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Could Windows Mobile soon see an included, over-the-air backup solution?  The recently announced acquisition of a Portuguese company, MobiComp, by Microsoft suggests that the software giant is interested in just that.  MobiComp offers a mobile backup solution in Portugal for cell phones which wirelessly backs-up contact, calendar and other cell phone information; a second service called MobileKeeper allows you to share photos and other content from popular sites such as Flickr and Facebook.

We hope this is a move toward a more Cloud-friendly setup for Windows Mobile, something we’re very much in favor of.

T-Mobile has a new Windows Mobile Smartphone on the horizon – the Shadow II (seen below in a user photo), which will replace, presumably, the current T-Mobile Shadow. The T-Mobile Shadow II will run Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard (non-touchscreen) and may be the first Windows Mobile handset from T-Mobile to work with that company’s HotSpot@Home Wi-Fi VoIP service.

Dell today introduced “Studio,” a new consumer product line designed for self-expression and creative living. Studio products are highly expressive and personalized – inside and out – combining aesthetics and technology into a fresh approach to hi-def mobile lifestyles.“People seeking stunning design, brilliant colors, and innovative new technology find inspiration in Dell’s new Studio brand,” said Michael Tatelman, vice president of Dell consumer sales and marketing worldwide. “These products are built for

The HTC Touch Diamond promises more than any Windows Mobile handheld in years, so there’s understandably a great deal of interest in this cutting-edge WinMo device.  An AT&T-branded version of the Touch Diamond won’t arrive for a few months yet, but if you’re really hankerin’ for some Diamond action in Q2, check out eBay.  There are more than a few Touch Diamond handsets for sale on eBay, and most are brand new.  These handsets are unlocked and will work with any GSM carrier like AT&T or T-Mobile.

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Corsair announced today that the recently relaunched Alienware Area-51 ALX high performance gaming platform now includes 4GB of Corsairs award winning overclockable DOMINATOR DDR3 memory. Using Corsairs DOMINATOR memory modules, the Alienware Area-51 ALX runs with rock-solid stability at the overclocked memory frequency of 1600 MHz.

The DOMINATOR family of memory represents the ultimate in performance technology engineering from Corsair. DOMINATOR is designed with the highest performing IC overclocking capability and Corsairs patented DHX cooling. DHX technology is an innovative quad-layer heat sink design that optimizes memory performance and reliability by maximizing thermal dissipation. With DHX Technology, heat is removed via two paths the leads of the BGA chips into the PCB (conductive cooling) and the back of the BGA packages into the custom designed extruded aluminum heat sinks (convective cooling). This allows DOMINATOR modules to achieve outstanding overclocking performance, while remaining stable and reliable.

Sapphire HD4850 Review @ OCC and other reviews from around the web can be found in our forums!

“The Sapphire HD4850 utilizes ATI's design of their newest core using a 55nm manufacturing technology, the RV770 using 512MB of GDDR3 memory. I had expected to see some great numbers from the new card, however what I saw was way beyond what I expected. The stock benchmarking scores of the HD4850 beat the 9800 a few times and got beat a few times by it, however once the Sapphire HD4850's core was overclocked to 670MHz and the memory was pushed all the way up to 1100MHz, it was able to compete with the competition's newest card, the GTX 280. When the card was overclocked, unlike the PowerColor HD4850, the temperatures of the GPU were sitting around 82-86 degrees Celsius under load, while these temperatures are not very good and are quite high, I felt that they were safe enough for me to be able to run some benchmarks.”

Only a day after a leaked, but purportedly official, WM6.1 ROM update for Sprint’s HTC Mogul showed up online, a similar update has appeared for Sprint’s HTC Vogue, which is sold as the Sprint Touch.  This update is also supposed to be official, and updates the Sprint Touch to Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional.  Unofficially official sounds pretty good to us, but, as always, install at your own risk.

Asetek's LCLC liquid cooling solution is now available for AMD's latest ATI Radeon HD 4870 family of graphics cards. The unique, single-slot liquid cooling solution was able to drop the GPU temperatures found on the 4870 by as much as 26 degrees. Our HIS Radeon HD 4870 ran at 83C under full load, so a 26C drop would be huge!

To meet the demands of advanced gaming or graphics-intensive applications, Asetek's highly integrated solution lowers the GPU temperatures found on the 4870 by as much as 26 degrees, enabling it to run significantly cooler in extreme performance modes of operation. And, since the Asetek solution is totally liquid cooled, the graphics card can run completely silent, except for the system heat exchanger fan that typically runs at a quiet 30 dB(A).

In case you missed it in the forums last night, NVIDIA's released Forceware 177.39 beta drivers that add PhysX support to the GeForce 9800 GTX, GeForce GTX 280, and GeForce GTX 260 video cards. These drivers have raised questions about NVIDIA cheating on 3DMark Vantage and have been the talk around the water cooler in offices around the world for more than a week now.

NVIDIA's GeForce v177.39 release highlights are as follows:

• Beta release for Windows Vista.
  
• Adds support for GeForce 9800 GTX GPUs.
  
• Adds support for NVIDIA PhysX Technology for GPU PhysX hardware acceleration on GeForce 9800 GTX, GeForce GTX 280, and GeForce GTX 260 GPUs. The GeForce v177.39 driver package includes NVIDIA PhysX System Software v8.06.12. The Unreal Tournament 3 PhysX Mod Pack can be downloaded here.
  
• Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and OpenGL, including 3-way SLI Technology with GeForce 9800 GTX, GeForce GTX 280 and GeForce GTX 260 GPUs.
  
• Supports CUDA Technology.
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• Supports HybridPower, a Hybrid SLI Technology.

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• Supports GPU overclocking and temperature monitoring by installing NVIDIA System Tools software.
  
• Please read the release notes for more information on product support, features, and known compatibility issues.
  
• Users without US English operating systems can select their language and download the International driver here.