Microsoft wins : OLPC XO laptop adopts Windows XP

The Acer Aspire 7520 17" laptop offers the new, innovative Gemstone design for intensive multimedia using Acer empowering tools for digital photos and music. Tesco sells it for £399 and you also get a whopping 1598...

The XO laptop may have been created to help children in developing nations, but its influence is likely to be felt far beyond the classroom. The PC industry is going to be among the first to feel its impact in November 2007. Read...

The One Laptop Per Child scheme has announced it will make its ruggedised laptops available in the US for a limited time period. The XO laptop, designed for use as an educational tool in developing countries, will be available...

With so many staff working at home one or two days a week and everyone wanting connectivity from anywhere in the world, laptops have become very important tools.Pretty much every organisation now has a VPN to give staff remote...

Toshiba Information Systems announced the launch of its Lapjacks service which enables laptop owners to design an entirely original, customised cover for their laptop. The website allows customers to choose from thousands of high...

When members of staff are travelling, unattended laptops can easily be infected without any obvious evidence of intrusion, or data may be stolen and later used to compromise the office network. This can undermine even the best...

The FSA has just fined Nationwide £980,000 for information security lapses following the theft of a laptop from an employee's home last year. On top of that, it cost the Nationwide a considerable amount to inform customers of the...

Also called a Notebook Computer, a laptop is a small battery-powered computer that can be used while on the move. Generally smaller than a briefcase, the laptop can be easily carried around and conveniently used while travelling....

Do you have important data on your company’s laptops? Would it be a serious problem if that data landed in the wrong hands? Are you aware of the potentially significant costs of even a single data loss including negative...

Although most companies have implemented solutions for protecting the enterprise data, more than 60 percent of all corporate data resides in workstations and laptops and is notoriously under-protected.Use tools such as hidden...

Regular readers will be only too aware that I rattle on a bit about laptops getting nicked. We had one the other day containing licence data from the Florida Transportation Department. Well it is now official, 81% of US firms...

Here we go again. DEUFH (Dreaded End User From Hell for those that have never worked in tech support) gets laptop nicked from car.This story from the Register recounts how a user in US ended up getting a laptop stolen from the...

Well, these are a dime a dozen these days. Some idiot loses his laptop and the result is a lot of people getting screwed.Eckelberry Security Principle #1: If you don’t have the data in the first place, it can’t be stolen. ...

The personal details of over 1.5 million people have been lost in two lost computer incidents. Around 1.3 million clients of a Texas student loan company and 243,000 customers of Hotels.com have data on computers whose...

New figures from the Health and Safety Executive show that just over a fifth of British workers are concerned about work-related stress, which costs 13 million working days a year. But PC and laptop users are also expressing...