In the past, Asus’ Eee Keyboard was only shown off running versions of Windows XP, but in a more recent demo at Computex, the low-profile PC was shown off running Intel’s Moblin OS.

While XP seemed like a nice choice for the keyboard PC, sticking with something simple (and Linux based) seems even better, given that this machine will be ideal for surfing the net from your couch.

There’s been no official word if this will come as an option for the Eee Keyboard, but there’s little doubt that we’ll find out in the coming weeks.

Call it a gimmick, call it what you want, but it looks like Microsoft is doing some good by helping out those in need via their Internet Explorer 8 advertising.

Along side their Dean Cain commercials that went live earlier this month, they’ll be donating the equivalent of eight meals to the Feeding America Network for each completed download of Internet Explorer 8.

Make sure that you download soon though; this promotion will only run from June 10th to August 8th. So, if you’re not downloading IE8 for yourself, download it for those in need! You’ll feel better tonight knowing you did.

MySpace recently got a new CEO in Owen Van Natta, and according to reports, they may have a few more problems to deal with than they’d originally thought.

“The business is in a lot worse shape than Fox Interactive was positioning,” stated an anonymous source. According to a report, while MySpace’s old CEO Chris DeWolfe boasted loudly about their 120 million unique visitors, the real numbers are nowhere near. And, it’s being reported that when Google renews their $900 million advertising deal with MySpace, they’ll only guarantee $50 million per year, cutting MySpace’s ad revenue in half from $600 million to $300 million.

It’s expected that the new head honcho will make some huge layoffs, possibly cutting down their 1,500 employees in half to just 750 (but hey, it’s News Corp, how would that not be expected?).

Just recently Kevin Schader, the SD Association’s Director of Communications, announced that SDXC cards packing up to 64GB of storage would be arriving early next year.

The cards, which will start at 64GB and have transfer speeds of 52MB/s will pave the way for the theoretical limit of 2TB cards with 300MB/s transfer speeds, according to Schader, but he wasn’t able to say exactly when.

The 64GB specification was sent out to member companies of the SD Association in April, so there should be plenty of ways to use them once they’re out.

According to a recent study, surfing the net makes us much smarter, rather than rotting our brains. For folks like us, this just happens to be some great news.

The study, which was conducted by Gary Small of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the University of California at Los Angeles, took a poll of 24 participants. Half of the participants used the Internet on a daily basis while the other half had little to no experience. Using an MRI, Small compared brain activity as they read a book off of a computer screen, and both groups produced similar results. But, when he looked at the groups as they searched for clues about the benefits of eating chocolate and the best way to visit the Galápagos, the group that surfed the internet regularly registered twice as much activity in the frontal, temporal and cingulated areas of the brain – all of which supply aid to complex reasoning skills.

“The simple headline here is that Google is making us smarter,” stated Small. And for this revelation, we thank you. Perhaps surfing Facebook and I Can Has Cheezeburger all day long won’t seem so silly now!

Earlier this week Intel announced the additions of two dual-core CPUs to their CULV platform, which will target entry-level ultra-thin notebooks.

The announcement came in the form of the Celeron 740 and the SU2300. They will feature core clocks of 1.3GHz and 1.2GHz respectively, and both will feature an identical 1MB L2 cache, 10W TDP and an 800MHz FSB.

No official word yet on how much notebooks featuring these will cost or when they will arrive.

While Asus ambitiously prides themselves on being innovators in design akin to Apple, they’re taking aim at Nintendo in the video game console market as well.

According to Jonathan Tsang, the Vice Chairman of Asus, they have “polished off” a video game system that they claim will rival the Wii. “We have a product we think is better than the Wii. But the content is complicated,” stated Tsang in an interview.

Asus’ problem isn’t with the hardware currently, but rather with the software. They have plenty of ways to design and produce a system, but their support on the software side is lacking. A console with no games isn’t bound to be very successful.

