Oh great, this again? The awful aftertaste from Comcast’s data meddling still hasn’t completely vanished, and now we’re being hit with yet another cable company attempting to grab hold of customer Internet traffic.As the battle over net neutrality rages on in Washington, Cox Communications has opened the flood gates for criticism by announcing that it will soon be “trying out a new way to keep its subscribers’ Internet traffic from jamming up.” Which, after being stripped of sugarcoating, translates to “giving

ASUS’ Eee PC S101 may be incredibly gorgeous, but what’s the use in having good looks if you’ve no room to store anything? The US version of the aforesaid netbook comes with just 16GB of internal space, and evidently, Super Talent understands just how serious a travesty that really is. Thus, said SSD maker is pumping out a new line of S101 replacement drives, giving owners the opportunity to double or quadruple the native storage capacity. The line, which was “specially designed as an upgrade for the ASUS Eee

Though it may not come as a surprise to many readers of Hot Hardware, the denizens of Gen Y, otherwise known as Millennials, are not the be-all and end-all when it comes to the ‘Net.A report released today by the Pew Internet & American Life Project (you can download the PDF, charts and all, here) showed that, for example, no one banks, shops or seeks information about their health online more than Gen X. More than half the adult population online are between 18 and 44 years old, firmly in the grips of Generations

If you consider yourself a graphics snob, there’s a good chance you were still unimpressed by the performance doled out from NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 285. If so, help could soon be on the way. We’re hearing reports that both Zotac and EVGA are currently working up water-cooled GTX 295 GPUs, with the former outfit also cooking up a liquid-assisted GTX 285. Granted, nothing on either of these is official just yet, but given the perpetual demand for more speed and higher frame rates, we certainly wouldn’t put the idea

One of our readers sent me an e-mail letting me know that TigerDirect.com has dropped EVGA products from its retail site today for reasons that are unknown. I just went over to the TigerDirect.com site and searched for EVGA and was shocked to see “You Searched For “xfx”” pop up on the results window. It seems that something happened over at TigerDirect.com as even searching for EVGA doesn't work. We'll fill you in on the full story as soon as we get it. At the time of writing our attempts to contact TigerDirect.com went unanswered.

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The H680 offers first-rate design and an elegant small size at an affordable price. The stylish H680 is petite and lightweight. It fits easily in your pocket or straps onto your bag or purse. Place the H680 in the case and plug in your wall charger or car charger (sold separately) to power the headset. The clear cover can be removed to act as a desktop stand or for easy access in the car. Interchangeable ear buds and a rotating ear hook help provide unrivaled wearing comfort and audio quality. This mini powerhouse also offers big talk times of up to 8 hours! This deal ends Thursday at 12:00pm ET.

Featuring a liquid silver finish, clean lines and soft edges, the BlackBerry Curve 8300 is packed with incredible features, including a camera, BlackBerry Maps, a media player, expandable memory, Voice Activated Dialing, tethered modem and trackball navigation. Plus you get all the core functionality you’ve come to expect in a BlackBerry smartphone – email and text messaging, instant messaging, web browser and advanced phone functionality. This deal ends Thursday at 12:00pm ET.

For any of the naysayers out there still harshing on Gmail for its lack of Offline support, get a load of this. As of this week, Google is at long last rolling out a feature to US and UK English users that it has been testing internally for quite some time, and for those who live somewhere between an airport terminal, taxi cab and an uncomfortable middle seat on a 757, you’re in luck.Offline Gmail is real, and we’re really loving the sound of it. Granted, Google is still christening the feature an “experimental”

Tradition says that there are two primary kinds of typists: touch-typists who are familiar enough with a keyboard’s layout to type without having to look at the keyboard while they type, and hunt-and-peck typists who must visually locate each key they want to hit. The vast majority of English-language keyboard users–be them touch-typists or hunt-and-peckers–type on keyboards that use the QWERTY layout. While this layout might have performed a specific function back in 1874 when it was originally patented,