Current Laptop-computers News Results

Satellite IT for Haiti relief work (CIOL)
The terminals, known as CFK-100s, operate in the 2GHz S-band, and can be used in both mobile and fixed environments.

Faulty laptops: HP gets complaint from China (CIOL)
SHANGHAI, CHINA: More than 100 Chinese consumers have filed an official complaint against Hewlett-Packard Co over faulty laptop computers, leaving the door open for a lawsuit against the U.S. technology company, a lawyer for the group said on Wednesday.

Chinese group files complaint over "faulty" HP laptops (Reuters)
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - More than 100 Chinese consumers have filed an official complaint against Hewlett-Packard Co over faulty laptop computers, leaving the door open for a lawsuit against the U.S. technology company, a lawyer for the group said on Wednesday.

Tufton urges farmers to embrace new equipment (Jamaica Gleaner)
Agriculture Minister Dr Christopher Tufton is urging farmers to embrace the new tools and equipment being introduced locally, arguing that this will make their operations more profitable...

Police arrest Halifax man after multiple home break-ins (Metro Halifax)
Halifax Regional Police have arrested a man who they allege entered several unlocked homes to steal property. Isaac Mohamed Traore, 20, of Halifax is facing multiple charges of break and enter for robberies between Jan. 28 and March 1. Police say stolen items include laptop computers, digital cameras and televisions. Police were eventually able to identify a suspect and searched a residence in ...

EVSC discusses "design flaw" with netbook vendor | POLL (Evansville Courier & Press)
EVANSVILLE —Evansville’s public school system says it is negotiating with the manufacturer of laptop computers being used by high school students over what it is calling a “design flaw.”The netbooks, made by Hewlett Packard, are in their first year. All high school students in the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp. were required to rent a netbook.EVSC in summer 2009 entered into a contract with ...

Professors pull the plug on laptops, citing distractions (Charleston Daily Mail)
WASHINGTON -- On a windy morning in downtown Washington, a hundred Georgetown Law students gathered in a hall for David Coles lecture on democracy and coercion. The desks were cluttered with books, Thermoses and half-eaten muffins.Another item was noti...

MCS buying laptops, ends loan project (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
City Schools officials are in the process of buying thousands of loaned laptop computers that made news last year after they began disappearing by the hundreds.The district now is asking the Board of Education to pay $110 apiece for the 5,842 remaining laptops as it works to terminate its relationship with Dallas-based Epic Learning.Total cost of the purchase is $642,620."This is just a way of ...

Theft, vandalism at Interpretive Center (Sidney Herald)
A break-in occurred early Friday morning at the Missouri-Yellowstone Confluence Interpretive Center. Officers from the Williams County Sheriff's Office, Williston, N.D., were called out shortly after 1 a.m. Friday.

New Army Black Hawk Succeeds In Combat (Space War)
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 10, 2010 - The Army's new high-tech UH-60 Black Hawk M-model helicopter - equipped with a stronger engine, a digital cockpit and composite rotor blades - performed exceptionally well in Afghanistan during its first major combat deployment, according to a recently completed After Action Review at Fort Campbell, Ky., service officials said.