Over the last couple of weeks everyone has been talking about how evil Intel is and how they unfairly dictate the market with refunds, rebates, special deals etc.

But what no one seems to mention is that AMD may be guilty of similar practices but in a different manner.

According to an article at Bright Side of News; Palit is looking to end its newly re-founded relationship with AMD/ATi due to AMD's treatment of them and control over product specs and releases.

Earlier on today we visited Kathy from IKONIK at their Taipei headquarters and got an early and exclusive look at some of their new products which will go on display next week during Computex.

In fact, the cases were still warm from coming out of the oven. IKONIK just got in the first batch of their new line-up of computer cases for 2009 yesterday.

Kathy went on video and introduced the full range to us. Keep in mind the cases you see in the video below are tool samples and are not fully completed and may see some changes. They haven't been named yet either hence why they are referred to as low-end, mid-range and high-end.

Also during our visit to Cooler Master today we met up with the power supply product managers and got a look at a couple new PSUs that the Taiwanese company is working on.

The PSU which impressed us the most was the UCP-900W which has managed to receive the 80 Plus Gold award for incredibly good power performance. This award is only handed out to top notch power supply products, so don't expect it to be cheap. This type of quality is normally only reserved for server or important workstation systems.

Earlier today we met up with David and Eric from Cooler Master's gaming division, CM Storm, in Taipei at their headquarters ahead of Computex which begins next week. We got an early look at a whole bunch of products.

From what we saw with our brief meeting with them, it really looks as if CM Storm means serious business when it comes to PC gamers. We were not only given an exclusive and early look at their upcoming Sentinel Advance gaming grade mouse, but also a full range of their gaming surfaces. Note to David - I still want a TweakTown printed gaming mat, please!

Microsoft has finally confirmed the Zune HD rumors that have been floating around and have given a little more information as well.

The Zune HD will feature a 3.3" 480x272 OLED touchscreen, built-in HD radio, HDMI output via a dock, Wi-Fi, and a browser. The Zune service will also be also be integrated Xbox LIVE and Microsoft plans on demonstrating this at the Electronic Entertainment Expo next week.

I just do not know what I would do without all of the nice little e-mails that tell me how to have a better time in the sack, enhance my manhood, and of course the numerous offers for dates and cheap software.

I am sure most of you know what I am talking about here; it is the plague of all system administrators and users SPAM.

We often get tons of it daily or if you have a good spam filtering system you may see if only once and a while but the fact is that there is more spam out there than legitimate e-mails.

You have heard us talk about the poorly executed 40nm move by TSMC, it has been something that we have said will hurt nVidia's transition to this new process. But now we see the actual results of this issue popping up in the limited availability of the Radeon HD 4770.

ATi/AMD's newest 40nm GPU is a great performer and the demand is high but the problems in the TSMC process are preventing good yields and general availability is suffering.

This problem could be an opportunity for Global Foundries if TSMC cannot get the problems solved.

An interesting story is floating around the internet today. The line goes something like this; Intel and Microsoft are working together to limit the licensing of Windows 7 on netbooks.

Now if we believe what is being bandied about we find that special OEM pricing for the starter version of Windows 7 will only be available to 10.2-inch netbooks and smaller.

Many claim this is going to hurt Via as they have a better grip on the 11-inch and up netbook market. However, there is an alternate possibility; what if someone is finally trying to put netbooks into a proper category? After all in an 11-inch netbook you can have better hardware and cooling. So it stands to reason that keeping the software cost on netbooks 10.2-inches and smaller would keep them in a lower price range where their lower performance naturally puts them.

Looks like the Single PCB GTX 295 is getting closer and closer to the store shelves as second sighting of the card has popped up in the Internet.

TechPowerUp has found some shots of the board on the Internet. Although we showed you a few pics from Inno3D's version of this card there are more to be found today.

The pictured card is still following the lines of the reference board (like Inno3D is). The card is looking to be a stop gap for nVidia as the current rumors still place the GT300 early 2010.

While the upcoming Windows 7 operating system has been getting most of the spotlight recently, Microsoft just went ahead and made Vista Service Pack 2 ready and downloadable for the general public.

This is the final version, not beta and RC builds which have been floating around the past couple of months or so.