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How Do You Secure 100 Million Laptops?
If the plan is perfectly executed, Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child project will deploy 100 million laptops in the first year. In one fell swoop, the nonprofit organization will create the largest computing monoculture in history. Wary of the security risks associated with a computing monoculture—millions of machines with hardware and software of identical…
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Fathi Reshuffled Out of Microsoft Security Chief Role
For the second time this year, a major management reshuffle at Microsoft has sent ripples through the software maker’s security unit. Just seven months after tapping Ben Fathi to head up the newly formed STU (security technology unit), the Redmond, Wash. company announced that Fathi would move over to manage a Windows Core System development…
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Gateway M285-E Tablet: Too Much of a Good Thing?
With a 14-inch widescreen display, a full-sized keyboard and the latest Intel processor, Gateway’s M285-E Tablet PC is a machine for users who don’t want to make sacrifices to have tablet functionality. The M285-E may provide too much of everything, though: The screen provided plenty of real estate for jotting down notes or for drawing…
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Microsoft Restructures Its Windows Core OS Division
Microsoft has restructured its Windows Core Operating System Division into five teams in a move designed to better focus on PC hardware and provide a richer set of customer solutions. The software giant is also making changes on the security front by bringing its security, Trustworthy Computing and Engineering Excellence teams together in one group,…
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Toshiba’s Tecra M7: Notebook with Tablet PC Bonus
Toshiba’s Tecra M7 is for users who want a good notebook system with some tablet functionality. Weighing in at almost 6 pounds and sporting a 14.1-inch widescreen display, the Tecra M7 is large and powerful enough for everyday computing, but it lacks the battery performance of its competitors. The Tecra M7 is a convertible tablet…
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WiMax World Finds Wireless Broadband Still Grappling for a Foothold
BOSTON—There’s nothing quite as sad as a wireless broadband show without connectivity. “Check back later, after they work out the bugs,” said the marketing communications manager at Expedience’s in-your-face-at-the-door, floor-dominating booth at WiMax World here Oct. 11. Here Expedience was, having plopped a two-sector base station on top of the Seaport Hotel, and having paid…
