U.S. federal officials have disclosed that agents at the U.S. border may seize a traveler’s laptop or other electronic devices with no limits on how long they can hold them and without any suspicion of wrongdoing.The Department of Homeland Security recently disclosed the new policies that allow agents to search a laptop’s contents and share the information with other agencies and private organizations for language translation, data decryption or other reasons.
Program For Stolen Laptops
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Laptops Being Searched At Borders
Well it was bound to happen at some point, and has serious ramifications for laptops and other
Macmillan CEO Lifts Google Laptops
Richard Charkin is the CEO of Macmillan Publishers, and he recently got into a bit of a tiff with Google. This didn’t involve angry letters or frivolous lawsuits (entertaining as those are); instead, Charkin stole a pair of Google laptops. And blogged about it.
Bloggers Received Acer Laptops With Flaw
A public relations effort by Microsoft and Acer to provide a number of bloggers with Acer laptops loaded with Windows Vista became something of a PR nightmare for Microsoft; Acer has its own little issue to handle now too.
Microsoft Wants Laptops Back
Marshall Kirkpatrick – Now Microsoft Wants Its Laptop Back – Yesterday I wrote about Microsoft and Edelman handing out spiffy new laptops to bloggers after Scott Beale announced that he got one over at Laughing Squid.
Microsoft Handing Out Ferrari Laptops to Bloggers
Well my good friend Scott Beale got one and Long Zheng is reporting a number of other bloggers have been receiving them as well, but it seems that Microsoft is handing out brand spanking new fast Ferrari laptops loaded with Vista to influential bloggers.
$100 Linux Laptops Have Arrived
The One Laptop Per Child project received its first shipment of $100 Linux laptops yesterday, making the dream of providing free laptops to children around the world a reality.
$100 Laptops For Third World Countries
The “One Laptop Per Child” project hopes to distribute $100 laptops to children in third world countries, and they are incrediby close to achieving that goal.
MacBook Pro Laptops 39% Faster With Core 2 Duo
Apple updated its flagship MacBook Pro notebooks with Intel Core 2 Duo processors today, claiming an enormous leap in performance over the previous generation.