WordJong has been a favorite PC title for casual gamers for a while, and can be played for free at various web sites. It uniquely combines two games that provoke different parts of your brain: Scrabble and Mahjong. You have to spell out words using the tiles on the screen, but Mahjong rules determine which tiles are available (you don’t have to match tiles as in traditional Mahjong).

The game has been so popular that it has been ported to several mobile devices, and now the addictive puzzle game is available on the Nintendo DS. So why would you pay good money for a game that you can play online for free? Well, Destineer Studios has enhanced the gameplay to take advantage of the Nintendo DS platform, which opens up new play opportunities.

Review URL ::
http://www.ocmodshop.com/ocmodshop.aspx?a=1015

Do we really need something like this?

2008 International CES

TOTOWA, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Smartparts, Inc., a leading manufacturer and innovator driving the explosive digital picture frame market, will unveil the world’s largest digital picture frame at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the 32 inch SP3200.

One of several innovative new products launched by Smartparts at CES, the SP3200’s 16:9, widescreen LCD panel displays photos in high-definition, with a resolution of 1366×768. Smartparts will also introduce another first at CES 2008 with the launch of the world’s first and only digital picture frame with a built-in photo printer, the SP8PRT. Part of the company’s extensive and highly-successful OptiPix™ family of digital picture frames, the SP8PRT takes versatility to a whole new level as it gives consumers the ability to print any digital picture stored on the frame with the touch of a button.

“The impressive SP3200 and highly-versatile SP8PRT are indicative of our dedication to provide consumers with innovative and cutting-edge digital frames,” said Stefan Guelpen, president and co-founder of Smartparts. “CES 2008 will give us the opportunity to showcase these revolutionary new models as well as other new additions to our popular OptiPix™ and SyncPix™ lines.”

Smartparts will be located at Booth #31329 in the South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Smartpart’s CES 2008 online press kit: http://virtualpressoffice.com/kit/Smartparts.

Candice, Danica & Amanda Ready to Greet You in GoDaddy-esque Style!

2008 International CES

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CES International is guaranteed to have innovations and the hottest gadgets available – but this year the Go Daddy Girls are also set to help make CES sizzle. The Go Daddy Girls themselves add the bling to the largest consumer electronics show on earth by providing interviews, autographs and even offering attendees a jump start to get online.

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VIA Returns to Las Vegas to Turn the Spotlight on Brilliant New Products Enabled by Its Power Efficient VIA C7 x86 Processors

2008 International CES

TAIPEI, Taiwan–(BUSINESS WIRE)–VIA Technologies, Inc., a leading innovator and developer of silicon chip technologies and PC platform solutions, today announced it will participate in the annual Lunch@Piero’s innovator press event, to be held during CES in Las Vegas on January 7^th and 8^th. Attendees at Lunch@Piero’s will be able to see a host of high performance ultra mobile devices (UMDs), eco-friendly PCs, and power efficient embedded systems all made possible through VIA’s extensive expertise in platform miniaturization and designed for a new digital world where Small is Beautiful.

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In-Win Allure MicroATX Designer Case Review

“In-Win has a flashy microATX in their product lineup, the Allure comes in white color with fancy flower pattern and small footprint. Designed to blend in with its environment will certainly please the ladies. Let’s take a closer look”

http://www.madshrimps.be/gotoartik.php?articID=655

1.  Flexible Keyboard with Skype Dial Pad and 2 Ports USB Hub
http://www.gizfever.com/product_info.php?products_id=248

Fatal1ty To Appear At CES 2008 Summary: The world’s top pro video gamer will appear at the Creative Booth at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

What: Fatal1ty will be conducting his renowned Fatal1ty Exhibitions at the Creative booth, located in South Hall 3, booth #30642 in which he interacts with the audience in one vs. one matches playing Quake 4. See the new line of official in game products, approved by Championship Gaming Series and tested by Fatal1ty.

Who: Championship Gaming Series (CGS) commentator, worldwide spokesperson and gaming superstar Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel, top CGS players and Fatal1ty Brand Partner Creative Labs.

About Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel
Johnathan became the world’s first full time professional video gamer in 1999 after accepting an invitation to represent the USA at an international tournament in Stockholm, where he went undefeated with a perfect performance, winning all 18 maps. He has continued to dominate competitions all over the world, competing on 6 continents during his 8-year professional career, including a Gold Medal finish for the USA at the 2000 World Cyber Games in Seoul, Korea.

