Have you already heard about Intel's new Pine Trail chipset and Pineview processor? That's right, those designed for netbooks and nettops. Their recent appearance sure is good news especially for those who were holding out to buy a netbook until 2010 arrives. Well guess what, Intel has unveiled some details on what next generation Cedarview Atom platform will look like which makes me think how many people who were going to spend their money on Pine Trail are going to say: "No, there is no point, is there? I want Cedarview already."?

There are two interest rates available for mortgage loans: One is called “expected rate” and it consists of 10 year index plus the borrower’s margin. The higher the rates are the less money the borrower can get. However, there is a floor rate of 5.5% and interest rate below 5.5% will no longer increase the amount of proceeds available through the Reverse Mortgage.

Finally Chromium OS gets its source code opened and right today you can run the first rough version of the Google Chrome OS using VMWare. That's all great apart from poor compatibility and other childhood diseases which I'm sure Google will cure in about a year. They do actually point that out on their official blog. Reminds me a lot of this time last year when first rumors followed by first beta versions of Windows 7 started to come out. Anyway, the big news about Chrome OS is that everyone can lay their hands on it, plus a splash of facts and first test results.

VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) has become available thanks to Internet and IP that was originally designed for data transmissions over IP networks. However, the speed and the abilities of modern Internet make it possible to digitize phone calls and bring use of VoIP. If you want to use VoIP you just need to buy a VoIP ADSL modem and sign up for this feature from your provider.

While panacea from known by whole world virus of H1N1 is not found, we have to be careful and to keep our watchful eye in order to avoid it. This new gadget fights against H1N1 virus, is named as UV Wand was recently released by Hammecher, and I extremely useful in many cases. Cordless and handy, switches off automatically when light is turned upward. When fully charged - (eight hour charge by AC. 24" L x 5" W x 2 1/2" D) operates 1.5 hours. Overall it is an easy and comfortable way to do something worthy in order to be healthy, save money on hospital bills and to continue active life.

Meet another useful and amazing gadget for sport professionals and amateurs, that comes with solid training features. New Powered with sensitive GPS Forerunner 405, Garmin will accompany active user in many popular sports for example cycling amateurs will enjoy such feature as GSC 10 speed and cadence sensor, special features allows to monitor pedaling and wheel speed. With such important helper user can manage his activity in a wise way. It is great to know and to picture the data of whole sport activity situation that is carefully stored in memory, to know where is necessary to apply bigger effort and of course to improve and support already achieved results.

Every once in while we tend to give some advice to those who earn their living by manufacturing something about what we could later write, OEMs in short. Just like always, it is all down to a single provider to whom you can address in quest for best solution in the market. Haight is what we want to draw your attention at this time. Seventy year old gear pump manufacturer is famous in the industry for developing the most efficient standards of quality and performance of gear pumps.

Sharp is approaching to the tenth anniversary of its AQUOS LCD flat panels. To give it a proper pump, they have prepared a new line-up for AQUOS series. The LX series is coming November 10 in Japan and only then it will spread to other markets. Sharp engineers have done a good job improving AQUOS over the years, and with the latest LX series they haven't changed their habits. As usually, there is a choice between four models with different screen sizes and other features.

Palm Pre has fallen in preice to the point, where its hard to imagine someone will walk right pass it and go to find a better deal. I mean if you are in market for a smartphone, not a phone monster or a semi-PMP but a day-to-day smartphone that will organize your appointments, frends, colegues and applications into one, Pre for 99.99 is a bargain of the century. Details follow.

Unlike Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii suffers smaller impact from Sony PlayStation 3 Slim arrival. But as it appeared they also decided to price for their bundle a bit. Why? Well, our idea is that Wii has been around for quite a while now and the new one is coming. In fact come to think of it, Wii is the oldest of the three. But still the same fun as it was two years back, I'm I right? This is the thing about gaming consoles - they depreciate slower that desktop PCs or smartphones. Back to Amazon now.

Was it the PlayStation 3 Slim that has made major gaming consoles buzz about themselves more than they got used to, but this month we had a lot really. Anyway, the Xbox 360 was the first one to start the September price drop, as we like to call it.

Hold to your bellies everyone, I mean that is what I do, because all of a sudden I remembered how much of a laugh the Internet can be. I have run against one of those online photoshop sites and it has stolen good hour of my evening leisure. PicJoke.com is the place. You might have heard about its lookalikes, where you upload one of your or your friend's picture, choose an effect and download an automatically remastered image. No need to have photo editing software and editing skills. By the way, PicJoke.com adds a new photo effect every day, so there are plenty of them.

LG Chocolate BL40 has been launched in early September. And now, right this Monday, 28 they have announced new Chocolate series BL20 slider. Is it much like Palm with its Pre and less well equipped Pixi sitting in the pipeline. Only that since Pre has gone cheaper, prices are on the different level. I’ve brought Palm example because it’s the freshest of the case, all manufacturers do the same at some degree. Since LG Chocolate BL20 is not that much of a pump like Pixi, we’ll just have a short specs walkthrough. Release of the BL20 is going to happen in Q4 in UK at O2.

Computer science was always in the front rows of science fields that achieve fastest growing speeds. But it seems to me that this days computing on the go outpaces computing on the couch. Every now and then you can stumble on a press release that says that someone cut processing time here and double bandwidth there. And now there is Elpida Memory – the company that made its name designing memory modules for all types of computers out there. The latest gadget from them is a 2-Gigabit DDR2 memory module for mobile devices.

You must have heard the news about Intel’s new Core i7 processors released at IDF. Step by step they keep arriving to notebook manufacturers, and it’s a joy for us to see all this good stuff coming out soon. This time it’s Asus that adds a new Core i7 based notebook to its M60 series. M60J is a proper multimedia rig and I personally can hardly think of a task that will put it in frustration. Everything is on its place apart from price and availability date. They are yet hold in the Asus lobby, but with rivals light on their feet, and that’s not just us thinking so, very soon M60J must be found on a shelf in your local store.

One of the best and simplest ways to protect your data from fraud is having it encrypted with a password. Passwords are used on all the websites where people have any personal page. Passwords are also used to protect documents and important data. However, what can you do when you forgot a password to your excel document?

All of us, gadget lovers, want to have their part in dynamic world of designing and manufacturing electronics. So this one is for you, who actually have their own business running, or at least are in charge of a part of one. Pentalift has been busy designing material handling equipment for over quarter of a century now. Always with quality and customer needs in mind, no wonder they have grown into a leading cargo lifting supplier in North America.

The USB 3.0 ball has started rolling more that a year ago, and finally, after so much waiting and reading about its SuperSpeed technology that will bless on all of us some day, we finally have it dated for November. In five or six weeks from now, Freecom will put its Hard Drive XS 3.0 on sale. Its an external HDD and the key feature is USB 3.0, of course.

GPS 10 m accuracy has been put under reconsideration this week after engineers from Duke University have presented their new fresh and shiny SurroundSense system. The thing here is: GPS is a space-based satellite system where SurroundSense is an application that collects various type of data from your mobile phone and transmits it to a server where the data is processed into a distinct fingerprint which can show your location even indoors and with much better accuracy.

Are you wearing a wristwatch? What for? I guess you can easily find what time is it on display of a mobile phone, desktop or onboard dial in a car. Wristwatches nowadays are very much of an accessory rather than a necessity, simple as that. But, “let’s just add some more functionality to them since they have an advantage of tight contact with human body” Michael Mathis and Gerda Hopfgartner thought and came up with the StressWatch – a watch that shows real time status of your stress.