The FS-C1-VP-BX2 (Film & Slide Digital Converter) features a 5 Mega pixels CMOS sensor, has a Fno=2.0, Half-field angle = 150, 4 glass elements Lens and automatic exposure control. This deal ends Wednesday at 12:00pm ET.

Microsoft on Tuesday notified more than 3,000 workers that it was eliminating their jobs. The software maker said in January that it would cut up to 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months. It made 1,400 cuts at the time. With the second wave of notifications on Tuesday, Microsoft has cut nearly all 5,000 jobs already.

“As part of the plan we announced in January to reduce costs and increase efficiencies, today we are eliminating additional positions across several areas of the company,” Microsoft said in a public statement confirming the cuts. “While job eliminations are always difficult, we are taking these necessary actions in response to the global economic downturn.”

MSI is at it again, today unleashing a pair of new gaming notebooks that are quite difficult to differentiate at first glance. We’ll start with the GX623, which arrives with the company’s exclusive Turbo Drive Engine that enables one-touch access to overclocking. On the flip-side, the unit also includes an ECO Engine that enables it to conserve power when less intensive applications are running.Specs wise, it features a 15.4″ LCD, an ATI Radeon HD4670 graphics card (512MB of DDR3 RAM), a built-in S/PDIF audio

When a traditional hard drive doesn’t offer enough bandwidth to meet your needs, many users turn to solid state disks, or SSDs. These storage devices are built using memory chips. The downside is that these disks are typically very expensive.  SSDs are available with flash memory that can retain content when power is lost, but the drives often use volatile DRAM memory to achieve the best possible performance. DDRdrive’s latest offering provides users with the benefits of both types of memory. DDRdrive recently

Over the weekend, we held the official Unreal Tournament 3 deathmatch for our AMD-sponsored Economic Stimulus Sweepstakes to determine which prize packages were distributed to the five lucky winners. We left a practice server up and running for the days leading up to the official match, so the winners could hone their skills. And when all was said and done, only a couple of kills separated the grand prize winner from the runners up.Here’s what the final scoreboard looked like at the end of the match: Grand Prize

Lian Li launches ARMORSUIT PC-P50R Gaming Mid Tower ChassisFeature Packed RED Aluminum Chassis 5 May 2009, Keelung, Taiwan – Lian-Li Industrial Co. Ltd has launched the ARMORSUIT SERIES PC-P50R Mid Tower chassis ideal for gaming systems. The hair-line brushed all aluminum chassis features advanced thermal dynamics, using one fan on the front (1x 120mm@1200RPM), plus dual vibration reduced top mounted fans (2x 140mm@1000RPM) and one rear 120mm@1500RPM extraction fan. The 8x PCI expansion slots enable CrossFireX

Sapphire Radeon HD 4770 512MB and CrossFire performance review @ Elite Bastards and other reviews from around the web can be found by visiting our forums!

“At idle, our system when coupled with the Sapphire Radeon HD 4770 uses around 135 Watts of power, which increases to 170 Watts in a CrossFire configuration, almost identical to the power consumption of a single Radeon HD 4890. During video playback the Radeon HD 4890 actually uses slightly less power than our CrossFire setup, with a single Radeon HD 4770 board consuming a tad under 150 Watts.

Finally, rendering an intensive 3D rendering workload, a single Radeon HD 4770 in league with our Core i7 system uses 185 Watts, which rises to 258 Watts in a CrossFire configuration, less than the Radeon HD 4890's 275 Watt consumption under load.”

Many consider the Firefox extensions Adblock Plus and NoScript in positive ways.  We’ve also indicated that the extension system on Firefox is one reason we’re not looking to change to Chrome; we have too many extensions to do so. But one problem is that there’s no current way, except for ads or donations, for developers to monetize their creations. And here we are. Adblock Plus does just what it sounds like it does: blocks ads. NoScript relies is designed to block browser scripting and plugins, adding

We do our best to protect our cameras, cell phones, MP3 players, and other electronics from extreme weather conditions, drops, force, and water. It makes sense to do so, given that most of these gadgets don’t stand a chance against a bucket of water, accidental drop, or extreme temperatures. Realizing that life brings its fair share of bumps, spills, and accidents, Olympus has launched an entire line of digital cameras that are designed to take a licking and keep on ticking.The Olympus Stylus Tough-8000 is the

Slim, Cool and Silent MSI unveils N285GTX HydroGen graphics card Micro-Star International (MSI), global brand manufacturer of high-end graphics cards and professional mainboard, today announced their latest N285GTX HydroGen graphics cards series. The MSI N285GTX is equipped with the exclusive all-copper Micro Channel water cooling. This solution provides the lowest operating temperature while staying absolutely calm, is a scarcely seen high-end solution for GTX285 powered graphics cards on today’s market. All-Copper,