Are you excited about the BlackBerry Playbook or are you more than excited? Maxis just announced that they will be introducing the much anticipated BlackBerry PlayBook tablet from RIM in the coming weeks. No exact dates have been given yet, but register yourself at their website at www.maxis.com.my anytime from today and keep yourself up to date and be the first to have the latest launch details. The PlayBook will be available exclusively to Maxis customers. Pricing and rate plans will be announced closer to the launch date.

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Ever since it won the title of best smartphone at CES 2011 in Vegas, we’ve been waiting in earnest for it to arrive at our shoes and today, it just about has. The Motorola Atrix itself is a nifty phone with a nice form factor and 4inch qHD, Gorilla Glass screen. Powering the Atrix is an Nvidia Tegra 2 Dual-Core processor with 1GB of RAM (which is double most other smartphones) and Android 2.2 at launch. While it sounds like nothing special, where the Atrix truly excels is in its flexibility and hybrid nature.

The Atrix gets its gold star with its peripherals, each giving the Atrix a different use and look. You can dock the phone in a lapdock, making it a mobile workstation with the help of the decent WebTOP pseudo-OS. The lapdock even charges the phone for you, extending the battery life by an estimated 8 hours. The best thing is that included with the OS is a full-fledged Firefox Web Browser and flash support.

On the flip side, flexing its multimedia muscle, the Atrix also has a multimedia dock which allows you to connect it to a TV or monitor with a HDMI port and use peripherals such as keyboard and mouse to make the Atrix a decent Multimedia PC. Streaming 1080p videos with ease, you can see where the processing power is used, delivering a smooth user experience even between menus.

The Motorola Atrix will be available starting today from all Brightstar distributors at an RRP of RM 1,999 for the phone only. The lapdock will run you an extra RM 1,399 and the multimedia dock an extra RM439. Currently there’s no word on telco tie-ups as yet thought.

SOURCE via Lowyat.NET

Internet phishers have turned to making actual phone calls to potential victims in order to steal hard-earned cash.

Thursday Microsoft said that there’s an emerging form of Internet fraud that is costing victims an average of $875 USD. But unlike the typical phishing hooks that arrive via email and lead to identity-stealing malware, these scammers are making it personal by contacting consumers directly by phone, posing as computer security engineers.

“The scam works by criminals posing as computer security engineers and calling people at home to tell them they are at risk of a computer security threat,” Microsoft said Thursday. “The scammers tell their victims they are providing free security checks and add authenticity by claiming to represent legitimate companies and using telephone directories to refer to their victims by name.” Read more…

One of the best things about shows like E3, Computex and CES is that they put long-standing rumors to rest. Sure, these rumors might not even exist without the shows but, if anything, they at least squash speculation about new products for another 12 months or so. With E3 2011 all done and dusted, talk of E3 2012 has already begun, and for now, the Xbox 720 is the subject.

According to the latest rumors, Microsoft will use next year’s E3 show to preview its new console, the Xbox 720. VideoGamer cites Crytek in reporting the news, adding that Microsoft will announce and launch its new console ahead of Sony.

There isn’t much in the way of details available right now, but the Crysis developer reportedly told VideoGamer that it’s using Microsoft’s DirectX 11 as the current basis for next-generation development.

Neither Microsoft nor Crytek are commenting on the story, so take it with a grain of salt until we hear something more official.

SOURCE via Videogamer

Are you part of team 1234? Losing your phone used to mean losing all your saved SMS and phone numbers. If you were really unfortunate, you had a camera phone and a perfect stranger had access to your photos, too. Nowadays, things are a little more risky. With all of the applications available for today’s phones, losing your phone could mean someone else has access to your email, iTunes, PayPal, Twitter, Facebook, eBay accounts and much more.

One of the best ways to prevent getting completely screwed over (aside from not losing your phone in the first place), is to use a passcode or pattern screenlock. The iPhone even has a feature that will wipe your phone if the passcode is entered incorrectly too many times. Sadly, this isn’t nearly as effective if your passcode is ridiculously easy to guess. Read more…

Summer is here, and it’s getting rather hot! So what cha gonna do? On the AC unit of course! Just in time for summer this eco-friendly design brings an innovative new vision for futuristic air conditioning unit designs. Compact, energy efficient and stylish, this AC unit designed by Seung-Hyun Yoon is the perfect addition to make your home a little more green. Utilizing the excess water discharged from the unit, this concept waters your plants that are attached to its zen-like shelf.

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Rogue hacker group LulzSec is at it again, recently boasting on its Twitter that it had hacked the accounts of over 62,000 and provided a dump of emails and passwords free for download.

CRO of F-secure, Mikko H. Hypponen, believes that the emails and passwords were from a database kept by website Writerspace.com, according to the Hacker News. His reasoning: “Why writerspace.com? Well, the most common passwords include these: mystery, bookworm, reader, romance, library, booklover and..writerspace.So basically that’s why I believe the latest Lulzsec password leak originates from writerspace.com. I’m guessing it’s their user database.”

Gizmodo took the database and has made a script for users to input their email address to check it against the release from LulzSec. Unless you were a member of Writerspace, you’re probably not affected, but this is a good way to confirm.