Todays students and young professionals need a versatile notebook that can serve as their workhorse by day and entertainment center at night. The new Dell Studio 14z powered by the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor provides a perfect blend of performance and portability with graphics support for gaming, HD video, and creative self-expression. Starting at only $649, the Studio 14z is said to be the most affordable GeForce 9400M GPU-based notebook in North America.

The GeForce 9400M in the Dell Studio 14z delivers up to five times faster graphics performance than Centrino 2 notebooks to accelerate image editing, video playback, and video conversion. With vReveal, the Studio 14z can fix grainy, shaky video twice as fast as comparable notebooks, and then let you upload the video to YouTube in minutes.

Marvell Technology Group Ltd., which makes chips used in phone networks, said Thursday it fell to a loss in the fiscal first quarter as sales plunged 35 percent. The company lost $39.5 million, or 6 cents per share, in the quarter ended May 2, compared with net income of $69.9 million, or 11 cents per share, a year earlier.

Marvell said it would have earned $31.9 million, or 5 cents per share, after excluding $62 million in stock-based compensation expenses and write-offs of acquired intangible assets, plus other items. A year earlier, the comparable profit figure, which doesn't conform to generally accepted accounting principles, was $150.4 million, or 24 cents per share.

Waiting for official, non-TechNet, non-MSDN access to Windows Vista SP2? Well, you can now download it. Remember, this is a combined service pack for both Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Service Pack 1 is a prerequisite for installing Service Pack 2. Highlights of the changes, many of which have already been delivered separately, include: Windows Search 4.0 for faster and improved relevancy in searches Bluetooth 2.1 Feature Pack supporting the most recent specification for Bluetooth Technology Ability

Wikipedia has decided enough is enough. After too many self-serving edits by the Church of Scientology, Wikipedia has decided to ban edits from IP addresses owned or operated by the Church of Scientology and its associates.Here’s a word for the church though: proxy server. At any rate, regardless of whether or not the Church manages to get around the ban, this is an unprecedented move. The “trial,” played out on an arbitration page, took more than five months. The Arbitration Committee voted 10 to 0 (with one

We haven’t seen anything new from Razer since the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, but the company is stepping up big for the gaming crowd with its newest mousepad. Designed for those who hate feeling as if their frag-machine is on a raised surface, the Sphex “gaming grade desktop skin” is reportedly the planet’s thinnest gaming surface.Designed to handle both optical and laser mice and constructed from high-grade durable material, the Razer Sphex allows gamers to wipe or wash the product repeatedly without

We haven’t seen anything new from Razer since the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, but the company is stepping up big for the gaming crowd with its newest mousepad. Designed for those who hate feeling as if their frag-machine is on a raised surface, the Sphex “gaming grade desktop skin” is reportedly the planet’s thinnest gaming surface.Designed to handle both optical and laser mice and constructed from high-grade durable material, the Razer Sphex allows gamers to wipe or wash the product repeatedly without

It’s becoming more and more common that U.S. Customs agents are finding smuggled drugs in shipments traveling to the U.S. from Mexico. Electronics manufacturers are among the mix of manufacturers who have been targeted by various smuggling and hijacking attempts. Last month, U.S. Customs agents got a surprise when they checked a trailer of an 18-wheel truck. The truck was crossing into El Paso, Texas from Mexico. It contained more than 9,000 pounds of marijuana that was hidden among auto parts bound for U.S.

Super Talent Technology introduced faster and larger capacity upgrade modules for the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 netbook PC today. The modules come in two form factors, the standard Half Mini PCIe form factor and Super Talent's innovative Double Wide Half Mini PCIe form factor. Both families of products feature a custom IDE/PATA interface used in the Mini 9 netbook. Pricing starts at $74.99 for the 16GB version and goes up from there.

“For the first time ever Mini 9 users can upgrade their netbooks with a high performance 128GB SSD without any case modifications. We installed the hardware in less than 60 seconds and reinstalled the operating system in less than 30 minutes. We started thinking about how we could better solve our customers' problems, when we saw them posting videos online sawing their case apart to put in larger SSDs. So we innovated and invented the Double Wide Half Mini PCIe form factor to make upgrading to a high capacity SSD a whole lot easier.”

Following in the footsteps of the revolutionary MOTORAZR phone, the new ultra-sleek MOTOKRZR introduces a new standard of stunning style and innovation. Sharp and sophisticated with a luxurious finish and detailed craftsmanship, the MOTOKRZR is the definitive mobile for individuals who have an appreciation for cutting edge designs. This deal ends Friday at 12:00pm ET.

Media giant Time Warner announced Thursday morning that it will cast off its AOL division to become a standalone company. Before that separation can take place, Time Warner will buy the 5 percent of AOL owned by Google so that it will have 100 percent control of AOL. Time Warner expects the transaction with Google to take place in the third quarter and the final AOL spinoff around the end of the year.

The separation of AOL from Time Warner will put a final nail in the coffin of one of the emblematic mergers of the dot-com boom and bust. Brimming with the abundant funds and hyper-optimism of the Web's go-go years, AOL–then known as America Online–acquired Time Warner in January 2001 to create the world's largest media company. Within a year, however, it was already apparent that the union of new and old media was not as “supercharged” as its backers had promised.