iGoogle offers you the ability to visit several websites one on page, but did you ever wish that iGoogle offered you the Chat functionality that you can get in your Gmail account, so you could forego going there and simply stay on iGoogle? Well, now you can. After all, that seemed to be the only thing really missing from iGoogle, to make it potentially your all-in-one website. Here’s what Google had to say in the blog post announcing the feature: Similar to the chat feature on Gmail, people will be able to send

Among the deluge of NVIDIA news this week, MSI has decided to throw its hat in the ring by introducing a new graphics card that’s powered by the aforesaid firm. The N260GTX Lightning is predictably based on the GeForce GTX 260, which we heard earlier this year was getting a PCB tweak to shave costs. It’s hard to tell from this release if anything is different from earlier GTX 260s, but given that new GPUs were announced by NVIDIA within the past seven days, it’s a pretty safe bet that this one will be cheaper

We might not quite be at the point where we can watch whatever we want, when we want, but we’re getting a little closer all the time. In addition to the plethora of sites that offer on-demand streaming content to our computers, such as Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon, new devices and services keep popping up that deliver Internet-based streaming of on-demand content to our television sets. The latest to join the likes of Roku and Vudu is a new service called ZillionTV. Similar to Roku and Vudu, ZillionTV relies on

EMPIRE: TOTAL WAR LAUNCHES WITH STEAMWORKS Sega and The Creative Assembly Leverage Suite of Services for Development and Marketing March 4, 2009 – Empire: Total War from The Creative Assembly and SEGA is now available via Steam, a leading platform for the delivery and management of PC games with over 20 million accounts worldwide, as well as retail outlets around the world. Empire is the latest in the award-winning Total War strategy game series and the first to extensively utilize the Steamworks suite of Services

Teleconference calls are so 2008.IBM today announced a new software tool, Sametime 3D, which allows people to hold virtual business meetings in virtual conference rooms.It has its origins in the worlds of Sim City and MMORPGs. Users will be able to create their own avatars to represent them in the “rooms,” and will be able to talk, share presentations and, in a cute move, be able “to, literally, throw ideas on the wall” to “see what sticks.” The 3D technology means that users will be able to view presentations

Sony announced a new Cyber-shot camera (model DSC-HX1) with sweep panorama technology. Sweep panorama can capture up to 224-degree horizontal or 154-degree vertical panorama shots in a single press-and-sweep motion. The HX1 camera is also Sony’s first with the newly-developed 1/2.4-inch Exmor CMOS sensor technology. This sensor enables the camera to capture burst images at up to 10 frames per second at full 9.1 megapixel resolution. This sensor is another key component in the sweep panorama function since it

DFI LANParty unexpectedly announced the thermal peripheral products at CeBIT 2009 today. The new LANParty family includes the CPU cooler, Northbridge Cooler and “Golden thermal Compound”. Pictured below is the Megahalem CPU Cooler that has been pictured at CeBIT 2009. The cooler weighs 790 grams and features six heat pipes to help dissipate heat from the CPU.

At the exhibition, the showcased “Megahalem” series was dubbed the best performing air-cooled heat sink in the market; and “Flame Freezer” effectively increased Northbridge chip's heat dissipation area. It utilizes the “Golden Heat Sink Compound”, which is as expensive as gold, but has unparalleled, market-leading heat conductivity properties, to bring users the most stable overclocking experience.

Late last month, VIA came clean with its very first Pico-ITX box, and now the company is unveiling an entirely new form factor: Em-ITX. Reportedly, it’s the first form factor that comes standard with “dual I/O coastlines.” The benefit? It should reduce cable clutter, improve airflow and enable sub-2-centimeter high embedded systems. That last bit is rather important, as you aren’t apt to see this pushed much in the consumer realm. Rather, it will likely be reserved for enterprise customers and those dealing

GIGABYTE Extends Ultra Durable VGA Range with GV-N250ZL-1GI Graphics Accelerators– Ultra Stable; Ultra Cool — Taipei, Taiwan 03 03, 2009 – The latest GIGABYTE Ultra Durable VGA graphics accelerator GV-N250ZL-1GI uses high quality components and provides unrivaled performance GIGABYTE Technology Co. LTD., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, today launched the GIGABYTE Ultra Durable VGA graphics accelerator GV-N250ZL-1GI. Supporting NVIDIA’s latest processors-GTS 250, GIGABYTE GV-N250ZL-1GI

Jon Peddie Research today announced a new study that indicates the end of the market for the popular integrated graphics processor chipset, known as the IGP. After fifteen years of stellar growth the IGP, will cease to exist, replaced by graphics embedded in the processor. Integrated graphics are used in desktop and net top PCs, notebooks, and netbooks, and various embedded systems such as point of sale, set-top boxes, and signage systems.

Inevitably, market shares will shift as suppliers of IGPs like AMD, Intel, Nvidia, SiS, and VIA find the opportunities for chipsets diminishing and they will seek to develop new products that take advantage of their specific strengths. We can already see significant maneuvering between Intel and Nvidia as Nvidia strengthens its high end offerings with CUDA development tools and on the mobile side, the company has introduced the Tegra platform which relies on an ARM processor and Nvidia graphics. AMD is going head to head with Intel with Fusion, an embedded graphics CPU but it too is building out its workstation and visualization graphics. VIA and its S3 graphics subsidiary is playing its cards close to the chest but they are currently attempting to challenge Intel on price in key strategic markets such as netbooks.