Taipei, Taiwan, Mar 12, 2010 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards today announced the start of the GIGIABYTE USB 3.0 & 3x USB Power web contest, “INCREASE YOUR SPEED, TRIPLE YOUR POWER”. GIGABYTE has recently introduced two exciting new USB features to a full range of their Intel and AMD motherboard product lineup including USB 3.0 compatibility, which delivers a 10x data transfer boost over USB 2.0, and USB Power Boost, which provides additional power and stability for USB devices such as external storage devices or optical drives. In order to showcase these new technologies, GIGABYTE would like to hear from you how you would best use these technologies.

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Union, New Jersey – February 22, 2010 – MAINGEAR Computers, award-winning builders of high performance custom computers, is proud to announce the Relief for Haiti Charity Auction in benefit of Save the Children to help support the victims of the earthquake in Haiti.  This special edition SHIFT will feature one of the last remaining AMD Phenom II X4 TWKR processors, of which only a few dozen were made. The last time one of these processors went up for sale on eBay for charity, it went for over $10,000 – just for the CPU. For this charity event MAINGEAR is building a whole computer around it with signed hardware and software from industry partners including Microsoft, Valve, SilverStone, Kingston, and Psyko Audio.

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How would you like some free stuff? iSkin thinks you might! In fact, they are giving away over $2500 worth of stuff in their latest giveaway!

The makers of things that protect your gear from knocks, bumps and spills is giving away a huge GRAND prize pack which consists of the following items…

• 1 MacBook
• 1 iPod Touch
• 1 Mighty Mouse
• 1 ProTouch Vibes for MacBook
• 1 ProTouch for Mighty Mouse
• 1 iSkin touch Vibes for iPod Touch 2G
• 1 iSkin Soho case for MacBook
• Cerulean F1 + TX Bluetooth Set

Although only one person gets the whole enchilada, up to ten second place winners will receive a $50 gift card for the iSkin eStore for their effort. But that’s not all!

If you enter the contest, and even if you don’t win anything, iSkin will still shower you with up to 50 free music downloads courtesy of eMusic. So even if you win NOTHING you get SOMETHING for entering this contest. Now that’s a contest worth entering!

More details on this win-win contest can be found at their official Back to School Contest Page. Entries will be accepted till 11:59 PM EST on September 15, 2009 and you don’t have to be a student to enter although you do have to be in either the US or Canada. Good luck!

Kingston Technology, maker of memory, SSD Hard Drives and USB Flash Drives is hoping to send one of you lucky World of Warcraft fans to the utlimate destination for all things Blizzard. Blizzcon, which runs August 21-22 this year in Anaheim, California is the place to be for the latest Starcraft, Diablo and of course, WoW developments. Heck, you might even bump into one of your guild mates in real life!

Kingston is giving away 10 tickets worth over $125 real dollars each. All you have to do is head to the contest page to enter. There is no purchase necessary, but the contest is open to only US residents only. Bummer.

To my neighbours to the north, hope you have a fabulous day today! If you celebrate like we do, don’t eat too much, don’t set anything on fire, spend time with family and/or friends, and in general enjoy yourself while you celebrate your country.

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