Here’s a quick quiz for you: Which smartphone in the U.S. accesses the mobile Internet the most? If you guessed the iPhone, you’re wrong. According to metrics published by the mobile Internet ad-serving company, AdMob, More RIM BlackBerry 8100 smartphones accessed the Internet in the U.S. in August than any other smartphone–although the Palm Centro was right behind the 8100. The Apple iPhone was actually the fourth most-used smartphone in August in the U.S. for mobile Internet access (the RIM Blackberry 8300

Today’s Web search engines are driven primarily by searching for text keywords. This works fairly well when what you are searching for is words; but it fails pretty miserably when you are searching for video. Video search is almost entirely dependent on someone taking the time to manually (and accurately) add text tags to videos to make them searchable. This is all about to change, however, if VideoSurf’s claims are true: The company says it has developed a way to visually search videos for it content: “VideoSurf

OCZ Technology Unveils the Gladiator and Gladiator Max CPU Coolers, Designed for the Latest High Performance Processors Sunnyvale, CA—September 11, 2008—OCZ Technology Group, Inc. a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory and computer components, today unveiled the OCZ Gladiator and Gladiator Max, the latest CPU cooler line designed for supreme thermal management and efficiency. Combining a distinctive stacked fin array, heat-pipe direct touch (HDT) design, and a large

MoGo Mouse X54™ is the ultimate wireless interface device – a mouse and media remote together in a slick, compact ExpressCard/54 form factor. Its embedded Bluetooth technology and convenient storage and charging make MoGo Mouse X54 ™ a “must have” for users of all types. This deal ends Thursday at 12:00pm ET.

rock just announced that they will be introducing nVidias new enthusiast class GeForce 9800M GTX GPUs into its performance notebook ranges. Both the award winning Xtreme SL8 range, the fastest laptops in the world, and the recently unveiled X780 range, the fastest Centrino 2 notebooks in the world, will have their leading position in the market underlined with the next generation, mobile graphics technology.

Gaming has reached new heights with nVidias new GeForce 9800M GTX GPUs. Specifically designed to deliver optimised performance for immersive on the go gaming, the new enthusiast class nVidia graphics empowers the rock SL8 and X780 notebook lines to storm through the latest PC games with blazing ferocity the introduction of the new 9800M GTX GPUs also means that the SL8 and X780 ranges can boast the ultimate DX10 experience with the inclusion of nVidias PhysX, a powerful physics engine which enables real-time physics in leading edge PC games. PhysX provides an exponential increase in physics processing power delivering rich and engrossing gaming environments which dramatically alter the interactive entertainment experience.

Before you post photos of your night of drunken debauchery to your Facebook profile, you might want to consider what kind of impression it might make on prospective employers. And lest you think that baby-boomer-generation hiring managers wouldn’t know Facebook if they tripped over it, think again: 22 percent of hiring managers say they research job candidates on social networking sites. It might seem like common sense for job hunters to keep their social networking profiles “clean,” but hiring managers must

Who says big cards cant be fast? SanDisk Corporation today announced the 32-gigabyte (GB)1 SanDisk Extreme III CompactFlash (CF) card, the latest addition to its award-winning SanDisk Extreme III line. Combining world-class storage capacity with fast data transfer rates, SanDisks new memory card is designed to meet the demands of professional digital videographers and photographers. For many cards, an increase in storage capacity often comes at a cost to speed, but the 32GB SanDisk Extreme III CF card at 30 megabytes per second (MB/s) offers customers the best of both worlds. The 32GB SanDisk Extreme III CF card has a manufacturers suggested retail price in the United States of $299.99 and won't be made available till next October.

The 32GB SanDisk Extreme III CompactFlash cards are a great fit for our Infinity DMC 1000/10 and DMC 1000/20 camcorders, said Scott Sheehan, director of marketing for new and emerging markets at Thomson. Our customers want a choice in media that meets the needs of their file-based workflows. Solid state memory provides the fastest access to such content, and with SanDisk CompactFlash its also affordable. Using SanDisks 32GB Extreme III CompactFlash card, our customers can record more than 80 minutes of 100 MB/s, 10-bit, 4:2:2 HD video at the high performance needed for todays professional video applications.

We’re writing to let you know that we have just posted a new article at HotHardware in which we evaluate the features and performance of three X48-based motherboards. The first motherboard comes from ASUS, and is a member of the gamer-oriented Republic of Gamers series, which we have taken a few looks at in the past. We’ve been mostly impressed by what they’ve offered in this series, and expect no less with the Rampage Formula. Next up is the X48T-A from ECS. We can honestly say that we haven’t seen much from

Microsoft and Research In Motion are expected to announce on Thursday a partnership that will make it easier for BlackBerry users to reach Microsoft's search engine, according to a source familiar with the companies' plans. As part of the deal, BlackBerry users will have the option to use Microsoft Live Search as their search engine of choice within the device's browser.

Microsoft's Live Search will be an option from within RIM's mobile portal. Although Microsoft competes with RIM for business phone customers, it has also worked to get some of its products onto its rival's devices. In one case, Microsoft even debuted a service first for BlackBerry–that being Tellme's voice-to-screen search feature on the BlackBerry.

Due to the failure of motherboard demand to pick up, as well as the fact notebook shipments did not surge as the company originally expected, Micro-Star International (MSI) only saw non-consolidated revenues of NT$7.93 billion (US$247.06 million) in August, drops of 5.7% on month and 9.43% on year. Total non-consolidated revenues in the first eight months of 2008 reached NT$62.85 billion, an increase of 12.72% compared to the same period in the previous year.

Elitegroup Computer System (ECS) has announced consolidated revenues of NT$6.78 billion for August, an increase of 3.53% on year, but a drop of 13.89% on month. The company's consolidated revenues for the first eight months of 2008 were NT$58.59 billion, a slight decrease of 1.59% on year. ECS shipped 1.79 million motherboards in August.