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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 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]
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 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]
2008 proving a peak-growth year for laptops
News That bodes well for the industry, because notebooks and laptops tend to be pricier than desktop PCs, and they should keep average selling prices higher for a bit longer. Acer, HP and perhaps Dell already have released, or plan to release, their own...
[June 13, 2008, 9:48]
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]
Sun deal puts OpenSolaris on Toshiba laptops
News Sun has reached an agreement with Toshiba to pre-install the OpenSolaris operating system on Toshiba laptops. The laptops will be available in the US from early 2009 and will come with the latest version of OpenSolaris: 2008.11
[December 11, 2008, 13:15]
Acer: 'No UK demand' for Linux laptops
News Acer will not release Linux-based laptops in the UK due to a lack of demand, despite launching an Ubuntu-based machine in Asia. The Acer Aspire 5710Z has gone on sale in Singapore pre-loaded with Ubuntu Linux instead of Windows.
[August 2, 2007, 11:40]
Athlon 4 and Duron ship in laptops
News AMD announced late on Tuesday that its Athlon 4 and Duron mobile processor will be used in new laptops from Fujitsu, NEC and Sony, bolstering its plans to do battle with Intel in the mobile PC market.
[May 23, 2001, 16:49]
What do people think of Acer laptops?
Blog If Acer now want to flog "cheap" so-called laptops can I suggest they take a course in basic electronics first? Can't resist posting my own experience of an Acer Aspire that's now in the dustbin. Cheap?
[June 6, 2008, 9:12]
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]
Beyond the Datacenter - Backup and Restoration of Desktop PCs and Laptops
White Papers According to IDC, 60% of corporate data resides on laptops and desktop PCs. In this day and age, most businesses have a backup and restore solution in place for the data center. However, a solution covering only the data center puts organizations...
[May 8, 2009, 4:22]
Toshiba laptops hit by memory problems
News According to reports, up to 650,000 laptops containing the memory module in questions have been sold. The Toshiba laptops affected: Toshiba has warned of a serious problem affecting the memory modules in many of its laptop models.
[November 1, 2004, 15:24]
Osmose Protects Its Desktops and Laptops With Check Point Endpoint Security
White Papers The remote users posed a particular challenge in that they would travel frequently and bring their laptops with them, plugging in at various hotels across the country and around the world. Osmose was faced with having to support the needs of all...
[November 12, 2008, 0:01]
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]
'$100 laptops' here by next year
Talkback If the "$100 laptops" becomes a Government schools only you might not overcome the atitude that it is not as good as the stuff on the common market. To avoid the sale of the $100 Laptops that are fonded a blocking device chip whit a mac-number...
[November 17, 2005, 12:22]
Broadcom kernel exploit affects many laptops
News According to Ou, it's possible to run the Linksys drivers on other laptops to gain protection from the flaw. IT managers have been warned about a flaw that affects notebook PCs running Windows 2000 and XP that use Broadcom chipsets.
[November 13, 2006, 16:01]
Fujitsu Siemens laptops get mobile broadband
News Fujitsu Siemens has become the latest computer manufacturer to incorporate SIM-based wireless broadband into its laptops. Following an agreement with Orange, Fujitsu Siemens has begun producing laptops in the Lifebook "E" range with built-in 3G...
[January 23, 2007, 6:00]
Over 10000 laptops are lost every week in US airports!
Blog Yesterday article in PCWorld with reference to the Ponemon Institute survey claims close to 637,000 laptops lost in large US airports each year. About 53 percent said that laptops contain confidential company information, with 65 percent taking...
[July 1, 2008, 14:57]
Laptops still locked in the cells
Leader Battery technology remains the biggest problem in laptops. As Intel launches its Sonoma chip set today, the processor vendor could be forgiven for feeling a little forlorn. Technical excellence disguised as just another evolutionary upgrade comes...
[January 19, 2005, 12:30]
