Acer Iconia W700P and W510P tablets offer full-fat Windows 8 Pro Acer delivers the full Windows 8 shebang to tablet users with the W700P and W510P slates If you’re looking for a Windows 8 tablet with some serious grunt, Acer’s two new Iconia slates – the W700P and W510P – might be just the thing you need. The W700P comes packing a 11.6in IPS HD touchscreen display, Dolby Home Theatre sound and what Acer claims is a 178-degree viewing angle, making it handy for presentations....

Airtime: Sean Parker’s new video chat startup Parker once again unites with Napster co-founder Shawn Fanning for a browser-based spin on Chatroulette Sean Parker is back in the startup business – and he’s brought his oldNapsterpartner Shawn Fanning along this time. The two have just launched Airtime, a browser-based video chat service. It sounds a lot like Chatroulette, but because it uses Facebook login there should be fewer creepers and naked people on it....

Aliens: Colonial Marines get tense new trailer Gearbox reveals more of the upcoming FPS bug hunt, including motion trackers and settings Upcoming first-person shooterAliens: Colonial Marinespromises to bring the tension of James Cameron’s classic to your living room, and a new trailer from makers Gearbox attempts to show how. The trailer focusses a lot on the motion scanner, and reveals that the developers have used the original 20th Century Fox master audio to deliver the iconic bleep-bloop of the machine....

Alienware laptops get Intel Ivy Bridge upgrades Alienware’s M14x, M17x, and M18x gaming laptops have all been blessed with Intel’s third generation processors We recently announced anew range of Alienware laptops, but it was before Intel unveiled itsthird generation Ivy Bridge processors. Now that the cat’s out of the bag, we can announce that those laptops will be coming with Ivy Bridge options. Alienware’s M14x, M17x and M18x laptops are available now with Ivy Bridge Intel processors....

Amazon Cloud Drive app for Windows and Mac is live Dropbox has some competition on the desktop now that Amazon has joined the party Amazon Cloud Drive is now available to download on your Windows or Mac desktop. Sadly Amazon’s app doesn’t support syncing or a native desktop browsing client – like rivals Dropbox, Google Drive, and SkyDrive. Rather you can simply upload files to your free 5GB online by dragging them into the Amazon Cloud Drive icon for background uploading....

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich coming to Samsung Galaxy S II and Note in March At last your ICS jitters will be over as the software update rolls out for Samsung’s headline smartphone hardware Samsung Galaxy S IIowners andSamsung Galaxy Noteowners alike can rejoice this March as theAndroid 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwichsoftware update rolls out to them at last. TheNorwegian branch of Samsunghas confirmed development ofICSis on schedule for a release at the end of this quarter, meaning the wait is finally over....

Android Jelly Bean coming in autumn 2012? Google exec hints that Android 5.0 will come a year after Ice Cream Sandwich Android 5.0 Jelly Bean looks set for an autumnal release. Hiroshi Lockheimer, Google’s vice president of engineering for mobile,hintedthat the OS would follow Android’s previous pattern of yearly releases. Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich was launched in November 2011, so Jelly Bean could be only eight months away. This follows earlier rumours that Android 5....