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RSS laptopSmall firms get storage solution from Intel
News Intel has launched a laptop-sized device to provide extra file server space for small networks. The InBusiness Storage Station is part of Intel's InBusiness range of network appliances - small, single-function devices... [21 Jul 1999]
IT giants create refugee database
News Compaq and HP have each given $250,000 - enough money to buy about 120 laptop computers. The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR is working with Microsoft, Compaq and Hewlett-Packard (HP) to create a system to register... [12 May 1999]
Heritable & General invest in Java
News Heritable & General also plans to use the system to let its loan executives go to clients with a laptop and dial in from the field. The Heritable & General Investment Bank, a subsidiary of First Union National... [10 May 1999]
The desktop PC is dead, long live the notebook!
News It has the conventions of a laptop but the energy conservation of a throttled CPU with a desktop like performance," Barrett claimed. The desktop PC is marching towards obsolescence, according to Craig Barrett, president... [15 Apr 1999]
Tadpole takes to the water with mobile data system
News Job files are stored locally on the diskless laptop and once the job is completed the information collected off site can be uploaded to the main computer system. Bristol Water has joined forces with Tadpole Technology to... [08 Mar 1999]
VAT inspectors get mobile link-up
News UK VAT inspectors are to be given mobile access to the HM Customs and Excise network via laptop computers. The move is part of a £500m, 10 year private finance deal - with a consortium led by ICL - to boost the... [17 Feb 1999]
Linux users demand Microsoft refunds
News Technology news site, http://www.slash.org reported this week how Geoffrey Bennett, an Australian techie, managed to get a A$110 refund from Toshiba after buying a laptop and immediately removing all Microsoft products... [22 Jan 1999]
C&WC adds SecurID to remote access portfolio
News The £50 device, which slots into a PC or laptop, generates a random 6-digit access code every 60 seconds, which can only be bypassed by the correct ID and password. Cable & Wireless Communications (C&WC) is to... [22 Jan 1999]
Shiva gets under the sheets at Waterloo station
News The company tucked a businessman under a duvet with a laptop to demonstrate to commuters that they could be home in bed instead of running down the concourse. Remote access firm Shiva bedded down in London's Waterloo... [01 Oct 1998]
Clinton and Ahern sign electronic agreement - electronically
News Both leaders used a laptop and a smartcard holding their digital signatures to verify the policy document. Bill Clinton and the Irish prime minster Bertie Ahern made history on Friday when they signed an official... [07 Sep 1998]
Laptops get strip search from Customs and Excise
News Officers at ports and air terminals target laptop computers, CD-Roms and floppy disks. It emerged today that Customs and Excise routinely checks mobile computers for illegal images. It uses a variety of scanning... [14 Aug 1998]
Compaq releases fingerprint security software
News The UK government has taken on Compaq's product in its famous red box laptop that holds highly confidential documents under stringent security controls. Compaq has launched fingerprint-based security software, which it... [13 Jul 1998]
