So, here’s a thought. You know how vehicles sold in America have a “city” and “highway” MPG rating? And you know how cellphone companies rate their devices with a “standby time” and “talk time?” Why don’t notebook makers follow suit? That terrific talking point is coming at you courtesy of AMD’s senior vice president and chief marketing officer Nigel Dessau, who just recently wrote up a blog post on the subject.Today, users are given one single notebook battery life figure, and every single one of us consumers

We’ve heard of plenty of injuries that were allegedly caused by exploding batteries, but this is a new one. The mother of a 15-year-old boy from Cincinnati, Ohio is suing Apple and 10 unnamed retail employees after her son’s iPod Touch allegedly exploded in his pocket. According to the lawsuit, the plaintiff had the “iTouch” (as the lawsuit refers to it) in his pants pocket. It was turned off. One day during class, the boy heard a loud pop and immediately felt a burning sensation on his leg. He then stood up

Here lately, MSI has definitely been on the notebook kick. Day after day, we’ve seen new laptop after new laptop emerge to fit pretty much every budget and every wish list. Today, however, the company is breaking from the norm to talk up its sound equipment; more specifically, its X-Fi-enabled motherboards.MSI asserts that of all the mainboards on the market now that are implementing Creative’s X-Fi audio technology, it is the only one left who insists on utilizing a true hardware decoder solution. In other

If you’ve been waiting to get your hands on the latest browser from Mozilla, you won’t have to wait much longer. The next version of Firefox is nearly complete, as evidenced by yesterday’s release of Firefox 3.1 Beta 3, the fifth development milestone in the popular web browser. Beta 3 has been plagued by delays. Mozilla originally intended to launch Firefox 3.1 in late 2008. Because progress on the browser has been slower than planned, the company reworked its schedule and added Beta 3 to the timetable to give

Where’s the first place you’d look for maps of Mars?If you didn’t say Google Earth, why not? After all, a 3D mapping tool of Mars was added to Google Earth for the 5.0 release. But Google today announced an update to the program that includes historical maps and images, a stream of the latest images from the Red Planet and not one, but TWO guided tours of the fourth rock from the Sun.In the Google Earth toolbar, you can select “Mars,” and you then swoop in on the planet, with a 3-D view that includes layers

When it comes to technology and design the new 2230Fh TFT monitor from AOC International (Europe) GmbH is truly state of the art. This deal ends Monday at 12:00pm ET.

With all of the conference tournaments going on, you can just feel it in the air. The calendar says March, the jerseys are coming out and you just know the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament is but days aways. And you — you hard-worker, you — are stuck in the office, or on the road, or somewhere not near a beautiful HDTV.Fret not, dear worker / traveler, as CBSSports.com is aiming to bring the action to you this year so long as you own an iPhone or iPod touch and can get near a 3G or WiFi access point. You heard

The Beatles: Rock Band video game, which is scheduled to release on Sept. 9, will include previously unreleased tracks, according to a statement by Dhani Harrison, son of the late George Harrison. In an interview with Billboard, Dhani Harrison said that the game will include “stuff that has never been heard, never been released,” although he said he could not reveal specifics. He also added that it was he who sold the ideas to the various partners. This is in fact the first foray for The Beatles (as opposed

Today AMD announced the latest upgrade to its AMD Stream SDK, beta version 1.4, providing software developers with the tools needed to take advantage of the massive compute power across AMDs GPU and GPGPU products. Building on AMDs effort to simplify programming for application acceleration for the development community, the AMD Stream SDK 1.4 marks drastic improvements to Brook+, data handling, DirectX interoperability and data sharing.

The release of ATI Stream SDK v1.4 delivers a full-featured software development environment that exposes the amazing computational power of AMD GPUs in an easy to use interface. Developers can now take advantage of enhancements to Brook+ to support multiple GPUs, finely grained data handling, DirectX interoperability and access to thread-level data sharing, empowering the developer community to program advanced applications that leverage ATI Stream-enabled hardware.

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The Element S from ThermalTake is a very clean and elegant case that pushes the limits of case design by refining what needs to be in a case to begin with. The outer skin is a smooth form plastic that helps to reaffirm the smooth style and clean lines.