Toshiba recently announced that its lightweight Portégé R500 ultraportable laptop is now available with a 128GB solid state drive (SSD). With this new, but pricey option, Toshiba claims that the Portégé R500-S5007V is now “the world’s lightest laptop with a 128GB SSD and DVD SuperMulti drive.” That might sound impressive upon first blush, but it’s actually a rather hollow claim, as there are very few–if any–other 128GB SSD-based laptops on the market right now. But, we thought we would use this opportunity

LCD monitors were supposed to free up our precious desk real estate as they relegated bulky CRTs to the local landfill. But with the quantity and quality of high-definition content increasing and LCD prices continuing to drop, widescreen LCDs are becoming increasingly prevalent. Now our desks are filling up again–only this time in width, instead of depth. Still, for many, this is a small price to pay for the relatively large screen area and wide aspect ratio that these widescreen monitors offer.One such widescreen

The yet-to-be-released E.M.A. (“Eternal, Maiden, Actualization”) fembot from Sega Toys has been generating quite a lot of buzz on the Internet since it was first announced last week. The decidedly female robot is 38cm tall and is capable of fluid movements via its “5 motors and 12 degrees of freedom.” Those movements include dancing and kissing. But don’t be fooled by her wily ways–she is also a lean, mean, fighting machine. Well, sort of. It turns out that the E.M.A. that Sega Toys announced is actually a

The folks over at Skype are hoping that you want to be a beta tester. Starting today, Skype 4.0 Beta 1 for Windows goes into public beta, and there are a number of significant changes in the new version. The most noticeable transformation from the existing client to the new beta is a much lager default video window for video calls. (Skype estimates that about 25 percent of current Skype users use the software’s video calling feature.) The user interface is being reworked a bit as well to make it easier to “resize

EDITORIAL: With Apple, Google and RIM making swift and sweeping moves in the world of handheld operating systems, Windows Mobile 6 – you know, Windows Mobile 5 / 2003 / 2002 with a slight makeover – is becoming a dated platform in many respects; we’re still a country mile from Palm OS territory, but it’s time for a major overhaul.

I’ve decided to focus my first in a multi-part editorial on the syncing possibilities of Windows Mobile and what improvements need to be added for Windows Mobile 7, which is due out next year.

EDITORIAL: With Apple, Google and RIM making swift and sweeping moves in the world of handheld operating systems, Windows Mobile 6 – you know, Windows Mobile 5 / 2003 / 2002 with a slight makeover – is becoming a dated platform in many respects; we’re still a country mile from Palm OS territory, but it’s time for a major overhaul.

I’ve decided to focus my first in a multi-part editorial on the syncing possibilities of Windows Mobile and what improvements need to be added for Windows Mobile 7, which is due out next year.

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Verizon FiOS customers tend to be the envy of the rest of us non-FiOS, broadband users. Well, that envy quotient is about to go up another notch, as Verizon announced that as of next week, its 50/20 and 20/20 Mbps services will be available “across all of Verizon’s FiOS Internet service footprint in 16 states.” “Verizon had already offered the 50/20 Mbps and 20/20 Mbps services in its FiOS markets in Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island.  The company is now expanding those

Facebook and MySpace perform important functions for their users. But when you get right down to it, they exist and are popular because they are amusements. Serious business is not discussed on a page with glitter fonts and Linkin Park music videos that auto-play. There is a social site that’s all business –LinkedIn– and it’s received an infusion of $53 million dollars from Bain Capital, who’ve valued the company overall at a cool $1 billion. Not bad for a site with no videos and hardly any pictures on it.

Have you ever wanted to play music from your stereo Bluetooth (A2DP)-enabled phone? If you have then take a look at the Logitech Pure-Fi Mobile wireless speaker! Thanks to stereo Bluetooth you can enjoy music from up to 33 feet away from your phone or you could use it as a wireless speakerphone. The Logitech Pure-Fi comes with everything you need to get things working and comes backed by a 2-year limited hardware warranty. Read on to see if Bluetooth music streaming is right for you!

The new version of the Firefox Web browser became available as a free download today, but the release was delayed nearly two hours as users visiting the crashed the Mozilla servers. Firefox supporters organized a world record attempt for most software downloads in a 24-hour period for the new category for Guinness World Records. The new version is available so you might want to get yours now while the servers are still up!

Mozilla hyped today's Firefox 3 launch with a 'Download Day' appeal to Firefox users to all come get the new version at once and shoot for a new Guinness World Record. But some network difficulties handling that huge rush of traffic is keeping many visitors from helping Mozilla reach that goal.