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RSS laptop'Laptop security? Never heard of it...'
News Despite rising levels of laptop theft and high-profile instances of data loss, businesses are failing to understand the need to encrypt their hard drives or better protect sensitive data. Furthermore, 67 per cent of... [11 May 2007]
Leader: Laptop as the most personal device?
Leader As with most things in tech - and most things in life - there is now more choice in laptop technology than ever before. Some aren't exploiting the Intel offering but - they claim - going even further, choosing their own... [10 May 2007]
Laptop sales lift Apple earnings
News Buoyed by strong laptop sales, Apple Computer on Wednesday posted second-quarter earnings and sales that narrowly topped analysts' estimates. The education market - a key area for Apple - also continues to be weak, with... [17 Apr 2003]
Mobile, laptop or PDA user? Intel is watching you...
News The spacial configuration of using a laptop is quite different from a PDA or mobile so we see an increasing number of people doing what we call 'layering' - linking information from a mobile to PDA and then downloading... [21 May 2002]
Laptop shooting tops data destruction poll
News An American who became so frustrated with his laptop that he shot it with a gun before realising there was important data saved on the computer has topped a list of most bizarre computer mishaps. This man may have failed... [14 Oct 2003]
Laptop maker boosts security with in-built tracer
News If the laptop is not recovered within 60 days, the customer may be eligible for a refund of up to $1,000. The Mobile Theft Protection device and the TPM chip represent a few of the ways Gateway is looking to better... [11 Aug 2005]
Leader: Laptop theft is everybody's problem
Leader In the past week silicon.com has published a series of articles shedding light on the issue of laptop theft in the UK. Laptop theft is increasing across the country - from Devon and Cornwall to Lothian... [21 May 2007]
Laptop theft breaks data protection law
News The financial advisor company suffered the theft of an unencrypted laptop containing the personal details of 14,000 of its customers last December.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking... [21 Feb 2008]
Laptop Computer Security
White Paper Laptop buyers in search of a security solution are faced with a wide array of products, systems, and services, each of which addresses a part of the problem. This paper provides an overview of the laptop... [22 Aug 2005]
Dear silicon.com... Laptop losses, mobile ads, gas-guzzler charge, Vista backtrack…
Comment In the US they have a law on disclosure which boils down to - if it is encrypted you do not have to disclose what is therefore just the loss of a laptop, however, if it is not you must disclose and place yourself in the... [21 Feb 2008]
Laptop Security Best Practices
White Paper Given the realities of an increasingly mobile workforce and the growing regulatory obligations of organizations, IT security professionals need to craft, communicate, and enforce more specific laptop security policies to... [18 Nov 2008]
Minority Report: Laptop Hunters on a par with drunken uncles
Comment The scenario: Microsoft offers a sum of money (between $1,000 and $1,500) to a person off the street (aka actor) to buy a laptop. In fact, they have nothing to say about Windows, instead pointing to hardware - mostly... [23 Apr 2009]
Laptop Security: How Safe Is Your Data?
White Paper As work-related applications become increasingly portable and telecommuting more popular, employees worldwide are transporting company-issued laptop computers out of the office in greater numbers with greater frequency. [02 Oct 2009]
Laptop security: What you need to know
Comment Explaining a lost laptop to your boss is one thing, explaining just which files have fallen into someone else's grubby mitts quite another. One highly published case of an MI6 officer leaving his laptop... [23 Apr 2002]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Laptop error
Comment About 12 to 14 months ago several events happened at once: my assistant's laptop suddenly appeared moribund with a pink screen; my laptop lost LAN connectivity via the RG45 port; a new staff member... [04 Sep 2006]
