Those white-hat-wearing, security-exploit-finding folks over at TippingPoint Digital Vaccine Laboratories are at it again. At the CanSecWest 2009, digital security conference to be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, next month, TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) team will be sponsoring their third annual Pwn2Own contest. This time around, contestants will be attempting to demonstrate vulnerabilities of smartphones and browsers. At last year’s Pwn2Own challenge, a team of three security researchers successfully

Intel held an event on the west side of New York City this week, where the company showed off some of the interesting projects being worked on in a few of the Intel Lablets that are scatted throughout the United States, at various company and university campuses. We were in attendance at the event and snapped off a number of photos to give you all a glimpse as to what was going on.The event was not about showcasing a single product or family of products, but rather a number of interesting concepts that are being

Look out Amazon (and Sony), there’s about to be a new e-reader in town! During the same month that Amazon launched its revamped Kindle 2, Fortune has announced that another opponent will join the ring sometime this year, and it’s an unlikely opponent at that.Hearst Corporation is the company behind all of this, and if you’re curious as to why you’ve never heard of it, it’s because that name isn’t prominently displayed on Cosmopolitan, Esquire and the San Francisco Chronicle, all of which it owns. Reportedly,

The MM220 system features advanced technologies and a high-style, slim-profile design that adds a new dimension of excitement to any multimedia content. With dual high-output drivers and a single passive radiator for exceptional bass performance, the MM 220 will improve the sound of any media! This deal ends Monday at 12:00pm ET.

This Refurbished 8GB iPod Nano packs all the games, movies, photos and music into the same 3.6″ x 1.5″ x 0.24″ digital entertainment package as a new, but saves you money! Find your music fast, see movies on a widescreen, play games with motion control, all in the world’s biggest small screen. This deal ends Monday at 12:00pm ET.

In what is sure to cause great debate (and probably a healthy stream of jokes and parodies as well), the founder of a Swedish youth organization is singling out World of Warcraft as a very addictive game. How addictive? He has labeled World of Warcraft as “the cocaine of the computer games world.” This claim comes from Sven Rollenhagen, founder of the non-profit youth group, Stiftelsen Ungdomsvård (The Youth Care Foundation), located south of Stockholm, Sweden. Rollenhagen founded the group in 1991, and it provides

Cooler Master’s engineers put themselves to the test by building a 5-in-1 system that has to be a first of its kind in the industry. Today, they are proud to announce that with a single Real Power M1000W they were able to power up 5 full mini-itx systems in a closed ATCS 840 chassis. A full tour and demonstration will be available in Cooler Master’s private booth during CeBIT!        System Highlights:53GHz in one ATCS 840 chassis5 full systems in one ATCS 840 chassis5 x Intel

We still remember the days when we would flip through an issue of Computer Shopper and put together our dream systems. Now, you’re more likely to find us doing the same thing on the net. In keeping with the digital trend, Computer Shopper has decided to cease print publication with its April issue, which is due off the press next week. Some jobs will be affected as a result of the announcement, but owner SX2 Media Labs LLC isn’t disclosing numbers at this time. Josh London, ComputerShopper.com GM, said the company

VIA Technologies today announced that Samsung has adopted the VIA Nano processor in the new Samsung NC20 mini-notebook. Combining the power efficient 1.3+GHz VIA Nano processor with the highly-integrated VIA VX800 system media processor, the Samsung NC20 also features a stunning 1280×800 12.1″ display, ensuring an outstanding video experience and enabling a full-size 12″ notebook keyboard with optimized 18.5mm key spacing and larger touchpad in a highly portable device that weighs just 1.52kg.

“We are delighted that Samsung has adopted the VIA Nano processor for the Samsung NC20,” said Richard Brown, Vice President of Marketing, VIA Technologies, Inc. “This is a truly ground-breaking product that sets the new industry standard for consumer mini-notes and clearly demonstrates the advanced performance of our VIA Nano processor platform.”

ASUS M3A78-T AMD 790GX Socket AM2+ Motherboard Review @ PCSTATS.com and other reviews from around the web can be found by visiting our forums!

“The ASUS M3A78-T motherboard features AMD's latest Integrated Graphics Processor, the Radeon HD 3300. The interesting point about this IGP is that it has 128MB of additional DDR3 Sideport memory just for itself. In previous reviews of 790GX motherboards we've seen that this is one of the fastest integrated graphics processors on the market, mainly because it's more like an integrated videocard than standard IGPs which are not equipped with dedicated RAM. The AMD 790GX chipset is essentially a cherry-picked Radeon HD 3200 IGP, overclocked from 500MHz to a 700MHz core clock.”