A 108-year-old (yes, you read that correctly) Australian woman, reportedly the world’s oldest blogger, has passed away in Woy Woy (which is about 50 miles north of Sydney).Olive Riley, of Woy Woy about 50 miles north of Sydney, began blogging in February last year, sharing stories from her life during the two world wars, raising three children on her own, and working as a station cook in the outback.The physically frail but mentally alert Riley won an international audience with her blog, The Life of Riley (www.allaboutolive.com.au),

At first glance, Intel’s technical documentation for the new P45 / G45 Express series chipsets, you’ll note looks alarmingly similar to the previous generation P35 / G35 Express series that this new lineup of chipsets is meant to replace. As the P35 series was a rather successful architecture, this immediately struck us on a positive first note about the P45. The more we read on, the more we realized that the Intel P45 chipset shares many of the same features and attributes

According to Apple it sold 1 million iPhone 3Gs in the first weekend of sales.  It also announced 10 million downloads from the App Store, many of which were free.Apple Inc. said Monday it has sold 1 million iPhones in the three days following the release of the latest model on Friday.”IPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, in a statement Monday.But the launch was plagued by software problems. All the new iPhones had to connect to Apple’s servers for activation,

With a tag line of “Any GPU, Unlimited Possibilities”, you can imagine our collective geek meters were pegged when we received word from a contact at Israeli startup Lucid Logix about the company’s formal debut announcement.  And Lucid’s roll-out press release went on to tease a bit more…  “The real-time distributed processing engine, called HYDRA™, offers a groundbreaking approach to scaling 3D graphics performance in a multi-GPU environment. Outlined for the first time on the new Lucid

Only four short months ago AMD launched the Radeon HD 3870 X2 graphics card and it was the flagship ATI Radeon product, but the successor has arrived. AMD has taken two of the latest cores (RV770)and placed them on a single PCB to create the Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics card. AMD kept the clock frequencies the same as the Radeon HD 4870 graphics card, so basically you have the power of a pair of those running CrossFire on a single PCB!

It seems that the old saying, “truth is stranger than fiction”, rings true yet again but depending on your perspective, Yahoo might actually be on to something.  The recent offering from the Microsoft-Carl Icahn Dynamic Duo, that came in over the weekend, was tied up with less than a 24hr deadline ultimatum that was firmly underscored with a no-compromises tonality.  In the deal, Microsoft was throwing cash around like only Microsoft can, with not only an equity investment of $3.9 billion

What would you say if Steve Wozniak and his entourage cut in line in front of you?  Anything?What would you say, on the other hand, if they tried to “pretend” they waited in line overnight, for good PR, and THEN cut in line?In fact, according to Doug and Patrice Broussard, Woz actually never waited in line at all. The couple, who were there, said the Apple co-founder lounged on some of the mall’s nearby sofas for about four hours and then ambled up to the front of the queue when the store opened at 8 a.m

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As predicted, Sprint released the Palm Treo 800w today, and the new handset is now available on the Sprint web store.  The price is $249 with a new service agreement and mail-in rebate.

Find out more about the Palm Treo 800w…

Net Neutrality is a hot topic as of late.  It seems that not a week goes by without news breaking regarding a certain politician’s stance on net neutrality, or a tech company introducing a new technology designed to inspect, detect, or shape net traffic is some way, shape or form.  Considering the importance of the topic, we thought it was a good time to get all of your opinions on the matter.  With that in mind, we have just posted a new poll that we’d like you all to participate in.What’s Your