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Notebook Sales Outpace Desktop Sales 207

Posted by Soulskill from the year-of-laptop-on-the-desktop dept.
mikesd81 writes "Eweek reports that notebook sales have surpassed desktop sales for the first time in history. 'In the third quarter of 2008, notebook PC shipments rose almost 40 percent compared with the same period of 2007 to reach 38.6 million units. Conversely, desktop PC shipments declined by 1.3 percent for the same period to 38.5 million units. "Momentum has been building in the notebook market for some time, so it's not a complete surprise that shipments have surpassed those of desktops," said iSuppli principal analyst for computer platforms Matthew Wilkins. "However, this marks a major event in the PC market because it marks the start of the age of the notebook." ... The FBI's National Crime Information Center reported that the number of reported laptop thefts increased almost 48 percent over the last two years, to nearly 109,000 from 73,700.'"
Security

How Do You Monitor Documents? 237

Posted by samzenpus from the protect-yourself-at-all-times dept.
JumpDrive writes "I have been presented with a problem recently, which I know others have probably faced. During the last month, one of our customers accused us of providing another customer with their specification. So the question arose: how do we, or can we trace documents and find if they are being opened or used somewhere where they weren't intended. We don't want to be restrictive, because at times, we have people all over the place, but if one of our documents were opened in a foreign country, that would arouse suspicions. Most of our documents are made with MS office suite, and I have been thinking of working on a macro to ping a server, but that would require the user to enable the macros, and it would also require the insertion into about 1000 documents. But it's been difficult for me to find a solution that doesn't prevent someone in Omaha from opening a document for legitimate use and is not a solution that can easily be disabled or hacked around."
Books

Fraud Threat Halts Knuth's Hexadecimal-Dollar Checks 323

Posted by timothy from the sobering-thought-about-checks-in-general dept.
Barence writes "You may be aware of Donald Knuth, the creator of TeX and author of The Art of Computer Programming, who used to post checks to anyone who spotted an error in one of his books — one hexadecimal dollar, or $2.56. No one cashed them though. This blogger has two of them proudly on his wall, but the sad news is that modern day bank fraud has put a stop to Knuth's much-loved way of keeping his books free of errors." (Here's Knuth's own post about the sad change.)
Privacy

Verizon Exposes the Wrong 1,200 Email Addresses 94

Posted by timothy from the but-this-was-the-before-picture dept.
netbuzz writes "If you're going to market your expertise by inviting 1,200 IT professionals to a seminar about securing data and protecting personal information, it's probably a good idea to protect the personal information of those you invite. On Tuesday, Verizon forgot that advice and blasted each of the 1,200 email addresses to everyone on the list ... and they did it 17 times."

Comment 6mbit/512kbit for 30 EUR/month in France (Score 0) 847

by mito (#10140617) Attached to: Broadband Envy: Fixing American Broadband
yep, and that service covers 95% of the territory.

As a bonus you get unlimited free national VoIP phone calls and 50+ TV channels from a Linux-based DSL modem/settop box called the Freebox. And the ping to the provider's router is only 5ms.

The guys are about to completely unlimit the bandwidth at 8m/640k for those that are real close to the DSLAM. See http://adsl.free.fr for info. This ISP is completely Linux-based, included their custom made settops.

Oh, and the Freebox can act as a wifi router if you purchase a 27 EUR pcmcia card.

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