HP does deal with Microsoft to embed toolbar on desktop. nVidia takes on the Intel Atom chip with its own processors. The line is called Tegra. Windows 7 GUI to be designed by Office 2007 interface? That cannot be good. Time-Warner experimenting with metering the Internet. Venezuela appealing OOXML. ASUS now doing a Shuttle-killer. A computer the size of a pound cake. Gphone delayed until 2009? Computex underway. One hot topic is Wi-Fi replacing Bluetooth. Lots of stories about Windows 7.

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The recent, and quick, updates to the SSD (solid state drive) market are making me think that we will be seeing cheaper and more consumer friendly SSD’s for the rest of us, but for now, TDK has just announced what they are calling the smallest Micro SATA SSD drives and I think it is pretty cool…

The HS1 series will measure just 1.8 inches with 16, 32, and 64GB capacities and will use single-level cell NAND flash memory.

Read / write speeds are spinner-like 100MBps and 50MBps respectively and are expected to be energy efficient at 20mA.

Security wise, we’re looking at 128-bit AES encryption with 7-bit error correction.

They won’t come cheap, though: prices are expected to run $900 (16) , $1,500 (32) , and $2,000 (64) for the three capacities.

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According to the Apple rumor mill, which seems to be working more then overtime lately, some specs of the iPhone have been released, by “a programmer at a major software publisher.”

The following should be taken with a grain of salt, because salt makes everything more tasty.

According to [ Cult of Mac ] the iPhone 2 will have:

• 3G
• GPS
• 2 x memory (16GB and 32GB)
• 22 % thinner
• Longer battery life

The tipster says Apple will subsidize the iPhone’s price to better compete with RIM’s Blackberry. The London Times is reporting the same thing — that [ the iPhone will cost about $200 in the UK ] when it goes on sale in July.

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In a move that makes very little sense to this particular mac fanboy, Apple will be re-branding their very cool .mac service and begin calling it “mobile me”.

This is, of course, all rumor and conjecture, but given a lot of the buzz going on in the interwebs it seems likely.

Apple has bought a slew of .me domains, the soon-to-be-launched domain suffix for Montenegro that’s scheduled to go live on July 17th. Macworld UK spoke to Predrag Lesic, in charge of the Montenegro’s .me registry, and he thinks the domain will be an international hit.

Speculation around the web says Apple may be planning to re-brand its web service, .Mac, as Mobile Me. Daring Fireball points out that there is a new string inside one of iCal’s resource files hinting that .Mac will indeed be getting a new name, although it remains unknown what it will be.

These two facts go nicely together and it points to a whole new service coming through the .Mac gateway, hopefully it will integrate into the iPhone as well.  I just wish they would leave the name alone, or at least pick something that is not so “windowish”.

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There are plenty of iPhone/iPod Touch “stands” out there that are, basically, just for the purpose of watching, or listening to content on your iPhone.  This one is by far the coolest, and not just because of the name.

The [ iClooly ], from Japanese manufacturer RockRidgeSound, is a stand for your iPhone that makes it look like a lil’ baby iMac.

The iClooly even pivots 90º for landscape/portrait swapping goodness and has a dock connection inside. It’ll be ¥4,980 (roughly $47) when it hits the streets June 7th

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Not the music, but the hip-hop lovin’, back slide spinnin’, should have been a Porsche but ended up a Pontiac , transformer voiced by Darius McCrary.

Several sources have reported spotting both McCrary and a Pontiac Soltice on the shoot for the new Transformers movie.

Other rumors have Robert Orci stating :

I’d love and think we could almost barely manage ten on each side, with some front and center and others as more supporting.

In the past Bay has denied that Jazz would return, but we all know how producers and directors like to screw with our heads while they make films.

As for the 10 autobots, if I have a say, I would love to see Hound return.

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AIRPORT guards stopped a man boarding a plane — for wearing a Transformers T-shirt showing a cartoon gun.

Brad Jayakody, 30, was shocked when he was told to change his top if he wanted to catch his flight from Heathrow’s Terminal 5.

IT consultant Brad — on a British Airways trip with four colleagues to Dusseldorf, Germany — asked to see the security chief.

He thought the boss would “see sense” — but he backed up the decision and threatened him with ARREST.

Aussie-born Brad said:

“My mate set off the alarms and was searched.  But then the guy told me to stop and said ‘you cannot get on the plane because there is a gun on your T-shirt’.”

The top has the Transformers film character Optimus Prime on the front.

Brad added:

“It’s a cartoon robot with a gun as an arm. What was I going to do, use the shirt to pretend I have a gun? I was flabbergasted. I thought the supervisor would come over and see sense, but he didn’t. After I changed he said if I changed back I would be arrested.”

A spokesman for Heathrow operator BAA said:

“If a T-shirt had a rude word or a bomb on it for example, a passenger may be asked to remove it. We are investigating what happened to see if it came under this category.”

Last year Gatwick guards made a woman hand over a beef sandwich before boarding and last week a PhD student was stopped for wearing a gun-shaped charm necklace at an airport in Canada.

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