Augen has recently showed off their newest Android-based netbook called the GenBook108. Powered by an 800MHz processor, this mini laptop boasts a 10.2-inch 1024 x 600 TFT display, a 256MB RAM, a 2GB of flash storage, an SD/MMC card slot, WiFi, a lithium battery and runs on Android 2.1 OS. Unfortunately, there’s no word on pricing and release date yet

Samsung has rolled out the 11.6-inch X180 and 14-inch X430 in South Korea. The Samsung X180 features a 3GB of RAM, Intel’s integrated GMA graphics and a 320GB hard disk drive, while the Samsung X430 boasts a 4GB of RAM, a 512MB nVidia GeForce 310M and a larger 500GB hard disk drive. Both laptops come equipped with an Intel Core i3 processor, a 8850mAh battery and the Microsoft Windows 7 OS. No word yet on pricing or availability.

ASUS has confirmed the availability of the Eee PC 1015PD. This new 10-inch netbook is powered by either a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N455 or a 1.83GHz Intel Atom N475 processor, up to 2GB of DDR3 RAM, up to 320GB hard disk drive, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 3.0. Additional specs include a 0.3-megapixel webcam, a 1024 x 600 pixel display, a VGA output, a couple of USB 3.0 ports and an SDHC memory card slot. The ASUS Eee PC 1015PD uses Microsoft Windows 7 Starter Edition as its operation system.

The Aspire AS5251 is another budget-friendly notebook from Acer. Priced at just $298, the system is packed with a 15.6-inch 1366 x 768 HD CineCrystal widescreen display, a 2.2GHz AMD V-Series V-120 processor, an ATI Radeon HD 4250 graphics card, a 2GB RAM, a 250GB hard drive, a built-in HD webcam, a DVD writer, a multi-in-1 media card reader, an HDMI output, WiFi, a 6-cell battery and runs on Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit OS. The Acer Aspire AS5251 is now available for purchase via Walmart for $298

OpenSUSE 11.3 is a very bleeding edge release with all the latest OSS available and comes with GNOME 2.30.1 and the following changes:

• GNOME 3.0 preview is available with GNOME Shell and the new accessibility stack (disabled by default)
• Tracker is the default file indexer, replacing beagle.
• Empathy is the default IM client for GNOME. Empathy supports now sending files via drag and drop and the IRC module now includes support for common IRC commands such as /join.
• Access to iPhone and iPod touch files from nautilus. Rhythmbox can also play music from those devices.
• Transmission is shipped with DHT enabled
• Tomboy’s start-up time has been drastically improved. Syncing notes can now be done automatically by enabling it in the preferences.
• Nautilus’ user interface now includes a new split view mode and the default is set to browser mode.
• Simple right-click menu item to open a an archive file (zip, .tar.gz, etc.) in nautilus.
• Improved selection of screen-savers and games installed by default.
• Complete move away from hal to udisks/upower.
• Removal of the GNOME 1.x stack.
• Massive improvements to Banshee - the default media player, new grid view for albums, automatic play queuing modes to ensure non-stop playback, gap less playback eliminating the annoying little gap between tracks, new extensions such as showing Wikipedia information for current artist, related YouTube videos and much more, support for audio equalizer.
• Evolution has improved imap (imap ) implementation with live view updates, non-blocking operations and IDLE support. 'evolution --express' provides better user experience for netbook users.
• Huge improvements to YaST-GTK Software Management: general improvements to the interface, simple check-box interface to install/remove software, improved search box, "Available", "Upgrades", "Installed" tabs have been removed and replaced by optional status filters, "History of changes" (from Menubar -> Extras) shows a history of all installed/removed packages and repositories, "Summary of changes" box that shows all changes to packages in the current package management session, and allows you to "undo" changes, option to close package-manager or return to it after all installation/removal is done is shown in the summary box that pops-up when user hits the "apply" button, options "Clean-up when deleting packages" and "Allow vendor change" are now available (Menubar -> Options), and buttons to "Upgrade patches" and "Upgrade all" are shown when the "Upgradeable" filter is selected.

Screenshots (more click here):

GNOME Shell in GNOME 3.0	Plasma Desktop on KDE SC 4.4.4

OpenSUSE 11.3 is much more developer friendly. Of course you have the option to use OBS to build your packages or grab the GNOME unstable releases.

We have an exclusive chase gameplay of Infamous 2. It is an upcoming 2011 action open world video game for the Sony PlayStation 3 console. The game is actually the sequel to the 2009 video game, Infamous.