Flash, Laptop, Units, Business, Personal
Solid State Drives Increasingly Popular But Remain Expensive
As NAND flash capacities continue to get higher&mdash.Toshiba has a 512GB laptop available, and 1TB units are only months away&mdash.they become more and more useful for both business and personal purposes. [...] As NAND flash capacities continue to get higher, notebooks with solid-state drives become increasingly useful for both business and personal purposes. [...] Samsung, Apple, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Lenovo are among the manufacturers now marketing SSD laptops with less storage that go for an average of about $2,200. Still, they're way out of the price neighborhood of basic, business-class hard disk laptops, which have dropped way down into the $300 to $700 range in the last 12 months. [...]
SanDisk Sees 2009 as the Year of SSD Notebooks
Flash-powered laptops also known as flashtops first came into the world market from Samsung in March 2006 at the CeBIT conference in Hannover, Germany. The first 32GB machines were sold into the business market in Korea. Since then, Dell, Lenovo and a few other laptop makers have added the SSD option to their product lines, with 128GB being the highest capacity available. [...] Both SanDisk and Samsung are trying to entice their customers - whether in the data centre or in personal computer manufacturing - to ditch standard spinning disk hard drives and drop in these new, faster SSDs. [...] SSDs are poised to enter mainstream corporate notebooks in 2009, Rich Heye, senior vice president and general manager of SanDisk's Solid State Drives business unit, said. [...]
Lenovo Announces Flashy New ThinkPads
According to the company's publicly-stated thinking, more and more users are taking their laptops from a strictly business context and using them for personal applications. consequently, the new designs include not only hardware capable of running business processes, but also aesthetic features intended to put a Lenovo laptop in the same context as more consumer-oriented products from other manufacturers. [...] While the ThinkPad line's traditional target has been the enterprise and small- to medium-sized business (SMB) audience, Lenovo spokespeople told eWEEK that the new laptops are designed to capitalise on the blurring of the traditional lines between business and consumer devices. [...] Lenovo also announced the ThinkPad X100e, a device they termed the company's first professional-grade ultraportable laptop. Powered by either the AMD Athlon Neo single- and dual-core processors, or else a Turion dual-core processor, the ThinkPad X100e starts at less than three pounds in weight and comes with an 11. [...]
Netbooks? Oh Yes, They Are Enterprise Grade
But check out the specs. 160GByte of disk space, 2Gbyte of RAM, full-size keyboard, nice 10-inch screen. I was recently out with a business associate who had his company-supplied laptop with him and, in most respects, my netbook was comparable with the two-year-old HP laptop his company provided. [...] I think if you're a business, and your road warriors want to go with a netbook instead of a laptop, it is certainly worth considering. You may be surprised at just how enterprise ready many of today's netbooks are. [...] Some say the netbook is too underpowered for business use. Jim Rapoza likes them so much he's never going to travel with a full laptop again. [...]
ICO Raps Councils for Losing Child Data
There was a similar incident at West Sussex County Council, after a council worker had a laptop stolen from home. This unencrypted laptop contained sensitive personal data relating to an unknown number of children and families involved in childcare proceedings. [...] As the ICO publishes a code of practise for the storing of personal data, three local councils are rapped for losing personal details on thousands of children. [...] Speaking at the launch of the code of practice, Christopher Graham, the Information Commissioner, appealed to businesses, charities and public bodies to be straight with consumers so that people know why their personal information is being collected, how it will be used and who else may end up seeing it. [...]
Microsoft Claims Mobile Security Improvements In Windows 7
Analysts are predicting there will be over 1 billion USB flash drives by 2010, with the average USB flash drive holding almost 4GB of data and costing less than $10, Cooke said. The scary part is that, unlike losing a laptop, users rarely seem to report, or sometimes even notice, the loss of a USB flash drive. [...] Rounding all this out is BitLocker To Go, which encrypts removable storage devices such as USB drives. With BitLocker To Go, users can restrict access to the data with a pass code, as well as set a policy that requires users to apply BitLocker protection to removable drives before being able to write to them. [...] BitLocker To Go makes your data secure so you don't have to worry. . [...]
Apple Set To Reveal New iPhone At Conference
This year's WWDC also opens at a time when competition within the smartphone market is reaching a fever pitch. The global smartphone business will double between 2010 and 2014, according to analysis firm iSuppli, with device shipments rising from 246.9 million units to 506 million units. [...]
Ericsson Wins Bid For Nortel GSM Business
Nortel's goal is to ultimately sell off all of its business units, according to a spokesman. [...] Most recently, Nortel announced that Ciena bought its optical networking and carrier Ethernet businesses for $530 million (£318 million). [...] Nortel expects to close the deal in the first quarter of 2010. It still needs the approval of bankruptcy courts in the United States and Canada - Nortel will seek the approval at a joint hearing in early December - as well as in France. [...]
Will There Ever Be A Time For Tablets?
To me, this is the problem with some tablets that have been shown recently. They are too large to replace a smartphone, and they aren't good enough at data entry to replace a laptop or netbook for business workers. This means that if you bought one of these as a rich media entertainment device, you would also be schlepping around a phone and a laptop/netbook. [...] Ah, a new year. Isn't it great All things are possible and everything starts out with a clean slate. [...]
Bankrupt Nortel Continues Business Break-Up
Days after announcing the sale of its optical networking and carrier Ethernet units, officials with bankrupt Nortel Networks are saying that another piece of their business is being sold. [...] Bankrupt Nortel Networks is selling off another piece of its business, this time its GSM/GSM-R unit to Telefon AB and Kapsch CarrierCom. [...] Maximising the value of our businesses in the face of a consolidating global market has been our most critical priority, Zafirovski said in a statement. We have determined the best way to do this is to find buyers for our businesses who can carry Nortel innovation forward, while preserving employment to the greatest extent possible. [...]
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