Intel just bought Havok, maker of physics middleware for games. This is a really interesting buy for a number of reasons, yet it makes little sense on the surface.

Asus is probably best know for its laptop offerings, but the Taiwanese giant is nothing if not prolific and has its fingers in about as many technology industry pies as you can think of, from motherboards to servers. It has also been active in the highly competitive mobile devices space and now we have its latest smartphone, the P526, in for review.

Lenovo's A61e touts EPEAT Gold status, exceeds the new Energy Star 4.0 standards, and has an 85% efficient power supply. That, and packing a 45W AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor, it can run off an optional solar panel; it uses as much power as three light bulbs. Better yet, it's made of 90% reusable or recyclable materials.

Sun Microsystems will begin building servers with one-time foe Microsoft's Windows operating system installed directly inside of them, instead of forcing customers to install the ubiquitous software on their own or defect to a competitor for one-stop shopping.

Qwest Communications has added two HTC devices, the Mogul and the Fusion 5800 which is a Qwest exclusive.