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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]
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]
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]
Virgin Atlantic bans use of Apple, Dell laptops
News Virgin Atlantic has banned the in-flight use of most Dell and Apple laptops, following recalls of thousands of batteries by both computer makers. Where no ISPS is provided or no laptop leads/adapters are available, the use of Apple and Dell laptops...
[September 15, 2006, 16:45]
Linux laptops get Centrino inside
News Improvements to Linux have led Intel to permit Linux laptops to sport the Centrino brand for the first time. Although Linux can run on existing Centrino notebooks, Intel until now wouldn't permit companies to sell Linux laptops using the Centrino...
[January 20, 2005, 8:25]
practical laptops?
Talkback Thin client is not new, and neither is this approach for thin client 'laptops' (e.g.look at the Tadpole 'SunRay in a laptop' proposition) I am delighted to see the thin client market awareness growing so rapidly & am hopeful this signifies a...
[June 6, 2007, 19:18]
Mitnick selling notorious laptops
News Crime may not pay, but an online auction of the two laptops used to hack major corporations could garner convicted cybercriminal Kevin Mitnick a tidy sum. These were the laptops used to hack into companies and (security researcher) Shimomura's...
[October 3, 2002, 7:36]
MacBook Pro laptops get Core 2 Duo processor upgrade
News The high-end laptops, geared toward business and creative professionals, are still available in 15-inch and 17-inch models in the familiar brushed aluminum. With the souped-up chips, Apple estimates that the 2.33GHz dual-core model is up to 39...
[October 24, 2006, 16:45]
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]
Hybrid Pentium 4 finds home in laptops
News That saps battery life if the chips are used in laptops. It's not quite a notebook chip and not quite a desktop chip, but Intel's Pentium 4C processor is managing to establish an identity for itself in a small niche of the consumer notebook market.
[October 1, 2002, 8:50]
MoD encrypts laptops after data losses
News The Ministry of Defence is to protect 20,000 laptops using encryption software. The package will be used to protect data which has a restricted classification or lower, and will now be deployed on laptops not connected to the Defence Information...
[May 9, 2008, 9:25]
Guardisk holds key to government laptops
News The device is already being adopted by the government, anxious to ensure that sensitive data isn't extracted from misplaced laptops. Guardisk has been approved by the Communications Electronics Security Group (CESG) for "Restricted" and in some...
[April 30, 2003, 9:22]
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]
New High School Replaces Textbooks With Laptops
White Papers As a solution the school deployed a Cisco wireless network and security products to provide complete, secure coverage across the campus, installed a Cisco converged IP network infrastructure to connect laptops to curriculum materials and learning...
[June 18, 2008, 1:01]
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]
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]
All new laptops need DVD combo for backup
Member Review All laptops, especially because they are delicate and thievable, need the ability to back up frequently onto CD at least, preferably DVD data. Once a week is absolute maximum interval for anyone but the utterly stupid -- using the laptop for work...
[September 17, 2003, 14:48]
Government admits over 850 laptops lost since 2002
News The Department for Work and Pensions alone has seen 248 laptops go astray over the last six years. Staff at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have reported 248 laptops lost, stolen or missing between 2002, the department's first full year...
[March 27, 2008, 16:01]
