This week, Micron commenced with the shipping of what it claims is the "industry's fastest" solid-state drive. Sold under the Crucial brand name, the new Real SSD C300 drives employs the use of SATA 6Gb/2 and Open NAND Flash Interface 2.1 specifications, which allow the drive to deliver sequential read speeds of up-to 355Mb/s and sequential write speeds of up-to 215Mb/s.

The speeds offered are much faster than both Intel and OCZ's flagship products.

Official announcements by Capcom have confirmed that the MotoGP 09/10 is all set to be released all across Europe for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on March 19, 2010.

MotoGP 09/10 comes with a promise to be the most definitive game released under the MotoGP series yet, with players being allowed to compete against riders from anywhere in the world in the first ever racing title to offer a
20-player online racing capability and experience.

Honda has officially announced a new, limited-edition version of its popular Civic Type R. The launch of the new vehicle will coincide with the company's entry in the 2010 British Touring Car Championship.

The Civic Type R Mugen 200 boasts an exterior which is white, adorned with black mirrors, a look that will also be shared by the race team.

As has been suggested by the name, the special-edition car will be limited to a run of 200 vehicles.

British firm X2 Computing has taken the cover off its latest tablet PC, the iTablet. The new range of PCs has been designated as much "consumer friendly" by the company. How Apple would react to the company's naming of the device is yet to be seen.

iTablet is one of the most anticipated names for Apple's tablet device, which has now been released as the iPad.

As has been shared by X2, the iTablet range of devices will be equipped with 10.2 inch or 12.1 inch touchscreen or multi-touch screen displays, with a starting weight of a mere 1.18 kg.

Friday saw the launch of an iPhone app that would incorporate the enhanced voice-activated search technology of the San Jose-based startup Siri - an artificial intelligence-based voice-recognition firm.

T-Mobile price plans come with Flexible Boosters. This Internet plan is featured with the Unlimited Internet Booster.

New T-Mobile customers - or those who joined a new payment plan would be able to grab benefit from new Flexible Booster mobile tariffs which offer a myriad benefits including unlimited text messages and calls to landlines.

The plan switched to any of the other Flexible Boosters such as Unlimited Texts, Unlimited Landline or Unlimited On-net after every 30 days; however Internet charges will then apply.

Last year, Acer's 5738DZG, the first ever 3D offering, was a disappointment, and now Asus has stepped forward to try its luck in the same fray, with the G51J 3D. The company has promised that the new model "handles the whole 3D thing in a very different way".

The 2010 Yamaha FZ8 is all set to be launched this Summer, as a replacement for the popular FZ6 Fazer. The new offering has already been surrounded by much excitement and anticipation, and fans are eagerly awaiting its release.

Till now, the company had only released two teaser shots of the new bike, but now, much to the delight of fans and potential buyers, the first full-body picture of the FZ8 has been released, and it shows a bike which is well worth the wait.

Yamaha now plans to release more images over the coming month.

Amazon's MP3 store for Android mobile phones is now available in the UK with DRM-free downloads for the users.

The Music store was announced as early as 2008, and is already available in the US.

The application from Amazon is available on Android Market for free and comes with access to ten million DRM-free songs. The song tracks could be downloaded via Wi-Fi or 3G.

The costs over that are about 69p per track and between £3 and £9 per album, generally, which is much lesser than the prices on the internet.

Samsung Mobile has launched its new 'Galaxy Portal' which is a smart phone powered by Android. The phone was earlier called Samsung i5700 Galaxy Spica and has been renamed for the launch in the UK.

Most Google applications like Gmail, Google search, Google Maps, Google Talk and Youtube along with social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace can be accessed though the phone.

Among fun applications, is a Samsung Football Pub Finder which locates the nearest bars showing live football matches.

Vauxhall's new Meriva, featuring rear-hinged back doors along with a raft of new cabin features, will formally be launched at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2010.

Vauxhall claimed that new car's rear-hinged back doors, which open at nearly 90 degrees, make access to rear seats much easier than conventional front-hinged doors.

The company also claimed that Meriva's engines would provide output of between 74 and 138bhp and that these engines would also achieve average fuel consumption.

Mophie, the popular manufacturer of iPhone cases and battery chargers, is reportedly now planning on expanding out of its current domain and lineup of products to include a revolutionary credit card reader and processing attachment which will work equally well on Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch.

PSP Digital comics site has been loaded with more digital comics by Sony, thereby fulfilling the promise to bring digital comics to PSP owners. Owners of PlayStation Portable can now easily download these comic books from Marvel, Disney and others, from the PlayStation Store on PSP or the Web Store.

There are about 550 issues from series including X-Men and Spider-Man with price range between 99 cents and $2.99.

Toshiba has come up with a 64-GB NAND flash memory module with a claim that it would significantly increase smartphone storage. 

The Japanese electronics giant Toshiba claimed that its 64-GB NAND flash memory is the highest-capacity flash module available in the world.

The 64-GB NAND flash module is only 30 micrometers in thickness, and comprise of sixteen 32Gbit chips. Toshiba created it by using its 32-nanometer technology.

Taking Apple's lead, more and more telecom services providers and handset manufacturers are now looking to come out with their own application stores, and the latest to follow suit has been Orange, which has launched an "on-device application store", which will handle transaction by adding them to a user's phone bill, just like Ovi used to do about 18 months back.