We’ve said before that releasing the Pre after WWDC, which takes place starting June 9th, would be a big mistake. Reinforcing a prior rumor that the Palm Pre would launch on June 7th is a new one, which states that Best Buy will have stock on June 8th.However, accoding to BGR, what Best Buy, Palm, and Sprint may call “stock” may be as few as one Pre per store, also known as “whoopee!”According to the report, Best Buy will be a limited set of Pre handsets for a “trial launch.”  There will be 4,500 units

We wrote earlier that Apple has called jailbreaking “illegal.” At the same time, however, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed comments with the Copyright Office asking for an exemption to the DMCA so that cell phone owners can unlock their phones (their “Free Your Phone” campaign), as well as be able to legally “jailbreak” their iPhones. On Friday, the Copyright Office held the first of its hearings in the triennial exemption process. Scheduled to appear was Apple Vice President of iPod and iPhone

If you need any proof that while some states have such laws, we should probably have a federal law against text messaging while driving (or maybe even some technology), here’s a great example. This bus driver, in San Antonio, TX, is trying to text, while driving disabled passengers to their destination. He pulls the phone out, and starts texting, and boom: right into the rear of another car. Fortunately, it was all captured on tape, and the guy has lost his job. Let’s hope he doesn’t get another one driving

If you need any proof that while some states have such laws, we should probably have a federal law against text messaging while driving (or maybe even some technology), here’s a great example. This bus driver, in San Antonio, TX, is trying to text, while driving disabled passengers to their destination. He pulls the phone out, and starts texting, and boom: right into the rear of another car. Fortunately, it was all captured on tape, and the guy has lost his job. Let’s hope he doesn’t get another one driving

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Video:ATI Radeon HD 4770 @ InsideHWViewSonic VX2433wm 23.6-inch Widescreen HD LCD Monitor Review @ ThinkComputers.orgHIS Radeon HD 4770 (512Mb GDDR5) @ CPU3DAMD’s Radeon HD 4770 graphics processor @ TR-NewsMotherboards and Chipsets:Intel DX58SO X58 Express Chipset Motherboard Review @ Legit ReviewsFoxconn Quantum Force X58 Flaming Blade Motherboard @ TweaktownAsus Rampage II Gene Review @ NeoseekerHigh-Performance Mini-ITX Platforms Comparison @ XBitLabsProcessors:AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 3.2 GHz Socket

There’s no denying that the 3D arena is just blowing up these days, and Vuzix is definitely making a name for itself. The company famous for producing those wacky eye goggles has just announced that it has expanded its 3D support to include field sequential, side by side and 3 formats of anaglyph on its AV Video Eyewear products.There’s also a new Auto 3D sensing feature enables Vuzix video eyewear to immediately determine a 3D video format and effortlessly configure the eyewear for 3D display of your chosen

Just in case you haven’t heard, the Windows 7 Release Candidate is scheduled to hit on Tuesday, May 5. In addition to numerous bug fixes and usability tweaks since the original public beta, Microsoft has also incorporated a number of personalization options. In a note on the Windows Engineering blog, MS had this to say…”One of the most exciting parts of engineering Windows 7 has been the wide variety of work that gets done over the course of a full product cycle. As evidenced by the variety of topics just

It has been quite some time since we’ve heard of any new wares coming from Patriot Memory, but today the outfit is joining the quickly growing solid state drive market with a trio of devices. The company is debuting its Fusion SSD Series, a name that likely rings a bell for those familiar with the NAND Flash industry.”By the addition of the DRAM cache, the Fusion greatly increases the random and sequential read and write transfer rates,” according to Meng J. Choo, Patriot’s Flash Product Manager. He goes on

The MacBook Air is sort of an “edgy” laptop, but in this case an owner frustrated with Apple’s handling of the much-publicized Rev. A MacBook Air hinge problems, has decided to take a knife to the beast. According to “Haurum,” who posted the video on YouTube, the MacBook Air sucks … so don’t buy one. In the video he indicates that he and six of this friends who also own the slim, highly desired laptop (although he calls it a piece of crap, instead), all have had the broken hinge problem noted above. The biggest