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Here's a checklist of cheap essential gadgets to ensure smooth traveling with tech.



Travel Tips - Travel - Recreation - Preparation - Home

Analysis: With Droid 2 news seeping out, is there hope for the early adopters of the first model?



Droid - Smartphone - Handhelds - Android - Motorola

The bookseller is nurturing its e-reader with designated Nook lounges with accessories and demos.



nook - Barnes & Noble - E-book - Sony - Readers

Web site accepts an encrypted file of uncertain origin; speculation strong in wake of recent Afghan documents leaks.



Wikileaks - Afghanistan - Asia - Julian Assange - Warfare and Conflict

Twitter passed another milestone on Saturday with the sending of tweet number 20 billion.



Twitter - Social Networking - Online Communities - Trending and Popularity - GigaTweet

A J.D. Power report names T-Mobile USA tops in customer care rankings among U.S. wireless carriers.



Sprint Nextel - Verizon - T-Mobile - AT&T - Telecommunications

Security company Barracuda Networks says Google's search pages link to twice as much malware as search rivals Bing, Yahoo, and Twitter.



Google - Yahoo - Barracuda Networks - search - Twitter

RIM mobile phone shipments grew by 40% in the second quarter, giving it the top spot in a market that grew by more than 14% during the same period, IDC reports.



Research In Motion - Mobile phone - International Data Corporation - Business and Economy - Telecommunications

Steve Ballmer stubbornly insists that a Windows 7 tablet is coming, but Microsoft should be focused on developing applications for other mobile platforms.



Microsoft - Steve Ballmer - tablet - Apple - Windows 7

The UK decides the data on Wi-Fi access points gathered by Google during its Street View operations did not contain personal information.



Google - Google Street View - Wi-Fi - streetview - Searching

Once thought to be unhackable, the Android phone is anything but, according to researchers presenting at Black Hat 2010.



Black Hat - Android - Handhelds - Hacking - Black Hat 2010

Microsoft's bug reports fail to result in prompt corrections, the Microsoft Vulnerability Research program reports.



Microsoft - Patch - Business - Allegedly Unethical Firms - Monopolies and Oligopolies

The gang takes a look at the new Amazon Kindle, and puts Apple's iPhone 4 antenna claims to the test.



IPhone - Apple - Amazon Kindle - Handhelds - Smartphones

Participants in a Defcon social engineering contest had no problem getting data from Fortune 500 companies on Friday.



Social engineering - Business - Las Vegas Nevada - Ask an Expert - Recreation

E-Reader competition heats, prices drop -- if you're shopping, watch for bargains.



Amazon Kindle - History - Twentieth Century - Wars and Conflicts - Barnes & Noble

Returning from an inadvertent hiatus due to...er...inclement conditions in my office, I'm here to tell bring you the latest in stories you might have missed. It...



Android - IPhone - Smartphone - Handhelds - Facebook

San Francisco network administrator Terry Childs was denied a motion for a new trial.



Terry Childs - Network administrator - Business - San Francisco - Resumes

Redmond's desktop operating system is a bad fit for today's touchscreen tablets.



Microsoft - Operating system - Microsoft Windows - Apple - Steve Ballmer

Exclusive video of the unique Defcon hacking conference badge, a new Kindle from Amazon, hybrid electric cars, and more...



Defcon - Electric car - Technology - Las Vegas Nevada - Black Hat

Analysis: Ballmer backpedals on tablet talk; can Microsoft imitate Apple once again?



Microsoft - IPad - Steve Ballmer - Apple - Business

The FCC is concerned over a planned Defcon demonstration of GSM mobile-phone interception.



GSM - Mobile phone - Telecommunication - Business and Economy - Mobile

An estimated 4 million users of Android phones have downloaded wallpaper apps that pass along personal data to a site in China.



Android - China - Handhelds - Google - Smartphone

Emergency patch for so-called shortcut bug falls out of the usual security fix schedule.



Microsoft - Patch - Malware - Security - Windows

Samsung won regulatory approval to be the first manufacturer with a phone based on the 4G LTE standard.



3GPP Long Term Evolution - 4G - MetroPCS - Business - Telecommunications

Students create decentralized, open source alternative to Facebook that they say will give users full control over their privacy.



Open source - Facebook - Social network - Programming - Languages

There?s a good chance that Microsoft will build a ?Microsoft phone? at some point, simply because the temptation may prove irresistible.



