Posts Tagged ‘Laptop’

Security software that gives laptop thieves an earful

It seems everyday a story makes the news about a stolen laptop containing loads of valuable information. Today, for example, a thief absconded with seven Dell laptops from the Maidstone Borough electoral registration office in Kent, U.K. (Fortunately, officials reported that there was no sensitive info stored on the stolen computers.

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Dell Selling Dual-Boot Laptops

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday February 12, @11:00AM
from the hey-wait-a-minute dept.

rsmiller510 writes “The EE Times reports this week that Dell has released a hybrid laptop running both Linux and Windows clearly aimed at business travelers. Linux for quick tasks and Windows for more intensive ones, but will such a machine really fly in [...]

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OLPC to Stop Trying to “Change the World”

Sunday, February 08, 2009
The struggling One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation, which cut staff by 50% in January is dropping their “Change the World” program.
Previously people could buy groups of from 100 to 1000 of the XO-1 laptops and donate them to places of their choice. But that option no longer exists on the OLPC [...]

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