AMD’s new six-core Phenom II X6 desktop CPU comes with a more affordable price tag.

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AMD offers six-core CPUs for the rest of us

This week, we take a look at high-tech goings-on at the MTA (the agency that runs NYC’s subways and buses), including an explanation about how those Metrocard readers work (or don’t …

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Digital City 79: Metrocard/MTA secrets; plus, we test the new 13-inch MacBook Pro

BlackBerry maker RIM shares its vision for its application storefront. Get ready for micropayments. Originally posted at The Download Blog

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BlackBerry App World 2.0: The next generation

Every two weeks, CNET editor Nicole Lee answers your questions about cell phones and cell phone accessories in The 411. Originally posted at Dialed In

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The 411: Free text messages

RIM’s kicks off its BlackBerry conference in Orlando with some announcements about the next version of its operating system and promises of previews to come.

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BlackBerry OS 6.0: What we know so far

It’s gorgeous, but is it functional?

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Cables as art: Behold the ‘Connected’ sculpture

Three and half watts may not sound like much, but you’d be surprised just how good this mini vacuum tube amplifier can sound. Originally posted at The Audiophiliac

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Can a 3.5-watt amplifier rock your world?

Too busy scouring the joint for top-secret products to stay up on Crave? Here’s what you missed while you were looking for prototypes in all the wrong places.

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This week in Crave: Week-of-the-leak edition

(Credit: Overdohse.com ) The subject of Jeff’s bad cell phone luck has come up several times on The 404 Podcast already, but we’re coming back to it once again because he just received his NINTH Palm Pre from the good folks at Sprint, who are now offering a “trade nine, get one free frozen yogurt” stamp card in his honor. We’d love to promise that this will be his last, but judging from the laundry list of parts that broke on the other eight units, it’s not looking good.

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The 404 566: Where Jeff gets number 9 (podcast)