Google launched its Chrome browser about eight months ago. Since the browser was released, Google has been receiving quite a bit of feedback and feature requests. The company has responded to some of those requests by adding new features and increasing its focus on speed. Some of the new improvements suggested from users made it into the beta version that was released in March. Since then, Google has continued to improve the beta. Now, Google has moved the beta version of the browser to the stable channel for

What appears to be an official Sprint Palm Pre “Launch Guide” has now apparently been leaked in full. The first appearance of the document was at the Precentral forums, by a poster who said “The rep sent me a Pre Launch Guide intended for Sprint internal use only.” The 23-page document has a lot of what can only be called “advertising,” but in addition, it has a great deal of interesting information. Employees are our best advocates; however, due to anticipated high demand, employee availability will be delayed

Last week AMD organized a small overclocking event for a group of overclockers from North America. Hosted at AMD's facility in Austin, Texas, the event was arranged to match competitive overclockers with the best silicon coming out of AMD's fabs in hopes of breaking some records and possibly hitting 7GHz.

The Pope has embraced social networking. No, you can’t poke him or send him a private message, but the Vatican has indeed launched a Facebook page for the Pope as well as a Facebook application called “The Pope meets you on Facebook” which will allow users to “receive the messages of Pope Benedict XVI through the most important social network of the world” (MySpace, you’ve been dissed).  It’s an interesting move, because earlier this year, Pope Benedict XVI warned against the dangers of possibly becoming

Sotec, a brand that primarily stays in Japan behind parent company Onkyo, has just issued a new netbook that takes a unique approach on things. For starters, it includes a 32GB SSD, which is rather large compared to other netbook-bound SSDs. The DC204A3 also features a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processor, Intel’s 945GSE graphics chipset, 1GB of memory and a 10.1″ display with a typical 1,024 x 600 resolution. Otherwise, the machine’s pretty standard. It’s got Windows XP Home SP3, a few USB 2.0 sockets, audio input

All those cell phones, Kindles, PCs, laptops, televisions, iPods and everything else that needs to plugged in, charged up and otherwise re-energized are gobbling up 15 percent of household power. In another 20 years, that figure is expected to triple, necessitating a lot more generating capacity. A study by the International Energy Agency reported those results. All hope was not lost, however – the data was based on current energy needs of all the gadgets. If newer generations continue to be refined and made

Generally speaking, cellphone carriers aren’t looking out for consumers. In fact, many customers would argue that they’re simply out to get them, tacking on as many fees as possible while offering lackluster service and coverage. Thus, it’s quite surprising to see this. U.S. Cellular, a small, regional CDMA carrier in America, has just launched a new battery swap program that we can only hope the “big boys” learn from.Put simply, the Battery Swap program enables its customers to simply come into any USCC store

Acer announced the new Acer Aspire easyStore Home Server for customers in the US. In addition to targeting home users, Acer is also hoping small businesses that need to network multiple PCs will be interested in the new server. The easyStore Home Server will run Microsoft Windows Home Server. The server will let users access files and documents on any other computer connected to the network. It will also create an image-based backup of each PC on a daily basis. For quick file uploading, the easyStore Home Server

For the business traveler (and the traveler in general, really), Wi-Fi is important — crucial, even. But more important than sustenance? That’s exactly what was found in a recent survey by American Airlines and HP, where some 47% of business travelers responded that Wi-Fi was the “most important airport amenity, outscoring basic travels needs such as food by nearly 30 percentage points.” The online study gathered results from 1,500 frequent travelers who log more than 20 trips a year on three or more airlines,

Those wondering how much Windows 7 is going to set them back have only a few weeks longer to wait – the prices for the six SKUs are expected to be revealed in mid-June.TechARP said retailers were finding out prices this month and the public prices would be released next month. Retailers had to sign non-disclosure agreements to keep the prices under wraps until Microsoft makes the official announcement.Though there are six versions of Windows 7, Microsoft has said there are two primary versions that should suit