Word: laptopping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cops in Blue Earth County, Minn., like those in many other places, carry laptops that enable them to tap into a statewide database and find out if a driver they've stopped for a traffic violation has any arrest warrants outstanding. The officers make 10 to 12 arrests a week, vs. two or three in pre-laptop days. That might count as measurable productivity, but how to quantify the benefit to society of haling lawbreakers into court rather than letting them roam free...
This includes a burglary that resulted in the theft of a laptop, a camera, a pocketbook and a wallet on Sept...
...want a keycard reader on the door to my room, just to keep myself honest. Otherwise, someday. I'll come home to find my laptop missing, and then discover it weeks later under my bed, stripped down and its parts sold for Crimson Cash. Inside the room, I want a Harvard-installed detector on my closet that slams the door on my head if I try to pick out shorts for myself when it's sunny and 12 degrees outside. Or stripes and plaids together. Or a black belt and brown shoes. Come to think of it, maybe you should...
Harvard police are still investigating a burglary that left four Adams House residents without a laptop, a camera, a pocketbook and a wallet early Sunday morning...
...joint venture, called Symbian, will license Psion's software as the underlying brains behind a new generation of smart devices, ranging from mobile phones that receive e-mail, surf the Internet and even pay for transactions, to laptop computers that can go online automatically without anyone's having to open the carrying case. Yet the battle between Symbian and the Microsoft camp is not just about who will make next year's cool gadgets. It promises to determine who will control the next era of personal communications...