“Sometimes it is a chicken-and-egg problem,” Tsang continued. “We don’t have the chicken, so cannot have the egg.”

Intel is poised to phase out their Atom N270 CPU soon, thanks to the launch of its successor – the Atom N450.

The Atom N450 (codenamed Pine Trail) will be a single core CPU with built-in northbridge functions, and will work in concert with the brand new NM10 (Tiger Point) chipset. Intel will issue the last order notice for the N270 in Q1 of 2010, and the CPU will fully phase out by Q2 of 2010.

It’s expected that the N450 will launch in October of this year at the very earliest.

According to some recent research, Samsung is the current leader in the half-billion dollar SSD market.

Having pulled in $185.88 million in revenues, Samsung held about 31.7 percent of the $585 million market in 2008. In second place was storage array SSD supplier STEC with $92.06 million, or about 15.7 percent. SanDisk finished third, selling $54.94 million worth of flash memory, giving them a 9.4 percent market share (down noticeably from their 17.3 percent market share in 2007).

According to Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt, there’s little to no worry about Microsoft’s Bing threatening their already massive share of the search engine market.

“It's not the first entry for Microsoft. They do this about once a year,” said Schmidt in an interview earlier this week. “I don't think Bing's arrival has changed what we're doing. We are about search, we're about making things enormously successful, by virtue of innovation.”

He continued on a lighter note, stating, “Google is about getting all the information and organizing it. Yahoo has a different strategy. We think ultimately Bing will evolve to a different strategy as well.”

Still though, Google isn’t ignoring the potential threat that Bing poses. They’re set to review possibilities with their executive committee later in the week.

Joining their other social networking brethren, Facebook announced this week that they’d be the next to provide “usernames,” which will translate into custom URLs.

“We're planning to offer Facebook usernames to make it easier for people to find and connect with you,” writes Blaise DiPersia on Facebook’s official blog. “When your friends, family members or co-workers visit your profile or Pages on Facebook, they will be able to enter your username as part of the URL in their browser. This way people will have an easy-to-remember way to find you. We expect to offer even more ways to use your Facebook username in the future.”

But, like other sites that provide the same feature, you can’t change your username once you’ve selected it. So, while “Turd Ferguson” may seem like an attractive choice, perhaps you should consider something else?

Earlier this week Google announced their Google App Sync for Microsoft Outlook, which they hope will give them the edge in the business email world.

“Many business users prefer Gmail's interface and features to products they've used in the past. But sometimes there are people who just love Outlook. For them, we've developed Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook,” writes Eric Orth, a Software Engineer on the Google Apps team. “It enables Outlook users to connect to Google Apps for business email, contacts and calendar. And they can always use Gmail's web interface to access their information when they're not on their work computer.”

Best of all, Google makes this that much easier by providing a tool that takes care of all the heavy lifting. Microsoft Outlook servers, you’re officially on notice.

While for many of us the only idea of computer related risks to our health are back pain, blurred vision and carpal tunnel for the extreme typists out there. But it would appear that computers are now presenting a more critical danger.

According to a recent study from the National Electronics Injury Surveillance System, over 78,000 cases of acute computer-related injuries were treated in the US between 1994 and 2006 (nearly 93 percent of these occurred while the patient was home). The number increased by a whopping 732 percent over the allotted time frame.

The injuries primarily include patients hitting against or catching on computer equipment, tripping or falling over computer equipment, computer equipment falling on top of people and straining of muscles and joints.

So, be more careful while you’re using your beloved computer from here on out. It could lurking in the shadows, waiting to slightly strain your muscles at a moment’s notice.

Just this week Western Digital announced their 4TB My Book Studio Edition II.

The 4TB My Book sports two gigantic 2TB HDDs in RAID 0, and will work with both Macs and PCs. You’ll be able to connect this bad boy to your machine using eSATA, FireWire 800, FireWire 400 and USB 2.0 all while consuming up to 30 percent less energy. There’s also a fancy capacity gauge on the front that lets you see how much storage is available at a glance

It’s available now for $649.99.

