Verizon touts 1 Million BlackBerry Storms Sold To Date

Well, it looks like the BlackBerry faithful have come out in full force to snag “Verizon’s best-selling device,” after all. Despite RIM’s nightmarish “new reality,” of half-baked firmware and broken dreams, Verizon has made it known that the latest ‘Berry has grown to a full 1 million units sold between the November 21st launch and the end of January.

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 in Tri-SLI Reviewed: Great Performance, Not So Great Price Tag

The last time we talked about the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285, it was being hailed as the fastest single-GPU graphics cards on the market. The gang at TweakTown decided to take it two steps further and linked up a trio of them to test. So how synergistic is the tri-SLI set up? Probably not enough to pay well over a grand for everything.

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LG Electronics Recalls 45,000 LG 150 Phones in Canada

Ruh roh. LG Electronics has just issued a voluntary recall of around 45,000 LG 150 phones in Canada, and for whatever reason, Bell Mobility has agreed to assist in cleaning up the mess. Of course, it probably helps that basically every single one was used by a Bell subscriber, but we digress.

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Windows 7 Beta Takes Another Crown, Besting Vista in SSD Performance

It’s no huge surprise, since Microsoft was planning on improving performance on this front, but now we’ve got some of our first solid numbers on Windows 7 Beta SSD performance.

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Acer’s 10-inch Aspire One 103 in Photos

Acer’s 10-inch Aspire One isn’t exactly a secret, but we haven’t seen straight-on pictures of it yet — and glory be, it looks like the rumors of a revised trackpad button layout were true. Not only that, but it’s a multitouch model, so you’ll be ready for the Windows 7 party.

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iPhone Nano Now Rumored For June, Unicorn Delayed Again Until September

Ready for more iPhone nano rumors? Good, because apparently the Chinese trade paper Economic Daily News is now reporting that Taiwan Semiconductor Company (TSMC) will be handling chip manufacturing for a low-cost device being referred to as… you guessed it: the iPhone nano. While the paper has a fairly good reputation, it is filtered through the lens of DigiTimes on our end, so as usual, take it with the required grain of salt.

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Mouse Computer’s New Netbook Sports DVD-Rom, Little Else Of Note

We saw Mouse Computer switch gears with their gaming notebook the other day, and the company is back already with the LB-F1500W. Their first netbook with an optical DVD drive, this little terror “boasts” a 10.2-inch display, 1.6GHz Atom processor, 1GB memory, 160GB hard disk storage, and Windows XP Home.

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Gateway’s LT1004U Netbook Lands Domestically, At Office Depot Of All Places

We can’t get up for a nice cuppa these days without tripping over some new netbook, but still every now and again one offers styling that catches our eye. Such was the case with Packard Bell’s “dot,” an Aspire One rebadge with a striking red metallic hinge but otherwise familiar internals. It later appeared as a Gateway in Singapore, and reader APowe emailed to say he’d seen one prowling the aisles at a local Office Depot.

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