Go figure — one thing that’s not ailing in this economy is something that many, on the surface, would assume one could live without. As mobile data usage rises, a great deal of that comes from the average smartphone. In a new report from The New York Times, we’re forced to think about just how much of a necessity these ultra-smart cellphones have become. Just five years ago, these things were simple luxuries. Now, they are practically needed for super-efficient businesspeople. One example of just how useful

Gigabyte gives us a look at another AMD socket AM3 based motherboard, the GA-MA770T-UD3P. This time, we get to see how the AMD770 chipset with the SB710 southbridge stack up against 790FX and 790GX motherboards. Will the AMD 770 powered board be able to hang at all? That is what we intend to find out!

Well, isn’t this something? We knew that Palm was looking to reinvent itself after the Centro, and that was never more apparent than when the slipping company managed to convince Apple’s own Jon Rubinstein to step in and take on a high-level management position. Jon is largely credited with putting the wind back in Palm’s sails and pushing the company to engineer the company’s recently launched Pre. Thus, it should come as no surprise to see many similarities between the iPhone and the Pre. Heck, the Pre is

EVGA has developed the EVGA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition graphics card. The card is designed to work with 2008 and 2009-era Mac Pro systems. It sports 1GB of DDR3 memory on board and offers two DVI ports, each capable of driving a 30-inch display at 2560 x 1600 resolution. As you would guess from its name, the card is based on Nvidia’s GeForce 285 graphics chip. The card will cost $450. Read on for full details in the press release below. EVGA Announces the EVGA GTX 285 Mac Edition EVGA Corporation, the leading-edge

The Folding Team of Legit Reviews has completed over 170,788 individual work units for the Folding@Home distributed computing project! The goal of this project is to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases. By completing over 170,788 work units the team has helped the project by getting work units completed in a timely manner. If you'd like to join Legit Folding Team 38296 please head on over and download the client and enter 38296 as your team number. If you get stuck head over to the forums where our current team members can help you out!

Folding@home is a distributed computing project — people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer takes the project closer to our goals. Folding@home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems millions of times more challenging than previously achieved.

It looks like TomTom won’t be the only manufacturer offering a GPS app for the iPhone. Navigon recently announced plans to offer two GPS applications for the iPhone this summer. One version of the Navigon app will offer turn by turn directions as well as many of the high-end features found on a portable navigation device such as views of highway signs at complex intersections and lane guidance. The Lite version of the software will offer map views and points of interest but no turn by turn directions. Michael

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Autonet Mobile has been around for years, believe it or not. We know — it’s not like you’ve actually seen Wi-Fi in too many cars, but the company has been installing its services in vehicles for quite some time. Just recently, however, the service has begun to gain real traction in America, and we don’t think it’s a coincidence that inflight Wi-Fi has caught on at the same time. Let’s face it: individuals are finding it harder and harder to live without a Web connection, so it’s a golden opportunity for companies

OCZ Technology Introduces the Agility Series 2.5” Solid State DrivesThe latest Affordable Storage Solution for Mainstream Users San Jose, CA – OCZ Technology Group, Inc., a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory and computer components, today released the OCZ Agility SATA II 2.5” Solid State Drive (SSD) Series, an affordable offering for mainstream notebook and desktop users demanding the latest technology in this fast-developing sector of the storage market.

New Extended Cooling Fins give Corsair Dominator Memory Aggressive New Look- Upgraded cooling fins available for Dominator memory using DHX+ technology – Fremont, CA. June 10th, 2009 – Corsair, a worldwide leader in high-performance computer memory, power supplies and flash memory products, including solid-state drives, today announced the launch of Corsair Extended Cooling Fins for triple-channel Dominator and Dominator GT memory kits using Corsair’s DHX+ technology. Corsair memory modules using DHX+ (Dual-path