Former Detroit City Councilwoman allegedly took more than $21,000 in electronics upon resigning.
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Conyers' wife allegedly took laptops (The Politico)
LAS VEGAS -- A popular laptop theft-recovery service that ships on notebooks made by HP, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba, Gateway, Asus and Panasonic is actually a dangerous BIOS rootkit that can be hijacked and controlled by malicious hackers. The service -- called Computrace LoJack for Laptops -- contains design vulnerabilities and a lack of strong authentication that can lead to "a complete and ...
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Researchers find insecure BIOS 'rootkit' pre-loaded in laptops (ZDNet)
Starting in August, all Northside ISD middle and high school students will be able to bring their own personal laptops to school and connect to the district’s wireless Internet network.
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NISD permitting student laptops in middle, high schools (Northwest Weekly)
The bank of phone booths outside the jury room at Nassau County Supreme Court in Mineola is a relic of a bygone era, a time when attorneys and the general public alike had to carry around quarters to make a phone call and notes were taken on legal pads. But times have changed, and a new
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Rule barring laptops penalizes private attorneys (Long Island Business News)
The Hocking College Basic Police Academy has gone green and as a result, those completing the summer police academy will leave with both more and less than they anticipated, according to a news release.
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Local Police Academy goes green with laptops for future police officers (The Athens News)
Stephon Marbury's live-streaming madness was a hit, and now Miami athletes are left to their own technological devices. Don't they have things to do?
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Athletes, Please Step Away From Your Laptops (NBC Washington)
A recent US Airways advertisement touting a new in-flight service said; "Don't leave the Internet behind when you take off." The Transportation Security Administration might consider the same message. People left laptops behind at Tampa International Airport security checkpoints at the rate of two a week over the period from April through June, data provided by the federal agency shows. ...
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Lost at TIA security checkpoint: Canes, laptops, rosaries, more (The Tampa Tribune)
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.----Notebooks represented three out of four computers shipped to the U.S. consumer market during the second quarter of 2009 . The preliminary figures from IDC's PC Tracker indicate that the consumer appetite for mobile computers remains unchallenged despite the economic malaise affecting general demand in the U.S.
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Record Shipments of Notebooks to the U.S. Consumer Market in 2Q09: Consumer Appetite for Laptops Remains Strong ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
Intel Corp said on Wednesday it no longer expects netbooks to appeal to first-time computer buyers, but sees continued sales of the ultra-portable laptops as a secondary machine or a durable option for kids.
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Intel Sees No First-Time PC Buyers for Netbooks (PC Magazine via Yahoo! News)
Back-to-school shoppers in Georgia today through Sunday can take advantage of the state's annual "tax free" sales holiday.
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What's in-store for school shoppers (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
