• Laptops walking out the door of policy-free firms

  By David Braue | 06 October, 2011 14:24

  Concerned that your employees are being a bit lax when it comes to looking after their laptops? Steal them yourself, one vendor has advised in the wake of yet another damning security report that suggests laptops and other equipment are literally walking out of Australian companies that are still operating at far below world's best practice when it comes to device security.

• Dell Inspiron M501R review

  By TechWorld staff | 23 February, 2011 13:45

  The Dell Inspiron M501R is a 15in laptop with a triple-core 2.2GHz AMD Phenom II N850 CPU, 4GB of RAM and a 500GB hard drive.

• Techs for the memories: What did we do before...

  By Thomas Wailgum | 02 December, 2010 06:29

  We take so much technology for granted today, but it wasn't that long ago that laptops, ATMs, cell phones and the Internet didn't exist-and hold enormous sway over our day to day lives.

• Laptop engineer trapped in TV sting

  By Maxwell Cooter | 10 August, 2010 00:05

  A PC engineer was caught red-handed by an undercover TV reporter in a perfectly-executed sting - even though the journalist was investigating another matter.

• Sales of laptops grew by 43 percent in Q1, says Gartner

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 25 May, 2010 22:14

  Shipments of laptops rose by 43.4 per cent in the first three months of 2010, compared to the same period last year, according to market research company Gartner. A large part of the growth was due to a 71 percent bump in netbook sales, which Gartner doesn't expect will be affected by the arrival of Apple's iPad and other tablets.

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