Amidst the deluge of camera announcements at CES comes photo news of a different sort. Adobe has made public a beta of Lightroom 4, the next version of its photo cataloging and processing suite.
At first look, almost nothing has changed, but dig deeper and v4.0 might be the biggest upgrade yet.
For full and almost ridiculously in-depth coverage of the new beta, head over to DP Reviews excellent six-page extravaganza. For a quick overview of the highlights, stick around.
The first thing youll notice is the addition of a couple of new modules: maps and books.
Super Talent has announced its new storage device, the Storage POD Mini Portable USB 3.0 Solid State Drive. It measures 110mm x 68mm x 10mm which means its easy to travel with and ideal for users who are constantly on-the-go. It features an all-aluminum casing to protect the device and to make the device more durable. The Storage POD Mini uses a SandForce SSD processor and supports the USB 3.0 interface, it promises to deliver an ultra fast 260MB/s data transfer speed.
PCIe 3.0 increases per-land bandwidth from 500MB/sec to 1GB/sec, this means for an x16 slot, double the bandwidth from 8GB/sec to 16GB/sec. Impressive, but will we see anything close to double the performance? Not now, and not in games. GPU compute tasks do see a difference in performance, however. < 
I have been going to CES for several years, and Microsoft has always had significant presence there. They always have a huge booth that is located at the entrance of Central hall, and you literally cant miss it. This is going to change.