It is a slow news day when I start posting things like these but it has really stood out in my head (for obvious reasons)since I first looked at this one.

Someone, has decided to do a take on the old "girls in/on" theme and has come up with the novel idea of having girls in bikinis reading Star Wars.

The idea is brilliant really, although there could be the chance that the "listening" geek might zone out while, um "admiring" the girls' rather skimpy attire. But then again, does it really matter? It is just good fun in reality. But it has spawned an idea in my mind...

We heard the reports and rumors, so this Friday afternoon we visited the Taipei Computer Market and confirmed them for ourselves.

It does indeed look like Intel has broken its own NDA in Taiwan by selling its full range of Core i5 and Core i7 Socket LGA-1156 Lynnfield based processors. And it's not just one shop selling them, literally all of the PC hardware shops are selling them.

Not only that, but we saw a range of ASUS and GIGABYTE LGA-1156 based Intel P55 Express motherboards on sale. Despite the rumours of MSI having a CPU and motherboard bundle deal on sale at the start of this week, we didn't see any MSI boards on sale - but we may just have not seen them, it's a big place the computer market in Taipei.

Nothing like a good Apple rumor. SO here it is... it looks like despite what people are saying now the much dreamed of Apple iTablet might not see daylight until the middle of 2010.

This will have many who were envisioning themselves kicking back with a 10-inch stylish Apple Ebook reader, reading Steve Jobs' memoirs and listening to them in synchronicity through the built in HD iPod are going to have to wait.

There are no specific reason given for the delay just that the rumored September launch will not likely happen.

Wow this will be of interest to anyone that has an iPhone in the US. Apple and AT&T might have a price to pay for their heavy advertising of features that they will not support.

In the state of Louisiana there is a class action law suit that is being filed against Apple and AT&T for the continued lack of MMS (multimedia messaging system) despite ads by both companies showing this as a major feature.

The suit claims that AT&T has not upgraded its towers to support MMS properly on their network but continue to advertise this service for other phones and even have a package plan for it.

This is something interesting, a company has created an Atom based system board that can operate at just under 4.5 Watts.

The company's name is InHand Electronics, they put together a system board they are calling firefly. This is the world's smallest and most power efficient Atom single board computer.

To get this size they did not remove functionality. I have you have both onboard DDR2 and an expansion slot for an extra SODIMM.

The rumors run rampant today, we had some interesting ones now we have one that sounds probably the closest to the truth.

The rumor is about Intel and their 32nm process. According to the latest rumor Intel will start ramping up 32nm production in the fourth quarter of this year. Ok so far it sounds like what we have all already heard and close to the official roadmap.

Next up is that we will see Clarkdale and Arrandale in Q1 2010, again not much that is different from the current road map. Six Core Gulftown should be read by Q2. and we will see both 45nm Nehalem and 32nm Westmere exist at the same time.

Ah Hypocrisy at its best. You all know that Palm has been playing cat and mouse with Apple over iTunes sync. When Apple fixes this hole Palm finds another one.

They even advertised that you could sync the Pre with iTunes. This is all good from their end, no harm done right? Well it might be all good when Palm does it but do not let them catch you using their name, images, or any other IP.

You will get a very seriously worded letter demanding that you stop.

Alright, it is time for some humor. In the list of "really stupid things to do" right at the top would be adding your boss to facebook and then complaining about your Job.

This one goes up there with telling your wife that "yes that does make you look fat" and the ever popular, I just go to Hooters for the food"

Apparently a work ethically challenged employee decided to complain on her facebook page while still in a trial employment period. This is after she added her boss as a friend. The complaint was short and of the usual rant type. It expounds on the horrible things she has to do at work "Sh*t Stuff" and proceeds to call her employer a "pervvy wanker".

This is not the normal tech news, it is sort of an off the wall story that I found funny.

In Texas a judge has banned Microsoft from Selling, Demonstrating or otherwise advertising Word. This is a permanent injunction put in over a patent dispute between MS and I4I.

I4I claims that MS ran off with their code and has been using this in Word 2003 and 2007. The code they are talking about has to do with XML and the way that Word uses it.

There is more news in the world of Zune HD. After the leaked shots we told you about this morning it seems that Yahoo! tech got to spend some quality time with the new PMP from Microsoft.

They loved the browser (despite being base on IE mobile) where they said that it was able to handle full HTML without skipping a beat. Zooming in and out of pages is similar to the iPhone's "pinch" method.

The keyboard also appears to be similar to the iPhone with the larger letter that pops up when you press a key. Music controls were good with an easy mthod of skipping tracks (simply touch either side of the screen)