I would normally try to avoid making a fuss over yet another USB flash drive to hit the market, but this one being an extremely well thought out concept design definitely deserves a special mention.

Shaped a bit like a bee with matching colour scheme, the cutely named "USBee" is like no other USB flash drive with the actual USB connector being completely seperated from the NAND chip controller; this means that any accidental knocks (particularly when plugged into a USB port at the time) will allow the drive to flex thanks to the ultra slim bending neck.

Intel's latest 45nm based quad-core are of hot discussion at the moment. They offer tremendous performance at a great price point but the only issue is that they cannot be found anywhere due to supply issues.

While the QX9770 Core 2 Extreme is out and about, it is too expensive for most users to even consider. What users are really waiting for is the Q9300 up to Q9650 (2.5GHz 6MB up to 3GHz 12MB with locked multiplier). Intel has been struggling with chip demand since late last year and hasn't really caught up fully still but users will be wrapped to know that one of these hotly anticipated chips is finally for sale on shop shelves.

Geoff from Freedom9 in Australia alerted us recently that they have released their latest Network Attached Storage (NAS) device, called the freeStor 400.

It is promoted as a desktop DLNA compatible Media Storage Server more so than just a regular NAS product. It comes fitted with 802.11G/B wireless LAN which means you are not limited to where you can place it in your home or office. If you prefer wires, it has built-in 10/100/1000 Ethernet.

Acer, the Taiwanese computer maker has launched some new notebooks in the "Gemstone Blue" line.

The top model was designed to give users a high-definition home theater experience. With this in mind, the laptop hosts a screen resolution the same as HDTV, at 1,920 pixels by 1,080 pixels, and also features six speakers, including a subwoofer, for genuine 5.1 HD surround sound.

ASUS, the world's most prolific PC manufacturer has been in the spotlight recently over its branded PC's, in this case UMPC's, which have set in motion an entirely new genre of affordable, easy to use laptops.

"Eee" as it became known is now set to sell the next phase of production (5 million units), with two of every three units sold being loaded with a Microsoft Windows operating system. The other one third of those units will contain the Linux operating system that has been sold in earlier units of this small, highly useful mobile laptop.

As rumored recently, AMD has begun volume shipping of its triple-core Phenom processors, which is excellent news for the struggling chip firm who has not seen much success of late.

For us end-users though, don't get too excited. At this stage AMD is only shipping its Phenom 8400 (2.1GHz) and 8600 (2.3GHz) triple-core processors to OEM companies including Dell, HP and Mesh. At this it is a start for AMD who is in need of good things to happen rather soon.

The lads at PCOnline have chosen to jump the gun a little on NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics card, set to be launched in less than a week from now. They've posted up a whole bunch of benchmark runs with the dual-G92 monster in conjunction with an Intel QX6850 CPU at 3.0 GHz on ASUS' Striker II Formula motherboard and an early supported (ForceWare 173.67) beta driver.

Putting the card up against a Radeon HD 3870 X2, NVIDIA's latest dual-GPU offering comes out supreme in almost all tests thrown at it including 3DMark06, Half-Life 2 Episode Two, Unreal Tournament 3, Call of Duty 4, Company of Heroes, Call of Juarez and World in Conflict at resolutions of 1920x1200 and 2560x1600.

Sandisk have launched a MP3 player called the Sansa Fuze.

At only 0.3" thick, the very small device is both funky and trendy. This portable iPod competitor will be shipped with 2GB, 4GB, or 8GB of storage for your ever growing library of MP3's. You can also include movie clips in your library as the Sansa Fuze can display them on the 1.9" color screen. The video will have to be stored in MPEG-4 format, and music formats that are supported include MP3, WMA, secure WMA, WAV, Audible, and Overdrive.

There is also the option to tune into FM radio stations, of which 40 can be preset. The other nifty feature includes a built-in voice recorder, and last but not least, for those of you who just have to show and tell, JPEG pictures can be stored and displayed at your leisure.

It's not April Fools today, is it? On first inspection, this is the type of product I thought we were dealing with here.

HIS has just released its newest product called the "iClear" which is said to aid in noise reduction from graphics cards and TV tuners.

It provides up to 10% increase performance on SNR (signal-to-noise ratio) which is said to offer a better gaming experience by reducing the distortion and noise generated.

OCZ has had its SATA I 64GB solid state drive on the market for some time now but just today they have introduced their High-Speed SATA II solid state drive.

It comes in 32GB and 64GB models and claims read speeds of 120MB/s and write speeds of 100MB/s, which is a huge improvement over the previous generation drive, which offered 58MB/s reads and 35MB/s writes.