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City councils unsure if sensitive data is encrypted
News Only one out of every 10 city councils in the UK is sure that sensitive data held on staff laptops is encrypted. According to a study of 40 out of the 49 city councils in the country, carried out by systems integrator Telindus, the other 90 percent...
[December 11, 2008, 11:02]
Living the laptop-less life
Leader Laptops are addictive. The terrorist threat to UK flights bound for the US last Thursday banished laptops to the isolation and dangers of the hold, and their owners to the isolation and dangers of in-flight entertainment.
[August 16, 2006, 14:35]
HSE to fund study into portable computer health risks
News Researchers at System Concepts Limited, an ergonomics consultancy firm, will assess the physical components of a range of laptops, notebooks and handheld computers and look at the effects on users. There are also problems with posture because...
[March 23, 1999, 11:05]
HP: Desktop PC not dead, just changing
News While laptops are becoming increasingly attractive to consumers and small businesses, the majority of sales to larger businesses are still of desktop PCs. Karine Paoli, research director of the personal computing group at analyst IDC, said that...
[September 6, 2007, 15:11]
Don't drop the ball over laptop lurgy
Leader The latest health warning for computer users is that hot laptops can affect men's reproductive capacity through a combination of compression and cookery. In today's health-and-safety-obsessed society, there is every danger that boil in the bag...
[December 10, 2004, 11:20]
Dell launches 256GB solid-state drives for XPS
News Dell has increased the capacity of the solid-state drives on its range of XPS laptops, but not the price — at least as far as the US is concerned. On Saturday a Samsung-manufactured 256GB SSD appeared on Dell's US website as an option for the XPS...
[January 19, 2009, 16:46]
Dell: Exploding battery investigation ongoing
News Dell is still investigating several incidents where batteries in its laptops have reportedly exploded, chairman and founder Michael Dell told a press conference in Sydney on Monday. Responding to questions about a particular incident involving a...
[August 14, 2006, 15:35]
Breaking News: Free laptop give-away
Blog Mobile phone retailer The Carphone Warehouse is giving away 200 laptops across the UK tomorrow to promote its broadband service. The decision by Carphone Warehouse to give away a laptop as an incentive to sign-up to its broadband services surprised...
[September 5, 2007, 16:38]
Asus focuses on green laptop design
News Laptop and motherboard manufacturer Asus claimed on Wednesday that for users, laptops are more about design than technical specifications. Asus announced a range of laptops on Wednesday. Other laptops launched by Asus included a leather-bound...
[February 23, 2006, 11:50]
Top ten ways to terminate a laptop
News MI5 may be well-known for leaving top-secret laptops on trains, in taxis or other public locations, but Britons have also found a variety of innovative ways to destroy their portable computers -- from running them over to dropping them off bridges.
[June 13, 2002, 15:07]
Toshiba preps Centrino price cut
News Toshiba is gearing up to cut the cost of its Centrino-based laptops as Wi-Fi becomes an essential feature rather than an optional extra. Bramley agreed with the suggestion that wireless connectivity will probably soon come as standard even on entry...
[March 26, 2004, 14:45]
BT offers on-site tech repairs to small businesses
News The service, announced on Wednesday, covers problems with PCs, laptops and servers. To underestimate the importance of critical laptops or servers to any business — big or small — would be a mistake," BT Business's director of ICT and solutions...
[September 18, 2008, 12:03]
Dell gets serious about mobile
News Laptops with fully integrated mobile phone connectivity will soon take off in the UK, a senior Dell executive said on Wednesday. According to Eric Greffier, director of client marketing for Dell in Europe, Dell has ambitious plans for mobile phone...
[January 25, 2006, 16:40]
Dell to deliver Super 3G with Vodafone
News Dell is to start selling laptops with HSDPA wireless broadband using Vodafone's network in the UK, France and Germany within the next six months. At that time O2 hinted that at least two "mystery vendors" were developing laptops with integrated...
[January 24, 2006, 14:45]
AMD sets new mobile beasts on Centrino
News AMD hopes that power users will soon be snatching up laptops built on two new mobile processors that the chipmaker introduced on Monday. Longtime AMD supporter VoodooPC has already pledged to use the two chips in a pair of laptops outfitted...
[August 22, 2005, 15:20]
Govt's lack of laptop security 'alarming'
News An increasing number of government laptops containing unprotected sensitive information are lost and stolen every year, while government employee security practices suggest that data on the lost machines is ill-protected, according to a security...
[September 15, 2003, 8:05]
Microfuel cells vie for market acceptance
News Fuel cells will power nearly 15 percent of laptops worldwide by 2012, but their wider market acceptance may hinge on ironing out several service irritants, according to an ABI Research report issued on Wednesday.
[May 13, 2004, 8:40]
Vista - so bad, they pay you to take it?
Blog Comment By chance, several friends and neighbors wanted to buy new laptops. I bought three Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo laptops at that time, all with Vista (Home Basic) because that was the only thing available on them at that time.
[December 5, 2007, 12:32]
Nokia links two networks with one modem
News Nokia on Monday will unveil a modem for laptops that can access both 802.11b networks, which laptops use to surf the Net wirelessly, and cell phone networks. Laptop users may soon be able to roam like callers on cell phones.
[March 18, 2002, 11:22]
Support grows for thin-client computing
News Given the number of recent stories revealing how many laptops get stolen each year, it is perhaps no surprise that companies are looking at ways of securing their corporate data. Bob Cope, operations IT manager at UK insurance company Towergate, a...
[June 6, 2007, 16:38]