Winning the 2005 CPL World Tour Finals in New York City secured his twelfth Major Title, accomplished while competing in 5 different games - an unprecedented achievement. His New York City victory earned him $150,000 and brought his 2005 total winnings to $231,000. During his competitive gaming career Fatal1ty has placed 1st in 65% of all the competitions he has entered and top 3 in 90% of them.

In December 2006, Johnathan joined forces with Championship Gaming Series (CGS) as exclusive on-air analyst, global spokesperson and gaming ambassador to help establish competitive video gaming as a 21st century sport. Catch Johnathan and all the action on DirecTV’s channel 101, Sky or Star as well as a live stream on www.thecgs.com.

In August 2007, Johnathan was awarded the first ever Lifetime Achievement Award in the four-year history of the eSports-Award for “showing exceptional sportsmanship, taking part in shaping eSports into what it is today and for being the prime representative of this young sport. He has become the figurehead for eSports worldwide”.

For more information please visit www.fatal1ty.com.

When: January 7th - January 10th 9am - 6pm (closes 4pm on the last day)

Where:
Las Vegas Convention Center,
Creative Booth South Hall 3, booth #30642

 
Ubuntu Verizon EVDO Tethering

” This guide will explain in step by step detail on how to use your Verizon EVDO tethering plan with a computer running Ubuntu. These steps should work basically the same on any Linux distribution and if you have any questions, please ask in the forums. ”

Link: http://www.aselabs.com/articles.php?id=224

Industry-leading native SATA 3.0Gb/s interface and unique customer tools differentiate Crucial SSDs

FREMONT, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Lexar Media, a leading global provider of memory products for digital media, today announced its line of Crucial solid state drives (SSD). Crucial SSDs are more durable, require less power, and offer greater overall system performance than traditional hard disk drives. The SSDs will be available in capacities of 32GB and 64GB in an industry standard 2.5-inch drive enclosure with an industry-leading native SATA 3.0Gb/s interface. Additionally, Lexar Media will offer the Crucial SK01 external drive kit and various online customer tools — including the Crucial SSD Advisor tool, the only tool of its kind on the market today — available at www.crucial.com/ssd or www.crucial.com/uk/ssd. Product availability is expected in Q1 2008.

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• Ultra-low power solution architected to provide X-Y swap, frame buffering, and frame rate conversion for simultaneous LCD display and video output from portable devices.
• QuickLogic Customer Specific Standard Product (CSSP) works in conjunction with popular Application Processors and Chrontel TV encoder.

SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Underscoring its commitment to the mobile electronics market, QuickLogic® Corporation (NASDAQ:QUIK), the lowest power programmable solutions leader, today announced that, together with development partner Chrontel, it can now enable handheld device developers to add simultaneous video output to their products without sacrificing battery lifetime or burdening the host application processor. The proven QuickLogic/Chrontel solution has already been adopted by a leading smart phone manufacturer and can be customized to fit a wide range of design needs required by other adopters. For more detail please visit http://www.embedded.com/underthehood/201803541?_requestid=163373.

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Consumer Electronics Innovation Leader Promotes Camcorder by Inviting Aspiring Artists to Share Renditions of Nicole Scherzinger’s Hit Single

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Brickfish™, the online content marketing platform, and consumer electronics innovation leader Samsung Electronics, today announced the launch of the “Your ‘Baby Love’” campaign, inviting aspiring singers and fans of sexy songstress, Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger, to submit their best “Baby Love” video performances. Located at http://www.brickfish.com/Entertainment/SamsungYourBabyLove?=prsam and powered by Brickfish™, the campaign will award the most popular performer a Samsung 40-inch LCD HDTV and Samsung MX10 flash memory camcorder.

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New Chip Family and Prototype Test System Cover All Worldwide Band Groups at All WiMedia Speeds

Consumer Electronics Show

SUNNYVALE, Calif. & AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Alereon, Inc., Austin Texas-based provider of advanced WiMedia and wireless USB silicon solutions; and LitePoint Corp., Sunnyvale California-based leader in wireless test-system solutions, will demonstrate at next week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas today’s most advanced wireless USB reference design and a test capability that spans development, device verification, and high-volume production. Alereon’s AL5000-based reference design and LitePoint’s test system will highlight band-group 6, the only WiMedia band-group currently approved worldwide.