Microsoft - Monopolies and Oligopolies - Economic - Business - Companies

As Apple is fond of reminding those who complain about the App Store, native apps are only one prong of developing software for iOS devices--there's also Web...



Apple - App Store - IPhone - Handhelds - Smartphones

The Mac is far from dead, and Apple's gradual move to bring touch to the desktop -- which it has with its Magic Trackpad -- is a clue about the future of OS X.



Apple - Operating system - OS X - MagicTrackpad - Apple Worldwide Developers Conference

Major corporations are jumping on BitTorrent to download the gold mine of data contained in the Facebook file containing profile information on more than 170 million users.



BitTorrent - Facebook - Gold - Filesharing - Google

These days, a search for just about any popular term returns a huge, steaming pile of automated tweets from an army of fake Twitter users.



Twitter - search - Social network - Online Communities - Trending and Popularity

The annual Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting in Redmond featured the usual number crunching, along with point-by-point challenges to five of Microsoft?s top competitors.



Microsoft - Steve Ballmer - Monopolies and Oligopolies - Economic - Business

Microsoft said Friday it will present evidence to Japanese competition authorities that a recent Google search deal with Yahoo Japan is anticompetitive.



Google - Yahoo - Microsoft - Search - Search Engines

Pondering the problems with employees and social networking, it's clear that simple nannying won't cut it.



Facebook - Social network service - Online Communities - Social Networking - Software and Services

SAP catches up with rival Oracle on the open-source software front.



opensource - Oracle - Oracle Corporation - Articles - Operating system

Just Mobile, maker of fine mobile stands and accessories for Apple products, has released the UpStand--a sleek aluminum stand for the iPad.



Apple - IPad - IMac - Business - IPhone

The StarCraft II reviews are trickling in, so how are folks reacting to Blizzard's grand reiteration of real-time rock, paper, scissors?



StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty - Blizzard Entertainment - Games - StarCraft - Strategy

A calculator is a calculator is a calculator, right? Unless you're talking about TLA Systems's PCalc, which is, of course, the calculator. The latest update to...



calculator - Math - Windows - Shareware - Mathematics

The continuing evolution of CRM (customer relationship management) will be the focus of a conference next week in New York.



New York City - Business - New York - Marketing - Customer Service

OLPC is offering its hardware and software technology to the Indian government for the $35 tablet.



One Laptop Per Child - Tablet - Nicholas Negroponte - Government of India - Hardware

Citrix is the first desktop virtualization company to meet every enterprise requirement, the Burton Group says.



VMware - Desktop virtualization - Citrix Systems - Networking - Thin Clients

Health-care companies must recognize the personal nature between people and their smartphones when introducing mobile health initiatives.



Smartphone - United States - Health - IPhone - Politics

I have a problem. And that problem is that when I travel for the purposes of pleasure, I can't completely switch off the work-beast within. Even in the most...



Recreation - Travel - Daily Beast - Travel and Tourism - United States

Amazon on Thursday released significant upgrades to its Kindle app for iPhone and iPad.



iPhone - Amazon Kindle - IPad - Amazon - Peru

The longtime IT consultant and industry observer talks about three decades of working with corporate leaders and the stories in his new book.



Information technology consulting - Business - Management - Information technology - Consultants

If your life is inundated with tasks that are crying out for management, then you probably have at least a passing familiarity with The Omni Group's OmniFocus...



Omni Group - OmniFocus - IPhone - Health - AppStore

If you use Citigroup's Citi Mobile iPhone app, make sure you update to the new version released this week. The update fixes a security flaw that, according to a...



IPhone - Citigroup - Smartphone - Handhelds - Citi Mobile iPhone

Microsoft is still in pursuit of the tablet market according to Ballmer, but it needs to get back to its roots and stop dabbling in every consumer technology that comes along.



Microsoft - Steve Ballmer - Apple - Business - Monopolies and Oligopolies

FutureTap has updated its points of interest finder, Where To?, to embrace the features of iOS 4 and the iPhone 4. Along with an interface overhaul, the app now...



IPhone - IPhone OS - Smartphone - Handhelds - Apple

Intel's legal issues and Nvidia's weak product execution help AMD gain market share in the graphics space, Jon Peddie Research said on Friday.



Nvidia - Advanced Micro Devices - Intel Corporation - Jon Peddie Research - ATI Technologies

Apple upgrades its Mac Pro and iMacs, whiles introducing new Cinema Display and brand new Magic Trackpad device.



