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Cizmo CX15 Sports Intel’s Latest: Montevina

The German manufacturer's latest gaming notebook will run Intel's yet-to-be-announced Montevina chip alongside other high-performance mobile hardware.

Texting Improves Parent-Teen Relationships?

A survey commissioned by Samsung suggests that over half of American teens and their parents would say that text messaging has improved their relationship.

Dell Adds Five Quad-Core Opteron Servers

The new servers, from enterprise-level blades to towers for small business, run AMD's latest Quad-Core Opteron processors and offer VMware compatibility for virtualization.

Dancing with the Stars Hits PC, Mobile

THQ's playable version of the popular ABC show has made it to the PC and Mobile platforms.

iHome iP99 Clock Radio Caters to the iPhone

Besides offering a specialized iPhone connector, the iP99 has a shieldless design allowing the iPhone to receive calls while docked.

Dell Unveils Revamped Vostro Notebooks

The updated Vostro 1310 and 1510 notebooks have slimmed down, dropped their trialware, and received updated security measures.

Players Only Explores Casual Gaming

Digital Trends' Scott Steinberg tackles the latest trend in video games in this week's episode of Players Only, with commentary from Nolan Bushnell, Sid Meier, and more gaming visionaries.

HP Adds Ultra High-End Workstations

Catering to multimedia professionals, HP updated its already high-end workstations, putting Quad-Core AMD Opteron and dual Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors within reach.

Adobe Developing Open Digital Cinema Format

The creative-software giant hopes its CinemaDNG format will unite camcorder makers to adopt a single standard for raw video, eliminating the messiness of proprietary formats.

Osprey-450E Captures Four Channels at Once

ViewCast's latest commercial video capture board can take in four separate video streams at once, ensuring you don't miss a beat in your favorite drama(s).

Latest Shuttle XPC Boasts Blu-ray, HD DVD

In case your home movie library includes both formats, the XPC G5 3101M handles Blu-ray and HD DVD.

Sensitive Military Items Show up Online

A recent investigation turned up everything from military-spec night-vision goggles to protective chemical warfare suits on eBay and Craiglist.

Flickr Users Protest Video Sharing

The photo-sharing has experienced a user backlash from the video-sharing features it added on Tuesday, from those who claim video has no place in a community for photographers.

Amazon Doles out $50 to HD DVD Buyers

Joining other major retailers in offering reparations for HD DVD buyers, Amazon recently sent out $50 gift cards to those who picked up their players before February 23.

Asus Crams Big Graphics in a Little Box

The Essentio CS5110 measures just over 11 inches tall and 3 inches wide, but still gets a powerful GeForce 8600M under the hood, making it the smallest PC with discrete graphics ever made, according to Asus.

Microsoft Comments on Yahoo Using AdSense

The company claims that cooperation between Yahoo and Google would cede 90 percent of the search market to Google, suggesting its own buyout offer as the best alternative.

Yamaha’s Tenori-On Comes to the U.S.

The futuristic electronic instrument will get a formal introduction this month on both coasts, with its inventor and other electronic musicians present to show it off.

Adobe Releases Media Player 1.0

Adobe's long-awaited Media Player brings with it a network of major content providers and more options for viewers.

Flickr Adopts Video Sharing

The photo-sharing site now allows users to upload short video clips in addition to photos, but makes no attempt to compete with YouTube.

EA Commits to More Unreal Engine 3 Games

Satisfied with its 2006 licensing agreement with Epic, Electronic Arts has inked a deal for more than five more games using Epic's Unreal Engine 3 technology.

Iogear Media Player Pumps out 720P Video

Iogear's 120GB Portable Media Player works like a video library in a box, storing 50 hours worth of DVD-quality video in a portable package.

SpaceNavigator Sheds Weight for Notebooks

3Dconnexion's SpaceNavigator for Notebooks retains all the same 3D-navigating features of the original six-axis controller, but with half the weight.

Second Life Career Fair Offers Real Jobs

At Working Worlds, the desk, chair and avatars are all computer-generated, but the jobseekers and employers that use them both hope to hammer out real-life jobs.

HP Launches Mini-Note ULPC for Education

The HP 2133 Mini-Note takes many cues from its ULPC predecessors, but adds an anodized aluminum shell and other tougher materials for kid-proofing.

Japanese Company Develops Smellphones

Japanese telecom company NTT has created a device that pairs with cell phones to allow fragrances to be sent through the Internet.

Fujitsu Vein Scanners Head Stateside

Fujitsu's PalmSecure log-in kit will grant access to Windows and applications by scanning your veins with a sensor embedded in a mouse.

N-Gage Gets an Official Launch

Owners of Nokia's high-end N-Gage-compatible phones will now be able to peruse and play six games on the N-Gage platform, with many more on the way.

Yahoo Amps up Efforts to Tackle AdWords

Yahoo's new Amp advertising platform aims to cut the red tape and bureaucracy that buyers and sellers must navigate to cut advertising deals over the Web.

U.S. Govt. Reports Rising Internet Fraud

Americans reported $240 million lost to Internet fraud in 2007, an all-time high.

Windows XP Gets Another Stay of Execution

Windows XP Home will live until June 30, 2010, thanks to consumer demand generated by the popularity of ultra-low-cost PCs.

Digital Trends Unveils Game Industry Series

"Players Only with Scott Steinberg" lifts the lid on the $18.8-billion-dollar gaming industry, giving viewers a peek at the gears grinding away below.

Panasonic Brings Plasma Displays to Phones

After a decade of secret research, Panasonic has successfully developed mini plasma screens that it hopes will find their way into everything from cell phones to gas pumps.

Everex CloudBook Max Packs Integrated WiMax

The next iteration of the CloudBook gets a host of upgrades from the first version, most notably the ability to hop on Sprint's upcoming Xohm WiMax service.

AT&T Adopts Microsoft Surface for Retail

The much-crooned-over multitouch wonder is ready to move out of the lab and into a handful of AT&T's major retail stores.

U.S. Dept. of Justice Cracks Down on Piracy

U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey says piracy has the potential to support other criminal and even terrorist operations, and has vowed to up the prosecution of intellectual property thieves.

Jabra BT4010 Adds Ultra-Simple LCD Display

The new headset's LCD shows battery level, connection status and call status with intuitive icons, rather than flashing LED signals.

LG Takes Wrap off Slimmed-Down enV2 Slider

The next enV gets a thinner body for portability, and beefier keys for easier texting.

HP Unloads Slew of New Desktop Products

HP's latest announcements include three customizable PCs, a media vault for network file sharing and backup, a monitor, and a high-resolution Web cam.