A few days ago, we passed along some online rumors which suggested that the Motorola Q9c Smartphone had been axed by Sprint, rumors which began when the handset vanished from the Sprint web site.  Word now comes from Sprint that the Q9c is alive and well, but simply low on stock for online direct shipping.

If you’re looking to pick up the Moto Q9c, try a local store.  Online stock should be back up in the next few weeks.

Over the last couple of days, there have been some rumblings around the web that NVIDIA is planning to drop the price of their recently launched GeForce GTX 260 and GTX 280 cards in response to AMD’s potent, and more affordable, Radeon HD 4800 series.  The actual numbers quoted have varied, but today we heard some news directly from multiple NVIDIA board partners that pricing on the GeForce GTX 280 may actually be dropping to as low as $499–a significant drop from the $649 launch price. Unfortunately,

The latest events in the Megan Meier MySpace suicide case took place Monday, when Missouri governor Matt Blunt signed into law a bill which revised the the state’s already existing harassment law to include telephone and electronic communication.Those under 21 would face only a misdemeanor, but for adults, this is a felony, with a sentence of up to four years in prison.The Megan Meier case caught the attention of the nation when it brok. A teenage girl committed suicide after a MySpace romance went bad. The

Lian-Li launches the all new EX-H33 HDD rack mount kit 3 July 2008, Keelung, Taiwan – Lian-Li Industrial Co. Ltd has launched EX-H33 HDD rack to support 3x 3.5” HDD’s in an all aluminum frame and housing. The HDD rack has a front loading door, with individual handles on a bracket for each HDD, as well as a back panel PCB designed to accept most modern SATA HDD configurations in a Hot Swap Plug & Play configuration. To keep the device cool there is a 120mm fan (1000RPM) with a washable nylon filter keeping

Nvidia cut its financial forecast for the current quarter, and disclosed that defects in certain graphics chips would result in at least $150 million in charges. The Santa Clara, Calif., chipmaker said it now expects sales in the quarter ending July 27 to range between $875 million and $950 million. That represents a 17% to 23% sequential drop in sales, compared to the 5% falloff to $1.09 billion in quarterly revenue expected by analysts polled by Thomson Financial.

Last month, Nvidia introduced its newest generation of graphics processors, touting the chips raw horsepower for delivering high-end graphics performance. Rival ATI took a different tack, with a more moderately priced and less-beefy family of graphics chips. According to news reports in recent weeks, Nvidia was forced to cut the price of its newest midrange chip out of the gate, in order to keep its product competitive with the ATI offerings.

Nvidia shares dropped significantly on news of lower sales, with the double whammy of a estimated $200 million charge to replace defective laptop chips. Nvidia was already struggling to compete with AMD’s subsidiary ATI, plus an encroachment on Nvidia’s bread and butter graphics processors by industry leader Intel. A soft economy isn’t helping much, either. The warranty cost for the chips is especially galling; Nvidia says the chips were OK but were damaged by their packaging material. Ouch. In the past six

Google has been ordered to turn over their logs of user activity on their YouTube site to Viacom. Viacom is suing Google over copyright infringement, and wishes to see how many YouTube users actually look at Viacom copyrighted material on the video service, then compare it to the amount of traffic any given non-copyrighted video might garner, in order to prove that Google is making money off Viacom’s Intellectual Property, and assess potential damages. As you might expect, privacy mavens are up in arms over

Nine days and counting until the Apple iPhone 3G goes on sale in the U.S… Many plan on buying their first iPhone, while existing iPhone users ponder whether to upgrade to the new phone or not. Rumors and speculation abound as to how much AT&T will charge for its service plans and what features will come with those plans. We’ve taken it upon ourselves to address some of the rumors and issues below…1) Rumor: AT&T will charge iPhone 3G customers more than it charges other AT&T non-iPhone customers.False:

In our excitement over the release of the new Playstation 3 firmware, 2.40, which includes in-game XMB support and trophies, we forgot what we usually recommend to people: don’t jump on it (an OS update, a patch, a firmware update) until you see what happens to others who upgrade.One need only look at the XP SP3 fiasco involving Symantec for a good example.Reports have surfaced at the Playstation forums of issues while downloading the firmware, console freezes, and reboot issues. One user, noting the number

Graphics card vendor Gainward, previously an exclusive AIB partner of Nvidia, has begun working with AMD and will launch ATI Radeon HD GPU-based products soon, according to market sources.

Initially Gainward plans to launch Radeon HD 4850 and 4870-series products, and will follow HD 3800-series cards later, the sources said.