There have been rumors of a Google-developed browser circulating for a few years now, and it appears that rumor is about to become fact. The Wall Street Journal posted a news story today confirming that a launch of Google’s open-source web browser, now known as Google Chrome, is imminent…”Google Inc. confirmed that it plans to launch its own Web browser, in the latest twist in a battle with Microsoft Corp. over key Internet technologies.  The Internet company, in a posting on its Web site Monday, indicated

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There’s simply no denying that many tech enthusiasts love all things small.  As of late, with the likes of products such as the Asus Eee PC, Lenovo ThinkPad X200, Dell Studio Hybrid and other small form-factor systems; thin, small and light is definitely “in” and has become a fad of sorts.  What is this obsession with small?  What ever happend to big, clunkly and overbearing?  You can’t turn around these days without bumping into something that looks like it was designed to work

Email spam got you down? Is your first name Aaron? A study by Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton shows that the first letter of your email address has a lot to do with the amount of spam you receive. The study (.PDF), titled “Do Zebras get more Spam than Aardvarks?” analyzed traffic logs from the U.K. ISP Demon Internet. The data analyzed was from the period Feb. 1st – March 27th of 2008. In the study, Clayton noted that those whose local part of their email address (this is the portion to

It’s that time again folks!  In conjunction with our friends at Intel, AMD, Kingston, WD, and Thermaltake we have assembled one hot rig to give away this month!  We’re announcing yet another new sweepstakes where you could win a full Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650-based system, complete with a pair of screaming fast Radeon HD 4870 graphics cards, some super fast DDR3 RAM, and a beefy Western Digital hard drive.  With that kind of power at the heart of this rig,

On Thursday Comcast announced a 250 GB cap for their broadband service.  We applauded the fact that they finally gave some transparency to their “hidden” cap, which had always snagged a few users, without telling them exactly how much their use should be, but then we realized: where’s the meter? Time-Warner Cable is currently trying out metered service in Beaumont, TX. Their caps are lower, but they do provide one thing: a page you can go to in order to check your usage. And what’s interesting is the response

Gigabyte 9800GT Review @ OCC and other reviews from around the web can be viewed in our forums!

“Great googly moogly! The Gigabyte 9800GT has some game. The little 9800GT is no doubt helped by the Zalman cooler that keeps temperatures down. I figured I might as well go for broke with the added voltage offered in the Gamer HUD and pushed the needle to 1.4 volts. The clock speeds kept scaling upwards until I finally landed at 787MHz on the core (up from 600MHz), 1075MHz on the memory and 1863MHz on the shader cores. These clock speeds are higher than any of the 8800GT video cards that Overclockersclub has tested and represents increases of 24% on the GPU core, 16% on the memory and close to 20% on the shaders. Not too bad if I say so myself. At this level of performance, there were nice increases in all of the benchmarks used. Why the comparison to the 8800GT? Because the 9800GT is the basically the same card.”

there’s no better solution than the Iomega Silver Series 750GB external hard drive. It’s the most efficient and economical way to save your precious memories and important information. And no external drive is easier to use – the Iomega Silver Series 750GB is preformatted for effortless setup. Just plug it in and play. Plus, the Iomega Silver Series 750GB external hard drive is hot swappable. This deal ends Monday at 12:00pm ET.

We’ve always known the XPERIA X1 would be coming in the second half of 2008, and since we’re in the second half of the year, we were expected to see the new Windows Mobile handset any day now.  But now Engadget is reporting that the XPERIA X1 has been delayed until the end of the year.

The XPERIA X1 is a Windows Mobile Professional device with a VGA touchscreen, an angled curve sliding keyboard design, and a 3.2MP camera.

Microsoft said Friday it has reached a deal to acquire Greenfield Online, the owner of consumer shopping sites, for about $486 million. Greenfield's properties include Munich, Germany-based Ciao, one of the leading price-comparison and online-shopping sites in Europe. Ultimately, Microsoft said, Ciao's technology platform, online community, and merchant relationships will be integrated with Microsoft's Live Search.

Ciao features consumer reviews and ratings. Microsoft said that, according to ComScore, Ciao has more than 26.5 million unique visitors per month across seven countries, who have generated more than 5 million product reviews. The deal calls for Microsoft to commence a cash tender offer to purchase all of the outstanding shares of Greenfield for $17.50 per share, or roughly $486 million.