V8 (RR-UV8-XBU1-GP) is a CPU cooler designed for Intel (socket 775) and AMD (socket 940/AM2/AM2+) processors that has been recently launched by Cooler Master. Its base is made of copper with eight heat-pipes connecting its base to the coolerā€™s aluminum fins. V8 uses a 120-mm fan based on a center rifle bearing with manually-adjustable speed (800 rpm to 1,800 rpm) thru a knob that can be installed on the back of the case in any available expansion slot. Its MSRP isnā€™t available yet.

OCZ has announced its latest SATA-300 2.5″ SSD series called Core. Available in 32 GB (USD 169), 64 GB (USD 259), 128 GB (USD 479) capacities, disks from this series deliver up to 143 MB/s read speeds and up to 93 MB/s write speeds, measure 3 15/16″ x 2 3/4″ x 3/8″ (100.2 x 70 x 9.5 mm), weight 2.7 oz (77 g) and have a two-year warranty. Read the rest of this entry »

Lian Li has launched PC-A77, a full-tower case featuring twelve 5 Ā¼ā€¯ external bays, nine 3 Ā½ā€¯ internal bays (six of them using 5 Ā¼ā€¯ bays), seven slots for expansion cards and water cooling support. This case also has two 120-mm frontal fans and two 120-mm rear fans. On the PC-A77 top panel you can find one Firewire port, four USB ports, one eSATA port and microphone input and headphones output. PC-A77 also comes with a module located on its frontal panel in charge of control automatically the fans speed of four 120-mm fans. The fan speed will adjusted automatically by temperature difference, fan speed from 1,020 rpm to 1,500 rpm. Read the rest of this entry »

Despite all of the very interesting speculation over the last few months, we’re not announcing a Gphone. However, we think what we are announcing — the Open Handset Alliance and Android — is more significant and ambitious than a single phone. In fact, through the joint efforts of the members of the Open Handset Alliance, we hope Android will be the foundation for many new phones and will create an entirely new mobile experience for users, with new applications and new capabilities we canā€™t imagine today.

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Google has made no secret of its ambitions in the mobile space. There are mobile versions of all its key services, such as search, e-mail and calendar.

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The Google Android team recently launched a challenge to encourage development for their new cellphone based platform. Part of the first phase was to narrow down the 1,788 submissions to the best 50 application ideas. Theyā€™ve posted the complete list of winners on their website and put together a little slide show(PDF) as well. As part of the challenge some $10,000,000 is up for grabs from Google.

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Google has made a habit of throwing its considerable weight behind a project and making it succeed. The company’s Android project, its effort at creating a Linux-based smartphone, is running into delays, while a similar effort by the LiMo Foundation already has produced handsets.

Making good software for mobile phones is hard — even for a technically adept company like Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) Latest News about Google.

Indeed, it’s so difficult that the fleet-footed champion of search advertising E-Mail Marketing Software - Free Trial. Click Here. finds itself in the unaccustomed position of playing catch-up to normally slow-moving industry behemoths.

As Google scrambles to release its mobile phone code sometime later this year, a nonprofit consortium of some of the world’s biggest telecommunications companies and handset makers has quietly beaten the search giant.

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