Apple - IMac - Macintosh - MacPro - Hardware

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The latest 2.5? hard drive generation ships with SAS 6Gb/s and delivers up to 600 GB of storage space, narrowing the gap with much larger 3.5" disks. Today we're comparing the latest 2.5" drives from Seagate and Toshiba to see if they're faster, too.



Seagate Technology - Hard disk drive - Toshiba - Hardware - Storage

Do you carry around large amounts of data? Do you need to transfer it between devices in a hurry? We're examining five new USB 3.0-based portable storage solutions that might fit your needs. This time around, the focus is on maximizing portability.



Universal Serial Bus - Hardware - Storage - Data - hard drive

Intel arms its Core i5 and Core i7 CPUs with Turbo Boost. AMD's hexa-core Phenom II X6 chips sport Turbo CORE. Both technologies dynamically increase performance based on perceived workloads and available thermal headroom. Which one does the better job?



Intel Corporation - Intel Turbo Boost - Intel Core - Intel Core i7 - Advanced Micro Devices

The GeForce GTX 460 has already proven itself an excellent value as a single card, but can two of them offer superior performance at similar cost to Nvidia?s flagship GTX 480? Let's just say that there's a good reason to buy an SLI-compatible motherboard.



Nvidia - GeForce - Motherboard - Scalable Link Interface - Video card

The professional space is peppered with products derived from the desktop. Today we're looking at Intel's Xeon X5680 CPUs, which look a lot like Core i7-980X, only they're optimized for dual-socket platforms. We're also introducing new Adobe CS5 tests.



Intel Corporation - Intel - Xeon - Central processing unit - Intel Core i7

In order to set their products apart, third-party vendors take reference GPUs from AMD and Nvidia, then make their own tweaks to layout, cooling, and performance. We're comparing a tuned-up card from MSI to AMD's reference Radeon HD 5870 to measure value.



Graphics processing unit - Radeon - Nvidia - Advanced Micro Devices - Video card

Better late than never, right? Our top 20 must-haves from E3 include a list of upcoming hardware and software that every gamer will want to sample, regardless of whether you?re a hardcore PC gamer or a console junkie. Check out our pictorial tour.



Hardware - Video game - Personal computer - Games - Electronic Entertainment Expo

When installing AMD's current northbridge drivers, the "success" confirmation message, installation log entries, and info in the Device Manager might lead you to believe that everything was installed just fine. Too bad the Catalyst setup says otherwise.



Advanced Micro Devices - Device Manager - Northbridge (computing) - Device Drivers - AMD

The first USB 3.0-based external hard drives aim at eliminating the USB 2.0 bottleneck (that hovered around 30 MB/s) with enough bandwidth to outperform the fastest mechanical disks. A-Data, Buffalo, and WD do battle for maximum performance.



Universal Serial Bus - Hard disk drive - Western Digital - Hardware - Storage

Last week we showed Opera 10.60 to be the world's fastest Web browser. That was in the Windows world. But where do Chrome, Firefox, and Opera stand in Linux? Today we find out. Adding the Win 7 results, we'll also learn which OS has the speediest browser.



Opera - Google Chrome - Linux - Mozilla Firefox - Firefox

Supporting Intel?s highest-performance processors with twice the bandwidth of its mainstream counterpart, the X58 chipset proves the staying power of good ideas. We take a closer look at what makes the latest generation of premium motherboards special.



Motherboard - Intel Corporation - Hardware - Components - Intel X58

Samsung invited Tom?s Hardware for a first-ever glimpse inside its South Korean LCD fab facilities. We walked the gargantuan manufacturing hallways and basked in the glow of every screen imaginable. We?ve seen the future. Now we're giving you a peek.



South Korea - Samsung Group - Seoul - Liquid crystal display - Asia

Kingston?s HyperX LoVo-series DDR3 memory allows users to reduce voltage to 1.35 V or 1.25 V in order to save power and allegedly decrease system temperature. We test the eco-friendly modules to find out if it really makes sense to run undervolted memory.



Voltage - Temperature - Business - DDR3 SDRAM - Electronics and Electrical

Most people know that Intel?s Atom is a slow, low-cost processor. But does it even offer enough performance to take it beyond desktop processors nearly a decade old? Today we're comparing a modern Atom CPU to two Northwood-class Pentium 4-based PCs.



Intel Corporation - Intel Atom - Intel - Central processing unit - Personal computer

Asus' new ARES immediately earns bragging rights as one of the fastest single graphics cards ever created. We put the beast through a gauntlet of tests to measure this product's true power. At the end of the day, we answer whether it's worth four digits.



