If you were hoping to pick up a PlayStation Vita this holiday season, you'd better live in Japan: Sony's Kaz Hirai dropped the bad news in a Japanese press conference that the United States and European markets would see the Vita in 2012 rather than 2011 as previously indicated, though the system still appears to be on track for a 2011 launch in Japan.
As a logical extension of their Find My iPhone service, Apple has switched on support for Find My Mac on iCloud. The service is quite similar to Find My iPhone, but triangulates your Mac’s position by using Wi-Fi hotspots instead. In addition to having an active iOS Developer account, you need to also be running OS X Lion 10.7.2 and iCloud for Mac Beta 5 to test out the feature.
The feature can be activated via the iCloud settings on an iOS device and via the Mail, Contacts & Calendars preference pane under OS X Lion. The interface is simple and intuitive; you get a list of all your iOS devices that have the service enabled and a Google Maps interface that lets you locate them. Once your device has been located, you can send an audible alert message, lock the device or remotely wipe it’s contents all from iCloud’s web interface. You also get an email alert once the message has been successfully delivered to the device.
The service works as advertised; I was able to successfully locate and send messages to both my Mac and my iPhone. In a world where theft is an increasingly material concern for everyone, this is definitely a step in the right direction.
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Find My Mac Goes Live for iCloud Developers

3rd June, Taipei. Many editors travelled to Taiwan to see new products at Computex. A stressful week comes to an end. This is a perfect time for sightseeing — or to visit a manufacturer's headquarters. We met FSP to take a look at their newest PSUs: The Aurum CM series.
Last year we ran a little series called Ask the Experts where you all wrote in your virtualization related questions and we got them answered by experts at Intel, VMWare as well as our own expert on all things Enterprise & Cloud Computing – Johan de Gelas.

We've been keeping track of Alienware's M11x series since the very first one landed and have had the privilege of testing each one. The move from Penryn to Arrandale in the R2 netted a substantial boost in performance at the cost of some battery life, though that issue was mitigated somewhat by the introduction of NVIDIA's Optimus graphics switching, replacing the more finicky software-based GPU switching in the first generation model. With the vastly improved power consumption and efficiency of Sandy Bridge, do we have a true successor to the last two models?

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Alienware M11x R3: Portable Powerhouse
Yet more news on the impending Spotify US launch has surfaced today. This time we’re hearing that the popular music streaming service will …
The 11.6-inch Acer AC700 Chromebook, which was originally scheduled to arrive on June 15, 2011 as the Cromia, is now finally available. Despite the reasonably long delay, Acer has only managed to bring the Wi-Fi version of the AC700 to the market, with the 3G version scheduled for release later this summer. Hit the jump for more.
The Wi-Fi-only model of the Acer AC700 is available from Amazon for $349, making it $80 cheaper than the Wi-Fi version of