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Leader: Support comes first for $100 laptops
Leader Once the problem of stability and support in computers has been mastered, we will be in an even better place to give laptops to kids around the world. The $100 laptop is a good idea. Computers and the internet might be luxury items now but... [26 Jan 2006]
Leader: Missing laptops and lazy risk management
Leader 1: The UK government is losing worrying numbers of laptops from key departments. Two departments, Defra and the Department of Health, told silicon.com in response to the enquiry that they do not differentiate between 'lost' and 'stolen' laptops... [03 Aug 2006]
Leader: Return of the lost laptops
Leader A new survey once again flags up the issue that laptops and mobile phones left in the back of taxis and on public transport are a risk to confidential personal and corporate data - and a possible source of identity theft. [24 Jan 2005]
Editor's Blog: Toshiba laptops, Betfair Down Under and CIO-types
Comment OK, the ad is strictly speaking for the new Tecra and Satellite Pro models, which have not been affected by the battery problems, rather than the affected run of Dynabook and Dynabook Satellite laptops from the spring of this year. [20 Sep 2006]
Dear silicon.com... Tax man's stamp bill, more lost data, unencrypted laptops…
Comment Whitehall staff banned from removing laptops Fine to ban a removal of laptops from the premises but what about the use of CDs and memory sticks? The laptops should only hold relevant (encrypted) extracts of the data. [24 Jan 2008]
Leader: Who cares about their laptop?
Leader Last week we revealed the surprisingly high number of laptops that go unclaimed at airport lost property offices. David Elliot, the chairman of Excess Baggage which handles lost property at a number of UK airports, told silicon.com all laptops his... [05 Sep 2006]
Leader: Longer battery life, please
Leader silicon.com does not, as our regular readers know, review hardware such as laptops, mobile phones and PDAs (we leave that to our sister site CNET.co.uk). Battery life - especially for laptops but also for mobiles. [10 Oct 2006]
Stan Shih
AS Profile Championing cheap laptops for the First World Stan Shih won his place on this year's top 50 for seeing cheap laptops as a business model, not a philanthropic ideal. Acer's laptops take mobile computing to individuals who may not have been able to... [25 Sep 2006]
The Bloor Perspective: Frog kissing, relationship banking and the decline of TVs and papers
Comment After kissing a few frogs with some heavyweight laptops that didn't quite transform into princely sales, Tadpole is hoping for more success with its latest product family, Talin. Tadpole has taken its long-standing relationship with Sun... [01 Feb 2004]
Leader: Laptop as the most personal device?
Leader We know the technology world changes quickly but it comes as quite a shock to hear an executive from a major IT vendor talk about the immaturity of laptops just two years ago. But has the market for laptops - or PC notebooks, in the official... [10 May 2007]
Why Centrino really is big news
Comment Walk around the departure lounges of a lot of airports these days and amidst the crying toddlers, holiday-makers and crashed out backpackers it is common to see business people with laptops sneakily plugged into spare power sockets. [13 Mar 2003]
Want a free laptop? Then just hang out in Whitehall
Comment Another story broke this week about missing government laptops - this time a spate of thefts in Whitehall which led this week to somebody being arrested for allegedly stealing a Cabinet Office computer. [31 Jul 2003]
Leader: Laptop theft is everybody's problem
Leader The overall trend is upwards - more laptops and more data are being stolen every day across the UK. London is the worst hit, with more than 15,000 laptops stolen in the Metropolitan Police area alone. [21 May 2007]
Malice, misuse, mistake - security dangers pile up
Comment Hardly a week passes without another big data breach - typically from laptops left in pubs and disks that go missing in the post. Most recently it was the news that government departments had lost more than 1,000 laptops over the past 10 years. [10 Mar 2008]
Laptop security: What you need to know
Comment Laptops get stolen largely because they are easily targeted and identified, according to Neil Barrett, CTO of International Risk Management, who investigates cybercrime. Most criminals steal laptops for the hardware, according to Magnus Ahberg, MD... [23 Apr 2002]
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