Back at the end of January, we told you about the expected announcement today of the Kindle 2, the next-gen e-book reader.This morning, Amazon.com confirmed the news at a media event at the Morgan Library and Museum in Manhattan. The upgrades on the Amazon Kindle 2 include:• slimmer design – .36 inches thick, weighing less than 10 ounces• 25 percent more life in the battery• faster page turns• more than seven times more storage (2 GB memory, so those Stephen King or Norman Mailer novels

What would life be like if you had access to random access memory that coupled the fast operating characteristics of DRAM with flash memory’s ability to retain data while powered off? Pretty darn amazing, we imagine. Believe it or not, such a contraption is already in the works, and it has been for quite some while. Today, Toshiba is announcing a breakthrough in the development of FeRAM, or Ferroelectric Random Access Memory, which could one day make our current memory modules and even SSDs look like antiquated

Steve Wozniak is famous for many things, including co-founding Apple Computer with Steve Jobs, creating the Apple I and Apple II computers, bringing the first universal TV remote control to market, crashing an airplane, teaching high school, organizing the US Festivals, and even playing Segway polo; but perhaps one of few things he is not publically know for is being a dancer. But now in a growing list of new endeavors, Wozniak–also known as “The Woz”–will be putting on his dancing shoes (presumably without

The BlackBerry Storm is currently available for $99 on Amazon.com’s website, with a two-year service commitment. No rebate forms or other shenanigans to go through, either. There are some restrictions, per the site, besides the 2-year plan (emphasis ours): The purchase price listed above reflects a $250 instant discount based on your agreement to maintain service with the selected carrier. Please note that if you deactivate this device, cancel your line of service, or reduce the value of your service plan within

AMD is announcing five new Socket AM3 processors that many enthusiasts have been waiting many months to launch. These processors are based off the same 45nm 'Deneb' core that the previous Phenom II processors use, but with a few tweaks and a new memory controller. This new memory controller allows the processor to run both DDR2 and DDR3 memory kits, which is good news for AMD as up to a 5% performance boost can be seen when running DDR3 memory on Phenom II processors.

If all you were expecting at Mobile World Congress this month was new mobile phones, you’ll be pleasantly surprised to find that software vendors should be there en masse as well. Take Azingo, for instance, who will make the trek to Barcelona in order to showcase two new WebKit-based products compatible with a litany of cellphones.If there’s one thing the mobile realm still needs, it’s better browsers. Aside from Apple’s iPhone and the T-Mobile G1, web browsers on handsets are generally useless under intense

The struggling One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation, which cut staff by 50% in January is dropping their “Change the World” program. Previously people could buy groups of from 100 to 1000 of the XO-1 laptops and donate them to places of their choice. But that option no longer exists on the OLPC site, although the “linked” page still does (as shown above). The information first leaked to the Grassroots-I mailing list, where an email was posted. The email said: > Unfortunately, as some of you might have heard

Last month, AMD launched the Phenom II X4 processor line-up, and with it ushered in the first desktop processors built using the company’s 45nm process node. While the first two Phenom II processors to arrive, the 3.0GHz X4 940 and 2.8GHz 920, were clearly superior to previous Phenoms in terms of performance and power efficiency, and they remain the two most powerful processors in AMD’s product stack today, they did not exploit all of the capabilities offered by their newly tweaked, and redesigned cores. You

Didn’t you hate when your college calculus processor insisted that an answer had to be “exact,” and that “close enough” just wouldn’t cut it? Clearly, you should have attended Rice University or Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. A team of researchers from both institutions have come together in order to create a revolutionary type of computing that thrives on random errors. You read correctly: this stuff actually benefits from impreciseness.Dubbed PCMOS (for probabilistic CMOS), this technology

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