Toshiba got its clock cleaned by Sony by supporting the HD DVD format over Sony’s Blu-ray discs. But the next-generation video war really didn’t have any winners. Even with HD DVDs out of the running, Sony can’t seem to sell enough Blu-ray players to afford enough red ink to print a chart of how bad they’re doing with the format; if it wasn’t for the Blu-ray player in the Playstation 3, next to no one would have one. And now Toshiba’s back, and angling towards fighting the next-gen hi-def wars one more time:

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Ah yes, music piracy. But if your own star isn’t exactly close-mouthed (pun intended) with his new tracks, what can you do? U2 has recently put the finishing touches to their first studio album in four years. Four of those songs found their way to the Internet after Bono played the songs a bit too loudly on his stereo at his villa in the south of France. A sharp-eared passerby recorded the songs and apparently posted the songs to YouTube, according to The Sun. Of course, they didn’t stick around on YouTube very

Last month on July 1st, Corsair Memory announced the immediate availability of a new DOMINATOR DDR3 memory kit running at 2133MHz. The launch of this memory kit made it the world’s fastest DDR3 memory solution in production volume, a title that it still holds over a month later. Read on to see how this kit does on an EVGA nForce 790i SLI Ultra motherboard at 2135MHz.

Intel’s Aaron Brezenski recently made an entry to the Intel Software Network Software Blogs entitled “Welcome to G45! Better (but still imperfect…)” in which he talks about the introduction of the new G45 chipset and the early issues facing the chipset. In the post, Aaron talks about some of the good, bad, and ugly issues Intel is dealing with in regard to the G45’s IGP and its capabilities in a home theater setup. In the blog post, Aaron says, “The first couple weeks of motherboard availability on Intel’s

Ever had to take your laptop out of its bag and had it gone over with a fine-tooth comb at an airport? We have, and they turned it on, and ran over it with a swab to check for explosive residue. Yet another time-eating ritual. On Friday the TSA announced that Saturday, new laptop bag rules would go into effect, and laptops would be allowed to stay in some laptop bags deemed “checkpoint-friendly.” The TSA asked asked laptop bag manufacturers to design bags that would not obstruct the image of a laptop when put

Today, AMDs top CPU and GPU executives, Randy Allen and Rick Bergman, covered a number of key industry topics that are sure to get lots of attention during IDF in a conference call with the press today. They disclosed the usual AMD news about upcoming products, but this slide took the cake. AMD included the slide as a joke and mentioned that imitation is the greatest form of flattery!!

Its compact size, lightweight design, and ease of use has made the Garmin eTrex Legend one of the world’s most popular GPS devices. The brightly-colored eTrex Legend combines all of the intuitive, user-friendly features of the eTrex series with a full basemap of the Americas, the Atlantic or the Pacific and 8 megabytes (MB) of internal memory for storing optional maps. And the Legend is waterproof, so even if you get caught in a storm or drop it in a stream, it will perform flawlessly to help you reach your destination. This deal ends Friday at 12:00pm ET.

We’ve known for a few months that Palm had another Windows Mobile Treo in the works; today, we know a good bit more than that.  Images and information regarding the upcoming Treo Pro briefly appeared on the Palm.com web site.  The content was pulled shortly thereafter, but not before some eager Treo fans were able to grab some slides from a presentation and run.

The Treo Pro will be, at least in one incarnation, a GSM handset with HSDPA/UMTS compatibility.  Other features include Wi-Fi, GPS and microSD expansion.  No word yet on price or availability.

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After weeks of an unofficial update dangling in our faces, Motorola has posted the official Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard ROM update for the Motorola Q 9h Global (AT&T Mobility).

You can download the update here.  Remember that ROM updates wipe all data from your device, so be sure to sync and backup before installing.