"Codenamed the Manhattan, one of the units has a built-in keyboard similar to Research In Motion's BlackBerry e-mail pager, according to documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission. The other unit, codenamed Shea, relies on the Grafitti handwriting recognition program and software keyboard that are a standard part of the Palm operating system."
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For quite some time, the lower-end 64MB and 128MB memory modules were continuously dropping in price. Now we are starting to see slight increases again, especially in the 64mb modules as they become the more "uncommon" memory, and become harder to find stocked. Check out our Weekly Memory prices here.
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(Product Announcement) OCZ Technology Group has released the OCZ Dominator HSF. The Dominator includes features such as Textured fin technology and single-piece construction. This new textured fin technology allows OCZ tech to increase surface area without increasing fin density. In addition single piece construction allows for lower thermal resistance. Suggested price for the Dominator is 15.99.

OCZ Dominator HSF Features:

• Textured fin technology
• Single piece construction
• Low profile
• Includes stock Delta 60x60x38 MM focused flow series fan
• Optional YS tech 40CFM fan (pictured above)
• Retail price of less than 20 USD

(Reuters) - U.S. personal computer maker Gateway Inc's exit from Asia will cost the region some 1,345 jobs, with Japan and Malaysia bearing the brunt. The company, which announced on Tuesday it is laying off 25 percent of its global workforce of about 19,000, said it is closing down operations in Australia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand and Singapore. The grim news was broken to Gateway's Asia employees on Wednesday morning, with the U.S. market's fourth biggest PC company issuing statements in its various Asian centers. In all, Gateway said about 400 employees were affected in Malaysia, 28 in Singapore, 698 in Japan, 200 in Australia and 19 in New Zealand.
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EarthWeb Hardware: What's Killing PC Sales? Cheap SDRAM: So Windows XP will make the doldrums disappear and spark a wildfire of new PC purchases? Vince Freeman doesn't think so. In fact, he thinks high tech's greatest recent consumer boon has become the industry's worst nightmare.
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(AP) A day after launching its fastest Pentium 4 processor to date, Intel Corp. showed off a yet-to-be-released model that runs 75 percent faster still. The 3.5 gigahertz Pentium 4 on Tuesday ran four video streams, a game of ``Quake 3'' and other applications during the demonstration at Intel's semi-annual conference for developers. Intel would not say when it expects to begin selling the chip. Its debut came a day after the chip-making giant launched a 2 gigahertz Pentium 4, which is now on sale. The demonstration was intended to show that more powerful processors are needed, despite some analysts' lingering doubts that most buyers don't need such power. On Tuesday, Intel announced that it is implementing technologies that will make its chips run more efficiently, giving more punch to each processing cycle. One of the new technologies, dubbed Hyper-Threading, essentially makes the computer think it has two processors instead of just one.
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