RIM’s Playbook has been an unmitigated disaster for the company, but the announcement this morning of a keyboard dock for the tablet may stop the Playbook from worsening into a catastrophe. The keyboard retails for $119.99, and can be ordered from http://www.shopblackberry.com. It includes a touchpad, and comes in at only 6mm thick. Curiously, the [...]

For Team VUPEN, browsers ain’t nothing but vehicles for remote code execution and sandbox escapes. That modus operandi became clear during the Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest, the Vancouver hackathon that wrapped up last weekend, as Team VUPEN pwned their way to the top of the podium taking home the grand prize of $60,000. One of [...]

Nokia will launch their first tablet – a Windows on ARM device – in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to a report by Digitimes. Digitimes’ sources, the usual “upstream component suppliers”, claim that Nokia is working on a 10-inch Qualcomm based tablet with Compal Electronics. Initial shipments are expected to be in the 200,000 [...]

Former digital storage locker service MegaUpload was not only popular among Internet ‘civilians’, but also officials from the U.S Department of Justice and Senate according to new revelations from the site’s proprietor Kim “Kim Dotcom” Schmitz. “Guess what – we found a large number of Mega accounts from U.S Government officials including the Department of [...]

                                                                                                Originally posted on the GeForce blog. Microsoft‘s Windows 8 Consumer Preview was only released two weeks ago and as part of our partnership to support NVIDIA GPU-based systems, we have already released our first driver update for NVIDIA GeForce and Quadro GPUs. This release represents the start of regular NVIDIA driver updates for Windows [...]

Lian-Li Industrial Co. Ltd, the award-winning aluminum computer chassis manufacturer, today announces the PC-Q05. Designed for the Intel DH-61AG Thin Mini-ITX Motherboard, the ultra compact PC-Q05 is ideal for today’s mobile consumers who have multiple hand-held devices and want a custom built PC at home for surfing the web, watching movies, and document writing as [...]

ZOTAC International, today announces the GeForce GTX 560 SE. The new ZOTAC GeForce GTX 560 SE gives gamers a taste of stunning 1080p gaming on a budget. “1080p resolution displays and Microsoft DirectX 11-enabled titles are affordable and become quite popular among gamers. Our new ZOTAC GeForce GTX 560 SE provides an excellent value for [...]

Generation Tech’s reaction to the Windows 8 consumer preview is thoroughly old news now; a simple query of the blogosphere will present you with what is technically sound and unsound with the OS. However, a field that hasn’t been researched in depth is what do the technically un-inclined think of Microsoft’s new OS? Chris Pirillo [...]

GIGABYTE introduces its latest whitebox All-in-One PC based on the Thin Mini-ITX standard and addressed to channel resellers, VARs and system integrators. Being the biggest screen size (24″) in GIGABYTE’s All-in-One PC offering, the GB-AEGT aims at establishing its supremacy as the ultimate entertainment All-in-One PC. To do so, it offers the worldwide exclusive ability [...]

Two weeks after MegaUpload founder Kim “Kim Dotcom” Schmitz was granted bail in Auckland, and conditional residency in New Zealand, a Hong Kong court has convicted him on eight business charges. The charges in Hong Kong are relatively minor, and relate to technical improprieties in the purchase of shares. This resulted in a fine of [...]