Make no mistake — NVIDIA has certainly pushed out a few new powerhouse graphics cards since the introduction of its GTX 260, but there’s obviously plenty of demand left for what was the company’s most impressive GPU to date in June of last year. As money gets tight and cutting edge boards become less of a necessity, NVIDIA’s banking on selling a few more of its older cards at lower prices than before. To that end, we’re hearing that the third generation of the GTX 260 is set to hit store shelves within just

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Intel may be placing its quad-core Itanium server chip back in the oven, but it’s having no issues whatsoever shipping the latest iteration of its white-hot Atom CPU. The Intel Atom N280, which should arrive in ASUS’ Eee PC 1000HE before any other mainstream machine, is now making its way to PC makers across the globe. Reportedly, the processor will improve performance and graphics capabilities in the nettops and netbooks that it meanders into. The single-core chip can be paired up with a GN40 chipset that enables

Really, there’s nothing to do here but sigh and hang one’s head. Just days after Britain promised that all of its citizens would be provided broadband Internet access by 2012 and South Korea set forth a plan to implement 1Gbps Internet connections within its borders, Cuba has shamed the trend. And in royal fashion, no less. According to a fresh report on the country’s intent to continue limiting web access, we’re told that it will still hamper connectivity even after a fiber optic cable linking it to Venezuela

We’re already aware that on Monday Amazon.com will most likely be announcing Kindle 2. But will they also be announcing software for smartphones that will allow users to download, buy, and read Kindle books? The New York Times says that Amazon.com has confirmed that they are working on such software. According to Drew Herdener, a spokesman for Amazon: “We are excited to make Kindle books available on a range of mobile phones. We are working on that now.” Obviously they’d be looking at iPhone, Android, Windows

Japanese electronics manufacturer Pioneer is considering various options regarding its flat panel TV business as a result of increasing losses. One option is for the company to terminate in-house TV production entirely. Even after Japan’s Nikkei newspaper claimed Pioneer plans to pull out of the television market entirely, a Pioneer spokesman said, “There is a whole spectrum of possibilities with withdrawal on one end, in-house development and production on the other, and sales of procured TVs somewhere in the

Like it or not, the deed has been done. The digital TV transition in America has officially been put on hold until June 12, 2009, but sadly, things still aren’t cut and dry. After the new date was proposed, then rejected, then finally pushed through, a provision was included that would allow broadcast stations to still switch off their analog signal in favor of a digital one on the originally planned cutover date of February 17, 2009. As it stands, the four major over-the-air networks — FOX, ABC, NBC and CBS

February 9th is still hours away, but there’s little doubt about what Amazon will unveil this coming Monday at a library in New York. A whole gaggle of rather official looking press images have surfaced in the run-up to the event, and they sure look convincing. At this point, it would actually be a shock if Jeff Bezos didn’t introduce the second Kindle to the world, and if these shots prove accurate, we’d guess this one will stay just as “sold out” as the original seemed to. Actual specifications about the next-generation

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Those who swear by Gmail are probably still reveling from the addition of Offline support, and while we’re certain that those responsible for making the application better could’ve taken a rest for at least a fortnight or so, they’d rather keep the hits coming. Announced this week, Google has added Multiple Inboxes, which is described as a feature that enables users to view multiple panels at once in order to better view segmented messages. For avid users of labels, stars and filters — particularly those with