Some travellers in the US will now not have to unpack their laptops when going through airline security, according to new guidelines released last week.
The NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) plans to limit internet access on the laptops given to NSW's senior students under the "digital education revolution" to a pre-approved list of websites.
This week, Dell has unveiled a major revamp to its Latitude laptop line with the new E series, anchored by the 15-inch Latitude E6500 and 14-inch E6400.
Apple unveiled its ultraportable MacBook Air, the world's thinnest notebook according to CEO Steve Jobs, during his keynote speech at Macworld 2008 on Tuesday in San Francisco.
Laptops are easily left on trains, in taxis and at other public locations, but a variety of other innovative ways have been found to destroy portable computers--from running them over to dropping them off bridges.
A few weeks ago, I was in Shanghai, at the Intel Developers Forum. Intel was keen to show off what it hopes will be the bridging device between high-end mobiles and laptops: the mobile Internet device or MID. Intel was showing off a lot of interesting things at the conference. The MID, sadly, was not one of them.
During a recent trip overseas, I marvelled at how technology has radically altered the way we travel
Just a few weeks ago I took possession of a shiny black MacBook, which was running like a dream till our IT guys insisted I join the corporate Microsoft Exchange domain and dump Thunderbird for Microsoft Entourage.
What was Nintendo thinking when it named its newest gaming console "Wii"? In light of the announcement, here's a look at some more silly tech names.
Rich Anderson, an instructor at Dunwoody College, has put together a gallery of wild and crazy ways to use your laptop.
ZDNet Australia reviews seven of the most outstanding, high-end notebooks.
If you're going to have to lug it around, you might as well get a laptop that will make business colleagues green with envy.
Of all the sinister things that internet viruses do, this might be the worst: they can make people an unsuspecting collector of child pornography.
The level of ignorance from Australian politicians about technology can be staggering. Here's some of the worst examples we've seen, and a short recipe for resolving the issue.
The Dell Latitude D630 can't go wrong with corporate users, because it integrates Intel's latest mobile platform with a business-friendly feature set and lengthy extended battery.
An easy-to-use netbook with a long battery life, but there are cheaper options.
The Mini 1210's upgraded processor and shift to Windows XP does remove some of the original model's biggest issues, but it's still not a netbook that we'd buy.
The Dell Studio XPS 13 is a very good laptop. It could have been excellent, but Dell seems to have actually tried too hard in some areas, such as the laptop's design, and we feel it's backfired slightly.
Toshiba's Portege R600 is one of the best ultraportables on the market, if you're willing to pay the price.
Apple's 15-inch MacBook Pro gets a solid under-the-hood upgrade for better performance and longer battery life, allowing the MacBook Pro to put enough distance between itself and the lower-end MacBook to justify its higher price.
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