Flash based hard drives are being offered on a regular basis now from the top tier notebook manufacturers. There have been lots of recent reports saying that the failure rates have been extremely high with a 20 to 30% return rate. Stealth has been providing flash based solid state drive solutions for more than 10…

Microsoft releases SP1 and here are the release notes – that have been anticipated for while now. They are mostly bug fixes and performance tweaks, but the sheer volume of them is certainly something to behold. SP1 includes 23 security updates and 550 hotfixes resulting in a 434.5MB download (726.5MB for the 64-bit version). SP1…

Intel says it will ship quad-core chips designed specifically for laptops later this year. The quad-core chips, most likely for desktop replacement laptops, will be based on the Core 2 Duo architecture and will ship in the third quarter, Intel officials said. The initial quad-core processors will strain battery life and may first make their…

Science has just lost one of its greatest creative minds. Arthur C. Clarke has died in Sri Lanka at the age of 90. Clarke authored more than 100 science fiction books, including “2001: A Space Odyssey.” He is credited with the idea for geosynchronous communications satellites, space elevators, and predicting space travel before rockets were…

GE has unveiled a successful demonstration of the world’s first roll-to-roll manufactured organic light-emitting diode (OLED) lighting devices. In layman’s terms, the OLED is similar to how a newspaper is printed. This technique should help substantially drive down the cost of OLEDs which is currently reserved for 14″ or smaller television screens costing thousands of…

A little off topic but we enjoyed a few chuckles. A recent report suggests, human beings are becoming so amazingly stupid that they require cushioned street lamp pole so that when they run into them they don’t mess up their goofy faces. Apparently, a study in the UK found that 1 in 10 actually managed…