NVIDIA have announced a brand new GeForce 400M series of GPUs for notebooks, claiming to offer a whopping 40% performance boost over the previous 300M series of GPUs.

The NVIDIA GeForce 400M GPUs includes:

• For enthusiast users: GeForce GTX 470M and GTX 460M
• For performance users: GeForce GT 445M, GT 435M, GT 425M, GT 420M and GT 415M

The GeForce 400M GPUs will feature NVIDIA Optimus technology, a power-saving technique that automatically turns off the GPU when not needed, extending the battery life of a netbook. GeForce 400M has been designed from the ground-up for DirectX 11, as well as supporting NVIDIA 3D Vision, PhysX™, CUDA™ and NVIDIA 3DTV Play™.

Expect to see GeForce 400M enabled notebooks from Acer, Asus, Dell, Lenovo, Samsung, and Toshiba appearing in time for this Christmas.

Source: NVIDIA Press Release

Apple has announced the arrival of iTunes 10, and with it the removal of the 'CD' logo and the addition of Ping, a "new music-oriented social network".

The new Ping service will allow users to follow artists and friends in a similar manner to Twitter, though instead of sharing 140-word 'Tweets', users can share thoughts on music, information about what you're listening to or downloading, lists of your favourite albums or songs, as well as view concert listings and share which ones you plan to go to.

"iTunes is the number one music community in the world, with over 160 million iTunes users in 23 countries, and now we're adding social networking with Ping," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "With Ping you can follow your favorite artists and friends and join a worldwide conversation with music's most passionate fans."

iTunes 10 is available for free at the official iTunes website.

Source: Press Release

Microsoft has announced that its brand new mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7, has gone gold and has been released to manufacturers (RTM).

Windows Phone 7, the successor to Windows Mobile 6.5, is now rolling out to various manufacturers and carriers across the world, where last minute tweaks and modifications will be carried out. There's no precise date set yet, but the OS is currently scheduled for public release sometime in October.

Engadget have an in-depth preview of Windows Phone 7 if you want further information on the software, which is packed full of great new features. The question is however, will it be enough to challenge Apple's supremacy in the smartphone market?

A Swedish filmmaker is planning to release a documentary film about the infamous torrent indexing website Pirate Bay and its three founders, in part funded by users of the peer-to-peer website.

Simon Klose has already amassed over 200 hours of footage and plans to add more during the founders' appeal against their verdict. The documentary is called TPB-AFK (in case you didn't work it out, that stands for The Pirate Bay - Away from Keyboard), and Klose is calling on fans of Pirate Bay to chip in to help get the film finished, with an official website already set up for donations. Commenting on his unusual funding method, Klose said:

"I want to prove that people who claim that the network is threatening cultural creation are wrong, and I will ask the Internet for help."

"TPB AFK is not a fan movie about the Pirate Bay," Klose continues, "Neither is it a journalistic piece on copyright conflict. It’s an observational, character driven film about three guys whose hobby homepage became the embryo of a global political movement."

TPB-AFK is currently set for an autumn 2011 release.

Gmail users who feel swamped by a flood of messages in their inbox will now have help sorting them out, with "Priority Inbox".

"Priority Inbox" is a new feature for Gmail users who are getting swamped by massive amounts of messages in their inbox. This feature pushes a user's most important e-mails to the top of the inbox list and leaves them there. The new feature was scheduled to be part of Gmail midnight Monday ET.

Gmail users should see a red "New Features" link in their inbox on Tuesday morning, with that you can enable the "Priority Inbox" feature.

An algorithm will determine what messages go into the "Prioty Inbox". This will depend on key phrases in the message, like the identity of the sender and if the e-mail was sent to one individual or a group.

So if you received a message from say a family member (Spouse, Son/Daughter, etc...) it would get listed above/ahead of some promotional e-mails that the Gmail user might have subscribed to.

Gmail users will be able to personalize their priority boxes, removing and/or adding e-mails as they'd like to prioritize them.

Gmail has added quite a few tweaks recently and it looks good so far.