As the enterprise market for highly reliable, high-capacity storage continues to grow, WD today added 750 GB and 1 TB WD RE3 SATA hard drives to its successful family of WD RE hard drives. WD RE3 1 TB (model WD 1002FBYS) and the 750 GB (model WD57502ABYS) hard drives are available now through select distributors and resellers. Manufacturers Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) for the WD RE3 1 TB is $249 USD and the 750 GB is $199 USD. WD RE3 drives are covered by a five-year limited warranty. Expect to see a review of the new RE3 drives here on Legit Reviews in the weeks to come.

Perfect for demanding server and storage application environments, WDs RE3 750 GB and 1 TB high-capacity enterprise SATA hard drives combine 32 MB cache, enhanced vibration and shock tolerance, and deploy new electronics to increase performance approximately 20 percent and by as much 60 percent in high-vibration environments. WD RE3 enterprise hard drives also include improved reliability features that help protect the drive and the data stored on it, and run cooler and quieter than previous generation enterprise drives.

ArcSoft, Inc. announced today that ArcSoft TotalMedia Theatre, its universal multimedia player, now supports NVIDIA CUDA which provides DVD upscaling through Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). Devising its SimHD post processing technology with NVIDIA CUDA, ArcSoft is accelerating TotalMedia Theatres DVD upscale performance on GPUs to deliver viewers a close-to-HD video from the standard definition multimedia files and DVDs, offering them a sharper and more vivid picture in real time.

“The newly released, CUDA-powered SimHD technology is available in TotalMedia Theatre to allow viewers to obtain a HD-like viewing experience from not only DVDs, but also other standard definition multimedia files,”said George Tang, ArcSoft Vice President and General Manager of Video and Home Entertainment Group. “We are pleased to be partnering with NVIDIA to deliver excellence in high-definition video on the PC.”

NBC 11's Scott Budman is hosting a series of 1:1 interviews with remarkable people with unique perspectives on visual computing and how it impacts our lives, from art and entertainment to sports and space exploration as part of the NVISON 08 show. Special guests include Kyle Busch, Bernard Charles, Eileen Collins and Lorne Lanning.

The P45 chipset has proven to be a very capable chipset with boards based on it ranging from $300 overclocking behemoths to $100 budget boards. The ECS P45T-A Black Series motherboard is a budget minded board with some enthusiast capabilities that help it carve out a piece of the under $100 price segment thanks to rebates. Read on to see how this motherboard does in testing!

A few months ago, NVIDIA first told us about their plans to organize a massive event called NVISION that focused on all things in the visual computing field. NVIDIA planned to take over a number of major venues in downtown San Jose, including the convention center and a number of adjacent hotels, and invite experts and celebrities from the high-performance computing, gaming, video, movies, and graphics fields, to participate. An ambitious plan to say the least. Tonight we have our first glimpse of NVIDIA’s NVISION

When I was entering the San Jose performing arts center for the Nvision 08 opening keynote I got a chance to see Tricia Helfer up close and personal. Many of you will know her from the TV show Battlestar Galactica and others will know her for her appearance in the February 2007 issue of Playboy Join. Enjoy the pictures as I took just a quick number before I went to watch Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang present during the keynote.

Tricia Janine Helfer (born April 11, 1974) is a Canadian actress and former model, best known for her role as Number Six in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica miniseries and television series. Helfer played the role of Number Six, a humanoid Cylon operative. She continued that role as a regular cast member in the subsequent series, which entered its fourth and final season in 2008.

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It’s becoming increasingly difficult for manufacturers to find new and unique ways to differentiate their products from that of their competitors. With price margins razor thin and many of a system’s core components coming from the same suppliers, products in the same categories from different manufacturers tend to offer the same functionality, at the same price, and the products often even look similar to each other. But they might not all smell the same. When we first heard about the new line of scented notebooks

Enjoy great sound and superior performance with the new RCA TH1401 1GB MP3 player. This attractively designed player stores as many as 300 songs, and with its built-in USB connector, it links up to your computer without a USB cable. You’ll love the RCA TH1401’s ultra-bright OLED (organic light-emitting diode) screen that’s much brighter and clearer than ordinary LCD displays. Other great features include the ability to record voice or audio directly, compatibility with several different music & book formats (mp3, WMA and WAV files), and ID3 tag support to list album, artist and song titles. This deal ends Tuesday at 12:00pm ET.

No matter how carefully you try to protect your personal and financial information, you are still at the mercy of those companies you choose to give your information too. Unfortunately, it looks like keeping your sensitive data secure is becoming increasingly difficult for some companies. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), 2008 is shaping up to be the year of the greatest number of reported identity-theft security breaches to date: “As of 9:30 a.m. August 22nd, the number of confirmed data