Stories about: LoJack

Interest in modular data centers is growing, fueled by high-profile endorsements from Microsoft and Google. But the model raises new management concerns, and efficiency claims may be exaggerated.

Intel's Centrino platform has received its first major update since it was launched in 2003.

Lose your laptop these days and you lose part of your life: You say good-bye to photos, music and personal documents that cannot be replaced, and if it's a work computer, you may be the source of a very public data breach.

Keep laptops close at airports, because they have a startling tendency to disappear in the blink of an eye, according to a new survey.

Lenovo on Monday confirmed plans to launch a new ThinkPad laptop line, the SL series, with features and support services geared toward small and medium-size businesses.

When you're on the road, you can feel more like a juggler than a traveler: You've got your notebook, your smart phone, your camera, your GPS device, your MP3 player -- and all the power cords, USB drives and other gadgets that go with them.

Laptop tracking systems do work, and Absolute Software has a real-world example to add to its PR arsenal. The security tracking company's LoJack system has been used to catch alleged laptop thieves at a US airport.

You can forget inventions like air conditioning, television, the computer and the Internet. The single most important invention of the 20th century was the transistor, according to some researchers and analysts.

One of the potentially hottest items in the software aisle of US electronics retailers this Christmas season is, if you ask Santa's load-bearing reindeer, just an empty box.

One of the most common stupid user tricks is to leave a company laptop in a cab or in some mugger's blood-stained fist. Maybe someday there'll be a guy known as Putz Ventura, Laptop Detective, but right now I just don't see it. Sure, folks keep losing laptops faster than third-world countries are losing cute children to Hollywood adoption agencies, but is that really such an irreversible trend? A dab of common sense will do you.

Microsoft's fledgling consumer anti-virus service, Windows Live OneCare, wrongly identified Google's Gmail service as a virus infection last week, Microsoft has admitted.