Are you looking for a new tablet computer?  Take a look at AOA's comparison chart to see which one could suit you best based upon price and specifications.

The tablets shown are with 7 inch displays, or 7.9 inches in the case of the iPad Minis.

Prices and details correct at time of publication (October 2012).

From the BBC:

Windows 8 marks what is arguably the most radical tech launch of the year.

Microsoft aims to leapfrog the competition by offering a touch-based, dynamic, futuristic-looking interface which can run on processors designed for both high-spec computers, and chips more commonly associated with smartphones.

Battlefield 2 Mint 13

Since many of us can't afford the $60 price tag of Battlefield 3, we can still try Battlefield 2 in Linux for almost nothing. Specially if you already own it. I will walk you through this Step-by-Step tutorial on how to install and configure Battlefield 2 in order to run it with the optimum settings like you could in Windows.

From the BBC:

Trading in Google shares has been suspended after the internet giant released its third-quarter results early by mistake.

Third-quarter profits fell 20% on a year earlier to $2.18bn (£1.35bn) and below analysts' expectations.

From ArsTechnica:

"Tape and strings literally made Surface."

Panos Panay, general manager of the team behind the Microsoft Surface, touches an old mockup made of black and white plastic. He's forgetting glue, certainly – two panels appear to have been hot-glued to form the "tablet" part of the device — but tape and strings really are two key ingredients in this prototype, the one Panay's team used to show off what Surface would look like. It's crude and fragile, but it's also unmistakably Surface.

After installing Wine, PlayOnLinux and a few games, I started noticing some problems installing games and running them.  Turns out Windows Packages (sometimes known as Libraries) are critical for games to run.  Since Wine is mimicking the way Windows runs games we need to have the correct Packages for the Windows games to run.

Some examples are:

• Direct X
• Dot NET Framework
• XNA
• Flashplayer
• Unityplayer

From The Inquirer:

CONSOLE MAKER Microsoft and 343 Industries have released the first installment of their live action web show based on Halo 4.

Unreal Tournament 3 Installation Mint 13

Not only is Unreal Tournament 3 an action-packed immersive First Person Shooter with timeless graphics... it's also a modifiable engine many other developers have implemented as their engine-of-choice!
My goal in this tutorial is to show you how to install and run Unreal Tournament with Linux Mint 13 and Winetricks.  Since there is a HUGE list of Total Conversions and mods, I will also walk you through step-by-step how to inst all them.  When you are done, you should be able to run Unreal Tournament 3 and other popular mods like The Haunted, The Ball, etc.... in Linux Mint 13.

Note:  This tutorial requires the retail version of Unreal Tournament 3

From Computerworld:

Intel may respond by lowering its desktop chip prices, analysts say

A pricing battle is looming in the desktop chip market after Advanced Micro Devices shipped aggressively priced Trinity desktop chips, which might prompt a price-reduction response from Intel, analysts said.

From ArsTechnica:

In case you didn't catch it last week, the news that Research In Motion is in a "death spiral" has been greatly exaggerated. After the company announced its latest financial results, some analysts have changed their tune, and now believe RIM is back on the road to world domination—or at least isn't going to implode.