February 3 News from Around the Web

Icy Dock MB671SK Internal SATA HDD Enclosure Review @ Tweaknews and other reviews from around the web can be found by visiting our forums!

“I'll be honest – I never knew how useful an internal enclosure could be until I tried out this offering from Icy Dock. The ability to swap out hard drives without opening the case is a huge convenience to users who store files that span multiple drives. There is no loss of performance to worry about either testing showed that transferring files back and forth is just as quick as if the drive was hooked up directly to the motherboard.”

Seagate Announces a 2TB SAS 2.0 Enterprise HDD

Seagate Technology is now the second hard drive manufacturer to announce a 3.5-inch hard drive with a 2TB capacity. Western Digital got the honor of being the first to announce its 2TB drive last week, the WD Caviar Green (WD20EADS) SATA drive. Seagate’s 2TB drive is actually part of a new family of enterprise-class hard drives called Constellation. The new hard drive family consists of 2.5-inch Constellation drives in 160GB and 500GB capacities, and 3.5-inch Constellation ES drives in 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB capacities.

NVIDIA Ion Ultra Small Form Factor Reference PC

In early January, back from our road trip to Vegas with CES show buzz and bewilderment still fresh in our minds, we brought you a video interview with Drew Henry, General Manager of NVIDIA’s MCP products. Drew gave us a first-hand glimpse at a new small form factor PC platform that NVIDIA was developing based on their recently released GeForce 9400M chipset with integrated graphics. In this new era of HTPCs, netbooks, nettops and all things tiny, NVIDIA’s Ion reference platform for the Intel Atom processor offers

ASUS P6T Deluxe OC Palm Motherboard Review

ASUS P6T Deluxe OC Palm Motherboard Review

The ASUS P6T Deluxe OC Palm motherboard features Intel's latest X58 Express chipset and supports all of the new generation Core i7 processors. It also supports DDR3 triple-channel memory architecture with speeds up to 2000MHz, but overclocking is required. This board is packed full of features that might just leave you wanting one!

Yahoo! Briefcase to Close

While rumors of a Google online storage offering named GDrive continue to swirl, Yahoo! is abandoning its online storage service, Briefcase. A message on the Yahoo! Briefcase site warns users that they have until March 30th to move their files to a different provider. Yahoo! Briefcase will be closing on March 30, 2009. You must download or delete your files by March 30, 2009. After this date, you will not be able to access your Yahoo! Briefcase account and your files will be deleted. It’s not a big loss (and

Google’s Malware Fiasco Spreads to Gmail

On Saturday, Google labeled the entire Internet as malware, but in addition, because of the same issue, Gmail sent some legitimate email to its Spam folder. According to a blog post on the Official Gmail Blog, This morning there was a problem with the implementation of Google’s malware filters. Gmail’s spam engine uses those filters (among hundreds of other signals) to help protect our users from malware, and so between 6:00 a.m. PST and 8:00 a.m. PST, we mistakenly sent some legitimate mail to people’s spam

IBM Develops Realistic Computerized Voice

It’s easy for us to distinguish a computerized voice from that of a real person.  Even though we can generally figure out what the computer is trying to convey despite poor pronunciations and bad phrasing, understanding doesn’t eliminate the frustration many of us feel when trying to deal with an automated human substitute. Now, thanks to new technology developed by IBM scientists, we may not have to tolerate robotic sounding voices for much longer. Supposedly, the new computerized voice is nearly indistinguishable

Hardware RoundUp

Video:Sapphire Radeon HD 4670 Video Card @ Benchmark ReviewsHIS Radeon HD 4670 IceQ graphics card @ bit-techMotherboards and Chipsets:BIOSTAR TPower X58 @ InsideHWMSI X58 Eclipse SLI Core i7 Motherboard @ TweaktownProcessors:Intel Core i7 920 Nehalem 2.66GHz LGA 1366 Processor Review @ ThinkComputers.orgIntel Core i7 In Detail – Hyper-Threading and Turbo Boost @ iXBTMemory and Storage:Kingwin EZ-2535W EZ-Dock Docking Station Review @ OCCKingston DataTraveler 150 32GB USB Flash Drive Review @ FuturelooksRaidsonic’s

Mac’s OSX gains ground on Windows

Nearly 10 percent – 9.9 percent, to be specific. That’s how much of the market share Apple’s Mac OS X has captured, even as tech journalism has been rife with stories about the impending Microsoft Windows 7.Let’s face it – Windows is still the 400 lb. gorilla, with 88.3 percent of the market, according to stats from Net Applications. And some might say that’s a decline of a scant of 2.2 percent in the same time that Mac has creeped upward. But Net Applications reports that’s the biggest drop in a three-month

Rambus Announces Mobile Memory Initiative

Today, Rambus demonstrated a new RAM technology that could be used to enable more advanced visuals on smartphones and other mobile devices. Called the Mobile Memory Initiative, the technology focuses on high-bandwidth, low-power memory technologies with the intentions of achieving data rates of 4.3Gbps while using best-in-class power efficiency. This new technology could make it possible for companies to build super-powerful phones that utilize the Mobile Memory Initiative’s estimated 17GBps throughput. This