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With the launch of Windows 7 this week, PC makers are trying some new things, including laptops with touch screens. Acer Inc. is going further — introducing a laptop with a 3-D screen.
Nokia Corp., the world's largest maker of cell phones, says its first laptop for the U.S. market will cost $300 with a two-year wireless broadband contract from AT&T Inc.
The Obama administration on Thursday put new restrictions on searches of laptops at U.S. borders to address concerns that federal agents have been rummaging through travelers' personal information.
Nokia Corp., the world's largest maker of cell phones, said Monday that it will start making a small, light laptop, similar to ones PC manufacturers are already selling through wireless carriers around the world.
A move by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to offer more and lower-priced laptops could give it an edge over key rival Best Buy Co. in the struggle for back-to-school electronics business.
A former technology contractor was sentenced Monday to a year and a half in prison for stealing at least 83 government laptops from the federal office where he worked and selling them on Craig's List.
As wireless carriers begin to subsidize computers that come with wireless Internet access, they're faced with a quandary: What do they do if the buyer stops paying his bills?
The way it came on the scene, it could have been a rare perfume or a designer handbag, undaunted by the roiling economy.
Sheriff's officers said a 19-year-old man snatched a Starbucks customers laptop after being told he could not use it to check his Facebook account. According to officers, the man then grabbed the customer's laptop and ran out of the coffee shop, located in an outlet mall.
In another sign of the growing financial strain on nonprofit groups, the One Laptop Per Child program is cutting its work force in half.
Computer makers are recalling 100,000 laptop battery packs made by Sony Corp. after 40 reports of overheating, according to a U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission notice Thursday.
Dell Inc. is switching to mercury-free light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, to illuminate laptop screens starting in mid-December, a move aimed making the computers softer on the environment and easier to recycle.
The One Laptop Per Child project plans to resume its Give One Get One program, in which people spend $400 to buy one of the nonprofit's rugged computers and donate a second one to a child in a developing country.
The One Laptop Per Child project is about to find out whether Microsoft Corp., a rival the nonprofit group once derided, is the solution to its problems in spreading inexpensive portable computers to schoolchildren.
A newly disclosed set of documents that Colombia's government says were recovered from a slain rebel's computers indicate senior Venezuelan officials tried to help arm Colombia's main guerrilla army.
A key person behind the "$100 laptop" for schoolchildren has left the project as the organization overhauls its operations and prepares to tweak its open-source approach by welcoming Microsoft Corp.'s Windows.
Buffalo State College administrators say a laptop computer containing the Social Security numbers of about 16,000 current and former students was stolen.
Trinidad's main opposition leader has been suspended from parliament after he failed to ask permission to use his laptop computer during a debate and ignored a request to put it away.
Lawmakers are questioning why the government waited almost a month to warn 2,500 patients enrolled in a National Institutes of Health study that some of their medical records were in a stolen laptop computer.
A potential $20 million problem for the group behind the "$100 laptop" isn't going away easily.
Acer Inc., the Taiwanese computer maker that bought Gateway last year, said on Tuesday that it now aims to take laptop users as close as they can get to the high-definition home theater experience.
Files in a laptop computer seized from the wreckage of a Colombian rebel camp in Ecuador offer new insights into Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's desire to undermine Colombia's U.S.-allied government.
A single laptop can reveal much, and so it is with the digital treasure chest that Colombian commandos found in the jungle quarters of slain rebel leader Raul Reyes.
South Korea's LG Electronics Inc. said an independent investigation into a January laptop computer battery explosion showed that batteries used in such computers won't blow up under normal conditions.
Laptop Reliability Study: Asus and Toshiba Come Out on TopNew data from SquareTrade (one of the bigger warranty providers) says Asus and Toshiba have the least hardware malfunctions over 3 years, while one-in-four HP laptops are projected to experience problems. Oh, and crappy netbooks are worst of all.
Spooky tech tales to make your computer crawl Gecko in the machine My boss brought in his home PC because it was booting up with a strange crackling sound and apparently there was a funny smell coming from it. OK, let's take a look at it.
Lenovo launches 11.6-inch IdeaPad U150 in JapanLenovo has officially launched a new 11.6-inch IdeaPad notebook in Japan, the U150. The portable is one of Lenovo's first CULV systems and runs a 1.2GHz Core 2 Duo processor with 2GB of RAM.
Acer debuts 3-D laptop for gaming, moviesWith the launch of Windows 7 this week, PC makers are trying some new things, including laptops with touch screens. Acer is going further - introducing a laptop with a 3-D screen.
