Posts Tagged: ‘laptop’

In this post I mentioned that I suffered a hard disk crash a couple of weeks ago. I used this occasion to buy a new machine. I did that because, if I was going to go to the time/trouble to install a new hard disk, re-install the OS, reinstall all the applications and then recover [...]

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Your home gets broken into and your PC is stolen. Or you go to use the restroom and, when you get back your laptop is missing. Or you leave your phone on the train, never to be seen again. Is there anything you can do to recover a stolen gadget? There are several for-pay services [...]

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The amount of design and machining talent expressed in these images absolutely boggles the mind…

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Imagine taking the idea behind a tablet computer like the iPad and giving it the immense screen real estate of two 14.1-inch LCD screens. This product exists and is called the Kno…

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In the sad world of criminal activity, there is a new trend. If you leave your laptop on, say in your car, while your car is parked, it (the laptop) emits a homing signal that criminals can detect. The homing signal is created by the WiFi card inside the laptop, and with a cheap detector [...]

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Perhaps you’ve been following the situation in Pennsylvania regarding the Lower Merion School District issuing school laptops that could be activated remotely. Student Blake Robbins and his parents filed a lawsuit against the school district, saying that the school system enabled the cameras to spy on students.

The situation is getting worse for the school district. Maryclaire Dale of the Associated Press said that the FBI is investigating whether or not school officials violated federal wiretapping laws.

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Creepy: School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home According to the filings in Blake J Robbins v Lower Merion School District (PA) et al, the laptops issued to high-school students in the well-heeled Philly suburb have webcams that can be covertly activated by the schools’ administrators, who have used [...]

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Erica Ogg at CNET wrote yesterday that Bsquare, a developer for mobile and embedded Windows-based products, has completed a port of Adobe Flash Lite that works on Dell’s Inspiron Mini 9 netbook, which uses the Android operating system currently in use on the HTC G1 mobile phone.

You’ll note that there’s no mention of the Dell notebook in the press release currently on the site. That’s because Dell representatives said there aren’t any Android netbooks made by the company. Bsquare pulled the press release that mentioned Dell, which said the press release was a mistake.

Only, as Ogg pointed out, the press release wasn’t about Flash, it was about Dell. So Ogg thinks that the announcement of an Android-based netbook is imminent, substantiating the flying rumors that it won’t be long before Google’s in the operating system business for computers as well as smart phones. Or maybe Dell’s in the phone business? Or both

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The low-cost linux laptop niche is beginning to explode. Learn more about linux, laptops, and low-cost computing in this HowStuffWorks podcast.

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