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Orange bundles mobile broadband, laptops for SMEs
News All the HP laptops come with Microsoft Windows Vista Business and a two-year warranty. Paul Tollet, vice president of business at Orange UK, said in a statement: "Laptops are a natural extension to our existing product portfolio.
[September 16, 2008, 16:12]
Laptops continue to trample desktops
News The rise to prominence of laptops over desktop PCs continues apace, with IDC today predicting sales of the latter will remain static, while businesses and consumers will drive laptop sales up by 15 percent a year.
[June 5, 2006, 10:25]
Laptops containing police payroll data stolen
News Three laptops containing Metropolitan Police payroll details have been stolen from LogicaCMG, the UK IT services firm. Sources close to the inquiry have claimed that the laptops contained the payroll and pension details of over 15,000 Metropolitan...
[November 22, 2006, 10:59]
P&G Selects Marimba for Management of Desktops, Laptops, and Servers Across 70 Countries Worldwide
White Papers Procter & Gamble Company, a Fortune 50 company and global leader in the development, manufacturing and marketing of superior consumer and health care products, selected Marimba as their global solution for software configuration management and...
[June 8, 2005, 0:00]
Laptops continue to trample desktops
Talkback The performance of todays laptops is more than adequate for most users, so why buy a large bulky pc, monitor, keyboard, mouse. The buying public are voting with their wallets.
[June 5, 2006, 22:27]
Lenovo to launch Super 3G laptops
News Lenovo has become the latest IT vendor to begin integrating high-speed mobile data into its laptops. On Tuesday the company announced that it had signed a deal with Vodafone to allow Lenovo laptops to carry 3G, GPRS and, in the future, HSPDA...
[February 1, 2006, 17:10]
Analyst: 3.5G laptops may choke mobile networks
News Laptops packing 3.5G+ for mobile broadband access could be the answer to European mobile-phone operators' average-revenue-per-user prayers. Berg predicts laptops with HSPA/LTE (high-speed packet access/long-term evolution) mobile broadband...
[June 23, 2008, 9:43]
HP to offer free Wi-Fi with small-business laptops
News HP is to offer a year's free Wi-Fi access to buyers of certain business laptops, after setting up a partnership with hotspot aggregator The Cloud. From 1 May until the end of July, customers buying HP's range of 'B' or 'P' commercial notebooks or...
[May 19, 2009, 16:04]
MoD loses 28 laptops this year
News The Ministry of Defence has admitted to losing 28 laptops since the beginning of the year. The laptops were lost between January 1 and 11 May 2009. The Ministry of Defence was unable to confirm at the time of writing how many of the laptops and USB...
[May 15, 2009, 16:48]
Chip bugs hobble Toshiba laptops
News The trouble was initially reported to Toshiba by owners of its Satellite 4100-series and Tecra 8000-series laptops featuring the 400MHz chips. Intel has confirmed it uncovered a design problem involving processor packages using the company's 400MHz...
[March 20, 2000, 9:30]
Laptops threatened with plane ban
News Laptops that include a UWB chip are expected to go on sale in 2003. A Civil Aviation Authority spokeswoman told ZDNet UK News that it could ban passengers from using laptops in flight if further evidence emerged that UWB poses a threat.
[September 2, 2002, 12:21]
High prices holding back 3G laptops
News The GSM Association has launched a competition to find new broadband-enabled laptops that can appeal to the mass market. Most current laptops with built-in 3G tend to be highly specified and expensive, despite a recent push by companies such as...
[November 13, 2007, 17:18]
Intel laptops get faster memory while Rambus languishes
News Intel laptops got a speed boost on Wednesday, as Taiwan's Via Technologies released the first chipset allowing the Pentium mobile chips to use a next-generation form of memory called DDR (double data-rate) DRAM.
[January 23, 2002, 15:38]
'$100 laptops' here by next year
News Another worry is what happens to the laptops after they're handed gratis to students with families that are struggling to survive. A hand-cranked laptop that will cost roughly $100 is expected to be in the hands of schoolchildren in poorer...
[November 17, 2005, 8:20]
Skype software to ship on Dell laptops
News The Skype software will be offered as part of Dell's audio/video communications package on the new XPS M1210 and M2010 laptops, Skype announced on Wednesday. Skype's VoIP software, which allows people to talk for free over the Internet, will ship...
[June 1, 2006, 9:40]
Peru signs up for 260,000 OLPC laptops
News The first countries to place mass orders for the rugged green-and-white laptops were Uruguay and Mongolia. One month after the One Laptop Per Child charity went into mass production with its $188 laptop, the Peruvian government has signed a...
[December 3, 2007, 7:10]
Asus shows off terabyte laptops
News Asus has been showing off what it claims are the world's first laptops with hard-drive capacities of 1TB (terabyte). The 2.5-inch SATA drives each boast a capacity of 500GB, marking a new record for single-drive units that are usable in laptops...
[January 8, 2008, 17:03]
Immediate ban stops laptops leaving Whitehall
News All Whitehall staff have been banned from removing laptops containing unencrypted personal data from offices in the wake of the Ministry of Defence data loss. Cabinet secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell sent an email to top civil servants on Monday night...
[January 23, 2008, 7:52]
Lost laptops get open-source rescue service
News A team of University of Washington security researchers has released a free, open-source system for tracking lost or stolen laptops, arguing that the system's architecture is more reliable and ensures privacy to a greater extent than existing...
[July 30, 2008, 17:09]
Widescreen laptops to take over the world
Talkback Laptops aren't the only thing thats gonna take over the world. I hope Laptops do take over the world as they would come useful for everything more than most PC 98/95. This is my opinion: Like this one of mine I've sent this email from has come to be.
[October 29, 2005, 0:54]
