Two Scottish companies, Picsel (Research) Ltd. and Picsel Technologies Ltd. have filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple in the U.S. District Court of Delaware.  The lawsuit claims that the iPhone and iPod Touch use screen rendering technology that infringes on their patents. Picsel (Research) Ltd. is the owner of the entire right, title and interest in and to U.S. Patent No. 7,009,626 entitled “Systems and Methods for Generating Visual Representations of Graphical Data and Digital Document Processing”

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We recently had the opportunity to sit down with Lenovo’s IdeaPad Y530, which we found to be solid, though not without its annoyances. For those looking for something just a pinch different (and by “different,” we mean “bigger and more powerful”), there’s the IdeaPad Y650, which has long been announced but just recently available for ordering. At Lenovo’s website, the 16-inch behemoth is available in three standard configurations, though each of them can be somewhat customized to your liking. The lower-end IdeaPad

Verizon Wireless has lowered the price of the Samsung Omnia to $99 with a two-year service agreement; this price includes a $70 instant discount; rebates required.  If you’d rather have a shorter contract, the price with a one-year service agreement goes up to $169 – still not a bad deal.

We don’t know how long this deal will last, so if you’ve been eyeing the Omnia, now’s the time to pounce.

Visit the Verizon Wireless web store…

When we wrote about YouTube’s paid download initiative, currently being tested, it should have been obvious that there are plenty of ways to download YouTube videos for free, so why would anyone pay for this? Thing is, when we wanted to download a video earlier, the downloader I tried (TechCrunch’s, which has been around for years, and which pops up at or near the top when doing a Google search) didn’t work. Uh, oh. We wanted to download the video from YouTube because the YouTube video kept sitting there, with

Here it is, the box you’ve always wanted. The one with a NAS and a built-in CP ripper, all tightly integrated into a single, convenient box. Okay, so maybe there won’t be a huge market for this, but it’s still pretty unique in the wide world of “me-too” network-attached storage devices. Designed by mCubed, the RipNAS is described as the world’s “smallest, quietest and easiest to use Ripper with NAS.” So far as we can tell, that’s pretty accurate.Essentially, this NAS works like any other. It provides network-accessible

You know those products that you never think you need until you try? Here’s yet another one for the list. Cypress Semiconductor has improved upon something that the vast majority of us probably take for granted, as we simply assume that our phone is just “doing the best that it can,” and that “it’ll be done soon enough.” Rather than continuing to wait for PC-to-handset transfers, Cypress has decided to speed things up a bit with its Turbo-MTP solution. You see, the MTP (or Media Transfer Protocol) is a widely

Shuttle Inc., the leading designer and manufacturer of small form factor (SFF) computers and accessories, today announced the availability of the new custom liquid-cooled SDXi Carbon extreme gaming solution showcased earlier this month at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show.As an extreme performance system for gamers, enthusiasts, and even professionals working with graphic design, animation, or CAD, the Shuttle SDXi Carbon features a powerful quad-core Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 processor, dual-slot NVIDIA

At the back end of last month, we heard a juicy rumor that seemed, well, perfectly good enough to be true. Sure enough, the whispers of a water-cooled GTX 295 have led to a real, honest-to-goodness product, though it’s not being produced by either of the vendors we expected. Instead, it’s being delivered by GPU mainstay BFG Technologies.The new card easily boasts one of the longest product names we’ve seen to date. So long, in fact, that we’ll just put it out there for you to wrap your mind around: BFG GeForce

AMD has done a great job at getting the word out that Phenom II is a new and improved processor, but how do these new Phenom II processors overclock with extreme cooling? AMD showed us that the temperature bug is long gone by running a AMD Phenom II X4 processor at 1.95V and at below -190C, but what can we pull off on our own test bench? This weekend we purchased ten pounds of dry ice along with some Acetone to see what we could get a pair of Phenom II socket AM3 processors could do on the ASUS M4A79T Deluxe motherboard.