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The low price of storage means it's feasible for most laptop owners to expand the capacity of their machines. But if you're going to the bother of installing a new hard drive, why not go one better and opt for a solid-state disk (SSD) instead?

Informal speed tests show that Windows 7 boots faster than Vista, and many users have reported that it "feels" faster during everyday operation. (Maybe that's because the User Account Control is more restrained in Windows 7 than in Vista and doesn't pester them so often.) But you can take some practical steps to goose Vista so that it will acquire some of Windows 7's pep.

Hewlett-Packard will start shipping Symantec's Norton Online Backup on its notebook and PC computers.

Antivirus vendors Symantec and McAfee have agreed to pay the New York Attorney General's office US$375,000 in fines to settle charges that they automatically charged customers software subscription renewal fees without their permission.

Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC), makers of Norton security software, today joined with V8 Supercar champion Craig Lowndes and the Australian Government as part of National E-security Awareness Week to discuss online safety with more than 200 students at St Joseph’s College in Brisbane.

Its sleek chassis, excellent keyboard and bright, 10in screen, as well as features not seen on other netbooks (a Sleep-and-Charge USB 2.0 port and 3D hard drive protection), make Toshiba's NB200 (PLL25A-00D002) the nicest 10.1in netbook on the market. Of this we are sure.

Kaspersky Labs chief, a former Russian Army senior lieutenant and virus 'entomologist', talks security with Computerworld.

Following on from the success of the netbook, PC and notebook manufacturers are now turning their attention to low-cost PCs — enter the net-top. The net-top is an all-in-one PC that requires minimal effort to set up and which is designed to perform simple, everyday computing tasks. BenQ's nScreen i91 is the second net-top we've seen to date (the ASUS Eee Top ET1602 was the first). It has a very basic design and is reasonably stylish.

Consumer Reports magazine slapped its Best Buy logo on a trio of free security programs for Windows PCs, saying that they offer the "best combination of performance and price" and are a smarter pick than suites from companies like Symantec Corp. and McAfee Inc.

The evolution of the multi-faceted Conficker worm is expected to take another turn this May 5th when the latest version, Conficker.E, will simply self-destruct on infected machines, say a number of security researchers.