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GIGABYTE Technology CO., LTD., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, today announced seven new P55A-series motherboards that feature GIGABYTE 333 onboard acceleration. This thrilling trio of technologies includes USB 3.0, Serial-ATA Revision 3.0 (6Gbps) and a 3x boost in USB power, and redefines the highly successful P55 platform.

“GIGABYTE is excited to be able to introduce our latest 333 onboard acceleration technologies on our market leading P55 platform,” commented Tony Liao, Associate Vice President of Marketing at GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. “Through close cooperation with several industry leaders including NEC Electronics Corporation, Marvell, and Seagate, GIGABYTE is able to provide our customers with several next generation data transfer and storage technologies that will have a far reaching impact on how people interact with their digital media for many years to come.”

Apple has unveiled a new MacBook, Mac mini and iMac, and introduced a new multi-touch Magic Mouse, as it seeks to win over consumers in the run-up to Christmas.

The product refresh comes just a day after Apple announced record profits, selling more than three million Mac computers in the last quarter, up 17 per cent on the same period last year. Phil Schiller, Apple's vice president of worldwide product marketing, said Apple had wanted to ensure its new computers were available in time for the "holiday season".

The new 13in white MacBook features curved lines, a backlit display and multi-touch trackpad. It has the same amount of memory as the white MacBook but a bigger hard drive – 250GB compared with 160GB on the previous model – and will cost £50 more at £799. The new Mac Mini has a faster processor and more storage for an unchanged price of £499.

San Francisco - Microsoft has a new weapon in its internet search duel with Google - full access to Twitter's communications hotbed.

In a deal announced on Wednesday at a technology conference in San Francisco, Microsoft's search engine, Bing, will become a new way to find out what people are saying in their Twitter messages - also known as "tweets".

Access to the data is considered to be one of Twitter's most prized assets.

Johannesburg, South Africa, 29 September 2009, Leaf International Communications, the exclusive distributors of HTC handsets in South Africa, today announced the much anticipated launch of the HTC Hero.

“The HTC Hero is a blend of form and function, taking the Android operating system functionality to a league of its own,” says Quinton Leigh, Managing Director of Leaf International Communications. “The HTC Hero is the world’s first Android-based phone with a customised user interface that allows for a level of customisation never before experienced on a mobile phone. With the new HTC Hero, you are not getting a phone, but rather, you are choosing a phone which gets YOU!”

Shinobii Technologies Ltd., the next gen videogame accessory manufacturer, today announced their latest creation, the Console Toolkit™. This 19-piece toolkit contains everything you need in order to disassemble all the latest consoles such as Wii, DSi, PS3, XBOX 360 and PSP 3000.

Of course, we havent forgotten about classic console owners therefore this kit also includes tools for opening up older consoles such as DS, DS LITE, PS2, PS1, XBOX, PSP1000, PSP2000, GAMEBOY, GAMECUBE, PSTWO, N64, SNES as well as Game cartridges.

San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA – September 2009 – Vaughn S. Cordero of VSC/Macsupport, is pleased to announce that the popular application, MobileSyncBrowser has added backup management in its latest release and is now available for download at http://www.mobilesyncbrowser.com.

MobileSyncBrowser (MSB) is the simple, intuitive software utility to view, protect and recover your iPhone and iPod Touch data from your Mac or Windows PC.

MobileSyncBrowser 3.1 adds two groundbreaking features to manage and enhance backups and restores.