While RIM and Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo still don’t know why their BlackBerry Bold is feeling a little toasty around the keyboard, the duo has ruled out a likely culprit, the battery, as its unwelcome heat source. Word on the street is an estimated 30 people have issued complaints about the mobile device heating up while recharging, with around 4,000 units being sold before DoCoMo halted sales. One analyst speculates the issue — which so far has affected only Japan — may be based on region-specific software of other customizations. We’re sure the pair are working around the clock to get to the bottom of this malfunction, but in the meantime, we recommend dusting off the ol’ 8707h to get that retro BlackBerry feel — y’know, just for kicks.

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NTT DoCoMo’s overheating BlackBerry Bold not caused by battery, says RIM originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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You may scoff at netbooks for their perceived lack of horsepower, but what if that not-quite phenomenal cosmic power was itty-bitty enough to fit in your (necessarily oversized) wallet? Toradex has unveiled the credit card-sized Robin Z510 and Z530 computer modules, which manages to fit quite a bit in fairly small space. The two mainboards feature a 1.1GHz Intel Atom Z510 and 1.6GHz Atom Z530 (the same processor found in the Vaio P), respectively, as well as integrated GMA500 graphics card with HD capabilities, support for up to seven USB 2.0 ports, and on board microSD slot (pictured, bottom left), 512MB DDR2 RAM, and 2GB solid state flash disk. Enthusiasts can order it now for 129 € / 179€ ($164 / $227), but there’s about a $20 discount if you’re willing to buy in bulks of 10,000 or more.

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Toradex’s Robin stuffs Atom-based computer on credit card-sized module originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Investor’s Business Daily – Sony sees the video game console race as a marathon, not a sprint.

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The presence of too many temporary files is a common cause that slows down your computer by clogging a reasonable part of your hard disk drive. If you examine your hard drive, you will find several files with a tilde (~) prefix or .TMP suffix, like ~xyz.dat or xyz.tmp. Such files are called temporary (or temp) files, and you can almost always safely delete them. Read on to know more about temp files.

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Look out, Amazon — Onyx International has your number. Among the electronic bounty we’ll be checking out at CeBIT will be the Boox e-reader. The device boasts a 6-inch e-ink touchscreen with 16 shades of gray, 512MB storage, WiFi, support for various formats (including EPUB / PDF / HTML / TXT / CHM / MOBI / JPG / BMP / PNG / GIF / TIFF / MP3), and text to speech (but sadly, no Tom). We don’t have a price yet, so we’re not entirely sure how threatened you should feel, but if we had to wager we’d probably bet on “not very.”

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Onyx International to unveil the Boox e-reader at CeBIT originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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