Putting off those college applications to the last possible minute? Can’t get motivated to further your education? Well, have a look at what’s offered over at ACU. Years after Duke University began handing out iPods to incoming freshmen, Abilene Christian University in Texas has one-upped the aforesaid institution by distributing the new iPhone 3GS to new students for “mobile learning.” As the first college to do so, ACU has already handed out a wave of the handsets to incoming freshmen so that they can get

A vast majority of iPhone applications may end up abandoned, but we know of at least one app that a Los Angeles-based band simply can’t do without: FourTrack. As the iPhone continues to push the envelope of what’s possible on a smartphone, the band–which goes by ‘The 88’–has managed to record an entire track using Apple’s smartphone. It’s hard to believe, but it’s true.The app, which was crafted by Sonoma Wire Works, sparked an idea to jot down song ideas on the fly, and eventually the band simply used the

The Koolance CPU-LN2 is a “DIY” processor evaporator pot for liquid nitrogen or dry ice cooling. It features a nickel-plated solid copper cold plate that has been combined with a black acetal upper container. Read on to see how this extreme cooler does with DICE and LN2!

LaCie–a mainstay in the storage industry–has just broken all sorts of boundaries with its latest lineup. Hailed as the company’s “biggest storage solutions” yet, these 2U 19″ rack-mounted DAS, NAS, iSCSI, or FC SAN devices will far exceed the needs of most consumers. Indeed, LaCie’s aiming these squarely at the business and enterprise sectors, those where loads and loads of reliable storage are required to keep things humming along smoothly.The 12big Rack product range is an enterprise class 2U rack-mounted

The Obama administration will proceed with a Bush-era plan to use National Security Agency assistance in screening government computer traffic on private-sector networks, with AT&T as the likely test site, according to three current and former government officials. Part of an initiative known as Einstein 3, the plan called for telecommunications companies to route the Internet traffic of civilian agencies through a monitoring box that would search for and block computer codes designed to penetrate or otherwise compromise networks.

President Obama said in May that government efforts to protect computer systems from attack would not involve “monitoring private-sector networks or Internet traffic,” and Homeland Security Department officials say the new program will scrutinize only data going to or from government systems. But the program has provoked debate within DHS, the officials said, because of uncertainty about whether private data can be shielded from unauthorized scrutiny, how much of a role NSA should play and whether the agency's involvement in warrantless wiretapping during George W. Bush's presidency would draw controversy. The activities of any private citizen who visits a “dot-gov” Web site or sends an e-mail to a civilian government employee would be screened.

There’s been an ongoing discussion in the search community regarding the value of content on Twitter and how to capitalize on it, particularly since Twitter content can reflect instant public reactions and newsworthy events. As a way to add more real time data into its search results, Microsoft has started adding some Twitter posts to the search results you get when searching for some people using Bing.Sean Suchter, general manager of Microsoft’s Silicon Valley Search Technology Center, wrote on a company blog,

We’re still anxiously awaiting that Android-based netbook from BenQ, but until then, we’ve got yet another netbook in the company’s expanding Joybook line. Sporting a classic, all-black case, the Joybook Lite U102 boasts a larger-than-usual trackpad that we’re certainly falling for, an undisclosed Intel Atom processor, a 10.1″ UltraVivid WSVGA display (LED-backlit), a 250GB hard drive and a “petite” AC adapter.The machine weighs in at around 1kg (or 2.2 pounds), so it’s certainly one of the lightest ways to

AMD Phenom II CPU Multiplier, Vcore and fourth core unlocking @ ocinside and other reviews from around the web can be found by visiting our forums!

It is already well-known that one can unlock the fourth core of a triple core AMD Phenom II CPU. But during a test of the current ASRock A790GXH/128M motherboard at ocinside.de it was possible to unlock much more than this and that is a no April joke. The AMD Phenom II 710 X3 CPU became an Engineering Sample with four CPU cores, unlocked Vcore selection and unlocked multiplier !
All necessary BIOS settings for this modification are explained in the following AMD Phenom II unlock guide.

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The Ultra RangePlus Wireless-N Broadband Router is really three devices in one box. First, there’s the Wireless Access Point. Secondly there’s a built-in 4-port full-duplex 10/100 Switch. Finally, the Router function ties it all together. This deal ends 7/6/09 at 12:00pm ET.