Video card - Asus - Recreation - Hardware - Components

This month we see retail availability of the new models from the AMD and Intel camps: the Athlon II X2 260, the Athlon II X3 445, and the Athlon II X4 640 from AMD, and the Pentium E6700, Core i5-655K, and Core i7-875K from Intel. Read about them here!



Advanced Micro Devices - Intel Corporation - AthlonIi - Intel Core i7 - Central processing unit

A few months ago we pitted the top five web browsers against each other to find out which is truly the fastest and Chrome took the title. Since then, major new version changes have been released for Chrome as well as its competitors. Today is the rematch.



Google Chrome - Web browser - Browser - Clients - WWW

After being shocked by the GeForce GTX 480's power consumption and outright disappointed by the GeForce GTX 465's performance for $279, Nvidia surprises us with a Fermi-based card that leaves us downright impressed. The GeForce GTX 460 is a real winner.



Nvidia - GeForce - Video card - GeForce GTX 460 - GeForce GTX 465

When it's time to look into small form factor machines, do you pick AMD or Intel? With an increasing number of motherboard companies offering Mini-ITX platforms with powerful desktop performance in a diminutive footprint, we compared two modern options.



Motherboard - Intel Corporation - Mini-ITX - Hardware - Components

Enthusiasts often say that you can never have too much performance. However, a 500W power supply is perfectly ample for a majority of mid-range PCs. This is one of those cases where a solid ratio of performance to price is preferable to gross excess.



Power supply - Personal computer - Power Supplies - Business - Electronics and Electrical

Intel's Turbo Boost technology provides a mechanism for improving system performance most significantly in lightly-threaded apps, even at peak loads. But what is the feature's impact on a Gulftown-based Core i7-980X processor with different core counts?

With the launch of its GeForce GTX 480M, Nvidia?s Fermi architecture takes center stage in high-end gaming notebooks. But is the notoriously-hot GPU able to compete against AMD's Mobility Radeon HD 5870? AVADirect gives us the answer with its new W880CU.



Nvidia - GeForce - Graphics processing unit - Radeon - Fermi

This month, we discuss the new GDDR5-based versions of the Radeon HD 5550 and 5570, the disappearance of Nvidia's GeForce 9600 GT, and almost-universal price drops across the GeForce GTX 400-series line. Come see how our recommendations have changed!



Nvidia - GeForce - Radeon - GDDR5 - Video card

You need Intel?s LGA 1366 interface and an X58-based platform in order to run the latest six-core processors, but which board should you pick? We're comparing a mainstream and flagship platform from the same company to explore the worth of high-end X58.



Intel Corporation - Motherboard - Intel - Hardware - Components

Remember when 500GB was the most you could get from a notebook drive? It seems like most vendors have made the transition to 640GB. Western Digital even has its own 750GB model that fits within the 9.5 mm z-height. So, which of these drives is the best?



Western Digital - Hard disk drive - Hardware - Storage - Hard Drives

Case and power supply combos always look like a bargain, but bargain-basement parts have always seemed to chase experienced builders away. Today, we consider three budget-enthusiast models to determine if any of them can meet our basic gaming needs.



Power supply - Business - Hardware - Case - Components

A little more than a year ago, we saw a renewed interest in stereoscopic gaming with Nvidia's 3D Vision technology. Today, the company is following up with 3D gaming across three displays. But has the 3D ecosystem improved since our last look at the tech?



Nvidia - Technology - Games - Gambling - Business

Today, we're putting the newest and fastest sub-$150 processors against each other in a gaming competition to see which models offer the best bang for your buck. Will it be Intel's Core i3, its Clarkdale-based Pentium, or AMD's Athlon and Phenom II CPUs?



Advanced Micro Devices - Intel Corporation - Central processing unit - AmdPhenom - Athlon

We've been hearing about OnLive's cloud-based service for more than a year now. The company claims it can offer the latest games on demand, without a need for meaty hardware requirements on the client end. Could this really be the end of high-end PCs?



OnLive - Cloud computing - Personal computer - Video game - Business

Samsung and Seagate are each offering new high-capacity drives that strive to cram tons of data into a 3.5" form factor. Today's battle is the eco-friendly Spinpoint against the nearline Constellation, low power against business-class. Which one is best?



Seagate Technology - Storage - Hardware - Hard disk drive - Hard Drives

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