Back in 2002 (or as some may argue, late 2001), Motorola wowed us with the V70. Stylishly slick, it's swivel form factor came as a breath of fresh air to a market that was flooded with chunky candy bars and noisy clam shells that clicked louder than they rang. The top layer of the metalic phone swiveled around the display screen to unveil a *gasp* blue backlit keypad, and functioned as the earpiece.

Today, some six years later, Motorola is again wowing us with another phone. Based on the same swivel concept as the V70, the AURA is more than a mere upgrade of it's "predecessor". For starters, there's probably more technology involved in the 16,000,000 (16 million) color 300 dpi display than there was in the entire V70. Naturally, such a high-tech creation deserves nothing but the best protection, and that's exactly what the Grade 1 62-carat sapphire crystal lens is.

A smooth swivel motion is ensured by the use of a Swiss-made main bearing, which works hand-in-hand with a custom-engineered rotating mechanism that consists of nothing less than 130 more ball bearings. To round things off, the housing is coated with PVD, the same stuff they use to coat luxury watches.

The Motorola AURA will be available in the USA for a cool US$2,000, so you had better start saving up now!

(Source: Motorola)

Yesterday, the CSC Kuala Lumpur Enterprise Service Desk officially claimed it's status as one of the most advanced service desks in the world. Able to support 20 percent of CSC's global call volume in eight different languages (Korean, Japanese, Thai, Mandarin, Cantonese, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Malaysia and English), the Kuala Lumpur Enterprise Service Desk also plays host to an all new Command Center which is capable of monitoring and intercepting any service desk call from around the world.

Currently, the center operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and employs 225 call center agents. However, CSC expects the headcount in Kuala Lumpur to double to 440 by 2009 and grow to 750 by mid-2010.

Full story after the jump.

NVIDIA’s engineering team was given a challenge: deliver a desktop GPU which integrates full system I/O and discrete-level performance in one-half the size of previous integrated graphics solutions. The result: a 16-core CUDA-capable graphics architecture that enables mainstream PC users to play the latest top-selling PC games and enjoy silky-smooth, high-definition Blu-ray video playback—all without breaking the bank.

Say hello to the NVIDIA GeForce 9400 and 9300 motherboard GPUs for desktop PCs on the Intel platform.

“We’ve combined the power of three different chips into one highly compact and efficient GPU. In doing so, we’ve redefined the level of performance people can expect from a motherboard solution to enrich visual computing experiences for mainstream systems. You can now have the performance of a discrete GPU in a small form factor PC.”

The new NVIDIA GeForce 9-Series motherboard GPUs feature:

• 16-cores for processing DirectX 10 games and CUDA-accelerated applications
• High-quality video playback with NVIDIA PureVideo® HD technology, which offloads 100% of all video processing from the CPU to the GPU
• Support for advanced audio and video connectivity, including uncompressed LPCM 7.1 audio, dual-link DVI, and HDMI
• Support for NVIDIA Hybrid SLI Technology, which boosts performance up to 70% above the motherboard GPU
• Single-chip design with much smaller footprint than competing chipsets makes it ideal for small form factor and ultra-slim media center PCs

It looks like the days of Samsung's favorite phone form factor - the clam shell - may finally be over. In a recent London launch, the Korean electronics giant unveiled two new phones in the more contemporary candy bar and slider form factors - the GPS enabled I7110 and the fashion concious L870.

No indications on pricing were available, and if press releases are your thing, you can catch it after the jump.