Technology

Maingear has announced their latest series of high horsepower muscle PCs. Well, you could probably build this yourself for half the price, but there are plenty of folks out there who just want to snag the fastest off the shelf PC they can get and go play games, or do video editing or 3D graphics. This new high power PC is aimed at them. Read more

Microsoft has just released a new version of its mobile search site which is specially made for touch screen devices like the iPhone. New functions include a Search for Movies that lets you find by what movies are nearby your location, with time and theater listings as well as trailer previews. Selection buttons are optimized for finger use, making them easier to read and press. Point your mobile browser at m.bing.com to try it out.

Devices supported as of this writing are the T-Mobile G1, iPhone, iPod Touch, Zune HD, Verizon Imagio, and the Samsung Omnia. Additional support for other phones and devices will be added over the couple months, Microsoft says. Read more

The current developer build of Snow Leopards next version is being reported to have effectively eighty-sixed support for Intel Atom CPUs. Currently, Apple OS X 10 Snow Leopard will run on Atom chipsets, so users were able to install the Mac operating system on low priced Netbook computers, creating what are termed Hackintoshes. The lack of support could be an unintentional oversight in the developer build, but recent trends (iPhone OS updates that prevent jailbreaking, legal actions against Psystar, etc) would support the view that Apple is going after Hackintosh users. Read more

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization overseeing Internet addresses today approved usage of Hindi, Hebrew, Korean and other non-Latin characters in domain names, clearing the way for the web to become truly worldwide. Governments and designees could begin to submit requests for names as soon as Nov. 16, and they could be in use by early next year, mostly likely staring with Arabic, Chinese and other high demand scripts.

"This represents one small step for ICANN, but one big step for half of mankind who use non-Latin scripts, such as those in Korea, China and the Arabic speaking world as well as across Asia, Africa, and the rest of the world," said Rod Beckstrom, ICANN CEO.Read more

Ice storms can be disastrous when freezing rain builds up on power lines, trees, roads, and aircraft surfaces. Entire cities can be left without power, heat, water supplies, and cut off from food supplies. Fatal aircraft accidents are still happening, due to ice build-up on control surfaces, even though engineers have been working on the problem for decades. Now researchers at the University of Pittsburgh-have developed an easily applied nanoparticle-based coating that prevents the buildup of ice on solid surfaces.Read more

Asus rolled out the worlds first Motherboard incorporating SuperSpeed USB 3.0 this week. The Asus Xtreme Design P7DP55DE-E Premium is based on an Intel P55 Express chipset. Yes, even tough Intel recently indicated that it would not be incorporating USB 3.0 technology into its chipsets until 2011, Asus uses a third-party USB 3.0 controller as a work-around. USB 3.0 transfer speed is 5000 Mbps, compared to 480 Mbps for USB 2.0. Making your computer forward compatible with future technology is all well and good, but you have to ask yourself if it is worth the extra money, as there are no USB 3 compatible devices to plug in to it yet. Read more