyager GT is able to achieve read speeds of up to 32MB/sec and write speeds of up to 25.6MB/sec, with the limiting factor effectively being the speed of the USB 2.0 bus and operating system overhead.

High performance is a key requirement for super-high capacity flash drives, such as the 128GB Voyager GT, simply because it is able to store such a large volume of data, said John Beekley, the VP of Applications at Corsair. The 128GB Voyager GT is nearly twice as fast as other high-capacity flash drives, which means less time waiting for your music, video or office files to copy to and from the drive.

AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition AM3 CPU @ Benchmark Reviews and other reviews from around the web can be found by visiting our forums!

Back in April, Benchmark Reviews covered the release of AMD's flagship quad-core processor, the Phenom II X4 955 BE. Nearly four months later, we have that opportunity once again. Today, we look at the new king of the mountain over at the AMD, the Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition processor model HDZ965FBGIBOX. Coming in at 3.4GHz, it not only bests the previous flagship model by 200Mhz, but also happens to be the highest clocked CPU on the market. In today's review, we find out how well that extra clockspeed translates to performance.

Less than two weeks after another hot issue (pun intended) regarding exploding devices, Apple is back in the news again. In this case, unlike the prior incident, where the owner was unhurt, the victim suffered eye injuries. The incident occurred in Aix-en-Provence in southern France. According to the victim’s mother, the iPhone began “hissing” and the screen suddenly broke, sending shards flying. Marie-Dominique Kolega, who contacted Apple over the incident, said: “My son was frightened but he did not lose an

You know, we’d really hate to be in charge of the “innovation department” that’s responsible for making keyboards better. Like, how do you make a keyboard significantly better than the last one without creating a new way for humans to type? It’s like telling someone to make Pepsi better–just can’t do it!Thankfully, the engineers over in Logitech’s labs are apparently quite a bit smarter than us (or just really good at their jobs…or both), because they’ve actually managed to produce a keyboard that’s not only