Despite many rumors about a Zune-Phone, it looks like we won't be seeing one at CES 2009.

Fudo over at Fudzilla has been keeping in touch with someone at MS about this, but there was no need to cite unnamed sources as Brian Seitz, Group Manager for the Zune products, went on record to say there would not be a Zune-Phone launch at CES 2009

Read more at Fudzilla.

Some people just don't get it. This is very true for the current Australian Government. Despite evidence that their own constituents do not want a filtering system and that any filtering system will increase costs of internet service, slow down broadband speeds, and more to the point won't even work the they are still moving full speed ahead with this project.

Now there is another factor to the "Con" list of this filtering. According to research people that are unable to buy their smut online will simply head to the local Adult store and pick it up there.

There is also evidence that filtering will increase the likelihood of underground trading in illegal material.

AMD/ATi appears to have sprung a leak. This leak has dribbled some information over to Expreview in the form of information about the upcoming RV775.

Normally AMD/ATi are extremely tight lipped about new products (sometimes to their own detriment) but now we have some data to pour over in anticipation of the next ATi GPU the RV775.

The information is yet to be confirmed but is it is accurate ATi looks like it is set to put another hurtin (sic) on nVidia.

If you do not know about this you have to take a look and get involved.

SmoothCreations and TheTechLounge are holding a raffle to put together money to purchase toys to give to children at Christmas that might not otherwise receive anything.

Entry is only $5 but for every $5 you put in you get a chance to win a Custom-Made Hand-painted SmoothCreations Gamgin PC. There are 80 to win so head over and help out!

GIGABYTE's own Taiwanese technical marketing dude, Hicookie, has created a very in-depth guide which explains how to overclock an Intel Core i7 920 processor all the way up to 4GHz.

Since it is GIGABYTE marketing material, naturally a GA-X58 Extreme motherboard is used. It starts by telling you which parts you need, how to setup and prepare the system for overclocking and much more.

Addonics has a new device for anyone that is into storage and like flexibility from their drives.

This new gadget is a NAS adapter and is capable of turning any ordinary USB HDD into a fully working NAS device.

The Addonics NAS Adapter supports SMB, Open Source Samba, FTP (for up to 8 users) and can ever be setup as a print server and Bit Torrent download appliance.

AMD's Catalyst driver suite for ATI Radeon graphics cards has just been updated for the final time this year, bringing its revision to 8.12.

Going out with a bang for 2008, the new drivers bring some very nice benefits which include full ATI Stream support and the ability to also harness Stream technology when using the AVIVO Video Converter.

Just in time for the XMAS holiday season when many of us finally get the time to start playing some of our favourite games, Logitech has finished its new G13 Advanced Gameboard; a dedicated peripheral for gamers which incorporates Logitech's award-winning Comfort Wave ergonomic design.

Features include 25 fully programmable and backlit keys with on-the-fly macro creation, a 160 x 43-pixel GamePanel LCD which provides info such as game stats, system specs and other in-game messages, analog stick, 20MB memory space for up to five ready-to-play profiles and pre-configured settings for several blockbuster titles such as WoW, LotR Online and CoD4.

Thanks to Intel and its Game On website, the company has introduced three additional hours of gameplay for Far Cry 2 in the form of two new missions.

These bonus missions extend Far Cry 2's game play by a whole 3 gripping hours. They bristle with extraordinarily coolness, and make the most of Far Cry 2's signature graphical excellence and real-world physics modelling. Intel collaborated with developers Ubisoft Montreal, to ensure that both missions bring out the best in Far Cry 2's unique hyper-real depiction of war-ravaged Africa. Make no mistake: this is the stuff your Intel® Core™2 Extreme was made for.

The Solid State drive market is booming. It seems that just about everyone has one, including all of the memory manufacturers.

Super Talent is known for its good memory products and iPod competitors.

But now they have launched a series of high end UltraDrive SSDs for the enterprise user.