For six months I longed for the Motorola Atrix Android smartphone first announced in January. That was, until I got one and reality fell short of my utopian vision. Now I must beseech Motorola, telcos and Linux hackers alike to bring my dream to fruition.  

It certainly lived up to the mystery the PR team were hoping to deliver.  Last night Alienware gathered together a varied bunch of journalists, gamers and sundry others to launch an enigma at Area 52.  There was certainly some confusion as to what was about to be experienced.

WebGL - a technology designed to allow the generation of interactive 3D graphics in JavaScript - is attracting growing criticism from a security perspective.

Microsoft’s newly unveiled Windows 8 demo has showcased the company’s ability to, after a bazillion previous tablet attempts, finally come up with an OS and UI that looks like it might finally marry the tablet and desktop PC worlds into one harmonious union – despite some Apple-like behaviour.

Despite promising “less mass”, Dell’s new 15.6-inch DellBook Pro – er, I mean, XPS 15z – still looks like a solid machine with a strong feature set and an attractive price.

Commodity graphics processor chips used in games machines and mobile phones are revolutionising the face of supercomputing – and should lead to the delivery of 4 teraflop desktop machines running Windows HPC or Linux for just north of $10,000 by 2012.

IBM has announced that the Australian Synchrotron and Monash University, in collaboration with CSIRO and the Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC), have selected IBM’s iDataPlex dx360 M3 integrated server solutions to support the creation of a Multi-modal Australian Sciences Imaging and Visualisation Environment (MASSIVE) facility.

Whether you think the Android OS is the Autobot and iPhones the Decepticons – or the other way around – LG has transformed its Optimus handset into a new 2X model, with double the processing cores and a host of other upgrades in the fight for smartphone supremacy. Fight!

LG Electronics has unveiled the world's first smartphone with a dual-core processor, giving it processing power akin to many PCs.

Apple has unveiled a completely redesigned Mac mini. With up to twice the graphics performance, a HDMI port and an SD card slot trhe casing has been redesigned to look more like the Apple TV with a DVD slot. In fact, perhaps this is the beginning of the end for the Apple TV.