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First it was the ball… then opticals glowing red, now lasers, but the future is blue! At least that is what Microsoft has installed for the future. Blue Track utilizes a blue LED (yes the light) and many optical sensors to give you better mouse movement on all different surfaces including carpet! [...]

Where has the weekend gone? Between the Olympics and the Massachusetts tax-free holiday, I’m spent (literally!)! Here is what you’ve missed:

First Android phone to be shipped in November… without Microsoft Exchange? - Engadget
Intel to release 160GB solid state hard drives, faster, bigger and use less energy - Tom’s Hardware
Dell’s Mini Inspiron laptop specifications [...]

Some quick updates on what you’ve missed this weekend:

Video card wars! Intel vs. Nvidia vs. ATI - Tom’s Hardware
Motherboards with dual-core Atom processors are being made! - Guru3D
Intel’s new processors to be called “Core i7″ - Guru3D
MIT hackers break down subway fare system - Techdirt

Here at TNMS, our first priority is to simplify the world of technology for the non-geek world.  And since most of the non-geek world owns some form of a PC, we have setup a recurring series on PC maintenance.  Hit the jump for this installment…

It is going to be a really busy week here at TNMS but we will get you stories as fast as we can!
Here is what you missed:

Lenovo makes a splash intro in the netbook department - Liliputing via Gizmodo
Acer’s netbook extended battery only 1/3 the cost of actual netbook! - Engadget
Blackberry’s Flowberry theme for [...]

Weekend recap but first some quick TNMS updates.
We won’t be publishing the grand opening of the Boston Apple Store video as it is way too big of a file (to edit as well) so instead, I will take screen shots of the store and post additional pictures. But we will have another “How to…” [...]

Fudzilla announced yesterday, via Engadget, that Intel’s dual core Atom processor will be released sometime in late September with full product launch sometime in the 4th quarter of 2008, mainly due to the CPU’s high demand. But what is special about Atom? And how will it be the new mobile CPU of future laptops [...]

Dirty though that headline may sound, it could be coming sooner than people think.  Actually, that sounded pretty bad too.  Let’s start over.

Rumor has it that Apple is planning to rollout a new series of Macbook products, possibly as soon as October of 2008.  As in… three months from now.  And if the reports are true [...]

Quite a few stories this weekend (of course being the first weekend of the 3G iPhone).

XBox360 20GB for $299? Better believe it! - Gizmodo/Kotaku
Typing with one hand… wait, its typing on one hand! - Engadget
Internet speeds at 640BG/sec, that’s 17 DVDs of info per second! - ZDnet via Digg
Microsoft’s offer for Yahoo!’s buyout has [...]

One of the biggest problems I encountered in my former life as an IT professional was computer maintenance.  Most home computer users buy a new PC and assume that as long as they don’t get any viruses, they’ve done all they need to do in order to keep it running smoothly.

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So Just the other day Corey informed us that Solid State Drives were tested to consume just as much if not more power than it’s oldschool platter-based counterparts.. well now Engadget is reporting that Samsung has begun mass production of it’s 64 and 128 GB SSD Drives in both the 1.8″ and 2.5″ form factors… [...]

Gizmodo informs us that Microsoft is prepped to launch a $300 million advertising campaign for Windows Vista. Their goal is to combat the popular Mac commercials that continuously beat the idea into our heads that Vista is one craptacular piece of software. Microsoft’s VP of Windows Consumer Products had this to say about [...]

Although this story falls more under the business side of technology that the truly “geeky” side (unless you’re one of those business geeks who drools over spreadsheets, business models and risk/reward analysis), it is still worth noting.  It looks like Apple has finalized their decision to not use Intel’s line of microprocessors in the next [...]

Ok, so some of you didn’t get the late 90’s Gangsta Rap reference, but it was all I got…
NAS, as in Network Attached Storage, is probably something you heard about by now, as it’s finally starting to become popular. One company in particular, Data Robotics, it trying to become the face of NAS. Thankfully, they [...]