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A New Dimension In Mobile Storage: Every File Copied To Cruzer Titanium Plus Is Also Available Online, So Data Is Protected Even If The Drive Is Lost, Stolen Or Forgotten

2008 International CES

MILPITAS, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) today announced Cruzer^® Titanium Plus, a USB flash drive that offers automatic online backup for every file copied to the drive, giving users true peace of mind. Cruzer Titanium Plus will be featured at the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show from Jan. 7 to 10, where SanDisk will be demonstrating products at Booth #30768, South Hall 3, in the Las Vegas Convention Center.

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TARRYTOWN, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Hitachi America, Ltd., Industrial Systems Division, today announced the introduction of the high-capacity SJ700 Series of inverters. The SJ700 extends Hitachi’s model range up to 500 hp, and significantly expands on the performance, capabilities and functions of the SJ300. Three models, 250 hp, 400 hp and 500 hp are being released at this time. The SJ300 remains to cover the range from 200 hp and below.

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It’s been a long time between drinks for Mac users waiting for a new version of Office, and a lot has happened in the four years since the last release. Apple has slowly released its iWork office suite, and competition from online players like Google and ThinkFree is heating up as well.

In fact, it’s a tribute to Apples engineering team that the Rosetta environment, which lets Intel Macs run older PowerPC applications functions so well. And it has meant that in the past two years since Apple introduced its first Intel Mac back in January 2006 customers wanting to use Microsoft Office could happily continue using older versions without the need to upgrade. (Of course, it must also be assumed that Apple paid special attention to ensuring Microsoft Office would survive the PowerPC to Intel transition smoothly, given it is such a critical application for Mac users.)

[via APCMag] Full Story HERE 

TITLE: Crucial PC3-12800 DDR3 1600MHz BL2KIT12864BA1608 @ Benchmark Reviews

DESCRIPTIION: DDR3 Memory offers such a high front side bus to overclocker’s that CPU speeds can reach well beyond extreme. Crucial has produced the Ballistix PC3-12800 CL8 BL2KIT12864BA1608 DDR3 1600MHz 2×1GB RAM kit for hardware enthusiasts to take advantage of.  Benchmark Reviews has discovered more overclocking headroom in these modules than any other, and put them to the test in this review.

ARTICLE URL: http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=113&Itemid=1

We have recently posted up a review of the Ultra Stackable system.  This setup includes SATA and HDD enclosures that can connect by firewire, USB2.0 or eSATA as well as a USB Hub, Card Reader, and Power distribution center.  If you have a ton of USB hubs, HDD enclosures and want to help tame the cable clutter and add some sanity to your desk, take a look at our review to see how the Ultra Stackables can help.

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Now the ability to stack all these external enclosures on top of each other to make a nice neat pile of USB devices is sure handy, but that also comes with a price and if you plan on making a USB device tower, its going to get expensive. The power distribution center is the most expensive unit, and retails in the 60-80 dollar range.

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Quote: CPU coolers come in all shapes and sizes, many with very intricate designs.  However, sometimes a computer doesn’t need a fancy cooling setup when a simpler yet effective solution might do.  AcousticPC.com, a great online retailer of a variety of quiet performance computer products, sent us a sample of one of their popular CPU coolers, the Silentmaxx Frostbite CPU Cooler, which has a simple design package but promises respectable cooling performance nonetheless.  Will this vertical cooler perform well compared to horizontal coolers?  We will attempt to answer that question in this review.

Link: http://www.rbmods.com/Articles/Acousticpc/Silentmaxx_frostbite/1.php

Music Collection Featuring 30 GRAMMY Award-Winning Hits from the Past 50 Years Available Exclusively at Starbucks Starting Jan. 3, 2008

SANTA MONICA, Calif. & SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Starbucks Entertainment commemorates the 50th Annual GRAMMY^® Awards with an exclusive collection of 30 GRAMMY Award-winning hits on two CDs. The remarkable collection, The GRAMMYs — 50th Anniversary Collection, offers songs hand-selected by Starbucks Entertainment from the wealth of great songs honored by The Recording Academy^® in the last 50 years, including hits from Beck, Sheryl Crow, Culture Club, Dixie Chicks, Gorillaz, Norah Jones, Frank Sinatra, John Lennon, Sarah McLachlan, and Otis Redding, to name just a few. The 50th Anniversary Collection is available exclusively at the majority of Starbucks company-operated locations in the United States and Canada starting on Jan. 3, 2008.