BBC NEWS | Laptop for every pupil in UruguayUruguay has become the first country to provide a laptop for every child attending state primary school. President Tabaré Vázquez presented the final XO model laptops to pupils at a school in Montevideo on 13 October.
Pedal-Powered OLPC Laptop for Kids in Afghanistan Video and short article about a pedal powered laptop which will be used in Afghanistan.
Qosmio G60: Toshiba unleashes new super-laptopToshiba Japan has announced a slew of new and updated notebooks today, and one of them [JP] is a monster of a notebook. The Qosmio G60/97J is basically a high-end computer, digital TV and Blu-ray player rolled into one.
Lament for the iGeneration - Laptop Addiction a Prob in University ClassroomToday's students are using the virtual world to mentally escape the classroom—they get points for attendance, but they can't possibly be learning much.
Dell's New Laptop: Too Thin For Ports?In the wake of Apple's MacBook Air, every PC maker is trying to make a thinner laptop PC. Dell announced Tuesday its new Latitude Z laptop, the thinnest laptop it has ever made. It's 14.5 mm high at its thinnest point.
Dell Laptop Tries to Impress Impression MakersOn Tuesday, Dell bestowed the Latitude Z upon the upper crust. According to Dell, it's the world's thinnest (14mm) 16-inch laptop, and it starts at $1,999.
These pictures are so awesome it is hard to believe that they are not real. Yet they are actually pavement art by a very gifted artist, Julian Beever, who does chalk drawings in 3D. The effects are truly stunning. Enjoy.
Laptop at Naval hospital with thousands of patient records missing A Naval hospital in the Florida Panhandle says a laptop computer with personal information on 38,000 patients is missing.
Man catches MSI laptop with... his buttocksWith so many laptops, notebooks, netbooks and – even – smartbooks on the market, manufacturers must create increasingly brilliant adverts in order to sap the cash from your pockets. Not MSI, though, which just resorts to 'cheeky' adverts.
A Soldier's Eye in the Sky - Hovering Drones, Sensors, & Rockets in a Box...the new drones, made by Honeywell, are designed to hover over a crucial spot on a battlefield like helicopters, instead of flying in a wide circle.
Extremely Simple Online (shopping)List at skbg.netAt skbg.net you can create a (shopping)list and add / delete items easy and quick. This list can be accessed from your computer, notebook, mobile phone, Iphone etc. and uses very low bandwidth, making loading this list from a mobile unit very cheap. Use is extremely simple.
iPhone manufacturer to pay family of dead worker A Foxconn official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said Tuesday the company will give Sun Danyong's parents a one-time payment of 360,000 yuan ($52,600), according to an Associated Press report.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Wireless power system shown offImagine a world where you wouldn't need to plug in your electronics to get their power or charged and totally replacing the need of batteries. Well that world might be here...
If you spent more than $1000 for a computer, there's a 91% chance that, yeah, it wasn't a PC.Move over Microsoft. Apple can claim big, big market share numbers, too. According to NPD, in June, nine out of 10 dollars spent on computers costing $1,000 or more went to Apple.
New Mac Laptops Use Batteries Sealed for PowerThe majority of laptop computers come with removable batteries. This approach allows you to pop in a fresh spare when your battery runs out of juice between charges, and to easily replace a battery when its lifespan is over.
Twitter bath deathA teenage girl was electrocuted after dropping her laptop into the bath as she twittered in the tub.
Why Your Laptop's Batteries Die So FastThis article explains why laptop computer batteries do not last as long as manufacturers claim.
AnandTech: Apple's 2009 MacBook Pro: Battery Life to Die ForEight, freakin, hours. I couldn't believe it. In my lightest test, the new 15-inch MacBook Pro lasted eight hours and eight minutes. That's with the screen at half brightness (completely usable) and no funny optimizations.
Arkansas backup lineman arrested for theftArkansas backup defensive lineman Lavunce Askew has been arrested for allegedly stealing a laptop computer and has been indefinitely suspended from the team.
HP recalling 70,000 laptop batteriesThe story that refuses to die gets another chapter this week, as Hewlett-Packard is recalling 70,000 notebook batteries due to a potential fire hazard.
MacBook Pros (07-08) with defective graphics cardIf you own a Macbook Pro manufactured between May 2007 and September 2008 with the GeForce 8600M GT graphics processor, and you are having video problems, get in touch with Apple.
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