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HP will offer a 3-year battery warranty for notebooks starting 2009.

The announcement was made Wednesday by Boston-Power, a supplier of
lithium-ion batteries that will sell its Sonata battery to
Hewlett-Packard. Representatives from both HP and Boston-Power declined
to divulge many details on the relationship, primarily as B-P is a
startup company, ramping production to meet the demands of its first
customer.

A representative from HP said that the company will make the Sonata
battery available on some mainstream consumer notebooks, without
specifying which models. HP’s commercial notebook division is “looking
at it,” a spokesman said.Read the rest of this entry.

When I first heard that over a million notebook computers are lost every year, I could not believe it. But apparently, a study commissioned by Ponemon Instiute showed that in the United States airports alone, 12,000 notebooks are lost every week. Luckily I have not lost a notebook, but so far, I have lost three cellphones over a 10 year period.

Fortunately, notebook prices are going down every year, and losing one does not mean an arm and a leg now. Ten years ago, I remember that a good notebook computer would cost almost a third of a small car. Now, for the money you spend on a small car, you can easily buy 20 notebooks. And these 20 notebooks would all be better and faster, and have more storage and memory than the one 10 years ago. That is how the price of technology have fallen vis a vis the car.

Anyhow, what is painful in losing a notebook are two. ONe is you lost your data. With that, you just make sure that you have a great backup. That means normally for most people that you have to buy an external hard disk where you can safely back up your computer and then if you lose it, then you can still recover it. If external hard disks are a major drag, you can think of backing up your data now on a thumb drive. The thumb drive you can put inside your pocket or in your key chain, and a 4 gigabyte one will cost less than a thousand nowadays.

The other painful thing is the realization that you may have valuable data that will fall on the wrong hands. If the data is important then you want to make sure that your hard disk is encrypted - this comes now for free when you buy Vista Business or Ultimate edition.

The other is to get a notebook with anti-theft protection, for which the latest Lenovo Thinkpad T400 series claims it have. This technology was developed by Intel and adopted first by Lenovo, and it is a series of technologies that makes an enterprise department easier to manage the various notebook computers assigned to people in the company.

IT departments can set policies for laptop security. For example, if a notebook is disconnected from a central server for a long period of time or if it detects a certain number of log-in failures, the laptop could be set to shut down.

Also in conjunction with security software like Computrace, the IT department may be able to track where a notebook is at a given time, if the notebook is used, and logs into the internet. when it is traced, the IT department can also send a message that will disable the computer so that it can no longer be used.

Since the software can be put on firmware, that means it will still activate even if the thief reformats the hard disk. Of course, the thief can still use the computer and never log into the internet, but then, most computers are almost useless when you cannot use it with the internet.

Apparently, human error abounds - and technology aids in human error.
In another study conducted by University of Utah, they found out that there are many more traffic accidents nowadays because of cellphone usage. Of course, it is dangerous to text or even dial when you are driving, and even then, theys ay that even people who use hands free phones or speaker phones are not exempt. Even when drivers are using a hands free cell phone, driving performance can be compromised, because the driver obviously is not paying full attention to driving, and instead is concentrating on the conversation.

I can testify to that. I once had an accident bumping to the rear of the car when texting. How about you? don’t text and drive!

This article is originally written by Wilson Ng. Visit his blog at www.bizdrivenlife.net

Acting Mayor Michael Rama of the City Cebu, with some officials of ECCP and the City, opens the Cebu Employment Expo

Ng Khai recently participated in the Cebu Employment Expo held last November 29-30, 2008, at the Cebu Coliseum, organized by the Cebu Investment and Promotions Center hand in hand with European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines - Cebu.

Linksys has announced the availability of the WAG160N, a Wireless-N ADSL2+ Gateway that integrates the functionalities of an ADSL2+ Modem, Router, 4-port Switch and a Wireless-N Access Point.

According to a press release, the WAG160N is the newest addition to the Wireless-N line-up and it features the same design as sported by the recent Ultra RangePlus family of Wireless-N routers (WRT160N and WRT310N). The new design features an internal antenna technology which integrates the antenna into the device body.PC World

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