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Eee PC with Accessories

Posted: 01 Jan 2008 12:00 AM CST

A few months ago, Mobilewhack reported on the portable PC Asus Eee. The name “Eee” was derived from easy to work, easy to learn and easy to play. Well, looks like Asus wants to make things even easier because they just announced the release of various accessories for the Eee PC Mobile.

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Mozilla with live support

Posted: 01 Jan 2008 12:00 AM CST

Mozilla, the company responsible for the Firefox web browser, recently unveiled a live chat feature on their support page. The service is staffed by a handful of volunteers, and is currently only open for a few hours a day.

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Barcode systems susceptible to serious hacker attacks

Posted: 01 Jan 2008 12:00 AM CST

Experts say that the Barcodes our highly automated business world could now hardly do without, often display serious security holes. In particular, one- or two-dimensional systems of barcodes and matrix codes are open to common hacker attacks and to experiments that have had variable results. This was stated by “FX” of the Phenoelit group at the 24th Chaos Communication congress (24C3) in Berlin on Friday evening. Frequently, he said, all you had to do was simply copy “used” barcodes in a copyshop, or scan them in and print them out.

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TechwareLabs has published a review of the Seagate Momentus 7200.2 200GB 2.5″ Hard Drive. Here’s a clip from the review:

Quote: “Usher in the new year with renewed performance for your laptop. We take a look at the Seagate Momentus 7200.2 laptop hard drive which is packed with features as well as heart pounding performance. See why our tests show that the Momentus should be your next upgrade of choice and how its use will lead to a better overall computing experience.”

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http://www.techwarelabs.com/reviews/storage/momentus-200gb

Quote: “The easyNova DATA BOX EX-25U External Hard Drive Enclosure arrived Technic3D. USB 2.0 connectivity for 2,5″ in a HDD Design see you in the following Review. We looks how good it is against other HDD Cases.”

Link: http://www.technic3d.com/article-602,1-festplattenfestplatte-easynova-data-box-ex-25u.htm

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NEW CONTENT (Storage) - Hitachi 2.5″ 200GB Notebook Upgrade Kit

QUOTE: “Hitachi has come up with what looks to be one of the best ideas in the notebook storage market; an upgrade kit that includes a 2.5” Serial ATA hard disk which is what every new notebook along with some older ones on the market use.

Designed to give you two hard disks in total, the new one is placed inside your notebook while the older one is installed into a USB powered 2.5” HDD enclosure and run through your USB ports; this giving you even more storage capacity.”

For more information, please visit - http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1266/hitachi_2_5_200gb_notebook_upgrade_kit/index.html

Ultra-thin laser projector prototype with connectivity to mobile phones, PDAs, PMPs, digital cameras and laptops to be displayed during CES 2008

2008 International CES

REDMOND, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Microvision, developer of light-scanning technologies for display and imaging products, will unveil at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas next week an advanced prototype of the first handheld, battery-powered, ‘plug-and-play’ projector based on the company’s single micro-mirror laser scanning display technology.

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CUPERTINO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Ralink Technology Corporation, a leading developer of 802.11 chipsets, today announced its new 802.11n single chips. The RT3080, which enables Wi-Fi in handheld/mobile devices and the RT3070, the industry’s smallest 802.11n USB single chip for PCs, AP/Routers and client devices.

The RT3080 boasts on-chip gain selectable LNA with optimized noise figure for high sensitivity, on-chip LDO regulators that supply a single battery in SDIO mode and reduce power consumption by supporting adaptive transmit output power and power amplifier bias control. The chip draws only 300mW power at full speed receiving mode. These key features facilitate efficient Wi-Fi enabled mobile devices and for the first time, a mobile device is now available with a power level and price point that can drive the mass adoption of Wi-Fi in personal media players, smart phones, digital still cameras, gaming and other portable consumer devices.

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