Super Talent MasterDrive SSD Gets a Performance Boost Notebook SSD Line Now Supports Dramatically Faster Write Speeds San Jose, California – July 22, 2008 – Super Talent Technology, a leading manufacturer of Flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules, today announced that the company has dramatically improved the write speeds of its MasterDrive DX, MasterDrive KX and MasterDrive MX solid state drives (SSDs). These three series of SSDs already boast exceptionally fast read speeds of up to 120 MB/sec. But,

OCZ Technology Unveils First Fatal1ty Brand DDR2 and DDR3 Memory After Partnership Announcement Get the Gear Used by the Pros Sunnyvale, Calif. -July 21, 2008- OCZ Technology Group, Inc., a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory and PC components, today announced the first memory modules available in their Fatal1ty Series after the partnership was announced last month. These high-performance memory kits were co-developed with the expertise of Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel,

Yahoo announced today it has reached an agreement with activist investor Carl Icahn that will settle their battle over control of the Sunnyvale-based Internet giant.

The agreement will place Icahn on Yahoo's Board of Directors, and two other seats will be filled based on a list of nine candidates recommended by Icahn. Eight members of Yahoo's current Board of Directors, including Chief Executive Jerry Yang and Chairman Roy Bostock, will stand for re-election at the annual shareholder's meeting Aug. 1.

As part of the agreement, Robert Kotick will not stand for re-election at the annual meeting. The moves expands Yahoo's Board of Directors from nine to 11 members.

Yahoo shares fell nearly 2 percent to $22.02 in premarket trading from a $22.45 close Friday. Shares of Microsoft Corp., Yahoo's spurned suitor, rose 14 cents to $26 from a $25.86 close Friday.

As part of the settlement agreement, Icahn, who owns an aggregate of 68,786,320 shares, or 4.98 percent of Yahoo common stock, has agreed to withdraw his nominees for consideration at the annual meeting and to vote his Yahoo shares in support of the Board's nominees.

Nothing is so hilarious as when a security vendor gets its site hacked.  All right, we will admit that when ICANN was hacked that was also funny.  In this case, Kaspersky, who many say (arguably) has the best security software around, had their Malaysian website hacked (yes, we probably could cut them some slack for the fact it was only their Malaysian site – nah).“The official Malaysian Kaspersky Antivirus’s website has been hacked yesterday by a Turkish cracker going by the handle of “m0sted”. Along

Intel has cut processor prices up to 31 percent, though overall cuts are limited in number and degree. The desktop Core 2 Duo E8500 (3.16GHz) got the largest cut, from $266 to $183 (31 percent) on the new pricing list, dated July 20. The next biggest price reduction was the desktop Core 2 Duo E7200 (2.53GHz), reduced 15 percent, from $133 to $113.

Other price cuts include the popular quad-core Q6600 (2.4GHz). It drops 14 percent, from $224 to $193. The desktop Core 2 Duo E8400 (3.00GHz) falls 11 percent, from $183 to $163. Xeon server processors also saw price cuts. The X3220 (2.40GHz) was cut 12 percent, from $224 to $198. The X3210 (2.13GHz) saw an identical cut, while the E3110 (3.00GHz) was reduced 11 percent, from $188 to $167. The pricing for QX “Extreme” processors, such as the QX9775 (3.2GHz, $1,499), remains unchanged from the pricing list published on July 15, when the Centrino 2 mobile processors were introduced.

Find reviews from around the web by visiting our forums! The following exerpt is from motherboards.org's ECS GF8200A Black Motherboard Review.

For the budget-minded consumer, the ECS GF8200A is a pretty good deal. For $70 USD, the board has the features to build a good gaming PC or a HTPC with the integrated graphics with the caveat that there is no digital audio output and DVI port. The benefit of having DirectX 10 integrated graphics include: PureVideo HD playback of Blu-Ray discs and the ability to use the Aero UI in Windows Vista. GeForce Boost is an interesting concept but with it working only on the 8400/8500 cards is limited in usefulness to most people as they might be better served buying a 9600GT and using the integrated graphics in an emergency. Hybrid SLI shows performance increases in most of the tests but in others it shows the same performance as the 8500GT by itself.

A long time friend in the industry tipped me off about Danamics long ago and sent me the company logo before the site was even online. Fast forward a few months and they have announced the LM10, which is said to be the the first liquid metal-based cooler to hit the market. Danamics claims that it will do a better job at keeping your CPU cool than most water-based cooling systems that come in a kit. That's apparently possible thanks to a combination of liquid metal (the exact specifics of which seem to be under wraps) and the 'multi-string' electromagnetic pump that keeps things flowing.

Danamics ApS is a leading manufacturer of liquid metal based cooling solutions. The company was founded in 2005 and our headquarters are placed in Nrresundby, Denmark. The technology is described in parts containing information about the unique electromagnetic pump with its patent pending multi-string design and the liquid metal with its superior thermo physical characteristics.

Like the Sprint Touch, the Mogul’s WM6.1 Pro update was pulled on Friday shortly after being posted on the HTC web site.  Both updates are live again, so if you’ve been waiting to upgrade, now’s the time.

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OCZ lays claim to being the first company to bring a “brain-computer” interface to the retail market and they have aimed it squarely at the gamer. The device is called the NIA, which is an acronym that stands for Neural Impulse Actuator, and instead of buttons, sticks,  gyroscopes or motion sensors, it reads the body’s natural biosignals and translates them into commands that can be used to control PC games.   No question, it’s a pretty wild product.  Go now and see.

Is the soap opera over?  Probably … not.  However, the drama to come at the Yahoo shareholders meeting on Aug. 1st is going to be a lot, lot less.Today it was announced that Yahoo and Carl Icahn have come to an agreement.  By giving Icahn a seat on the board as well as two others to be filled from his list of nominees (one of the current board, Robert Kotick, will not stand for re-election), Yahoo has placated Icahn to the point that he will withdraw his proxy fight plan.Yahoo said eight members