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- Microsoft and SanDisk are developing a next-gen USB drive to let you take your computing experience to any PC
- Can Microsoft and SanDisk make fat-client environment portable to any PC?They are giving it a shot, as I wrote in this post:http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/hiner/?p=464Would you be interested in using one of these drives or deploying them to your users?yes and yesAnd I'm glad they are doing it with sandisk. I just...
- Tags: SECURITY, PC, Jason Hiner, USB flash drive, corporate security, Microsoft-and, SanDisk Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-14
- Geek Trivia: Lapping the competition
- What was the first portable computer labeled a laptop? Conventional wisdom among the IT crowd holds that the laptop computer is a derivative of the desktop PC, but students of computing history know that, in many respects, the reverse is true. In fact, the earliest laptop ...
- Tags: PC, Dynabook, Notebooks, Jay Garmon, PRODUCTIVITY, Desktops, laptop computer, computer, Geek Trivia Newsletter, Portable Computer, Cassini, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Technical articles 2007-05-08
- Field support
- Tech Support has to address different issues when users travel with their computers. During this Guild Meeting Jeff Davis explained how the Help Desk can keep portable computing under control.Tech Support has to address different issues when users travel with their computers. On August 15th Jeff Davis explained how the...
- Tags: Help desk, Call centers, Notebooks, Tech Support, Jeff Davis, Guild, Guild Meeting, TLSNC
- Technical articles 2000-08-15
- Laptop security
- Portable computing offers additional challenges in the area of security. During this Guild Meeting, John Day discussed how security is different for laptops and handhelds versus the world of traditional desktop computing.Portable computing offers additional challenges in the area of security. On August 31st, John Day discussed how security is...
- Tags: Notebooks, John C. Day, John Day, Guild, Guild Meeting, T_LINDSEY, PGP Corp., laptop computer, security
- Technical articles 2000-08-31
- Towards Securing Pocket Hard Drives and Portable Personalities
- Inexpensive portable storage devices that are available in the market nowadays have made it easier for users to carry data and programs with them and borrow computing platforms when needed. While this model of computing is very attractive, it is promiscuous and thus protection is needed both for the borrower...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Storage Device, New Jersey, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
- White papers
- Protect portable computers with full-volume encryption
- It's important for hardware and software vendors to develop ways to help prevent thieves from accessing that data even if they manage to gain physical possession of the computer. One such solution is full-volume encryption. The security risks inherent in the increasingly ubiquitous nature of mobile computing have...
- Tags: Deb Shinder, PRODUCTIVITY, Notebooks, SECURITY, computer, operating system, encryption, portable computer, thieve, SMB Strategies Newsletter, Data, Microsoft Corp., Small And Medium Business, Trusted Platform Module, BitLocker, Ultimate, Smb/Sme
- Technical articles 2007-03-19
- Linux free-for-all
- Want to know more about Linux? During this Guild Meeting Jacob Wilkins helped newbie and power Linux users get better performance from their Linux operating systems.Want to know more about Linux? On August 24th Jacob Wilkins helped newbie and power Linux users get better performance from their Linux operating systems....
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Jacob Wilkins, Linux, Guild, EVERYTECH, Guild Meeting, TLSNC
- Technical articles 2000-08-24
- A classic luggable PC (Cracking open the Osborne 1: The original portable computer)
- A joyful indulgenceIn the past, TechRepublic Cracking Open Photo Galleries have received comments that were confrontational and unnecessarily malicious. Please keep in mind that TechRepublic is not an engineering Web site -- our arena is business information technology. Cracking Open galleries are a joyful indulgence.If you have pertinent information regarding...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Semiconductors, Monitors & displays, portable computer, Cracking Open Gallery, floppy disk, video, transistor, computer, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-03-19
- Portable power beyond compare sums up the Alienware m9700 SLI notebook
- Whenmost of us think of a computer notebook we think of a small, portable devicethat is useful for e-mail and some basic productivity functions and fortransporting that all-important PowerPoint presentation to the next meeting.Sure you can play some solitaire in the airport, but that's about the extent ofyour typical notebook's...
- Tags: notebook, Mark Kaelin, Alienware, Alienware Aurora
- Technical articles 2006-08-30
- Sanity check: The four trends that will change PCs and computing over the next two years
- If there's one thing you can count on from the annual Intel Developer Forum, it's that you won't be bombarded with the kind of pipe dreams and vaporware you get at most of the events that cover "emerging technologies." In the 10 years since IDF began in 1997, the conference...
