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1. SSDs inch toward the desktop

   (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

   Opinion: There's been a steady flood of news about the emergence of solid state drive (SSD) systems in mainstream products. Samsung has a 64GB miniSATA SSD about half the size of a business card; Dell ...

2. Why play a plastic guitar when you can have a real one?

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

   Opinion: Former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman reckons that games like Rock Band stop young people from practising real musical instruments - and he's right. Opinion: Former Rolling Stones bassist ...

3. Catfight on catwalk as Google ordered to name Skanks of New York blogger

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... personal opinions, including invective and ranting, and that the statements in this action when considered in that context, cannot be reasonably understood as factual assertions. The judge ruled that ...

4. Is AT&T just a drag for Apple?

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Opinion – I just hate saying “told you so”. But it seems that even Apple’s patience with AT&Ts willingness to keep pace with mobile devices innovation is coming to an end, if I take the liberty ...

5. Dinging Bing: 5 reasons why Microsoft’s new search engine will fail

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

   Opinion – Now that we all had a chance to play with Microsoft’s new Bing engine, are we ready to ditch Google? Are we binging instead of googling? I’d like you to chime in and let us know what you ...

6. HP dv2: Better than a netbook?

   (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

   Opinion – Question: If you need a notebook for travel, and just don’t care for one of those 17” monsters that should not be called notebooks anyway, which one would you choose? I have been trying to ...

7. Acer Revo: The perfect desktop for an imperfect world

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

   Analyst Opinion - The Acer Revo comes at a time of conflict.  It targets buyers who want low cost products that use little energy, do not accept any limitations in using their PC and look cool ...

8. Microsoft, Visa and EU team up to fight Internet child porn

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... all." See the original AFP article republished on EU Business. OpinionI have seen the scourge of Internet child pornography used to sell a great many things in the United States over the years. Most ...

9. Software predicts fate of death row inmates

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

     This one may give you chills. Scientist claim to have found a way to predict whether a death row inmate will be executed or not with an accuracy of 90%. They found a strong relation between certain ...

10. U.S. broadband: Desperate ideas of an industry that resists change

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

      Opinion - Reading about broadband giants and their ideas how to fairly distribute Internet bandwidth to its customers over the past two weeks got me thinking. Following Time Warner Cable and Comcast, ...

11. Getting inside Steve Jobs’ head

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

      Analyst Opinion - This week Apple released its quarterly results and, coincidently, I’m in the process of reading one of the most useful books I’ve ever read - “Inside Steve’s Brain”, written ...

12. The HTC Shift + ThinkPad X300 + The MacBook Air = Perfect Notebook

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... (someone screwed up, this wasn’t supposed to happen until next week).  This got me thinking: The perfect next generation ultra-sexy notebook should be a blend of all three products. Analyst Opinion ...

13. Opinion: Beowulf in 3D is a feast for the eyes

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Opinion - Director Robert Zemeckis has created a fantastic warrior epic that has vibrantly brought the old English poem of Beowulf to life. Complete with a golden fire breathing dragon, horrendous-looking ...

14. Intel's goal for Penryn: "Ramp and win as fast as possible"

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... I’m opinionated on this area, but there’s little use for a desktop for people who do not need it. However, the ability to question it would’ve been much more relevant five years ago than ...

15. CES 2007: The battle for the digital home - analyst opinion

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    Get ready for the battle for the digital home: CES and Macworld are just a few days away and both will lure you with new media center devices. Behind the scenes, Apple, Microsoft, Intel, and AMD are assembling ...

16. World of Warcraft expansion pack beta test - Update 4 High-res gallery of Silvermoon

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

17. How ATI fits into AMD's Intel beating strategy - analyst opinion

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... won't be another Intel Opinion: AMD's Chutzpah Is Sexy AMD and ATI: Will their technologies merge as well? The response to Core 2 Duo: What does AMD do next? After the AMD/ATI merger: Will Nvidia GeForce ...

18. Educating kids with video games - a laudable, but doomed, idea

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    According to a recent Ipsos MORI poll in the UK, three in five 11 - 16 year olds are in favour of using video games in the classroom. I'll let Eurogamer break down the numbers for you, but suffice to ...

19. Michigan violent video game law struck down hard in US District Court

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... down a permanent injunction against the law this morning. In his legal opinion, Judge Steeh cited a lack of conclusive proof linking virtual and real-life violence. "It would be impossible to separate ...