Just recently Comcast dropped the price on their “Extreme 50” Internet package (for those that are also subscribing to their Digital Voice or cable TV) from $139.95 to $99.95.

This new Extreme 50 package was just launched in Washington, DC and surrounding areas today, but the price for the $139.95 service is dropping nationwide. Along with this deployment, Comcast plans to get DOCSIS 3.0 to 65 percent of their territory by the end of this year.

According to Comcast spokesperson Charlie Douglas, “We already have a bundled incentive with our other tiers, so this is similar. It was just a matter of time before we introduced a bundled incentive price for Extreme 50.”

With this drop, Comcast now offers the cheapest 50Mbps broadband in the United States.

While the concept of a scanner being reworked into a camera isn’t entirely new, someone creating one that can take photos at 130-megapixels is.

A yet unnamed Japanese man with some tech know-how was able to create this beastly camera by fusing a 1200 dpi Epson GT-S620 scanner and old Cannon FD 50mm lens together. He says that he chose this scanner because it has a CCD sensor, uses a camera-like lens and has LED lighting.

If you want to see photos taken by the camera, you can check out his Flickr stream here.

Lionsgate, Paramount and MGM have all come together to create a new TV network called Epix that will show their own recent films in HD before they’re released on DVD. They’re also bringing this channel online with an on-demand website that will offer HD streaming of the very same films. And, best of all, it won’t have any advertising and won’t show up on your cable bill.

Epix will be bundled directly into cable packages, and according to their current business model, won’t show up as a separate charge on your bill. If Epix can convince enough cable operators to sign on (they haven’t announced any partners yet), they will be able to gain a competitive edge over pay-TV channels that have a monthly fee.

The best part of it all is the site, epixhd.com. The films will stream in 720p, all for free. The video will be offered through Flash and is multi-bitrate enabled. The player will check your available bandwidth every ten seconds to see if a larger or smaller stream is required. Epix is currently working off of six different encodings for each film, ranging from cell phone quality (500Kbps) all the way to full HD.

But, there’s reportedly a catch (surprise, surprise). In order to use the website, you’ll need to be signed up with an ISP’s Internet and cable. This is primarily because Epix is looking to install caching servers directly in the data centers of ISPs that partner with them.

Acer is planning to launch a 15.6-inch notebook which will support full 3D at the end of October, according to Campell Kan, Acer’s Vice President of the Mobile Computing Business Unit.

The notebook, which has been developed with Wistron, will come with built-in software that can convert 2D movies to 3D, and will fully support 3D movies. Users will be required to wear stereoscopic glasses for the 3D to work, but Acer is working on a model that will remove the need for these.

Since the machine will come with Windows 7, Acer is holding off on their release and pricing information until Microsoft starts shipping the OS.

Just last week Twitter announced that they would be introducing “verified accounts,” so as to protect the identity of celebrities.

The manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, Tony La Russa, is currently suing Twitter, claiming that someone is impersonating him on their site. In response, Twitter has claimed that the lawsuit is an “unnecessary waste of judicial resources bordering on frivolous.” And, to follow this up, they suspended the account.

But, to help prevent this from happening in the future, Twitter will soon open up the beta of their verified accounts feature for a small set of public officials, public agencies, famous artists, athletes and other celebrities that could potentially be impersonated.

Amongst their many announcements this week at Computex, Acer also released information about a new, ultrathin laptop aimed at professionals.

The yet unnamed notebook will come with a 13.3-inch screen, up to 4GB of RAM, Intel’s GMA 4500MHD GPU with 64MB of memory (or an upgraded ATI Radeon HD 4330 with 512MB), a multitouch trackpad, 8+ hour battery life, WiFi, three USB ports, a built in mic, a headphone jack and Ethernet.

No word of price, but it’ll reportedly be available sometime next month.