Details are scant, but EngadgetMobile.com is reporting that a new HTC Messenger-class Windows Mobile smartphone is headed to Verizon Wireless. 

The HTC XV6175 is a sibling/cousin of the HTC Snap / S522, slated for T-Mobile sometime this summer.  We don’t know now similar these two devices will be, either in design or specs, but the two handsets will likely have a great deal in common.

The HTC S522 is rumored for a July 1 launch with T-Mobile – will Verizon beat them to the punch or lag woefully behind?

We’ll just have to wait and see.

The good news is the U.K. has decided against a government database tracking all Internet and phone use. The bad news is, they still want it done, but by the private sector. Cost is the issue with the government doing it itself; why bother when you can simply require the private sector to do so, right? Research from Home Secretary Jacqui Smith’s department estimated that the proposal would have cost the government £2 billion to implement. That said, Smith said that doing nothing was not an option. The data

Hewlett-Packard announced a new line of notebook PCs that “merge business functionality with sophisticated design.” In other words, a notebook computer that’s a bit pricier than some, but gives you what you need for business use.The HP ProBooks start at $529 and weigh starting at 5.7 pounds and come with:• Windows Vista Business 32, Home Basic 32 and Home Premium 32• Intel Core 2 Duo or Celeron Dual-Core processors• Full-sized, raised-key keyboard (i.e., a separate numeric keypad, plus a touchpad

We have been talking about NVIDIA’s Ion since late last year when news first broke of the ultra small form factor platform. At the time, NVIDIA’s tiny Atom-powered prototype system wasn’t even called Ion yet, but images of the miniscule motherboard that would eventually be used in the reference platform had already surfaced and the community was buzzing with interest. One of the major concerns with most netbooks and nettops was their relatively weak integrated graphics solutions, and Ion would potentially address

AMD is launching the World's first 40nm graphics card today with the introduction of the ATI Radeon HD 4770. With such a small die size, it means that AMD can fit more dies per wafer and reduce costs. AMD expects that the Radeon HD 4770 should sell for $109 with an available rebate of $10, which brings the final price into the uber sexy sub-$100 category.

Kaiser Permanente, a non-profit HMO based in California, has begun offering its Northern California members USB flash drives containing a portion of their medical records that can be carried with them on business trips and vacations. Kaiser Permanente undertook a major computerization of their medical recordkeeping in the past few years. As a member, I can attest to that. You can book appointments online (change them, even), email your physician, order prescriptions online, etc. etc. But you can’t see your medical

In addition to launching the new Radeon HD 4770 this morning, AMD is also taking the opportunity to announce a new value-priced desktop CPU, the Athlon X2 7850 Black Edition. The Athlon X2 7850 Black Edition should be available for about $69 when it hits store shelves today. It is a 2.8GHz, socket AM2+ processor manufactured using AMD’s 65nm DSL SOI (silicon-on-insulator) process. The full specifications and a couple of postures are listed below… AMD Athlon X2 7850 Processor Specifications: Processor Core

AMD is launching yet another new ATI Radeon graphics card today. And in light of the current worldwide economic conditions, along with the performance and power consumption data we’ll be presenting you on the proceeding pages, we suspect it’s going to be a welcomed addition to the company’s already potent graphics card line-up.You see, the brand new Radeon HD 4770 is AMD’s first mainstream desktop GPU manufactured using a 40m process, and as such, it is more economical for the company to produce (with a smaller

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In an effort to help make backing up one’s data easier, Seagate introduced the Replica backup appliance today. Seagate claims the Replica completely eliminates the need to manually learn, manage, or dedicate any time to the backup process. The Seagate Replica backup appliance is a complete PC backup system that can automatically and continuously store up-to-date copies of everything on a PC including applications, the OS, email, pictures, music, movies, Internet favorites, and settings. To use the Seagate Replica,