- Tags: Device, PC, Broadband, Computing, Technology, Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child Machine, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2007-09-21
- College of Mount St. Joseph: The wireless, thin client campus
- Cincinnati's College of Mount St. Joseph has put together a wireless campus for its students. We take a look at how they've set it up and what they hope to accomplish with this new program.By Mark CainBeginning in fall 2000, College of Mount St. Joseph, in Cincinnati, will begin its...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Guest Contributor, thin client, College of Mount St. Joseph, wireless
- Technical articles 2000-05-25
- Week in review: New products, trusted computing, and the perfect job
- It's easy to let important or interesting news and information slip through the cracks. So, to kick off this week, here's a recap of some of those things you may have missed last week:Switching OfficesMicrosoft formally shipped Office 2003 last week. News.com reported that Office 2003 can potentially be a...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visio, John Sheesley, Microsoft Office 2003, TechRepublic Members, job, Trusted Computing
- Technical articles 2003-10-24
- Support for Personal and Service Mobility in Ubiquitous Computing Environments
- Ubiquitous computing environment is defined by the shift of computing technology from the desktop to the background. One of its most notable attributes is its potential to extend the scope of service and personal mobility. This paper describes an agent-based architecture that brings personal and service mobility to the ubiquitous...
- Tags: Agent, Ubiquitous Computing, University Of Ottawa, Mobility, Ubiquitous Computing Environment, Real Estate, Business Operations
- White papers 2004-09-16
- Faster, Safer Oracle Data Migration: Using VERITAS Storage Foundation Portable Data Containers to Move Oracle Data Between Unlike Platforms Faster, More Safely, and With Less Disruption
- Whether for permanent change to a new environment, or for the operational convenience of "Off-host" processing, the ability to move data between computing platforms of different types increases the flexibility of enterprise information technology operations significantly. But the complexity of moving data between unlike platforms has been a barrier to...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., VERITAS Software Corp., Platform, VERITAS Storage Foundation, Migration, VERITAS Cross-platform Data Sharing Technology, Cross-platform Data Sharing Technology, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2005-02-11
- The Osborne 1 and the TRS-80 Model 4P exposed
- Sure there has been lots of discussion of the Apple MacBook Air and its so-called innovations, but the real computer innovation occurred almost 30 years ago with the Osborne 1 personal computer. When it hit the market in 1981, the Osborne 1 started a revolution that the...
- Tags: Innovation, TechRepublic Inc., PC, Computer, Productivity, Mark Kaelin
- Blog posts 2008-03-14
- Get IT Done: Mobile-computing connection methods and connection types
- Mobile computing has been undergoing a bit of a renaissance lately. A few years ago it was a simple matter of finding a data-compatible mobile phone, a PC card modem, and a matching cable and installing it as a modem. Then people started to use PDAs as well. Cell phones...
- Tags: telephone, Jeff Dray, cable, modem, Get IT Done, GPRS, HSCSD, mobile computing, mobile marketing
- Technical articles 2003-09-08
- Keep your router configurations secure
- The security you add when managing routers can make the difference between providing a functional and responsive network or an isolated intranet that provides services to no one. In this edition of Security Solutions, Mike Mullins offers some steps you can take to maintain router security. When it comes...
- Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, NETWORKING, Michael Mullins CCNA, MCP, router, network, Security Solutions Newsletter, Security, TFTP, Configuration, Mike Mullins, Michael \"Mullins CCNA, MCP\"
- Technical articles 2007-01-11
- Keep your router configurations secure
- When it comes to an enterprise's network, routers are at the top of the food chain. Clients request information, servers provide information, and switches connect clients and servers together. But routers run the network. The security you add when managing routers can make the difference between providing...
- Tags: TFTP, Router, Network, Configuration, Routers & Switches, Network Technology, Networking, Mike Mullins
- Blog posts 2007-12-06
- Cracking open the Osborne 1: The original portable computer
- The Osborne 1 was the word's first self-contained portable personal computer. Many of the design decisions and innovations first seen in the Osborne 1 are still being used today some 25-plus years later. We could not resist taking a look inside this piece of computing history in this TechRepublic Cracking...
- Tags: Cracking open, off topic, geekend, osborne1
- Image galleries 2008-03-19
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