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CeBIT is the world's largest computer expo (COMPUTEX Taipei is the 2nd largest) and was first established in 1970. It is held each spring on the world's largest fairground in Hanover, Germany, and is a barometer of the state of the art in information technology. Since 1999, the CeBIT sponsor Deutsche Messe AG ("German Trade Show, Ltd.") has organized trade shows outside of Germany bearing the CeBIT name, CeBIT Australia is one of them. As our luck would have it, ChampionLLY was in Sydney just in time for CeBIT Australia! Let's take a look at some of the pictures he sent back.

CeBIT just begun and as an esteemed colleague put it, it's like a big Computex. Motherboard and chipset announcements galore!

We played with OCZ's "brain mouse", looked at ASUS' HDMI equipped sound card that will enable high definition audio codecs over HDMI from a HTPC, saw some more 4-series motherboards and much more in our day 2 coverage from CeBIT.

There were a lot of "new" PSUs on display, though most come from one of several ODMs. We also looked at a few of the cases at the show.

PowerColor has been showing off their new 3870X2 at Cebit this year, and it may be the card to take on NVIDIA's 9800GX2.Read More...

At CeBIT today, AMD demonstrated its first 45nm processors: "Shanghai," the server successor to Barcelona, and "Deneb," a desktop processor.Read More...

The new Intel Atom processors are rather amazing pieces of technology. These diminutive processors pack a whole lot of punch. They have the performance equivalent to that of the Intel Pentium M, for a fraction of the power consumption. With a TDP of only 0.6W to 4W, the Atom processors are ideal for Mobile Internet Devices and Ultra Mobile PCs as the lower power consumption means the devices can deliver longer battery lives. These may not be mainstream mobile processors, but they will certainly have a significant impact on the design of such mobile devices.

New developments in the past week include 32GB flash modules, DVRs are cleared for remote time-shifting, and Gartner recommends CIOs stop stuffing their storage servers like a squirrel storing nuts. All this, and a bit more, in this edition of Week in Storage.Read More...

Keyboard, Mouse and Gamepads: Those are the standard controls of today’s video gamers and I personally did not think that this would change anytime soon. Then came the presentation of the OCZ Actuator which changed my mind. It looks like a high tech headband but it’s actually more than that.