Usually, Intel ships chips with heatsinks and fans. With the Sandy Bridge-E chips, which run very warm, Intel is not including either heatsink or fan. But. They’ll happily sell you a separate cooling solution.

The next Firefox upgrade is now available for manual download. The auto updater version is expected to be out tomorrow. This page includes links for the download.

The Asus Eee Pad Slider, announced at CES in January, is an Android tablet with a slide-out keyboard. Originally expected to be on the market in May, it’s now looking at a possible September roll-out.

A lot of progress has been made in our new studio and here’s a short video bringing you up to date.

Read this Computing Unplugged article.

The X11, from Kupa, offers pen and touch screen input, 10-hour battery life, a 128 SSD, and Windows 7 Professional on a 10-inch screen. The tablet is currently available for pre-order.

The latest version of WritePad for iPad, handwriting recognition software, offers dictionaries for US and UK English and an optional US English Medical dictionary. PhatWare recently released WritePad in Dutch and Portuguese language versions.

This book covers the Android SDK and Eclipse plug-in as well as the basics of creating an Android application. It is currently available as a digital “early release” download.

While some are saying that Facebook has silently copied all the numbers from your phone into their database, Facebook claims otherwise. Their “Contacts” list has been around for some time and you, or your friends, probably entered those numbers.

Facebook quietly slurped up the numbers from your phone, and your friends’ phones, and has published them. If this isn’t what you wanted, this article includes how to remove the phone numbers.

The new BlackBerry PlayBook runs the QNX operating system leading analysts to find a higher level of security for the PlayBook.