From X-bit Labs: Abit, a legendary producer of mainboards for enthusiasts of performance and overclocking, may finally quit the market of motherboards by year end due to cut-throat competition and following a series of rumours about the company’s exit from the business.

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From PC World: Intel Thursday showed a prototype of a range of low-cost "nettops' that are to be introduced in the country over the next several months. The devices, will be offered in the country by domestic and multinational PC vendors and local system integrators.

The devices...

From CNET News.com: Nvidia is extending its support for Intel's upcoming Core i7 processors while it prepares to announce next-generation integrated graphics silicon.

The announcement marks an effort to expand Nvidia offerings on Intel's next high-end desktop platform, which had...

From DailyTech: Samsung announced a new line of SSDs today that it is aiming at the low-cost PC market that needs low-density drives. The new Samsung SSDs are very compact and should work very well for netbook and ultra mobile systems. Samsung says the SSDs are 30% smaller than the...

From Tom's Hardware: One of the more interesting cases to hit the market in some time, the Antec Skeleton (or Dragon Bones for those in Asia), takes the computer case in an interesting direction. Made for the hardware enthusiast who enjoys showing off what’s under the hood, the...

From Tom's Hardware: LAN parties and overclocking go together like cheese and pizza, bread and butter, well you get the picture. At the NVISION conference and lan party in San Jose this week, several overclockers are attempting to boost their processors to six gigahertz and beyond...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices has quietly started to sell dual-core microprocessors featuring the latest K10 micro-architecture in Europe, at least, based on the results from a search engine. If the information is correct and AMD is shipping its Phenom X2 parts for revenue...

From InfoWorld: Microsoft loyalists could be forgiven for feeling a little smug after all of the publicity over outages and lost e-mails at online services run by archrivals Apple's MobileMe and Google's Gmail.

Microsoft, it turns out, isn't invulnerable. Some users of Microsoft's...

From PC World: Genealogy application MacFamilyTree has been updated to version 5.2.5, improving on several of the features in the application.

Among the changes in the new version are some fixes for MobileFamilyTree export. MobileFamilyTree is the company's mobile genealogy for your...

From CNET News.com: The U.K.'s Advertising Standards Authority has banned an ad for the iPhone that promised users access to "all parts of the internet" on their Apple device.

The TV advertisement featured an individual flicking through holiday-related Web pages on an iPhone to a...