Some of the very first pictures of the Gigabyte GN-MD300L-RH have been posted today from over at Computex 2009 in Taiwan! Gigabyte has been touting this as the “must-have” device for users to enjoy the leisure life since February 2009. Finally, we have some pictures of the blue 200mm x 200mm x 38mm prototype that has been developed! The heart of GN-MD300L-RH, Intel Media Processor CE 3100, is the first system-on-a-chip (SoC) based on Intel architecture for Internet-connected blu-ray players, advanced cable set top boxes, modular DTVs, and other connected CE products.

With Canmore, GN-MD300L-RH highly integrated device combines a high-performance IA processor core with leading-edge video decoding and processing hardware, a 3-channel DDR2-800 memory controller, dedicated multi-channel audio processing DSPs, a powerful 3D-graphics engine, a security processor and support for multiple peripherals. Simply put, customer could enjoy perfect AV experience while interacting with internet as well as sitting before personal computer. What's more, in addition to integrated Blu-ray player and DVB-T support for ultimate HD experience, HDMI Input interface expand horizon of Widget Channel Internet TV Platform to other devices with HDMI, and give you the best of the internet in perfect harmony with other applications such as game console, set top box, and so on.

Another one bites the dust, as they say. Though we can only imagine the demand for supercomputers is on the rise as more and more companies, institutions and universities look to crunch massive quantities of data, there’s apparently no room for SiCortex. The company, which angled itself as a different kind of supercomputer creator, has reportedly halted operations over the weekend according to an executive at the company. Further details aren’t being provided right now, but it’s widely assumed that the company

Say what you will, but Wolfenstein 3D is back in full force, in a way that Duke Nukem only wishes he could be. Just months after the heralded first-person shooter made its way onto Apple’s App Store, the classic title is now destined to waste even more time when it comes to Xbox LIVE Arcade and the PlayStation Network.Activision Publishing and id Software will be bringing the “legendary” title over to those two platforms on June 3rd (that’s Wednesday!), and even though graphics have advanced a wee bit since

Are you a university professor having trouble keeping track of which students are attending your classes and which ones are blowing them off? Well, Japan’s Aoyama Gakuin University has a plan for you, using one of the most desired electronic devices around to sucker, we mean, give students an incentive to attend. The plus of joining the project: a free iPhone. And while it’s sneaky, students have to know “how” to participate, so it’s not like the University can hide the way the project works. The project is

We’ve always been somewhat skeptical of these so-called “surveys.” With the proliferation of the Internet, it’s pretty easy to fetch any kind of results you could ever want, but we tend to feel that these findings are at least somewhat substantiated. As part of a new ‘Women & Digital Life’ study, researchers found that Apple was the most popular technology brand in America amongst the ladies. Surprised? We doubt it.The results showed that Apple took the top spot, with Sony, Microsoft, Dell and HP following

According to a report in the New York Times, Google has its sights trained squarely on the e-book market. This move would pit Google against Amazon.com, which has a big head start in the e-book market with the versions it sells for its Kindle device (pictured below). The report stated that Google had discussions with publishers at the annual BookExpo convention in New York over the weekend. Publishers might be happier with Google’s pricing structure than with Amazon.com’s. Amazon allows publishers set wholesale

Computex is just now kicking off in earnest over in Taiwan, and already NVIDIA is pushing out some rather significant server news. From the show floor in Taipei, the GPU maker is announcing the immediate availability of a new class of server that combines massively parallel Tesla GPUs with multi-core CPUs in a single 1U rack-mount server. According to the company, this setup delivers 12x the performance of a standard quad-core CPU-based 1U server.Supermicro is deemed the first to market with this device, and

Talk about being on a roll — Super Talent has been quite the busy bunch of late. After certifying its UltraDrive SSD line for use on Macs and introducing a promising 6TB SSD RAID server system, the company is back with yet another new revelation: the MasterDrive EX2 and MasterDrive IX2. Starting this week, the company will be shipping both of those lines of PATA/IDE 2.5″ SSDs, with feature MLC and SLC Flash and are said to “nearly triple” the previous performance specifications. The MasterDrive EX2 is available

Things are about to get a lot more cluttered in the netbook/smartphone/MID/UMPC space. As if that area wasn’t jam-packed enough, right? This past week, both Qualcomm and Freescale announced news that they would be supporting a new breed of devices entitled “smartbooks,” which would be positioned as smartphone complements and priced between the average handset and a netbook. So, why should you consider one of these “smartbooks” over a netbook?For starters, we’re told that these units — which will be shaped a

The Windows 7 team at Microsoft has been working closely with the Microsoft Surface team to bring multi-touch to Windows 7. Earlier this week, the Windows 7 Team blog unveiled the Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7. This Touch Pack includes three multi-touch optimized casual games and three Microsoft Surface applications for Windows 7.The Touch Pack is designed to showcase the capabilities of Windows Touch. Here’s a closer look at each of the applications:Microsoft Surface Globe uses the Virtual Earth 3D engine