Today AMD is celebrating its 40th anniversary and to celebrate how far theyve come since the days of summer love and bell bottoms they want to give back to their fans and your readers for helping them reach this important milestone. In a series of contest giveaways that will take place over the coming months, AMD will be giving away more than 80 prizes ranging from smoking hot AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition processors to ultrathin notebooks to Xbox 360s.

For the first half of the contest, we challenge AMD enthusiasts to submit a video (no longer than 60 seconds) wishing AMD a happy 40th anniversary in the most creative way possible. All imaginative manifestations are welcome, but the one requirement is that the video must somehow say, Happy 40th Anniversary AMD. Three grand prize winners will each receive a high-end ATI Radeon HD 4890 graphics card, and 40 first place winners will receive an ATI Radeon 4650 graphics card.

Corsair announced two new 16GB flash drives today. The new high-performance 16GB Flash Voyager GT uses specially selected, hand-screened MLC NAND flash memory in a dual-channel configuration. Corsair combines this memory with a high-speed controller IC in order to deliver rapid read and write speeds that are significantly faster than most USB drives. The new 16GB Flash Voyager GT uses Corsair’s water- and shock-resistant all-rubber casing. Corsair also expanded its best-selling Flash Voyager Mini product family

These days, most every hard drive, SSD and flash drive functions just fine on Macs, PCs and Linux machines. For whatever reason, Kingston Technology’s DataTraveler Vault Privacy Edition lacked that OS X friendliness — until now, that is. At long last, the company has made this highly secretive drive compatible with Macs boasting OS X 10.4x through 10.5x. Mark Akoubian, Flash memory business manager at the company, explained the move as such: “Our DataTravelerenterprise and government customers who use Windows-based

The stylish, Lenovo 3000 V200 0764-2XU Laptop Computer is designed to meet the needs of very mobile professionals seeking an ultra-portable widescreen notebook. This deal ends Friday at 12:00pm ET.

On the road? Don’t leave the office without the tools you need to get the job done. The HP Notebook On The Run Bundlegives you the resources to protect your notebook as well as offers you the convenience of on-the-go accessories. This deal ends Friday at 12:00pm ET.

In what was very likely an “oops” moment, online retailer eCOST.com listed a brand-new version of Hewlett-Packard’s MediaSmart Server line, the budget-minded LX195, before HP ever publicly acknowledged the product’s existence. Rumors and unsubstantiated photos of the LX195 have been appearing online these last few weeks, but yesterday’s premature product announcement from eCOST.com was the first real-world indication of the product’s imminent appearance. Needless to say, the HP MediaSmart LX195 product listing

Got big weekend plans? Oh, yeah? Cancel them. Starting on Friday (that’s tomorrow, folks) at 12:01AM GMT — which actually ends up being 8:00PM EDT this evening — the PC version of the heralded Left 4 Dead will be available for a free 24-hour trial via Steam. That free trial will include access to the recently released Survival Pack DLC, which introduces a new multiplayer game mode and two additional Versus campaigns. Those who wish to give L4D and the Survival Pack a try may now pre-load everything needed

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Showing that the hype has even affected them, iSuppli on Wednesday released a “virtual teardown” of the Palm Pre, not bothering to wait for an actual device. Based on iSuppli estimates that rely on a Mobile Handset Cost Model, as well as experts in memory, displays, baseband, component pricing, mobile handsets and wireless connectivity, the cost of the Pre for Palm comes to $170.02. Tina Teng, senior analyst, wireless communications, for iSuppli said: “The similarity in features between the Pre and the iPhone

Not sure if you’ve noticed, but VIA is definitely getting deep into the media server game. Shortly after launching its NSD7200 2-bay Windows Home Server device, the company has today introduced a new motherboard aimed specifically at these very servers. The VB8002 Mini-ITX board brings the performance efficiency of the VIA Nano processor to consumer-focused server products, and to date, it’s been Intel’s Atom stuck within most of these devices.Not surprisingly, it looks like VIA is eager to steal away some of