Watch out eBay: there’s a new Web auction in town. Rockybid.com launched its unique online auction service earlier this week. This auction service has a business plan that’s like no other auction service we’ve seen to date. In traditional auction fashion, Rockybid starts auctions with a set price (in this case, $0) and sets a time limit for the auction. The auction site differs from eBay and other popular auction outlets in that it adds 15 seconds to the auction countdown clock each time a bid is placed. In

Remember that 50 nanometer DDR3 SDRAM that Elpida developed late last year? Good news — production is underway on it. For those of you just dying to get more memory into the netbooks, notebooks and UMPCs of today, Elpida Memory has begun mass producing what it’s calling the industry’s highest density 2Gb Mobile RAM using 50nm process technology.The work is being done at the company’s Hiroshima fabrication plant, leveraging ArF immersion lithography and copper interconnect technology in order to add greater

Researchers who have trained a tiny virus to do their bidding said on Thursday they made it build a more efficient and powerful lithium battery. They changed two genes in the virus, called M13, and got it to do two things: build a shell made out of a compound called iron phosphate, and then attach to a carbon nanotube to make a powerful and tiny electrode.

The technology is inherently green because it involves a live virus. “We are having organisms make the materials for us,” Belcher said. “We are confined to temperatures and solvents — water — that organisms can live in. It's a clean technology. We can't do anything that kills our organisms.”

April 1 has come and gone and in the minds of many people the Conficker worm turned out to be a joke instead of the major Internet security event that might have been envisioned. Was the hype good, or bad, and who is to blame?

A member of the Conficker Working Group, a consortium of companies and experts formed to eradicate the worm, had this to say: “The focus on April 1 ignored the fact that malware is out there and it is not detected easily and it has counter measures,” said Dave Dittrich, an affiliate researcher at the University of Washington. People tend to blame the security vendors for hyping viruses so they can sell more products. But in this case, everyone CNET News talked to about Conficker downplayed the digital disaster scenario and said things would likely be fairly quiet on April 1, as they were.

Asustek Computer has reorganized its businesses into three major groups – handhelds, components and computing, while first-tier PC vendors Dell and Acer are also restructuring their operations, according to company and industry sources. Asustek in February said its operations would be reorganized into six major groups – notebooks, Eee PCs, Eee family, handsets, motherboards, and graphics cards. But the company changed the plan and implemented the three-group structure on April 1, the sources said.

Acer is working to reorganize its businesses around individual brands – Acer, Gateway and eMachines – and it will focus on operating the brands in different market segments to allow the company to make flexible adjustments to counter the market fluctuations, according to the sources. Dell in January announced that it will organize globally around three major customer segments large enterprise, public sector, and small and medium businesses. Dell's consumer business is already organized globally.

Just one day after announcing plans to subsidize netbooks, AT&T wised up to the fact that those netbooks and connections could be used to download movies and enjoy other bandwidth-intensive applications. To avoid bogging down their network, the company revised its data plan service terms to single out and prohibit “downloading movies using P2P file sharing services, customer initiated redirection of television or other video or audio signals via any technology from a fixed location to a mobile device, [and]

With all the hubbub surrounding Dell’s growing Inspiron Mini family and the flashy new Adamo, we had practically forgotten about the all-business Vostro line. Dell has just jarred our memories by giving the 13″, 15″ and 17″ versions a slight makeover and throwing in a few upgrades that definitely make our mouths water. 1720 all come bundled with Video Chat software if the For starters, the 13.3-inch Vostro 1320, the 15.4-inch Vostro 1520, and the 17-inch Vostrowebcam/microphone option is selected, giving users

OCZ Vertex SSD RAID-0 Performance @ Benchmark Reviews and other reviews from around the web can be found by visiting our forums!

Lower power consumption and heat output are the least impressive benefits of Solid State Drives. The real payoff is in the practically instant response time and high-performance throughput. Once SSDs could outperform their HDD counterpart, it was all about price and capacity. Adding up to 64MB of Elpida DRAM to the buffer has permanently solved stuttering problems, making raw performance the last bottleneck. An Indilinx 'Barefoot' internal controller commands the bank of Samsung K9HCG08U1M DRAM modules, allowing a single OCZ Vertex SSD to offer impressive capacity with unmatched performance. But what if we put two Vertex SSDs into a striped RAID-0 array? Benchmark Reviews tests the speed and bandwidth of two OCZSSD2-1VTX120G SSDs against! the fastest storage products on the planet in this OCZ Vertex SSD RAID-0 performance article.

With the introduction of NVIDIA’s GTX 275 and ATI’s Radeon HD 4890 yesterday, almost everyone in the graphics card business has pushed out a variant of their own. Asus, however, is making sure to make its versions a good bit different than the rest, and we’d argue these two are unique enough to possibly sway you from whatever card you were just about to buy.Starting on the NVIDIA side, Asus has launched the ENGTX275 Series Graphics Cards, which features Fuse Protection Technology. More specifically, the ENGTX275/HTDI/896MD3

Looking for a dependable, energy sipping power supply for your next gaming rig? Look no further than OCZ Technology, which has just announced that its heralded Z-Series PSUs have achieved 80 Plus Gold and Silver Efficiency. Engineered to deliver top-notch performance for today’s most demanding components, all while inhaling as little energy as possible, the Z-Series lineup features some pretty impressive stats.For instance, these are among the first power supplies to meet the strict requirements of the 80 Plus