The Ultrabooks have been officially announced, by both Toshiba and Lenovo. The Protege Z830 devices can be purchased with one of three Intel Core processors, beginning in November.

Marmalade SDK 5.1 is a cross-platform solution that now supports RIM’s QNX OS, WebView API, and LGTV.

Someone in Italy apparently misread the calendar and posted an ad for the Ultrabook S3 before they were supposed to. The ad gives the specs and a price. It even looked like it was accepting orders.

The “HMZ personal 3-D viewer” is worn like a visor, covering your eyes and ears. It’s said to produce clear audio and video that only the wearer can experience.

Amazon is getting into the tablet business with both a 7-inch, available in October, and 10-inch, available next year, version. Some analysts think, if the price is right, Amazon could sell millions of tablets this year.

Google and OpenDNS led an initiative to speed up the internet called the Global Internet Speedup. The process uses part of your IP address to determine where you are and direct your queries to the closest servers.

Google+ demands your “real” name when you sign up. No nicknames, no odd names, only “real” ones. Why? Perhaps because they want to use your data to create targeted databases of information they can sell to advertisers.

Transcend has released a short video and a little information on a new device, about the size of a small thumb drive, that can hold up to 2TB of data.

A lot of hackers have targeted Android. Some of them are even writing, and selling, malware laden apps. This article offers some ways to help secure your Android device.

Facebook rolled out some new privacy controls to some users last week. It seems that photo tagging has a new twist, you can tag a photo and then hide that photo from the person tagged.