ALSO NOTED: Intel preps quad-core mobile chip; Jobs to only speak for 1.5 hours after all;

> Intel is prepping a quad-core chip for high-performance laptops. That's gonna be one hot tamale. Article
> HD DVD: 100,000 stand-alone players sold in North America. Article
> HP rolls out some fancy new consumer desktops. Release
> USB charging could get faster with a new power spec. Release
> A 120GB PCMCIA NAND hard drive for portable storage buffs. Article
> Turns out that this year's "Stevenote" is only going to be 1.5 hours after all: the confusion was due to a typo on Apple's website. Article

And Finally... Inventions that were never meant to be. Article